My picks for a Core Longtermist EA Bookshelf (I don’t see myself as having any expertise on what belongs in a Core Neartermist EA Bookshelf) would be:
HPMoR ↔ Scout Mindset
Rationailty: A-Z ↔ Good and Real
SSC (Abridged)
Superintelligence
Inadequate Equilibria ↔ Modern Principles of Economics (Cowen and Tabarrok)
Getting Things Done (Allen)
Some people hate Eliezer’s style, so I tried to think of books that might serve as replacements for at least some of the core content in RAZ etc.
If I got a slightly longer list, I might add: How to Measure Anything, MPE, The Blank Slate (Pinker), Zero to One (Thiel), Focusing (Gendlin).
Note that I tried to pick books based on what I’d expect to have a maximally positive impact if lots of people-who-might-help-save-the-future read them, not based on whether the books ‘feel EA’ or cover EA topics.
Including R:AZ is sort of cheating, though, since it’s more like six books in a trenchcoat and therefore uses up my Recommended EA Reading Slots all on its own. :p
I haven’t read the vast majority of books on the longer list, and if I did read them, I’d probably change my recommendations a bunch.
I’ve read only part of The Blank Slate and Good and Real, and none of MPE, How to Measure Anything, or Focusing, so I’m including those partly on how strongly others have recommended them, and my abstract sense of the skills and knowledge the books impart.
My picks for a Core Longtermist EA Bookshelf (I don’t see myself as having any expertise on what belongs in a Core Neartermist EA Bookshelf) would be:
HPMoR ↔ Scout Mindset
Rationailty: A-Z ↔ Good and Real
SSC (Abridged)
Superintelligence
Inadequate Equilibria ↔ Modern Principles of Economics (Cowen and Tabarrok)
Getting Things Done (Allen)
Some people hate Eliezer’s style, so I tried to think of books that might serve as replacements for at least some of the core content in RAZ etc.
If I got a slightly longer list, I might add: How to Measure Anything, MPE, The Blank Slate (Pinker), Zero to One (Thiel), Focusing (Gendlin).
Note that I tried to pick books based on what I’d expect to have a maximally positive impact if lots of people-who-might-help-save-the-future read them, not based on whether the books ‘feel EA’ or cover EA topics.
Including R:AZ is sort of cheating, though, since it’s more like six books in a trenchcoat and therefore uses up my Recommended EA Reading Slots all on its own. :p
I haven’t read the vast majority of books on the longer list, and if I did read them, I’d probably change my recommendations a bunch.
I’ve read only part of The Blank Slate and Good and Real, and none of MPE, How to Measure Anything, or Focusing, so I’m including those partly on how strongly others have recommended them, and my abstract sense of the skills and knowledge the books impart.