From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Sep 10 2001 - 01:38:56 MDT
Spike Jones wrote:
>
> > Greg Burch wrote: ... fairly quickly graduated to His Most
> > Blessed Insightfulness, the Serene Maestro of Serendip. What's good these
> > days?
>
> The Maestro of Serendip is still a great master, even after all
> these years. Clarke is surely the man. Altho he may still be too
> young, someone should introduce the mathematician to the
> Extremely Good Book. spike
I deliberately left out the Great Eternal Book, because I remember that
the advanced books I read at an early age were sort of blurry. I never
really got the experience of reading "Dragonsinger" or "Dragonflight" for
the "first time" - these being pretty much the first grownup books I ever
read - because I reread those books year after year and understood a
little more each time. Reading a book when you're very young, and then
rereading it when you're older, is a very different experience from first
reading a book as an adult. I think the Glorious Everlasting Book should
be swallowed in a single stunning whole, rather than digested little by
little; I would recommend holding off on it until at least fourteen.
I also don't recommend "Teranesia".
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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