Books

* = added this round

• *Liao, Moral Brains (Sep 2016)
• *Levitin, A Field Guide to Lies (Sep 2016)
• *Sumner, Global Poverty (Sep 2016)
• Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived (Sep 2016)
• Harari, Homo Deus (Sep 2016)
• Stanovich et al., The Rationality Quotient (Sep 2016)
• Gleick, Time Travel (Sep 2016)
• Soltes, Why They Do It (Oct 2016)
• Edmunds, Philosophers Take on the World (Nov 2016)
• Armstrong & Botzler, The Animal Ethics Reader, 3e (Nov 2016)
• Velmans, Towards a Deeper Understanding of Consciousness (Nov 2016)
• Mokyr, A Culture of Growth (Nov 2016)
• Singer, Does Anything Really Matter? (Nov 2016)
• Fischer, College Ethics (Nov 2016)
• Cohen et al., Nudging Health (Nov 2016)
• Hernández-Orallo, The Measure of All Minds (Nov 2016)
• Dhami, The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis (Dec 2016)
• Bloom, Against Empathy (Dec 2016)
• Tye, Tense Bees and Shell-Shocked Crabs (Dec 2016)
• Shapiro & Todorovic, The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions (Dec 2016)
• Lewis, The Undoing Project (Dec 2016)
• *Clarke et al., The Ethics of Human Enhancement (Dec 2016)
• Ogden, Experimental Conversations (Jan 2017)
• *Conley & Fletcher, The Genome Factor (Jan 2017)
• *Sobel, From Valuing to Value (Jan 2017)
• Cowen, The Complacent Class (Feb 2017)
• *Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back (Feb 2017)
• Jøsang, Subjective Logic (Feb 2017)
• Brown, Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments (Feb 2017)
• Mcpherson & Plunkett, Routledge Handbook of Metaethics (Feb 2017)
• Corns, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Pain (Feb 2017)
• Quirk, Seasteading (Mar 2017)
• Walsh, Thinking Machines (Apr 2017)
• Guyenet, The Hungry Brain (Apr 2017)
• *Trask, Grokking Deep Learning (spring 2017)
• *National Academies, consensus study on human gene editing (early 2017)
• Hanson & Simler, The Elephant in the Brain (early 2017)
• *Phillips, Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience (Jun 2017)
• Caplan, The Case Against Education (2017)
• Callaghan et al. (eds.), The Technological Singularity (2017)
• Schneier, Click Here to Kill Everybody (2017)
• Haidt, Three Stories about Capitalism (2017)
• Goodfellow et al., Deep Learning (TBD)
• Hernan & Robins, Causal Inference (TBD)
• Zimmer, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh (TBD)
• Aaronson, Speaking Truth to Parallelism (TBD)
• Morris, In the Beginning (TBD)
• Bain et al., The Nature of Pain (TBD)
• Mody, The Long Arm of Moore’s Law (TBD)
• Arrhenius, Population Ethics (TBD)
• Forman, book on mass incarceration (TBD)
• Easwaran, The Foundations of Bayesian Epistemology (TBD)
• Smith, How Biology Shapes Philosophy (TBD)
• Pinker, The New Enlightenment (TBD)
• Sternberg et al., Scientists Making a Difference (TBD)
• Stoljar, Philosophical Progress (TBD)
• Blackford & Broderick, Philosophy’s Future (TBD)
• Friedman, Legal Systems Very Different From Ours (TBD)
• Graham, Happiness for All? (TBD)
• Shalizi, Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View (TBD)
• Varner, Sustaining Animals (TBD)
• Gray & Graham, The Atlas of Moral Psychology (TBD)
• Banerjee & Duflo, Handbook of Field Experiments (TBD)
• Andrews & Beck, Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Animal Minds (TBD)
• Wiener, Policy Shock (TBD)
• Kriegel, Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness (TBD)
• Almqvist & Haag, The Return of Consciousness (TBD)

Movies & Miniseries

(only including movies and miniseries which AFAIK have at least started principal photography)

