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KaliYugaz  ·  3465 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What book has impacted you the most?

I , too, love Flatland. It's also a pretty on-point satire of Victorian society.

Never got into HPMOR though. Yudkowski's writing style is kind of headache inducing, and complicates otherwise simple concepts in an effort to impress and overawe. Sometimes when the point is explained plainly, contradictions in his ideas become obvious. Like the chapter where he goes on about how "the map is not the territory", yet does the transfiguration be reifying the "map" that is quantum field theory anyways.