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And to be fair Hofstadter got the message and wrote "I Am a Strange Loop" for people who just want the to the point version.
by hobs 3y ago
And to be fair Hofstadter got the message and wrote "I Am a Strange Loop" for people who just want the to the point version.
- keithalewis 3y agoI wonder if anyone on the Pulitzer Prize committee for GEB understood this was the idea he was attempting to communicate. There seems to be a large market for books that make dumb people feel smart.
- davedx 3y agoHa I tried reading I Am a Strange Loop and found that meandering and verbose too. Didn’t finish it. He really labors the “greater than sum of parts” point for example. Ugh