As @thegdb pointed out, the economic incentives should be tied to Kolmogorov complexity.
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Making books to shorter would effectively increase the rate at which we can learn.
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Or, put another way, the broken incentives today are probably *halving* (or more) the rate at which you can learn. Be mad!
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Question: so what is it that would make the people who write books express their ideas more succinctly?
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One last cut: imagine there was a disease that slowed your reading by 50%. How much would you pay for the cure? Now sum that across society.
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@patrickc@brikis98 Within one big narrative, many ideas can be related to each other. Hence@intensivedata is heading for 400 pages.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@martinkl @brikis98 @intensivedata Yeah—to be clear, I'm really arguing for density, not length. Books that are inherently long should be!
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@patrickc@martinkl@brikis98@intensivedata one man's proposed solution - http://kortina.net/essays/information-condensation/ …0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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