When I was a teenager, I read every novel by Isaac Asimov, including those that I could only find in second-hand bookshops (A Whiff of Death,Murder at the ABA and The End of Eternity). I read most of his short fiction, too; I didn’t hunt down the ephemera that had never been anthologized, but I did visit the archive at the Boston University Library and find the movie plot outline that he wrote at the request of Paul McCartney. On the nonfiction side, to mention only the thickest books. I read his Chronology of Science and Discovery in sixth grade, and I followed it up with Asimov’s Chronology of the World and his two-volume guides to Shakespeare and the Bible both.
It’s not that I fail to understand where LessWrong is coming from. It’s that I actually grew up to become a scientist.
When I was a teenager, I read every novel by Isaac Asimov, including those that I could only find in second-hand bookshops (A Whiff of Death, Murder at the ABA and The End of Eternity). I read most of his short fiction, too; I didn’t hunt down the ephemera that had never been anthologized, but I did visit the archive at the Boston University Library and find the movie plot outline that he wrote at the request of Paul McCartney. On the nonfiction side, to mention only the thickest books. I read his Chronology of Science and Discovery in sixth grade, and I followed it up with Asimov’s Chronology of the World and his two-volume guides to Shakespeare and the Bible both.
It’s not that I fail to understand where LessWrong is coming from. It’s that I actually grew up to become a scientist.