Ask HN: Recommend one book I need to read this summer?

Post by julian55 » Tue, Jul 02, 2019, 11:15 AM UTC

HNLurker2 wrote: post #61

milansm wrote: post #42

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence [by Max Tegmark] > When they launched, Prometheus was slightly worse than them at programming AI systems, but made up for this by being vastly faster, spending the equivalent of thousands of person-years chugging away at the problem while they chugged a Red Bull. By 10 a.m., it had completed the first redesign of itself, v2.0, which was slightly better but s…

I always found that book shallow. I only read it because of Elon Musk being mentioned

Post by Symmetry » Tue, Jul 02, 2019, 11:21 AM UTC

hannob wrote: post #67

jor-el wrote: post #34

Thinking, fast and slow - by Daniel Kahneman It is a great book and talks about two systems in which we can divide the working of our brain. Kahneman also talks exposes the extraordinary capabilities—and also the faults and biases—of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468377-thinking-fast-a...

Others already wrote that lots of the studies this book is based on have been called into question, here's a summary: https://replicationindex.com/2017/02/02/reconstruction-of-a-... Please note also that Kahneman himself left a comment there stating: "I accept the basic conclusions of this blog."

Post by mikehollinger » Tue, Jul 02, 2019, 11:27 AM UTC

djaychela wrote: post #81

I'd have to recommend 'A deepness in the sky' and 'A fire upon the deep' by Vernor Vinge. Both really good science fiction books where your initial perception is slowly shown to be incorrect as more details appear about the characters, and with great storylines. Despite being thick tomes with small print, I got through both reasonably quickly as they were so addictive to read - 'just one more chapter', etc...

Post by Dowwie » Tue, Jul 02, 2019, 11:29 AM UTC

gbuk2013 wrote: post #142

Inner Engineering by Sadhguru. For me it was an unexpectedly transformational when I read it 6 months ago. Unlike the stoicism books that teach you to condition yourself to be unaffected by external events, this is a method for taking charge of what goes on inside the body and (in my case) in the mind and emotions. As an aside, if you haven’t tried audiobooks, I would recommend trying. I find that after a while day o…

Post by dade_ » Tue, Jul 02, 2019, 11:34 AM UTC