I like this project, and the book selection looks good to me! :)
I would vote against The Singularity is Near, because I don’t think Kurzweil meets the epistemic bar for EA and I don’t think he contributes any important new ideas. If you want more intro AI books, there’s always Smarter Than Us (nice for being short).
Though honestly, a smaller AI section seems fine to me too; I would rather trade away some AI space on the EA Bookshelf in exchange for extra space in a hypothetical future EA Blog Post Shelf. :P The only published AI-risk book I’m super attached to is Superintelligence (in spite of its oldness).
+1 for adding Elephant in the Brain in the next version. :)
I don’t much like The Structure of Scientific Revolutions; a lot of people acquire a sort of mystical, non-gearsy model of scientific progress from Kuhn. And I’d guess a blog post or two suffices for learning the key concepts?
I like this project, and the book selection looks good to me! :)
I would vote against The Singularity is Near, because I don’t think Kurzweil meets the epistemic bar for EA and I don’t think he contributes any important new ideas. If you want more intro AI books, there’s always Smarter Than Us (nice for being short).
Though honestly, a smaller AI section seems fine to me too; I would rather trade away some AI space on the EA Bookshelf in exchange for extra space in a hypothetical future EA Blog Post Shelf. :P The only published AI-risk book I’m super attached to is Superintelligence (in spite of its oldness).
+1 for adding Elephant in the Brain in the next version. :)
I don’t much like The Structure of Scientific Revolutions; a lot of people acquire a sort of mystical, non-gearsy model of scientific progress from Kuhn. And I’d guess a blog post or two suffices for learning the key concepts?
On Bullshit doesn’t seem important to me. (Having read it.)
I’d guess Expert Political Judgment might be better than the average book in the rationality section? (But I haven’t read it.)