• C.K. & Adlon, Better Things (Sep 2016)
• Villeneuve, Arrival (Sep 2016)
• Dardenne brothers, The Unknown Girl (Oct 2016)
• Malick, Voyage of Time (Oct 2016)
• Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea (Nov 2016)
• Nichols, Loving (Nov 2016)
• Scorcese, Silence (Nov 2016)
• Edwards, Rogue One (Dec 2016)
• BBC Natural History Unit, Planet Earth II (TBD 2016)
• Swanberg, Win It All (TBD 2016)
• Farhadi, The Salesman (TBD 2016)
• Reeves, War for the Planet of the Apes (Jul 2017)
• Nolan, Dunkirk (Jul 2017)
• Unkrich, Coco (Nov 2017)
• Johnson, Star Wars: Episode VIII (Dec 2017)
• Payne, Downsizing (Dec 2017)
• Simon & Pelecanos, The Deuce (TBD)

Books

• Vance, Hillbilly Elegy [enjoyed]
• Metzinger, The Ego Tunnel [re-read]

Music

Music I most enjoyed discovering this month:

• Dave Douglas, Freak In (2003), Keystone (2006), Expand (2010)
• David Ware, “Glorified Calypso” (2000)

Movies/TV

Ones I really liked, or loved:

• Edelman, O.J.: Made in America (2016) [funny clip]
• Coen brothers, Hail Caesar! (2016)
• No-commentary play-through of Playdead’s Inside (2016) [if you don’t mind spoilers, you could watch just the spectacular ending]

Books

* = added this round

• Yong, I Contain Multitudes (Aug 2016)
• *Polger & Shapiro, The Multiple Realization Book (Aug 2016)
• Joyce, Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy (Aug 2016)
• Halpern, Actual Causality (Aug 2016)
• Hubbard, How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk (Aug 2016)
• Rawlinson & Ward, The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics (Aug 2016)
• Quirk, Seasteading (Sep 2016)
• Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived (Sep 2016)
• Harari, Homo Deus (Sep 2016)
• Stanovich et al., The Rationality Quotient (Sep 2016)
• Gleick, Time Travel (Sep 2016)
• Mcpherson & Plunkett, Routledge Handbook of Metaethics (Oct 2016)
• Soltes, Why They Do It (Oct 2016)
• Edmunds, Philosophers Take on the World (Nov 2016)
• *Armstrong & Botzler, The Animal Ethics Reader, 3e (Nov 2016)
• *Velmans, Towards a Deeper Understanding of Consciousness (Nov 2016)
• Dhami, The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis (Nov 2016)
• *Mokyr, A Culture of Growth (Nov 2016)
• Singer, Does Anything Really Matter? (Nov 2016)
• Fischer, College Ethics (Nov 2016)
• Cohen et al., Nudging Health (Nov 2016)
• Tye, Tense Bees and Shell-Shocked Crabs (Dec 2016)
• *Shapiro & Todorovic, The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions (Dec 2016)
• Jøsang, Subjective Logic (Dec 2016)
• Lewis, The Undoing Project (Dec 2016)
• Pigliucci, The Nature of Philosophy (2016)
• Guyenet, The Hungry Brain (2016)
• Callaghan et al. (eds.), The Technological Singularity (2016)
• Ogden, Experimental Conversations (2016)
• Aaronson, Speaking Truth to Parallelism (2016)
• Cowen, The Complacent Class (Feb 2017)
• *Brown, Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments (Feb 2017)
• *Corns, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Pain (Feb 2017)
• *Walsh, Thinking Machines (Apr 2017)
• Hanson & Simler, The Elephant in the Brain (early 2017)
• Caplan, The Case Against Education (2017)
• Schneier, Click Here to Kill Everybody (2017)
• Haidt, Three Stories about Capitalism (2017)
• Goodfellow et al., Deep Learning (TBD)
• Hernan & Robins, Causal Inference (TBD)
• Zimmer, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh (TBD)
• Morris, In the Beginning (TBD)
• Bain et al., The Nature of Pain (TBD)
• Bloom, Against Empathy (TBD)
• Mody, The Long Arm of Moore’s Law (TBD)
• Arrhenius, Population Ethics (TBD)
• Forman, book on mass incarceration (TBD)
• Easwaran, The Foundations of Bayesian Epistemology (TBD)
• Smith, How Biology Shapes Philosophy (TBD)
• Pinker, The New Enlightenment (TBD)
• Sternberg et al., Scientists Making a Difference (TBD)
• Stoljar, Philosophical Progress (TBD)
• Blackford & Broderick, Philosophy’s Future (TBD)
• Friedman, Legal Systems Very Different From Ours (TBD)
• Graham, Happiness for All? (TBD)
• Shalizi, Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View (TBD)
• Varner, Sustaining Animals (TBD)
• Gray & Graham, The Atlas of Moral Psychology (TBD)
• Hernández-Orallo, book on evaluation of natural and artificial intelligence (TBD)
• Banerjee & Duflo, Handbook of Field Experiments (TBD)
• Andrews & Beck, Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Animal Minds (TBD)
• Wiener, Policy Shock (TBD)
• Kriegel, Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness (TBD)
• Almqvist & Haag, The Return of Consciousness (TBD)

