Marcus wrote

Who is the audience for such a publication?  

 

I dunno.  One's in a collection of essays on the writings of E. B. Holt and
the other is in the journal, Behavior and Philosophy. I would guess that the
readership is somewhat less than the circulation of the FRIAM list, but
still, it's DIFFERENT people.   People care about stuff other than new
widgets, and they are interested in other people's thoughts on The Big
Questions.   Despite the fact that the US is kind of a cess pit of anti
intellectualism,  books do sell and people do read them.  

 

Nick 

 

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On 1/19/13 12:29 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:

> Two of

> those conversations have metamorphosed into publications.  So I think 

> I have passed the criterion of being at least "slightly motivated."

Who is the audience for such a publication?  I think there is no audience
except the crowd that has already assembled.  It's not a new widget that's
been built, and it does not include a new fact or 

measurement about the world.   It refined talk that doesn't talk back.

 

Marcus

 

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