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The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket

Benjamin Lorr

4.4 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources

M. Kat Anderson

4.8 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson, et al.

4.4 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Chaos: Making a New Science

James Gleick

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

David J. Griffiths

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

Nicole Forsgren PhD , Jez Humble , et al.

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

Dan Ariely, Simon Jones, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

Jeff Hawkins, Richard Dawkins - foreword, et al.

4.4 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

Paul Hawken

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Art of Thinking Clearly

Rolf Dobelli

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

4.8 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Wright Brothers

David McCullough and Simon & Schuster Audio

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Industrial Society and Its Future: Unabomber Manifesto

Theodore John Kaczynski

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and STAN (Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science)

Richard McElreath

4.9 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Simple Techniques to Instantly Overcome Depression, Relieve Anxiety, and Rewire Your Brain

Olivia Telford

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

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a9h74jonMay 14, 2021

I'm glad to see Jeff Hawkins was mentioned. Much recommend A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence.

z5honJuly 7, 2021

I read ā€œA Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligenceā€ by Jeff Hawkins, and it now is clear to me that our neocortex (like computers, or AI) is just a lot of general purpose computing infrastructure with ZERO aims. Our emotions (which drive everything in the interest of gene propagation- as there is no purely logical reason to do anything) would need to be intentionally duplicated to give AI a reason to desire anything beyond what we instruct it to do.
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