Book Recommendations and Reviews

Recommendation: 【Literature·Nonfiction】 Literature·Nonfiction Table of Contents

A. Philosophy Books

1. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The fact that Eurasian civilization was stronger than others was due to the east–west oriented geographical structure of Eurasia.

2. The Selfish Gene: The selfish drive to spread one’s genes created altruistic behavior.

3. Sapiens

4. Justice: Michael Sandel’s book. Justice can be explained by utilitarianism, hedonism, etc., but each has contradictions.

5. Death

6. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: Thomas Kuhn’s book. A rebuttal to Karl Popper’s falsificationism. Declares that science is a human activity. Argues normal science, paradigms, etc.

7. The Singularity Is Near

8. Written by Thomas Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought

9. Written by Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

10. Co-intelligence: AI philosophy

11. The Alignment Problem: AI philosophy

12. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection: The more similar people’s brainwaves are, the better communication works, and there is a process of tuning brainwaves through social interaction.

13. Pattern Language (by Christopher Alexander)

14. Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

15. What We Owe the Future

16. Contingencies of Reinforcement A Theoretical Analysis ― B. F. Skinner

17. Machines of Loving Grace (Dario Amodei): Autobiography of the Anthropic CEO. Written simply.