On: If Sapiens were a blog post

[latexr]

> This blog post seems to start off with the premise that you understand what's going on, which I don't.

From the top of the blog post:

> The goal? Future-me should be happy to read this once future-me forgets how we evolved.

The post isn’t for you, but a reference for the author. It seems to be one of those “I’m making this for me, but if it’s useful for anyone else, so much the better” cases.

[neilkakkar → latexr]

Thanks, author here.

And for the other comments, no, I didn't update that right now. :)

[OJFord → latexr]

Why not quote the sentence before that? The actual first sentence is:

> I spent over 25 hours building a cut-down version of Sapiens.

Unless OP is on HN and added that after comments here.

[latexr → OJFord]

> Why not quote the sentence before that?

Because however many hours were spent making it is irrelevant as to why it was made, which was the point.

[OJFord → latexr]

I don't mean the hours, I mean the "cut-down version of".

[latexr → OJFord]

Similar reason. Explaining how it was made (by cutting it dow) has no bearing on the why, which was the point.

[OJFord → latexr]

No it wasn't, you were replying to:

> Is the author summarising his own impressions of Sapiens (surely acceptable), or literally lifting the original text of the book and taking it as his own [...]?

The first sentence about cutting it down answers that.

[latexr → OJFord]

> No it wasn't, you were replying to

No, I was not, I was replying to the section I quoted (hence quoting it, that’s how that works).