big recommend to Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. It's the OG virtual reality fiction, predecessor to Ready Player One and similar

I no longer seem to be able to resolve N/A, which seems unfortunate as I was about to go through these before Manifest. Admin?

@mods

@EliezerYudkowsky yeah, it's limited to mods and up now. if you list the N/A ones out we can N/A them

@EliezerYudkowsky Yeah N/A isn't something the admins let generic users do anymore. Name options in a comment (and probably ping mods) and moderator will resolve them N/A, sorry

@jacksonpolack @Bayesian Thanks boys! 🫡

He's definitely already read this one.

@EliTyre homeboy oughta resolve it n/a then

Isn't this referenced in the sequences? I assume he's already read it.

It’s pretty helpful to skip roughly the first 45 pages then go back when you’re halfway or more through, to flesh out context.

You haven't read it???

(I dunno how much you would enjoy it now, but I'm extremely surprised someone like you didn't read it in your teens or twenties.)

@ArmandodiMatteo he has read multiple stuff that isn't na'd yet.

@ArmandodiMatteo Source

Of Hofstadter's GEB, Eliezer once wrote:

This is simply the best and most beautiful book ever written by the human species...

I'm not alone in this opinion, by the way. For one thing, Gödel, Escher, Bach won a Pulitzer Prize. Or just pick a random scientist and ask ver what vis favorite book is, and 1 out of 5 will say: "Gödel, Escher, Bach". No other book even comes close.

It is saddening to contemplate that every day, 150,000 humans die without reading what is indisputably one of the greatest achievements of our species. Don't let it happen to you.

Sure, if you're just an average person, you might not understand everything in this book - but when you're done reading, you won't be an average person any more.

Already in the "More things I enjoyed" section.

I'm not sure N/A ing past read "NO"s is a good idea. Successfully predicting tastes should be rewarded

@girllich I suspect the intent is to avoid incentivizing people to submit things that they already know he has read and liked. Personally, I'd be tempted to submit all of his own works just to mess with him.

@ForTruth that's why specifically NOs.

I strongly suspect that he's read Death Note, since he's referenced the plot at least once. It's possible he's only seen the anime or read the synopsis on wikipedia or something.

@asmith He may not have read that Death Note follow-up oneshot that came out in 2020 or so. That was good.

How do you feel about endings where the main character dies?

Eliezer liked Naomi Novik’s Deadly Education. I think her Uprooted is great in a couple of unusual ways, including world-building quite unlike what you’d usually find in English literature (eastern european folklore/entourage). I’m at 75+% he’ll like it.

Huh, that was a fun read! Hard to not think about it though

We’re doing this wrong. What books did people predict recently that you’d like, that you didn’t like?

@DaveK Good point, I predict seeing people investigating a question by asking for a list of "yes" answers is the kinda thing that makes Eliezer pinch the bridge of his nose and sigh.