Movies & Miniseries

(only including movies and miniseries which AFAIK have at least started principal photography)

• *C.K. & Adlon, Better Things (Sep 2016)
• Cianfrance, The Light Between Oceans (Sep 2016)
• Malick, Voyage of Time (Oct 2016)
• Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea (Nov 2016)
• Nichols, Loving (Nov 2016)
• Scorcese, Silence (Nov 2016)
• Edwards, Rogue One (Dec 2016)
• *BBC Natural History Unit, Planet Earth II (TBD 2016)
• Villeneuve, Story of Your Life (TBD 2016)
• Dardenne brothers, The Unknown Girl (TBD 2016)
• Swanberg, Win It All (TBD 2016)
• Farhadi, The Salesman (TBD 2016)
• Reeves, War for the Planet of the Apes (Jul 2017)
• Nolan, Dunkirk (Jul 2017)
• Unkrich, Coco (Nov 2017)
• Johnson, Star Wars: Episode VIII (Dec 2017)
• Payne, Downsizing (Dec 2017)
• *Simon & Pelecanos, The Deuce (TBD)

Books

• Mukherjee, The Gene [meh]
• Balcombe, What a Fish Knows [meh]

Music

Music I most enjoyed discovering this month:

• Wayne Horvitz, The President (1987), Bring Yr Camera (1990), The New York Composers Orchestra (1990)
• Robin Holcomb, Robin Holcomb (1990)
• Bobby Previte, Bump the Renaissance (1986), Empty Suits (1990), Weather Clear, Track Fast (1991)
• Marty Ehrlich, The Traveller’s Tale (1990), Malinke’s Dance (2000)
• Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer, Spoors (2004)
• Jonathan Badger, Verse (2014)
• Steve Coleman, Cipher Syntax (1988)

Movies/TV

Ones I really liked, or loved:

• Haigh, 45 Years (2015)
• Strong & Lyn, Broadchurch Season 1 (2013)
• Eggers, The Witch (2015)
• Haynes, Carol (2015)
• Nichols, Midnight Special (2016)
• Various, Game of Thrones, Season 6 (2016)
• Nemes, Son of Saul (2015)

