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I am partway through Fiat Food. I recommend it for the connection of money printing to subsidized illness, especially in the US.

But holy cow - it needs editing! Missing verbs, misspelled homonyms, dangling participles, incorrect prepositions. No shade to the author (I can’t even imagine how many mistakes I would make in a multi-chapter book) but isn’t editing a crucial part of the publishing process? nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7ct5d3shxtnwdaehgu3wd3skueqpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqqgzr08nkh7nk4q9cmw02wkfprkgtk0n8kgszlzyqe384ll3qv5rp453f6g5h

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The Beave 5mo ago

Editing costs very significant time and money, especially for good editing. At one time, this was the value add of traditional publishing houses, and, honestly still is in many cases.

That's a bit sad to hear, though.

FiddleHodlHomestead 5mo ago

I have plenty of reservations about AI, but I would think that this would be a great use of it.

The Beave 5mo ago

Eeeh. I've seen AI make too many mistakes. Also, when I write, AI doesn't like my sentences even if they are very grammatically correct.

FiddleHodlHomestead 5mo ago

hmm - ok. It just seems like at least some of these mistake could have been flagged with a pretty simple protocol (every sentence must have a verb, for instance).

But I can imagine that a good (human) editor would probably help improve the syntax as well as catch the glaring mistakes.

freemymind 🇨🇭 5mo ago

I did not read the book. But I kind of do not feel there is much help in it for me. I only see how people seem to be focused heavily on meat. I really do not get this.

Since plants have so much more evolution behin them and can usually be grown without use of antibiotics. Clearly many plants are grown with heavy use of pesticides and herbicides. But thanks to lables or those with the means to homegrow, can make sure to use very grounded forms of plant farming.

And from most articles I read and documentaries I read, it seems quiet consensus to eat mostly plants with some addition of meat rarely. So I really do not see how a book says to fix health and putting only meat on the cover. Or is this only clickbait nostr:nprofile1qqsyx708d0a8d2qt3ku75avjz8vshvlx0v3q97ygpnz0tllzqegxrtgkklh5m ?

FiddleHodlHomestead 5mo ago

I'm pretty sure even plant-based folks would find something useful in the book. It shows how the govt has subsidized incredibly poor-quality foods (sugary cereals, for instance) at the expense of real food. Even if you are not partial to animal foods you'll learn about how actual food - basically stuff that can't be faked - are a problem in a fiat economy that makes them more and more expensive.

I don't think the cover is clickbait. Saifedean is a carnivore and has done a fairly deep dive on nutrition himself. You might find interviews with his brother - a doctor - interesting if you want to look more into this.

[The book might make you question what you think is the "consensus:" who funds it, who publicizes it, who benefits from it. But I believe that you and I already had that conversation around vaccines so maybe I should stop here 😂]

freemymind 🇨🇭 5mo ago

Thanks for your take. I think I rather put my trust in peer reviewed studies and metastudies or people which argument mostly based on such papers.

Dr. Andrew Huberman I really like for health questions. So I can believe, that people who are fans of nostr:nprofile1qqsyx708d0a8d2qt3ku75avjz8vshvlx0v3q97ygpnz0tllzqegxrtgkklh5m can find value for themselfes in his books. I just believe there is books with higher signal/noise ratio. This is all. So I rather invest my time in what I hope to have the highest signal/noise ratio and to not read to much into others.

Probably the Bitcoin Standard is a good read. This one I liked really.

FiddleHodlHomestead 5mo ago

I appreciate your gracious responses 🙂

You still seem to be under the impression that the point of the book is to recommend what foods to eat. It is not. The point is to look at how fiat poisons our food supply, and Lysiak's background in investigative journalism is perfect.

Huberman does some great work!

freemymind 🇨🇭 5mo ago

https://medium.com/@willemvandenbergh_85885/the-ir-relevance-of-experts-top-down-versus-bottom-up-information-flow-428bd5005d88

Just found this great article about the #relevance or lack of it from so called #experts in the reddit forum linked below. It seems very obvious nostr:nprofile1qqsyx708d0a8d2qt3ku75avjz8vshvlx0v3q97ygpnz0tllzqegxrtgkklh5m goes directly in this faction of "baseless appeal to authority" for writing books which sole purpose is to sell them. Since for sure there are people with far better knowledge in health and nurtition than a person, which invested his time mostly in questions about economics. So I kind of answered my question above myself. Probably not worth reading for the lack of knowledge to write a book which is useful.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/r3avuj/saifedean_is_unsound/?rdt=45299

FiddleHodlHomestead 5mo ago

Saifedean didn't write the book. I only tagged him because his company published it. The writer is an investigative journalist who studied the various incentives around food policy. The thesis is excellent and the knowledge is solid.

Baseless appeal to authority? what do you mean?

freemymind 🇨🇭 5mo ago

> Baseless appeal to authority? what do you mean?

That I feel Saifedean is kind of abusing his authority in topics he has not enough knowledge to be of importance. So I think many people search very much authority in him, while he is maby authority for economic questions, in most other topics I doubt he is.

FiddleHodlHomestead 5mo ago

Economics touches on every aspect of our lives, and this book is about how printing money has ramifications for the food supply.

Saifedean is not the author, but it totally makes sense that his publishing house would publish this book. It's perfectly in their wheelhouse.

freemymind 🇨🇭 5mo ago

Thanks for your take. Maby I have to look into it to keep on arguing :D

FiddleHodlHomestead 5mo ago

😂 that's the spirit!

beejay 5mo ago

You didn't read the book, but you already know what's in it?

freemymind 🇨🇭 5mo ago

No I assume because of comments and the image on the cover. Since many who praise the book, seem to follow mostly carnivore diet.

beejay 5mo ago

I think I heard the audio version. All those errors would trigger me lol

FiddleHodlHomestead 5mo ago

They're driving me nuts! Sometimes I have to re-read a sentence several times to figure out what is going on.

Is it AI reading it, or did the reader correct as they went?

atyh 5mo ago

is it hard to find good editors these days? or is everyone taking the substandard AI shortcut?

FiddleHodlHomestead 5mo ago

I don't know. I guess it's probably expensive?

I've almost reached for a pen a few times to just make some corrections right on the pages. At least the next person to read this copy won't have to read some of the sentences multiple times.