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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 01 May 2016 09:28:16PM 0 points [-]

Nonfiction Books Thread

Comment author: gwern 02 May 2016 12:13:24AM 1 point [-]
  • A Life of Sir Francis Galton (review)
  • On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine, Rasmussen 2008 (particularly interesting for the inside information about how early American pharmacorps & drug development worked, but much weaker past the '70s; at least, if you can get past Rasmussen's huge bias against amphetamines and blind support for the disastrous War on Drugs)
Comment author: morganism 22 May 2016 09:28:13PM *  0 points [-]

The scourge of existential nihilism has a cure

A Significant Life: Human Meaning in a Silent Universe

http://www.amazon.com/Significant-Life-Meaning-Silent-Universe/dp/022623567X

pure philosophy inside, lots of Aristotle reasoning examined.

Also if you are at all interested in the surveillance state, and some of the legal reasoning that it may be breaking the separation of powers, the whole issue of the Monthly Review is excellent reading

The New Surveillance Normal

http://monthlyreview.org/archives/2014/volume-66-issue-03-july-august/

Comment author: Lumifer 22 May 2016 11:55:31PM 0 points [-]

The New Surveillance Normal

It took me less than a paragraph to get to

we need to consider how the NSA and corporate metadata mining converge to support the interests of capital

at which point I stopped reading.

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