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The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life (ebook)
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avg rating 3.96 — 8,556 ratings — published 2017
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 4,391 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 — 12,052 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 — 235 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 — 203,548 ratings — published 2018
Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck (ebook)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,431 ratings — published 2017
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 597,707 ratings — published 2011
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 22,489 ratings — published 2015
Rationality: From AI to Zombies (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,797 ratings — published 2015
ADAPTED MIND: EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 263 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 — 52,653 ratings — published 2012
Probability Theory: The Logic of Science (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.41 — 660 ratings — published
Thinking and Deciding (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 320 ratings — published 1988
Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 2,623 ratings — published 2019
The Pragmatist's Guide to Relationships (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.34 — 715 ratings — published
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 6,973 ratings — published 2021
What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 2,172 ratings — published 2016
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 18,403 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 — 131,876 ratings — published 2008
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 21,233 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 — 3,681 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 — 33,519 ratings — published 2011
Language in Thought and Action (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,343 ratings — published 1939
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 52,904 ratings — published 1979
The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 5,972 ratings — published 1981
The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 1,899 ratings — published 2001
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 4,473 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 — 2,813 ratings — published 2011
Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over The Edge (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 368 ratings — published 1990
Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 1,489 ratings — published 1982
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (ebook)
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avg rating 4.38 — 18,658 ratings — published 2015
How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 3,752 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 3.80 — 4,444 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 — 3,488 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 — 29,264 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 3.93 — 98 ratings — published 2011
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,296 ratings — published 2024
The Natural History of Nonsense (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 62 ratings — published 1946
A First Course in Probability (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 534 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 3.80 — 69 ratings — published
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 10,341 ratings — published 2016
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 9,968 ratings — published 2011
Irrationality (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,657 ratings — published 1992
When We Cease to Understand the World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.09 — 65,983 ratings — published 2020
“So much of a rationalist's skill is below the level of words. It makes for challenging work in trying to convey the Art through blog posts. People will agree with you, but then, in the next sentence, do something subdeliberative that goes in the opposite direction. Not that I'm complaining! A major reason I'm posting here is to observe what my words haven't conveyed.”
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“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 Francis Bacon, his Great Idea was the scientific method, and he was the only crackpot in all history to claim that level of benefit to humanity and turn out to be completely right.”
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The man was Francis Bacon, his Great Idea was the scientific method, and he was the only crackpot in all history to claim that level of benefit to humanity and turn out to be completely right.”
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