books

Books I’m currently reading

Books I’m currently reading

Misc:

• How to Win Friends & Influence People
• Riichi 1
• A new kind of Science
• The Educated Mind
• How to Lie with Statistics
• The Data Detective: 10 Easy Rules
• The Righteous Mind
• Tibet in Agony
• Zen at War
• The Poppy Wars
• The Black Company
• Revelation Space
• Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings
• The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins)
• The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life (Robert Trivers)
• Moonwalking with Einstein
• Outliers
• Real Analysis
• Little World
• The Scout Mindset (Julia Galef)
• Rationality: From AI to Zombies (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
• Inadequate Equilibria (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
• Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
• The Elephant in the Brain (Kevin Simler & Robin Hanson)
• The Precipice (Toby Ord)
• Doing Good Better (William MacAskill)
• The Life You Can Save (Peter Singer)
• What We Owe the Future (William MacAskill)
• The Most Good You Can Do (Peter Singer)
• Moral Uncertainty (William MacAskill et al.)
• Superintelligence (Nick Bostrom)
• Human Compatible (Stuart Russell)
• The Alignment Problem (Brian Christian)
• Algorithms to Live By (Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths)
• The Intelligence Trap (David Robson)
• The Knowledge Illusion (Steven Sloman & Philip Fernbach)
• The Constitution of Knowledge (Jonathan Rauch)
• Calling Bullshit (Carl Bergstrom & Jevin West)
• Factfulness (Hans Rosling)
• The Undoing Project (Michael Lewis)
• The Signal and the Noise (Nate Silver)
• Fooled by Randomness (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
• The Black Swan (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
• Antifragile (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
• Skin in the Game (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)

(Computer) Science:

• Goedel Escher Bach
• Algorithms Data Structures Programs
• the mythical man-month
• Flow based programming
• Science of the Artificial
• Little Schemer
• Seasoned Schemer
• The art of the metaobject protocol
• Computer Libs
• Geeks Bearing Gifts
• possiplex
• hackers delight
• coders at work

Physics:

• Six Easy Pieces
• Six Not-So-Easy Pieces
• defining wind
• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Music:

• New Musical Resources

Philosophy:

• What Is Existentialism?
• Leviathan
• Animal Liberation

Fiction:

• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
• Three Worlds Collide
• A Girl corrupted by the Internet is the Summoned Hero
• The Waves, Arisen
• Unsong
• There is no Antimemetics Department
• Flatland
• Blood Meridian
• The Book of Five Rings
• The Lathe of Heaven
• East of Eden
• Rules of Attraction
• Less than Zero
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