This is by Raymond Arnold. And hopefully you didn’t miss the Bayesian Choir’s rendition of the title song.
Relevant wiki articles: Garden of the Gods, Samuel Butler, the Butlerian Jihad, The Red Wheelbarrow, The New Colossus, Eli, Eli, Pike’s Peak, Pikuach nefesh, Rabbi Kook.
I am going to be in the San Francisco Bay Area on Sunday May 14, and I would like to hold reading of the final chapter of Unsong and an end-of-book party for anyone who’s interested. If fans would like to organize this themselves, that would make my life easier. Otherwise I’ll figure something out and let you know at the bottom of the next chapter.
Do you know the timing of when the last chapter is going up that day? I can’t be involved in anything in California, but am interested in running a separate wrap party in Boston.
I would like the chapter to go up late-ish, so that the California party isn’t scooped, but within that bound I can try to work around your schedule.
EDIT: Or I can just send you the chapter.
That works, if you’re comfortable with it. Alternatively, our meetup is currently scheduled to start at 2 PM local time, but we could move it later to match when the chapter goes up; we’d want to be able to read the chapter relatively soon after it started. I’m planning to send out an announcement within the next day, so would need to know by then when we’d be able to see it.
Where are you organizing this meetup? I might be in Boston that weekend.
MIT.
I’m interested in holding a wrap party at Princeton, so knowing the time in advance would be convenient.
The wrap party has been announced.
I uploaded the HaMephorash song with the chapter page things that have the lyrics on youtube here in case anyone wants to see that. I’m hoping someone else makes a better version with the fan art, but I suck at that sort of thing.
Thanks for doing this. 🙂
I had a highly vivid dream last night that Scott published a 23rd interlude, Interlude Multiocular O, a letter whose kabbalistic implications are obviously immense.
A prophetic dream?
Well if I’d thought of it earlier…
So I posted about this in the Facebook group, but figured I should mention it here so more people see it: if there’s interest and no scheduling SNAFU’s come up, I’m thinking of organizing a post-wrap party in Massachusetts in late June centered around a trip to the New Bedford Whaling Museum (https://www.whalingmuseum.org/).
Would anyone else be interested in this, if we can make it happen?
Holy shit Scott. You’re like a legit author now. Soon I’ll be able to stop telling people about some random guy’s blog and instead direct them to “essays” by the “noted author” (you wrote enough author’s notes to be a noted author) Scott Alexander.
Do you know the timing of the party? I’d like to attend, which will be easier if I can arrange my schedule ahead of time.
I hereby offer up the CFAR/MIRI office lobby as a place you might go to that would comfortably(ish) hold 50 people and uncomfortably hold 100.
I dunno how many UNSONG fans (or just Scott fans generally) would show up to a thing in Berkeley, so the office may be disqualified just by virtue of not having enough space.
This would be good. I enjoy UNSONG and would likely be able to attend.
Thus far, I haven’t gotten any sense that this’ll actually happen, tho (e.g. nobody else being like YES PLEASE).
Awwww man, I’m up north for school but it ends on the 12th and I’m home in SoCal on the 13th. So sad I can’t make the party!
I’d like to attend too.
Scott, how would you feel about emailing the chapter to people trying to organise wrap parties?
If that’s OK by you, I suggest that people reply to this comment with the parties they want to arrange, as with the SSC meet-ups. (Or you could put up a post about it, Scott, which would work better.)
Sunday 14th will be a meet-up day for London Rationalish and we got a large turnout of SSC fans yesterday. We also got an enormous turnout for the HPMOR wrap party, so these are popular events. I’m therefore keen to have the text before “late-ish” in SF, i.e. early on Monday in London.
There will be a wrap party on Sunday 14th in London, UK, in connection with London Rationalish. If the weather is good, it will be in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Holborn. If the weather is bad, it will be at the Penderel’s Oak pub, Holborn.
Scott, may we also have an advance copy of the final chapter?
The Facebook page is London Rationalish.
Would anyone be interested in an Austin, TX wrap party? I’m chatting to the LW/SSC meetup group.
Update: looks like the Slate Star Codex/LW meetup group of Austin will host a wrap party and read the final chapter. Anyone interested should contact us at our Google Group
New York is aiming to hold something.
How do I join?
We’re still finding a venue. I’m sort of hoping / assuming that if we can get in date/times to Scott that he’ll list them somewhere.
Any news? No response on Facebook….
I would like to perform a dawn or near-dawn reading of this at the Western Wall for obvious Kabbalistic reasons.
May I get an advance copy of the script so I can print it out in advance?
Alternatively – would you consider livestreaming your live reading? I would be just as happy to broadcast you at the Wall to our small flock over here.
We are going to celebrate the finale in LessWrong Tel Aviv on May 16, starting at 19:00. Location is Yigal Alon 118 (The Cluster). See also Facebook event.