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Sam’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sam’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Sam Brown
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Little Mice of the Ruins
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| Will simply shrug my shoulders and cowardly pussyfoot around the overwhelming positive reception of these books by saying, "I just didn't get it." I read 'City of Glass' with patience and grace, but I will concede that 'Ghosts' and 'The Locked Room' ...more | |
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| Outside the bizzarely abrupt ending, this is a fantastic read. The final chapter is especially excellent, on 'Value'. ...more | |
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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
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Facile, nonsensical shockvertising. Every positive review of this book begins, "Yes, this book is sensationalistic. However..." Yudkowsky and Soares argue that, if humanity develops Artificial Superintelligence (ASI), it will almost certainly wipe hum ...more |
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| 'Don't Die' is currently a popular movement. The way these things go, the inverse will one-day be seen as cool. 'Only Die' will become a popular counter-movement in the 2040s, in which adherents literally just shoot themselves. Anyway, good book. ...more | |
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| Fascinating, naturally. The mysteries surrounding Marlowe's death are almost as sordid and preternatural as his plays. Greenblatt is forced to add (occasionally invent) some unrelated episodes to make this biography biopgrahy-length, but it is still ...more | |
“Encyclopedias don’t win wars.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“The weight of the world is love.
Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight,the weight we carry is love. ”
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Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight,the weight we carry is love. ”
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“One prod to the nerve of nationalism and the intellectual decencies can vanish, the past can be altered, and the plainest facts can be denied.”
― Notes on Nationalism
― Notes on Nationalism
“We live as we dream--alone....”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“Always good to have slept with at least one person on any committee on which one sits. It's the British way.”
― Once Upon A Time In The West...Country
― Once Upon A Time In The West...Country
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