{"id":267,"date":"2007-06-02T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=267"},"modified":"2007-06-02T21:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T01:44:00","slug":"i-am-a-boring-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"I Am A Boring Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on page 78 of <em>I Am A Strange Loop<\/em> and it&#8217;s a boring book.  Hofstadter&#8217;s fascination with loopyness gets him nowhere fast.  The ideas themselves are rather fascinating, but I&#8217;ve heard it all before (so far).  And Hofstadter&#8217;s become another person since GEB&#8230; his style of writing is just much more stale, I don&#8217;t get the same sense of passion and interest I got with GEB, I get the sense of quite an intelligent professor who&#8217;s forced to give a lecture he doesn&#8217;t really want to give but gives anyway.  And he seems much more defensive.  I&#8217;ve got a few quotes from the book I want to add to the quotes blog eventually, but I&#8217;m really gonna have to take a break from this book and move on to <em>The Black Swan<\/em>.  Surely I can devour Nassim Nicholas Taleb&#8217;s sharp, witty, and thought-provoking writing as I did with <em>Fooled By Randomness<\/em>, right?  I guess we&#8217;ll see.  Goodbye, <em>I Am A Strange Loop<\/em>; I shall come back for you someday to finish you, but for now I want to start seeing other books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on page 78 of I Am A Strange Loop and it&#8217;s a boring book. Hofstadter&#8217;s fascination with loopyness gets him nowhere fast. The ideas themselves are rather fascinating, but I&#8217;ve heard it all before (so far). And Hofstadter&#8217;s become another person since GEB&#8230; his style of writing is just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-4j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}