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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