Book Reviews

post by Torello · 2017-07-18T14:19:19.301Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 4 comments

Hello,

 

I wanted to share some book reviews that I hope would be useful to readers of this site. 

 

If you have any suggestions about relate reading, or suggestions about how to improve my reviews, please leave comments. 

 

Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari, 2017

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (2015)

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom (2014)

Surfaces and Essences – Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sanders (2013)

What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly (2010)

A Skeptic’s Guide to the Mind by Robert A. Burton, 2013

Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind by Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams, Jr., 2013

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comment by hugway145 · 2017-07-27T11:20:46.192Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Sounds good. Sharing books key content in the review will be more beneficial for readers. Few books I loved so much was, The secret , You can win.

comment by gjm · 2017-07-18T17:20:39.688Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

"Superintelligence" link is broken.

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↑ comment by Torello · 2017-07-18T19:36:13.640Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Thanks, should be working now.