The Precipice
By: Toby Ord
4.00
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central ch…
Want to Read $ 14.99"If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Humanity is about two hundred thousand years old. But the Earth will remain habitable for hundreds of millions more—enough time for millions of future generations; enough to end disease, poverty and injustice forever; enough to create heights of flourishing unimaginable today. And if we could learn to reach out further into the cosmos, we could have more time yet: trillions of years, to explore billions of worlds. Such a lifespan places humanity in its earliest infancy. A vast and extraordinary adulthood awaits."-Toby Ord, The Precipice
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1. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
By: Philip E. Tetlock , Dan Gardner
3.95
Format: 768 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Bestseller An EconomistBest Book of 2015 "The most important book on decision maki… read more
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- politics
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2. How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach
By: Tobias Leenaert
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In this thought-provoking book, Tobias Leenaert leaves well-trodden animal advocacy paths and takes… read more
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- philosophy
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3. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
By: Nick Bostrom
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intellig… read more
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- philosophy
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4. Reasons and Persons
By: Derek Parfit
3.71
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morali… read more
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5. Unsong
By: Scott Alexander
4.29
Format: None pages, ebook
Aaron Smith-Teller works in a kabbalistic sweatshop in Silicon Valley, where he and hundreds of oth… read more
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- philosophy
6. Rationality: From AI to Zombies
By: Eliezer Yudkowsky
3.50
Format: None pages,
What does it actually mean to be rational? Not Hollywood-style "rational," where you forsake all hu… read more
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- philosophy
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7. 80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good
By: Benjamin Todd
3.75
Format: 148 pages,
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8. Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
By: William MacAskill
5.00
Format: 172 pages, Hardcover
Most of us want to make a difference. We donate our time and money to charities and causes we deem … read more
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9. The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically
By: Peter Singer
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the ethicist the New Yorkercalls "the most influential living philosopher," a new way of think… read more
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10. The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve
By: Steve Stewart-Williams
4.25
Format: 378 pages, Hardcover
The Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human a… read more
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11. The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
By: Brian Christian
4.37
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement … read more
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- audiobook
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- technology
"Curiosity bred competence."-Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
12. Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
By: Stuart Russell
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A leading artificial intelligence researcher lays out a new approach to AI that will enable us to c… read more
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- audiobook
- science
- futurism
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- technology
"To get just an inkling of the fire we're playing with, consider how content-selection algorithms function on social media. They aren't particularly intelligent, but they are in a position to affect t…"-Stuart Russell, Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
13. The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
By: Julia Galef
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have what Ju… read more
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- science
- politics
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"At the end of the day, we're a bunch of apes whose brains were optimized for defending ourselves and our tribes, not for doing unbiased evaluations of scientific evidence. So why get angry at humanit…"-Julia Galef, The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
"The scout isn’t indifferent. A scout might hope to learn that the path is safe, that the other side is weak, or that there’s a bridge conveniently located where his forces need to cross the river. Bu…"-Julia Galef, The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
14. Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
By: David Edmonds
4.26
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker , an entertaining and illuminating biography … read more
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- audiobook
15. What We Owe the Future
By: William MacAskill
3.84
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
An Oxford philosopher makes the case for "longtermism"—that positively influencing the long-term fu… read more
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- audiobook
- futurism
- history
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- nonfiction
- society
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16. The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
By: Kevin Simler
3.98
Format: 408 pages, ebook
Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed … read more
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"In Debt, the anthropologist David Graeber tells the story of Tei Reinga, a Maori villager and “notorious glutton"-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
"Take school, for instance. We say that the function of school is to teach valuable skills and knowledge. Yet students don't remember most of what they're taught, and most of what they do remember isn…"-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
"Social status among humans actually comes in two flavors: dominance and prestige.12 Dominance is the kind of status we get from being able to intimidate others (think Joseph Stalin), and on the low-s…"-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
"The point is, our minds aren't as private as we like to imagine. Other people have partial visibility into what we're thinking. Faced with the translucency of our own minds, then, self-deception is o…"-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
17. The Precipice
By: Toby Ord
4.00
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central ch… read more
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- audiobook
- science
- futurism
- history
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- climate change
- society
- technology
"If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Humanity is about two hundred thousand years old. But the Earth will remain habitable for hundreds of millions more—enough time for millions of futu…"-Toby Ord, The Precipice
18. The Replacing Guilt Series
By: Nate Soares
4.44
Format: 204 pages, ebook
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"This is a short public service announcement: you don't have to fail with abandon. Say you're playing Civilization, and your target is to get to sleep before midnight, and you check the clock, and it'…"-Nate Soares, The Replacing Guilt Series
19. The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
By: Peter Singer
4.16
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
It is 2021 and the world has experienced unimaginable suffering, death and despair. The pandemic ha… read more
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"Putting yourself in the place of others...is what thinking ethically is all about."-Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
"Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. "-Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
"...moral relativism, a position many find attractive only until they are faced with someone who is doing something really, really wrong."-Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
"Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life."-Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
20. Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed
By: Peter Singer
4.55
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
"Peter Singer may be the most controversial philosopher alive; he is certainly among the most influ… read more
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21. Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck
By: Eliezer Yudkowsky
4.08
Format: 167 pages, ebook
When should you think that you may be able to do something unusually well? Whether you’re trying… read more
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"Usually, when things suck, it’s because they suck in a way that’s a Nash equilibrium."-Eliezer Yudkowsky, Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck
"It's hard to beat signaling equilibria - because they're 'multi-factor markets' - which are special cases of coordination problems that create 'inferior Nash equilibria' - which are so stuck in place…"-Eliezer Yudkowsky, Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck
