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The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making
Good And Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics (A Bradford Book)
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
ADAPTED MIND: EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
Probability Theory: The Logic of Science
Thinking and Deciding
Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
Eliezer Yudkowsky
You need one whole hell of a lot of rationality before it does anything but lead you into new and interesting mistakes.
Eliezer Yudkowsky, The Less Wrong Sequences

Eliezer Yudkowsky
Once upon a time, there was a man who was convinced that he possessed a Great Idea. Indeed, as the man thought upon the Great Idea more and more, he realized that it was not just a great idea, but the most wonderful idea ever. The Great Idea would unravel the mysteries of the universe, supersede the authority of the corrupt and error-ridden Establishment, confer nigh-magical powers upon its wielders, feed the hungry, heal the sick, make the whole world a better place, etc. etc. etc. The man was ...more
Eliezer Yudkowsky, The Less Wrong Sequences

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