In my short-form, I write:
[...] This is way more obvious and way more clear in Inadequate Equilibria. Take a problem, a question and deconstruct it completely. It was concise and to the point, I think it's one of the best things Eliezer has written; I cannot recommend it enough.
Just finished Inadequate Equilibria. Now, I'm reading:
- The Big Picture from Sean Carroll (which seems a really, really good companion to The Sequences.) I'm at chapter 17/50, and I'm really enjoying it so far; it's an ambitious book though!
- In fiction I picked up UNSONG from Scott Alexander; I am almost finished with the first book, and I love it (I liked most of his fiction, already.)
What are you reading?
Paul R. Cohen: Empirical Methods for Artificial Intelligence (non-fiction) – Great if you want to experiment with ML, but don't have a supervisor to tell you how to do it.
Svend Åge Madsen: Sæt verden er til (fiction) – To keep my Danish alive. It's the third Madsen book I'm reading and I like all of them.
The Wall Street Journal (news)
(Added 2019-12-30) Dan Carlin: The End Is Always Near. Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses (audiobook, non-fiction) – Dan Carlin makes Hardcore History, my favourite podcast. In this book he gives illustrates perspectives on existential risk in his usual style of telling stories of history.