Re: Great books for young people?

Damien R. Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Wed, 30 Dec 1998 17:54:03 -0800 (PST)

On Dec 29, 6:45pm, "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:

> _Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition_, the one that changed
> my life at age 14 (?) was _Godel, Escher, Bach_, and the one that
> changed my life at age 16 was _True Names and Other Dangers_.
>
> These books must be read in the correct order!

Why? I read GEB in high school, True Names beginning college, and Mambo years later.

Of course, I'm not the radical Singularitarian Eliezer is.

-xx- Damien X-)