As @thegdb pointed out, the economic incentives should be tied to Kolmogorov complexity.
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@brikis98 Seems very clear, IMO, that it's the latter. (And I'm sure it's confirmable by data & publisher guidelines...) -
@brikis98 b) Well, clearly 5x-ing length of a book would decrease rate of learning (no?). If so, you can just run that argument backwards. - 3 more replies
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@patrickc I've never seen numbers on book length, but prob true. Do published papers/articles or even blogs take the place of short books? -
@brikis98 In some cases, yes. But books have financial incentives + cultural strength that blog posts lack. - 4 more replies
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@narayanarjun@brikis98 Kindle Singles are a hopeful ray! But I certainly haven't found *lots* -- Great Stagnation a stalwart exception. - 3 more replies
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