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Which book reviews will win the 2022 ACX Book Review Contest?
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Ṁ920Ṁ359
resolved Sep 3
48%8%
The Dawn Of Everything (EH)
24%0.4%
1587
10%13%
The Future Of Fusion
10%5%
The Internationalists
10%0.2%
The Castrato
8%Other
43%
Consciousness And The Brain
7%
Making Nature
8%
The Anti-Politics Machine
1.3%
The Illusion Of Grand Strategy
0.2%
The Outlier
1.5%
The Righteous Mind (BW)
0.2%
The Society Of The Spectacle
1.2%
Viral
0.4%
Exhaustion: A History
3%
God Emperor of Dune
0.4%
Kora in Hell

Context: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-contest-rules-2022?s=r

The finalists were just announced: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/open-thread-223?s=r

I'll resolve this proportional to the amount of prize money that the winning entries receive! Scott's promised at least $2500/$1000/$500 to first/second/third places.

May 8, 5:10pm: If you want to get a head start on reading the reviews, you can find them linked here: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/open-thread-220?s=r

Close date updated to 2022-08-31 8:59 pm

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@Austin Wooooooooo! Yahoo! I'm "rich"!

Results are up! This market didn't do so well in predicting the winners... https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-contest-2022-winners

@SG Wow, that reflects my preferences a lot better than these market results did, but looking at them, I assumed I was an outlier.

@Austin I found this one the most accessible, interesting, and exciting relative to the future. I suspect this one generally has a wider crowd appeal than the others, but then again the audience for SSC isn't necessarily full of normal people.

"broken and hunched figure" classic McVeigh posture.
@MichaelWheatley "nonetheless you find that you are able to do less and less before running out of energy. You start to pick and choose your battles – do I really feel up to this gym session? Do I really need to go to this work function? – and little by little your world begins to shrink" Classic energy leaks from open thoracic canister. I also have a McVeigh posture brain famine theory which I think some scientists might like.
@MichaelWheatley "John Cassian (circa 425CE), who described monks becoming agitated, unable to relax, but also anergic and unable to attend to their usual devotions or tasks" Yeah, this is a book copyist's low back flexion issue.
In fact, the very term "psychosomatic" makes no sense. The brain causes its own damage... why? Might as well use the terms "genetic" or "nonexistent".
Practically no doctors/PTs/scientists can do basic postural analysis. If they could, they would have discovered the simple and obvious purpose of the chin. For the record, I did have brain fog and breathing difficulties while getting into my (close to optimal) posture, but this did not resemble any form of chronic fatigue. My guess is chronic fatigue is just a mix of Fischer and McVeigh postures.
Anyway, important review, but incomplete. The "consciousness and the brain" book was better.
@MichaelWheatley You know what I'm gonna prescribe here, right? If I had my way, I'd pull a Srebenica on anyone using the term "psychosomatic".
Scott tacked on an extra few weeks of new books. Are you planning to extend trading until after they've all been released?
I knew a guy with pretty severe psychosis in a McVeigh type posture. Heavily responsive to drugs... but he honestly would not be out of place in the ghetto.
My guess is that schizophrenia is found only among people in McVeigh/Fischer type postures. The first seems to suffer from posture-related brain famine, the latter is superconscious.
@Austin Similar to the Hanania/Righteous Mind reviews.
@Austin Similar to the Righteous Mind review.
@Austin Very interesting, but incomplete review.
@Austin Didn't like.
I did not like this review. I did not write it.
I did not like this review.
@JoyVoid I predict more Srebenicas in the future. Technology decides responses to war more than law.
For the record, a month or two ago, I had zero ability to do mental math.
"Deahene believes that schizophrenia is what you get if you (partially) lose conscious perceptions" Dude really needs to read Jaynes/watch Robocop. I had a schizo "phase". It had zero resemblance to my current bicam one.
You know, I should really try out these tests a couple months from now. Some researchers are going to be really impressed.
@Austin "It might be more accurate to think of a committee meeting of all brain regions, who discuss and decide on a topic." Ah; so this explains the OCP board in Robocop.

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