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> Eliezer Yudkowsky's "sequences" are over one million words long.

The sequences are really books made up of chapters (blog posts). Most of those posts are relatively short.

They are also very repetitive. When I started reading it (back in 2015 I think?) I thought that they had some interesting info, but needed a good editor to remove at least 60% of the material; many chapters argued the exact same point as the previous chapter, with a slightly different analogy. Also many are responses to other blogs of the time, which also isn't interesting to read in a book since you don't have any context. Very tiresome to read.

Many posts/chapters are written to be understood individually, so they overlap but with different emphasis. They are made to be skippable.

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