Avoiding the Worst: How to Prevent a Moral Catastrophe
By: Tobias Baumann
4.42
Format: 105 pages, Kindle Edition
How can we avoid worst-case scenarios? From Nineteen Eighty-Four to Black Mirror, we are all fam…
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1. Famine, Affluence, and Morality
By: Peter Singer
4.11
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, the young philosopher Peter Singer published "Famine, Affluence and Morality," which rapid… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
2. Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
4.28
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic story of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, who plunged into Rome’s violent power struggl… read more
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- nonfiction
"Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now]"-Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
"For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense of history. [Cicero, quoted by Goldsworthy in his Augustus]"-Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
3. The Gervais Principle: The Complete Series, with a Bonus Essay on Office Space
By: Venkatesh G. Rao
3.77
Format: 341 pages,
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
4. 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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- nonfiction
5. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more
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7. Soumission
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.65
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more
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"It’s submission,"-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"There is no Israel for me."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"I was about as political as a bath towel."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
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 Conspiracy Against the Human Race
By: Thomas Ligotti , Ray Brassier
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"The Conspiracy against the Human Race sets out what is perhaps the most sustained challenge yet to… read more
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10. 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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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Curiosity bred competence."-Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
11. 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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- nonfiction
"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
12. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
By: Hannah Ritchie
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
‘Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our p… read more
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- nonfiction
13. 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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- nonfiction
14. 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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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"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
15. 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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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"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
16. 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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- nonfiction
17. Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World
By: Nick Bostrom
3.90
Format: 536 pages, Hardcover
A greyhound catching the mechanical lure—what would he actually do with it? Has he given this any t… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
18. Avoiding the Worst: How to Prevent a Moral Catastrophe
By: Tobias Baumann
4.42
Format: 105 pages, Kindle Edition
How can we avoid worst-case scenarios? From Nineteen Eighty-Four to Black Mirror, we are all fam… read more
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19. The Buddhist and the Ethicist: Conversations on Effective Altruism, Engaged Buddhism, and How to Build a Better World
By: Peter Singer
3.79
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Eastern spirituality and utilitarian philosophy meet in these unique dialogues between a Buddhist m… read more
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20. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
By: Ray Kurzweil
3.93
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more
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- nonfiction
21. Speciesism: Why It Is Wrong and the Implications of Rejecting It
By: Magnus Vinding
3.79
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
What can justify discrimination against other sentient beings? In this book, Magnus Vinding expl… read more
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- nonfiction
"No group of humans has ever been held in as low regard or exploited on anything close to the same level as non-human beings have been throughout history and still are today. No group of humans has ev…"-Magnus Vinding, Speciesism: Why It Is Wrong and the Implications of Rejecting It
22. You Are Them
By: Magnus Vinding
3.86
Format: 93 pages, Kindle Edition
What follows if we reject belief in any kind of non-physical soul and instead embrace a physicalist… read more
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23. In Defense of Nuance
By: Magnus Vinding
4.41
Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition
We appear to find ourselves in a crisis of polarization and failed communication. What can we do ab… read more
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24. Reasoned Politics
By: Magnus Vinding
4.53
Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition
How can we do politics better? In Reasoned Politics, Magnus Vinding lays out a path toward polit… read more
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"The term “political overconfidence"-Magnus Vinding, Reasoned Politics
"The anthropocentrism of most political philosophy is, to put it mildly, a massive failure."-Magnus Vinding, Reasoned Politics
"In short, our mission is to advance reasoned and compassionate politics for all sentient beings."-Magnus Vinding, Reasoned Politics
"The freedom of people to organize themselves as they want is just as important for curbing totalitarianism — and for addressing other problems — as is the freedom to speak up against these things. Th…"-Magnus Vinding, Reasoned Politics
25. The Speciesism of Leaving Nature Alone and the Theoretical Case for “Wildlife Anti-Natalism”
By: Magnus Vinding
4.07
Format: 14 pages, None
Discriminating against individuals based on their species membership is no more justified than disc… read more
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26. Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications
By: Magnus Vinding
4.31
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
The reduction of suffering deserves special priority. Many ethical views support this claim, yet so… read more
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"The point of the term “suffering-focused ethics"-Magnus Vinding, Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications
"[F]ailure is generally much easier than success."-Magnus Vinding, Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications
"Beyond the asymmetry in quantity, there is so a strong asymmetry in the ease of realizing states of happiness and suffering respectively."-Magnus Vinding, Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications
"Being forced to endure torture rather than dreamless sleep, or an otherwise neutral state, would be a tragedy of a fundamentally different kind than being forced to “endure"-Magnus Vinding, Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications
27. The Vulnerable World Hypothesis
By: Nick Bostrom
4.23
Format: None pages, None
Abstract -- Scientific and technological progress might change people’s capabilities or incentives … read more
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28. Anti-Natalism and the Future of Suffering: Why Negative Utilitarians Should Not Aim For Extinction
By: Magnus Vinding
4.04
Format: 9 pages, Smashwords
This short essay questions whether advocating for anti-natalism is the best way to reduce suffering… read more
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29. Effective Altruism: How Can We Best Help Others?
By: Magnus Vinding
4.27
Format: 100 pages, Kindle Edition
This book is part introduction to, part reflective examination of, the idea and ideal of effective … read more
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30. Beyond Death: The Best Evidence for the Survival of Human Consciousness
By: Sharon Hewitt Rawlette
3.83
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Does consciousness continue after death? For 150 years, scientists, doctors, and other highly quali… read more
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31. Minimalist Axiologies: Alternatives to ‘Good Minus Bad’ Views of Value
By: Teo Ajantaival
4.25
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Can suffering be counterbalanced by the creation of other things?In Minimalist Axiologies, Teo Ajan… read more
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