To clarify my comment to Michael: I was excited to see him share his list because Iād like lots of people to share their lists, and I think that people are more likely to share once theyāve seen someone else do it. I donāt think Michael is a particularly good judge of books or anything like thatāthe whole point is to get a broad set of viewpoints on a variety of books.
If someone ever compiles all the lists together and tries to establish some kind of ācanonā based on that, Iād be wary, but this personal list created by a single person to describe his own reading experiences doesnāt feel at all canonical to me.
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Possible point of confusion: In my comment, I said that I hoped Michaelās list would become one of the most-upvoted in the āEA Booksā tag. Thatās because I expect that tag to be used by people looking for book recommendations, and I expect this post to be useful to them, because it recommends many books.
Iād hope that a more diverse or comprehensive list would get even more upvotes in the tagāI just want posts with tags to be useful to people looking at those tags.
To clarify my comment to Michael: I was excited to see him share his list because Iād like lots of people to share their lists, and I think that people are more likely to share once theyāve seen someone else do it. I donāt think Michael is a particularly good judge of books or anything like thatāthe whole point is to get a broad set of viewpoints on a variety of books.
If someone ever compiles all the lists together and tries to establish some kind of ācanonā based on that, Iād be wary, but this personal list created by a single person to describe his own reading experiences doesnāt feel at all canonical to me.
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Possible point of confusion: In my comment, I said that I hoped Michaelās list would become one of the most-upvoted in the āEA Booksā tag. Thatās because I expect that tag to be used by people looking for book recommendations, and I expect this post to be useful to them, because it recommends many books.
Iād hope that a more diverse or comprehensive list would get even more upvotes in the tagāI just want posts with tags to be useful to people looking at those tags.