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    1. gwern‏ @gwern Oct 18
      Replying to @gwern

      _Handbook of Experimental Psychology_, Stevens 1951: https://www.dropbox.com/s/etivexqw6aekrob/1951-stevens-handbookexperimentalpsychology.djvu?dl=0 … https://mega.nz/#!a3QSGKAJ!39zkWqmfTeNZ5bYhr1sW3NLAwX92Uy53Z2bYX5dl3HM … https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/1951-stevens-handbookexperimentalpsychology.djvu … http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=6eaeed98cb58086f3b993ac80d3648d1 …

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    2. gwern‏ @gwern Oct 18
      Replying to @gwern

      _Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party_, Greene 1980: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ke7ozxipa1fq9v/1980-greene-doctorfischerofgeneva.djvu?dl=0 … https://mega.nz/#!nrA0SI4Y!8NtjBVaixE3sh6PmSqFrwSmTShY0WTJiJ_5X0q-ynAA … http://libgen.io/foreignfiction/index.php?md5=975492a5af3c1d038e77d42369ca7548 …

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    3. gwern‏ @gwern Oct 19
      Replying to @gwern

      _The Racist Mind: Portraits of American Neo-Nazis and Klansmen_, Ezekiel 1995: https://mega.nz/#!CqJBCAhY!tvKc9vEyFR49pnws25QLR1yvl4cfl2YwexC0X9A8g-Y … https://www.dropbox.com/s/n2r74ixcvfub1l5/1995-ezekiel-theracistmind.djvu?dl=0 … http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=0cdfa0b29e651b9d83bfd3ca4120164a …

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    4. gwern‏ @gwern Oct 19
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      _Modern Japan: An Interpretive Anthology_, Scheiner 1974: ttps://mega.nz/#!GnRBxKzC!OsT14AcXQUlM6As1OP4xyxQgsFAlMOfvpcOBz94lqfs https://www.dropbox.com/s/ygzpg2tbjdnqags/1974-scheiner-modernjapan.djvu?dl=0 … https://www.gwern.net/docs/japanese/1974-scheiner-modernjapan.djvu … http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=b08ae4f800a1d0a2f3e171dad946b1e3 …

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    5. gwern‏ @gwern Oct 20
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      _Multiculturalism in the New Japan: Crossing the Boundaries Within_, ed Graburn et al 2008: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fvvjp7vjwy4q2u4/2008-graburn-multiculturalisminthenewjapan.djvu?dl=0 … https://mega.nz/#!mvQxTSSR!NLC202BYGQzi6CSvStsZbLkvyAQCscKRqn1Ppj1mvHc … http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=3fbe6426a4f7e459d29f3cbd3b09404f …

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    6. gwern‏ @gwern Oct 20
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      _The Legacy of Hiroshima_, Teller & Brown 1962: https://mega.nz/#!WnQ3gYoK!2S6yBz1BNzT238vLT-fUGxaq59zf06MBzn1s0w43ePY … https://www.dropbox.com/s/a4a16lt2uo373yh/1962-teller-thelegacyofhiroshima.djvu?dl=0 … http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=03d15d092ac1e8c4dcb81f81adbe4bc3 …

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    7. gwern‏ @gwern Oct 20
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      _The Sexual Cycle of Human Warfare: Being a New Theory of the Cause of War and an Inquiry into the Possibility of War-Prediction_, Walter 1950: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0m98kbhkethvt28/1950-walter-thesexualcycleofhumanwarfare.djvu?dl=0 … https://mega.nz/#!imARCKjb!zSg5RHKVst1TW_gvj87cHiWc-04BcmttR9hzp-02bNY … http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=a5b96ba9049b36ac3075bf2bfd18d518 … https://www.gwern.net/docs/sociology/1950-walter-thesexualcycleofhumanwarfare.djvu … Thread: http://www.jacurutu.com/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=4005 …

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    8. gwern‏ @gwern Oct 20
      Replying to @gwern

      Walter's _The Sexual Cycle of Human Warfare_ is the hardest book I've ever gotten. It took me over a decade. It's no wonder that despite huge impact on Dune, analyses like @timoreilly's or Touponce just omit Walter entirely - can't get copies! Well, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 fixed now...

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    9. gwern‏ @gwern Oct 20
      Replying to @gwern @timoreilly

      Even just skimming it, I can see echoes of Walter in Frank Herbert everywhere. It's wrong of course, but like Jungian psychiatry, it's as good literature as it is bad science. (Oddly, Walter's approach also reminds me of @robinhanson a lot.)

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    10. InfoMiner‏ @cryptinfominer Oct 20
      Replying to @gwern @timoreilly @robinhanson

      dune is a masterpiece. full of nuance and subtlety... it's hard to find a comparable book

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      gwern‏ @gwern Oct 21
      Replying to @cryptinfominer @timoreilly @robinhanson

      I've always thought that _Dune Messiah_ was better. :) But one of the reasons it's hard to find a comparable book is that FH's other books were all so much worse! You'd hardly suspect they were written by the same man. With D/DM, FH truly tapped into something special.

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        2. Tim O'Reilly‏Verified account @timoreilly Oct 21
          Replying to @gwern @cryptinfominer @robinhanson

          I agree that Dune and Dune Messiah stand alone, but I do think that Under Pressure, Frank Herbert's first book, and the Santaroga Barrier are also a cut above the rest of his work.

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        3. gwern‏ @gwern Oct 21
          Replying to @timoreilly @cryptinfominer @robinhanson

          Yeah, if I had to recommend one which would be least disappointing to a Dune fan, it would probably be _Under Pressure_. I sometimes wonder if the problem was he cranked them out too fast and diluted it? Dune+DM was the slowest-gestating of all of his books AFAIK, and it shows.

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        4. gwern‏ @gwern Oct 21
          Replying to @gwern @timoreilly and

          (Also while I have you at-ted, thanks for hosting Borlaug Camp at your offices this year. Lovely location and atmosphere.)

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