Books

* = added this round

• Field, An Adventure in Statistics (Jul 2016)
• *Wolfram, Idea Makers (Jul 2016)
• Bier, Gower Handbook of Extreme Risk (Jul 2016)
• Arbesman, Overcomplicated (Jul 2016)
• Sunstein & Reisch, The Economics of Nudge (Jul 2016)
• Boden, AI: Its Nature and Future (Jul 2016)
• Yong, I Contain Multitudes (Aug 2016)
• Joyce, Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy (Aug 2016)
• Halpern, Actual Causality (Aug 2016)
• Hubbard, How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk (Aug 2016)
• *Rawlinson & Ward, The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics (Aug 2016)
• Quirk, Seasteading (Sep 2016)
• Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived (Sep 2016)
• Harari, Homo Deus (Sep 2016)
• Stanovich et al., The Rationality Quotient (Sep 2016)
• Gleick, Time Travel (Sep 2016)
• Mcpherson & Plunkett, Routledge Handbook of Metaethics (Oct 2016)
• Soltes, Why They Do It (Oct 2016)
• Edmunds, Philosophers Take on the World (Nov 2016)
• Dhami, The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis (Nov 2016)
• *Singer, Does Anything Really Matter? (Nov 2016)
• *Fischer, College Ethics (Nov 2016)
• Cohen et al., Nudging Health (Nov 2016)
• Tye, Tense Bees and Shell-Shocked Crabs (Dec 2016)
• *Jøsang, Subjective Logic (Dec 2016)
• *Lewis, The Undoing Project (Dec 2016)
• Pigliucci, The Nature of Philosophy (2016)
• Guyenet, The Hungry Brain (2016)
• Callaghan et al. (eds.), The Technological Singularity (2016)
• Ogden, Experimental Conversations (2016)
• Aaronson, Speaking Truth to Parallelism (2016)
• Cowen, The Great Social Stagnation (Feb 2017)
• Hanson & Simler, The Elephant in the Brain (early 2017)
• Caplan, The Case Against Education (2017)
• Schneier, Click Here to Kill Everybody (2017)
• *Haidt, Three Stories about Capitalism (2017)
• Goodfellow et al., Deep Learning (TBD)
• Hernan & Robins, Causal Inference (TBD)
• Zimmer, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh (TBD)
• Morris, In the Beginning (TBD)
• Bain et al., The Nature of Pain (TBD)
• Bloom, Against Empathy (TBD)
• Mody, The Long Arm of Moore’s Law (TBD)
• Arrhenius, Population Ethics (TBD)
• Forman, book on mass incarceration (TBD)
• Easwaran, The Foundations of Bayesian Epistemology (TBD)
• Smith, How Biology Shapes Philosophy (TBD)
• Pinker, The New Enlightenment (TBD)
• Sternberg et al., Scientists Making a Difference (TBD)
• Stoljar, Philosophical Progress (TBD)
• Blackford & Broderick, Philosophy’s Future (TBD)
• Friedman, Legal Systems Very Different From Ours (TBD)
• Graham, Happiness for All? (TBD)
• Shalizi, Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View (TBD)
• Varner, Sustaining Animals (TBD)
• Gray & Graham, The Atlas of Moral Psychology (TBD)
• *Hernández-Orallo, book on evaluation of natural and artificial intelligence (TBD)
• *Banerjee & Duflo, Handbook of Field Experiments (TBD)
• *Andrews & Beck, Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Animal Minds (TBD)
• *Wiener, Policy Shock (TBD)
• *Kriegel, Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness (TBD)
• *Almqvist & Haag, The Return of Consciousness (TBD)

Movies

(only including movies which AFAIK have at least started principal photography)

• Liu, Batman: The Killing Joke (Jul 2016)
• Cianfrance, The Light Between Oceans (Sep 2016)
• *Malick, Voyage of Time (Oct 2016)
• Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea (Nov 2016)
• Nichols, Loving (Nov 2016)
• Scorcese, Silence (Nov 2016)
• Edwards, Rogue One (Dec 2016)
• Villeneuve, Story of Your Life (TBD 2016)
• Dardenne brothers, The Unknown Girl (TBD 2016)
• Swanberg, Win It All (TBD 2016)
• Farhadi, The Salesman (TBD 2016)
• Reeves, War for the Planet of the Apes (Jul 2017)
• Nolan, Dunkirk (Jul 2017)
• Unkrich, Coco (Nov 2017)
• Johnson, Star Wars: Episode VIII (Dec 2017)
• Payne, Downsizing (Dec 2017)

Books

• Christian & Griffiths, Algorithms to Live By
• Dennett & LaScola, Caught in the Pulpit
• Carroll, The Big Picture [my comments]
• de Waal, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
• Dreger, Galileo’s Middle Finger [a quoted passage]

