I agree this is a problem. In retrospect, reading Yudkowsky's Sequences was far more valuable to me than reading various pre-1900 philosophers' works firsthand.

I agree this is a problem. In retrospect, reading Yudkowsky's Sequences was far more valuable to me than reading various pre-1900 philosophers' works firsthand.

https://twitter.com/PradyuPrasad/status/1757745612072894477

Generally a lot of the ideas we learn in modern science/economics are a chewed up version of the original idea, and losses some context

In university economics you learn Keynesian economics, which is more of an interpretation of it. When you read his "General theory.." book it is very different than the interpretation