Moral Uncertainty
By: William MacAskill
4.10
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. …
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1. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
By: William Gibson
3.89
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
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"Boy, I was daid."-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
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"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
2. The Society of the Spectacle
By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more
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"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
3. The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
By: Sean Carroll
4.18
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in… read more
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"Life is short, and certainty never happens."-Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
"Intellectual fascination crosses many boundaries."-Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
"Life is not a substance, like water or rock; it’s a process, like fire or a wave crashing on the shore. It’s a process that begins, lasts for a while, and ultimately ends. Long or short, our moments …"-Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
"Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science has been more misused and abused by cranks and charlatans—and misunderstood by people struggling in g…"-Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
4. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
By: Steven Pinker
3.77
Format: 341 pages,
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5. 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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6. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
By: André Maurois , Jorge Luis Borges , James E. Irby , Donald A. Yates
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges … read more
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7. 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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8. 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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9. The Hydrogen Sonata (Culture #10)
By: Iain M. Banks
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
They are, truly, probably, End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, they helped set … read more
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10. Look to Windward (Culture, #7)
By: Iain M. Banks
3.30
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Twin Novae battle had been one of the last of the Idiran war, one of the most horrific. Despera… read more
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11. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
By: Nate Silver
3.75
Format: None pages,
Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 elec… read more
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12. Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
By: Ken Liu , Liu Cixin
4.42
Format: 604 pages, Hardcover
With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking readers got their first chance to experience the mult… read more
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"Time is the cruelest force of all."-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
"We’re going to advance! Advance! We’ll stop at nothing to advance!"-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
"Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is."-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
"The whole universe is in darkness, but we remain lit. We're a tiny bird tied to a branch in the dark forest, with a spotlight trained on on us."-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
13. Ficciones
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan
3.53
Format: 320 pages,
The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more
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14. A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
By: Vernor Vinge
4.14
Format: 613 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that … read more
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"We're endangered by our own success."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
"I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
"Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
"Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
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16. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
By: John J. Mearsheimer
3.71
Format: 364 pages,
The update of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the… read more
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17. Starfish (Rifters, #1)
By: Peter Watts
3.95
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the botto… read more
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"Lenie " odzywa się Joel "Słucham?" "Próbowałaś się kiedyś zabić?" "Jasne, jak każdy" odpowiada"-Peter Watts, Starfish (Rifters, #1)
"It’s really kind of… well, beautiful, in a way. Even the monsters, once you get to know ‘em. We’re all beautiful."-Peter Watts, Starfish (Rifters, #1)
"Don’t lecture me in my own field! We’ve got language and speech centers hardwired into our brains. That gives us a common starting point. Gels don’t have anything like that. Speech might just be one …"-Peter Watts, Starfish (Rifters, #1)
"Miałam 11 lat. Poprzyklejałam sobie na ciele plastry, straciłam przytomność, obudziłam się w publicznym szpitalu." "O, cholera! To tylko szczebelek wyżej od szukania pomocy w internecie." "W sumie ta…"-Peter Watts, Starfish (Rifters, #1)
18. Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Renowned primatologist Robert Sapolsky offers a completely revised and updated edition of his most … read more
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19. The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant
By: Nick Bostrom
3.77
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A philosophical parable about death. read more
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20. 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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"Curiosity bred competence."-Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
21. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
By: Steven Pinker
4.20
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer… read more
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"There is no law of complex systems that says that intelligent agents must turn into ruthless conquistadors. Indeed, we know of one highly advanced form of intelligence that evolved without this defec…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
"Enlightenment humanism, then, is far from being a crowd-pleaser. The idea that the ultimate good is to use knowledge to enhance human welfare leaves people cold. Deep explanations of the universe, th…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
"This heroic story is not just another myth. Myths are fictions, but this one is true-true to the best of our knowledge, which is the only truth we can have. We believe it because we have reasons to b…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
"Our understanding of who we are, where we came from, how the world works, and what matters in life depends on partaking of the vast and ever-expanding store of knowledge. Though unlettered hunters, h…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
22. 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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"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
23. 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
24. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
By: Ananyo Bhattacharya
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolution… read more
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"The young von Neumann made an instant impact on his new tutors. His first mentor, Gábor Szego˝, who would later lead Stanford University’s maths department, was moved to tears after their first meeti…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"The best estimates of Trinity’s power put the figure somewhere between 20,000 and 22,000 tons. Oppenheimer reached for poetry, recalling a verse from ancient Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, which…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"At one of his ‘high-proof, high-I.Q. parties’ one analyst produced a fat cylindrical ‘coin’ that was something of a RAND obsession at the time. Milled by the RAND machine shop at the behest of Willia…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"With his school years behind him, von Neumann took the train to Berlin with his father in September 1921 to begin the arduous programme of study that had been agreed. A passenger sharing their carria…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
25. 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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"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
26. The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil
By: Michael Malice
4.49
Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition
The Russian Revolution was as red as blood. The Bolsheviks promised that they were building a new s… read more
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27. Rationality
By: Steven Pinker
3.85
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 In Rationality, Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are … read more
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"Everyone wants someone to help but prefers that it not be them."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"If contemporary humans seem irrational, don't blame the hunter-gatherers."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"The press is an availability machine. It serves up anecdotes which feed our impression of what's common in a way that is guaranteed to mislead."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"Disagreement is necessary in deliberations among mortals. As the saying goes, the more we disagree, the more chance there is that at least one of us is right."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
28. 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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29. Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
By: Sabine Hossenfelder
4.06
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but b… read more
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"The main reason we use math in physics, however, is because we can."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
"foundational physics, which is far from experimental test as science can be while still being science"-Sabine Hossenfelder, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
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"Theoretical physicists used to explain what was observed. Now they try to explain why they can't explain what was not observed"-Sabine Hossenfelder, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
30. Moral Uncertainty
By: William MacAskill
4.10
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. … read more
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31. 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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