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The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life (ebook)
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avg rating 3.96 — 8,391 ratings — published 2017
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 4,367 ratings — published 2013
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 11,966 ratings — published 1994
Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 233 ratings — published 1988
Good And Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics (A Bradford Book)
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avg rating 4.12 — 147 ratings — published 2006
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 200,919 ratings — published 2018
Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck (ebook)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,416 ratings — published 2017
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 583,399 ratings — published 2011
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 22,106 ratings — published 2015
Rationality: From AI to Zombies (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,775 ratings — published 2015
ADAPTED MIND: EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 261 ratings — published 1992
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 52,306 ratings — published 2012
Probability Theory: The Logic of Science (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.41 — 656 ratings — published
Thinking and Deciding (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 317 ratings — published 1988
Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 2,577 ratings — published 2019
The Pragmatist's Guide to Relationships (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.34 — 710 ratings — published
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 6,787 ratings — published 2021
What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 2,147 ratings — published 2016
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 18,239 ratings — published 2013
The Great Conversation: A Historical Introduction to Philosophy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 260 ratings — published 1995
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 130,815 ratings — published 2008
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 20,891 ratings — published 2014
The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS)
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avg rating 4.40 — 47 ratings — published 1999
Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 3,676 ratings — published 1985
The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 33,324 ratings — published 2011
Language in Thought and Action (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,330 ratings — published 1939
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 52,397 ratings — published 1979
The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 5,965 ratings — published 1981
The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 1,884 ratings — published 2001
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,443 ratings — published 1994
The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 2,789 ratings — published 2011
Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over The Edge (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 366 ratings — published 1990
Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 1,467 ratings — published 1982
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (ebook)
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avg rating 4.38 — 18,444 ratings — published 2015
How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 3,739 ratings — published 1985
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 4,368 ratings — published 1991
The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 3,452 ratings — published 2010
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
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avg rating 4.04 — 29,027 ratings — published 2007
The Engines of Cognition: Essays by the LessWrong Community (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 32 ratings — published 2021
The Truth-Seeker’s Handbook: A Science-Based Guide (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.18 — 78 ratings — published 2017
The Debunking Handbook (ebook)
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avg rating 3.93 — 98 ratings — published 2011
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,130 ratings — published 2024
The Natural History of Nonsense (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 61 ratings — published 1946
A First Course in Probability (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 532 ratings — published 1976
Bayes' Rule: A Tutorial Introduction to Bayesian Analysis (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 163 ratings — published 2013
PRACTICAL UNCERTAINTY: Useful Ideas in Decision-Making, Risk, Randomness, & AI (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.74 — 65 ratings — published
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 10,169 ratings — published 2016
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 9,674 ratings — published 2011
Irrationality (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,646 ratings — published 1992
When We Cease to Understand the World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.10 — 62,315 ratings — published 2020
“You need one whole hell of a lot of rationality before it does anything but lead you into new and interesting mistakes.”
― The Less Wrong Sequences
― The Less Wrong Sequences
“There's a whole [...] art to finding the truth and accomplishing value from inside a human mind: we have to learn our own flaws, overcome our biases, prevent ourselves from self-deceiving, get ourselves into good emotional shape to confront the truth and do what needs doing, etcetera etcetera and so on.”
― The Less Wrong Sequences
― The Less Wrong Sequences
