作者宣布《Fundamental Uncertainty》一书的第二章修订工作已完成，该章修订耗时数月，历经个人生活中的多重挑战，如丧母、脑震荡及新工作。作者投入大量时间和精力，删减了大量内容以求精准表达。新版第二章质量显著提升，已被发布至初稿。同时，第三章修订也接近尾声，进展较快，预计后续章节修订将更高效。作者计划全年完成第二稿，并争取在2026年出版。此外，作者将开始每周发布博客文章，以期建立读者群体。

📚 **第二章修订完成，历经挑战：** 作者克服了个人生活中的重大变故，如丧母、脑震荡和新工作，耗费大量时间精力（超过100小时）完成了《Fundamental Uncertainty》第二章的修订。其间，作者删除了大量文字，力求达到最佳表达效果，最终形成了质量显著提升的新版本。

🚀 **写作进展顺利，目标明确：** 新修订的第二章已发布至初稿，而第三章的修订也接近完成，由于是较早创作的章节，其修订速度更快，并已修正了初稿中的一些事实性错误。作者对后续章节（第四章及以后）的修订充满信心，预计将更加高效，并仍计划在年底前完成第二稿，以期在2026年出版。

✍️ **博客更新频率提升，旨在建立读者群：** 为了更好地吸引读者并推广书籍，作者将开始每周发布博客文章，增加内容更新频率，即使这些文章的打磨程度可能略低于以往，但作者认为这是一项值得的权衡，以期逐步建立和扩大读者群体。

Published on October 3, 2025 4:10 AM GMT

Well, I finally did it.

I finished revising Chapter 2 of Fundamental Uncertainty.

If you’ve been following along, it’s been a long process. I started revising that chapter back in November and finished earlier this month. During that time I had a lot of setbacks: I lost my mom, I got a concussion, and I started a new job. All these things slowed down what was an already incredibly difficult rewrite. I easily spent 100 hours on this chapter trying to figure out just the right things to say in the right way, and I threw away 5 words for every 1 that made it to the end. Thankfully, I’ve finally got a version that, while not perfect, is good enough that I’m moving on.

Unlike most of my second draft chapters, the new version of Chapter 2 was so much better and such a big change that I decided to publish it into the first draft. You can read the new version here.

And in further good news, the revision of Chapter 3 is nearly complete. It’s going a lot faster because it was the second chapter I wrote and it’s where I started to figure out what the book should be. The new version cut about 1000 unnecessary words and fixes a number of factual errors in the first draft (thanks to everyone on Less Wrong who pointed out issues in the first draft!).

My hope is that the revisions of Chapter 4 and on go even faster.

I also hope that I’m still on track to wrap up the second draft by the end of the year, with a goal of getting into print in 2026.

Posting More Often

I’m planning to start posting to this blog once a week. This is the third week in a row I’ve made a Wednesday post, and I hope to keep that up.

Everyone says consistency is what matters for growing an audience, and like it or not if I want people to read my book I need an audience.

I’ve got a lot of things I could post, especially if I don’t spend long hours editing them. These more frequent posts will probably be about 20% worse than my current non-update posts in terms of polish, but will come 200% more often. I hope you like the tradeoff, and apologies in advance if you don’t.

Other things

I spared you all this bad filk I wrote a couple weeks ago. I wrote some better ones, but of course filk is a low art, so it’s all bad.

And I keep posting on Twitter. Sometimes I’m even clever. I recently broke 800 followers. Maybe you will help take me to 1000???

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