Recommendations for particularly insightful/engaging nonfiction books and textbooks.
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Interested in books that seem like they can help me think better alignment thoughts.
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Quantum Computing Since Democritus
Surfing Uncertainty
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Philosophy in The Flesh
John Mueller, "The Obsolescence of Major War," which also serves as the introduction to his Retreat from Doomsday, available for free -- it constitutes pages 15-25 of this pdf: https://politicalscience.osu.edu/faculty/jmueller/doom.pdf
Human compatible: Artificial intelligence and the problem of control
Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » 30 of my favorite books (scottaaronson.blog) the main list plus the comments have an incredible amount of recommendations for non fiction- and textbooks. Just looking through them you should be able to find more than 5 interesting books.
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