> Why would you read a book that you don't really expect to learn anything new from?
Entertainment! A sufficiently wrongheaded idea advanced at length and with a measure of braggadocio can be funny as anything. Startup-culture biens-pensants are often good for this, I find.
That said, in the general case you're not wrong, and it should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Goodhart's law that the gamification of reading produces perverse outcomes.
Entertainment! A sufficiently wrongheaded idea advanced at length and with a measure of braggadocio can be funny as anything. Startup-culture biens-pensants are often good for this, I find.
That said, in the general case you're not wrong, and it should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Goodhart's law that the gamification of reading produces perverse outcomes.