Would it be a good use of time for me to read Tyler Cowen's GOAT?
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Tyler Cowen has published a book that he says is more than a book: https://econgoat.ai/en. You can 'explore it with AI.' The book is about the greatest economists of all time.

Resolves to YES if I do read the book and consider it to have been a good use of time.

Resolves to NO if I at least make a serious attempt to read the book, and conclude it was not a good use of time.

Resolves to fair market price if I decide not to make a serious attempt to read the book after considering arguments made and the trading and market price.

If I trade in this market, I am committing to resolving this to YES or NO.

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I imagine the book could be interesting if you're interested in economics or if you haven't read that much before about it, otherwise not so much.

Though I guess you could perhaps also enjoy the novel integration of a book with LLMs.

Extending. Won't extend again unless I have started

I might still read this. But I have not started. Thoughts on whether or should extend deadline or return capital?

bought Ṁ30 of YES

It’s one of Paul Bloom’s favorite books of the last two years or so.

https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/my-favorite-books-written-in-the

bought Ṁ10 of NO

I skimmed it. It's okay, but I wasn't blown away by it. The main purpose of the book is to figure out who the GOAT economist is (honestly, I don't find this question to be all that interesting, especially because Tyler has to define the question in a rather convoluted way to prevent Adam Smith from being the obvious answer).

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