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Denouncing a bad book is usually pointless. “Finite and Infinite Games” is so well-regarded by so many smart people that pointing out that it is incoherent, rhetorically sleazy, and substantively misleading may have some value.

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It's one of the rare books I didn't finish. The dichotomies were often too squishy and levels of abstraction often didn't stack. You made my day with this. The book is adored by so many I respect that I've doubted my comprehension at times.

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This is how I feel about Godel-Escher-Bach and I often feel like I have to suppress that opinion

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I loved GEB when I was 15. I don't really remember any coherent takeaways though - I know there was an attempt to explain consciousness, but I don't think I would buy it now. should reread it at some point

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I liked it a lot too, but remember being disappointed at the last section. It felt like he explained so much so well but then made some leap into consciousness and I was like wat

9:30 PM · Dec 1, 2020