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On the books by Taleb Vodalus Send a noteboard - 25/06/2017 09:46:32 AM

View original postFiction:


View original postA couple of sci-fi ones by a favourite author of mine, Kim Stanley Robinson:


View original post'2312' (older classic - mystery-thriller set in our solar system) and


View original post'Aurora' (more recent work tackling interstellar travel and colonization of new planets).


View original postNon-Fiction


View original post'How To Create a Mind' (Ray Kurzweil, Cognitive Science)


View original post'Fooled by Randomness' and 'Black Swan' (2 classics on prediction and forecasting by Nassim Nicolas Taleb)

If you have the time and the inclination to do a short write up on either or both of these titles someday, you'd have at least one RAFOnaut's attention. I read Antifragile some three or four years ago without having read the earlier books of what is essentially a four-volume philosophical essay. While Taleb's ideas and insights impressed me, I found his wiseguy persona(lity) to be off-putting.



View original post'Superforecasting' (highly cited classic on what makes a genius forecaster, by Philip Tetlock)


View original post'Outliers' and 'Blink' (highly influential psychology classics on the nature of genius and intuition, respectively, by Malcom Gladwell)


View original post'Thinking Fast and Slow' (psychology classic on the 2 main thinking styles, by Daniel Kahneman)


View original post'From Bacteria To Bach and Back' (magnum opus by Dan Dennett, about the biological origins of consciousness)


View original post'Sapiens' and 'Homo Deus' (recent much-talked about books on the history and future of humanity, respectively, by Yuval Noah Harari)


View original post'Other Minds' (interesting marine- biology book on intelligence and consciousness in the Octopus, by Peter-Godfrey Smith)


View original post'Time reborn' (popular physics - argues for the fundamental reality of time, by Lee Smolin)


View original postLots to get through

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Since it's been ages it seems, what are you reading now? Larry - 24/06/2017 02:52:02 AM 1123 Views
When I'm not reading bar prep materials, I'm reading Russell's HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY. Ghavrel - 24/06/2017 04:26:44 AM 707 Views
Such a provincial attitude to have, but sadly a common one back then Larry - 25/06/2017 01:30:48 AM 807 Views
It's a shame. The ERE/Byzantine Empire is criminally underappreciated, even now. Ghavrel - 25/06/2017 02:35:53 AM 735 Views
True Larry - 25/06/2017 02:57:01 AM 790 Views
Other people decide for me, these days (book club) nossy - 24/06/2017 11:50:21 AM 694 Views
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Robin Hobb - Assassin's Fate *NM* Simon - 24/06/2017 04:13:58 PM 461 Views
Roth's Radetzky March, Thomas Sowell's Economic Facts & Fallacies; Gav Thorpe's Corax Cannoli - 24/06/2017 04:36:38 PM 762 Views
Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens and Michel Houellebecq's Submission AgentApple - 24/06/2017 08:25:51 PM 680 Views
Would be interested to hear your take on both of those after you're done. Legolas - 24/06/2017 08:32:54 PM 733 Views
Re: Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens and Michel Houellebecq's Submission Larry - 25/06/2017 01:42:40 AM 740 Views
Keri Hulme - The Bone People. Really enjoying it. Legolas - 24/06/2017 08:35:01 PM 812 Views
That's much more time than I have, it seems Larry - 25/06/2017 01:29:20 AM 819 Views
It's kind of hard to describe. Legolas - 25/06/2017 10:58:46 AM 713 Views
It is such an excellent book. *NM* Rebekah - 29/06/2017 09:32:57 AM 474 Views
Re: Since it's been ages it seems, what are you reading now? gban007 - 24/06/2017 09:41:54 PM 782 Views
Just bought a shit-load of Kindle books that I'd been wanting to read for a while Sports_Gambler - 25/06/2017 08:32:16 AM 806 Views
On the books by Taleb Vodalus - 25/06/2017 09:46:32 AM 781 Views
A World in Disarray by Richard Haass Vodalus - 25/06/2017 09:54:01 AM 712 Views
Can't concentrate on anything but light reading these days damookster - 25/06/2017 06:06:03 PM 756 Views
Next on the list is The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. *NM* jh - 25/06/2017 06:33:40 PM 429 Views
Oooh. I plan on reading this too sometime during the summer. *NM* The Shrike - 26/06/2017 01:15:50 PM 449 Views
I just finished Rites of Spring on your recommendation Tom - 26/06/2017 01:13:45 AM 736 Views
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His footnotes in that trilogy are amazing. The Shrike - 26/06/2017 01:14:33 PM 728 Views
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I look forward to it. The Shrike - 26/06/2017 08:24:23 PM 710 Views
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A Night Without Stars *NM* random thoughts - 28/06/2017 05:48:13 PM 424 Views
Smutty romance. Rebekah - 29/06/2017 09:31:29 AM 860 Views
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