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RobinHanson's avatar

The publisher will be in charge of that decision, but I'd definitely support it.

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Enrique Graziano's avatar

Are you considering an audiobook version, hopefully unabridged, for people with long commutes or running/jogging? I'd definitely love it!

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Overcoming Bias Commenter's avatar

Wow, I would love to see a book from you on signalling.

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lemmycaution's avatar

Congratulations.

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RobinHanson's avatar

I could publish exactly what I have now, but since publishers are slow I'll keep fiddling until they are ready to take it. Oxford's previously publishing related books definitely helped sell them.

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Overcoming Bias Commenter's avatar

Congratulations Robin! Sounds like 400+ pages. It will be interesting to see how this blog-based approach to book-writing works out; it certainly seems to have a lot of merit. What % of your work on the book do you think still remains? Did Nick Bostrom play a role in the choice of publisher?

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Overcoming Bias Commenter's avatar

I understand. Perhaps in a follow-up book, or do you dislike such speculation in non-fiction books too much?

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RobinHanson's avatar

While it is straight-forward to predict the consequences of any particular regulation, it is not straight-forward to predict which regulations would be adopted. So I mostly focus on the low regulation case.

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Overcoming Bias Commenter's avatar

Congratulations Robin!

Does the book treat the "regulated"-EM-society case as well?

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Overcoming Bias Commenter's avatar

That looks good to me. Quite comprehensive and nicely organized. Looking forward to seeing the book!

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Joshua Brulé's avatar

Wow, 340% more words than "Em Economics"! At this rate of growth, we can project that...

But, seriously, I really enjoyed the draft, and I'm looking forward to reading the complete work.

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RobinHanson's avatar

I'm working on that, but nothing to announce yet.

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Stephen Diamond's avatar

Congratulations on Oxford.

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Albert Ling's avatar

Congrats, gonna pre-order as soon as it's available. Hope you also publish one on signaling and evolutionary psych.

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