 Hey guys, so I realized I had not given you a formal update about the state of the Indiegogo campaign that took place a couple of weeks ago My bad My wife and I just left Auckland. So we're in Airbnb right now. You have to forgive the setup And I think it took four days before we raised $1,000 for the Indiegogo campaign. So totally exceeded expectations Thank you all very much for supporting. There was a guy that came in and donated about half of the amount Four days in you know who you are. So thank you very much for that and some of my supporters have been sending me messages like Steve Don't you know Jason Brennan's gonna write this unfair supercritical review and oh man, what are you thinking? You know, why would you pay him to do this? And you guys are taking this way too Linearly I am perfectly aware that Jason has a very strong incentive to write as Unfavorable review of my book as possible I know that's the case. So Maybe step back and look at some alternative explanations for why I want to do this So let me give you some what I'm actually expecting so that it's cleared up Actually, I think it's gonna happen. I imagine based on my reading of academic work and academic journals I think there's gonna be a lot of focus on minutia and style because I violate the rules of academic writing like I know there's no citations in here I'm not participating in the conversation. I don't talk about I mean I talk about Aristotle Briefly, but I don't make any citations. I don't think academics like that And if his incentive is to try to pick it apart in ways that aren't gonna be addressing the actual ideas about the laws of logic That's I'm sure there will be plenty of examples where he can do that So he's got 1200 words to fill. I'm imagining most of them are going to try to be as critical as possible about violating academic standards and even in the introduction of the book I have there's a line that says the reader can rest assured. This is not a work of academic philosophy So I think that's where most of it's going to be if he does address the actual ideas head-on Which would be surprising, but that would be great It's gonna be very hard to criticize the laws of logic laws of identity and non-contradiction and their bundling then being bundled together with Existence the the theme of the books that logic and existence are inseparable if he actually talks about that I can't imagine what the criticism would be that would be interesting to hear it So I think another route he might take is something like okay Well, let's acknowledge that yes, the laws of logic are necessary and certain and we all presuppose them But it's trivially true. We've known this for thousands of years. This doesn't add anything to the conversation So I think we might seek glossing over the parts of the book which are really tightly reasoned and I would say profoundly important to understand He might just say yeah, but We already knew that another option that he might take is for example There's a the most difficult part of my book by far is The part where I'm talking about the metaphysics of logic, which is a very short section I don't go into too much detail But that's an area where maybe you could have an objection say oh, I don't like the way that you phrase this here Totally reasonable so maybe what I'll do is latch on to that address it You know intellectually but spend half the route talking about one fairly minor point I can see that as well one way or another I'm imagining it's going to be taking up 1200 words by either Focusing on my new show because I'm on one thing that you can really sink your teeth into and skipping over all the good stuff So that is my expectation guys. You don't have to worry. I'm aware he has an incentive to do that Yes, now maybe it's the case that I've made some catastrophic error in my argument that I just didn't conceive of and oh Yes, you can't have a true contradiction and if that's the case to be points it out Great it would be embarrassing for me right because I'm claiming the central part of this book is logically airtight and logically certain Then I can know it that is true But maybe I'm wrong. Okay. I've got it over mind I would benefit greatly from hearing that kind of feedback now I don't rule out the idea that I'm my pessimism is misplaced. I've had several people say oh Jason Brennan does great work He's totally intellectually honest, you know, it's he's gonna he's gonna be he's not gonna do what I've said in this video Maybe maybe that's the case. I mean I don't I haven't read that much the guys work I don't know and personally so yeah, I mean, maybe I'm wrong. That would be awesome Wouldn't it then it would be a win all around that everybody could enjoy his review, but He's agreed to get it done. I think in the next two weeks now So I'll make sure to keep you guys updated once it's been submitted to a few Publishing places then at some point I will definitely do a Jason Brennan review breakdown of his arguments my responses to his arguments So that everybody can be on the same page. So thanks everybody so much for supporting the project. Thanks for your concern It's been an exciting period of time and let's see what happens