Substack & information density

If high information density is your goal, text is best. Substack may be the best aggregator of high information density text.

I’m in the middle of reading a book with the ponderous title The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World. The book is pretty good, and I’m about 2/3rds of the way through it. I can’t help but wonder, though, whether Arnold Kling is correct, when he writes of non-fiction books:

I speculate that nonfiction bo…