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    1. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 17 Apr 2018
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      Thanks to podcast interviews, most contemporary non-fiction authors are preparing their own neatly-distilled summaries of their usually-too-long books.

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      Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 17 Apr 2018
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      Furthermore, maybe a lot of ideas are better (or just more enjoyably) explored in conversational and dialectic form, as Hume argues at the beginning of his Dialogues.

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        2. Nick Schrock‏ @schrockn 17 Apr 2018
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          The trend towards long form interviews of public intellectuals has been huge for me in terms of discovering new ideas and exploring them efficiently. No way I have time to read the same number of books.

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        3. marius eriksen‏ @marius 17 Apr 2018
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          And honestly most “popular” non-fiction books would be much better off a single New Yorker article.

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        2. Felix Salmon‏Verified account @felixsalmon 17 Apr 2018
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          Which does create the phenomenon whereby you listen to an author, think “wow, this is really smart,” buy the book, and then it turns out to be a real slog

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        3. Felix Salmon‏Verified account @felixsalmon 17 Apr 2018
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          This is not helped by the fact that book reviewers tend to want to concentrate on the ideas in the book, a/o/t its readability or enjoyability

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        2. Casey Handmer, PhD‏ @CJHandmer 17 Apr 2018
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          I wonder how long until conversational AI can personalize it. That is, allow the listener to occasionally inject questions to guide the professional interviewer.

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        3. Nick Denton‏Verified account @nicknotned 17 Apr 2018
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          One doesn’t even need AI for interruptive conversations — just a threaded discussion environment.

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        1. Sagar Dubey‏ @cigardubey 17 Apr 2018
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          Aha perhaps you’ve been seeing the latest submissions to Stripe Atlas? :D

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        1. CoⱠin Ɖ ở ƈ  🚏 🌐‏ @colinismo 17 Apr 2018
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          Taleb is proof of this idea.

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        1. Jeff Lonsdale‏ @JeffLonsdale 17 Apr 2018
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          Speech makes it easier to process ideas that we might otherwise disagree with.https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/11/27/people-may-seem-more-reasonable-when-you-hear-them-rather-than-read-their-words/ …

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        1. Bradley Calder‏ @AcmeReporter 17 Apr 2018
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          Modern non-fiction should have a 100 page limit.

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