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The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life (ebook)
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avg rating 3.95 — 8,830 ratings — published 2017
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 4,426 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 — 12,206 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 — 240 ratings — published 1988
Good And Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics (A Bradford Book)
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avg rating 4.12 — 146 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 4.35 — 207,419 ratings — published 2018
Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck (ebook)
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avg rating 4.08 — 1,457 ratings — published 2017
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 619,584 ratings — published 2011
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 23,156 ratings — published 2015
Rationality: From AI to Zombies (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,827 ratings — published 2015
ADAPTED MIND: EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 267 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 — 53,176 ratings — published 2012
Probability Theory: The Logic of Science (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 673 ratings — published
Thinking and Deciding (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 325 ratings — published 1988
Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 2,690 ratings — published 2019
The Pragmatist's Guide to Relationships (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.35 — 717 ratings — published
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 7,375 ratings — published 2021
What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 2,215 ratings — published 2016
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 18,646 ratings — published 2013
The Great Conversation: A Historical Introduction to Philosophy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 270 ratings — published 1995
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 133,452 ratings — published 2008
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 21,783 ratings — published 2014
The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS)
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avg rating 4.42 — 48 ratings — published 1999
Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 3,696 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 — 33,847 ratings — published 2011
Language in Thought and Action (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,371 ratings — published 1939
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 54,123 ratings — published 1979
The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 6,026 ratings — published 1981
The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 1,914 ratings — published 2001
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 4,499 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 — 2,856 ratings — published 2011
Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over The Edge (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 370 ratings — published 1990
Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,522 ratings — published 1982
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (ebook)
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avg rating 4.37 — 19,029 ratings — published 2015
How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 3,786 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 — 4,556 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 — 3,541 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 — 29,757 ratings — published 2007
The Engines of Cognition: Essays by the LessWrong Community (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 33 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 3.92 — 100 ratings — published 2011
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 1,533 ratings — published 2024
The Natural History of Nonsense (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 64 ratings — published 1946
A First Course in Probability (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 540 ratings — published 1976
Bayes' Rule: A Tutorial Introduction to Bayesian Analysis (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 166 ratings — published 2013
PRACTICAL UNCERTAINTY: Useful Ideas in Decision-Making, Risk, Randomness, & AI (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.80 — 74 ratings — published
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 10,618 ratings — published 2016
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 10,411 ratings — published 2011
Irrationality (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,669 ratings — published 1992
When We Cease to Understand the World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.09 — 71,785 ratings — published 2020
“I've seen people severely messed up by their own knowledge of biases. They have more ammunition with which to argue against anything they don't like. And that problem—too much ready ammunition—is one of the primary ways that people with high mental agility end up stupid, in Stanovich's "dysrationalia" sense of stupidity.”
― The Less Wrong Sequences
― The Less Wrong Sequences
“The Way of Bayes is also an imprecise art, at least the way I'm holding forth upon it. These blog posts are still fumbling attempts to put into words lessons that would be better taught by experience. But at least there's underlying math, plus experimental evidence from cognitive psychology on how humans actually think. Maybe that will be enough to cross the stratospherically high threshold required for a discipline that lets you actually get it right, instead of just constraining you into interesting new mistakes.”
― The Less Wrong Sequences
― The Less Wrong Sequences