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



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 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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Re: Since it's been ages it seems, what are you reading now? - 24/06/2017 09:41:54 PM 781 Views
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On the books by Taleb - 25/06/2017 09:46:32 AM 780 Views
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