Music

Music I most enjoyed discovering this month:

• Gary Thomas, Exile’s Gate (1993)
• Ned Rothenberg, Powerlines (1995)
• John Hollenbeck, The Claudia Quintet (2001)
• Microscopic Septet, Take the Z Train (1983), Off Beat Glory (1986)
• Kip Hanrahan, Coup de Tête (1982)
• Aluk Todolo, Voix (2016)
• Clarence Clarity, No Now (2015)
• Jane Ira Bloom, Early Americans (2016)
• Marty Fogel, Many Bobbing Heads at Last (1989)
• Bill Frisell, Before We Were Born (1989)
• Jonas Hellborg, Octave of the Holy Innocents (1995)

Movies/TV

Ones I really liked, or loved:

• Lanthimos, The Lobster (2015)
• Jones, The Homesman (2014)
• Sciamma, Girlhood (2014)
• Dumont, Li’l Quinquin (2014)
• Aubier & Patar, Ernest & Celestine (2012)

Books

* = added this round

• Kelly, The Inevitable (Jun 2016)
• *Greene et al., Positive Neuroscience (Jun 2016)
• Roach, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (Jun 2016)
• Field, An Adventure in Statistics (Jul 2016)
• Bier, Gower Handbook of Extreme Risk (Jul 2016)
• Arbesman, Overcomplicated (Jul 2016)
• Sunstein & Reisch, The Economics of Nudge (Jul 2016)
• *Boden, AI: Its Nature and Future (Jul 2016)
• Yong, I Contain Multitudes (Aug 2016)
• Joyce, Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy (Aug 2016)
• *Halpern, Actual Causality (Aug 2016)
• Hubbard, How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk (Aug 2016)
• Quirk, Seasteading (Sep 2016)
• Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived (Sep 2016)
• Harari, Homo Deus (Sep 2016)
• Stanovich et al., The Rationality Quotient (Sep 2016)
• Gleick, Time Travel (Sep 2016)
• Mcpherson & Plunkett, Routledge Handbook of Metaethics (Oct 2016)
• *Soltes, Why They Do It (Oct 2016)
• Edmunds, Philosophers Take on the World (Nov 2016)
• Dhami, The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis (Nov 2016)
• *Cohen et al., Nudging Health (Nov 2016)
• *Tye, Tense Bees and Shell-Shocked Crabs (Dec 2016)
• Pigliucci, The Nature of Philosophy (2016)
• Guyenet, The Hungry Brain (2016)
• Callaghan et al. (eds.), The Technological Singularity (2016)
• Ogden, Experimental Conversations (2016)
• Aaronson, Speaking Truth to Parallelism (2016)
• Cowen, The Great Social Stagnation (Feb 2017)
• Hanson & Simler, The Elephant in the Brain (early 2017)
• Caplan, The Case Against Education (2017)
• *Schneier, Click Here to Kill Everybody (2017)
• Goodfellow et al., Deep Learning (TBD)
• Hernan & Robins, Causal Inference (TBD)
• Zimmer, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh (TBD)
• Morris, In the Beginning (TBD)
• *Bain et al., The Nature of Pain (TBD)
• Bloom, Against Empathy (TBD)
• Mody, The Long Arm of Moore’s Law (TBD)
• Arrhenius, Population Ethics (TBD)
• Forman, book on mass incarceration (TBD)
• Easwaran, The Foundations of Bayesian Epistemology (TBD)
• Smith, How Biology Shapes Philosophy (TBD)
• Pinker, The New Enlightenment (TBD)
• Sternberg et al., Scientists Making a Difference (TBD)
• *Stoljar, Philosophical Progress (TBD)
• *Blackford & Broderick, Philosophy’s Future (TBD)
• Friedman, Legal Systems Very Different From Ours (TBD)
• Graham, Happiness for All? (TBD)
• Shalizi, Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View (TBD)
• Varner, Sustaining Animals (TBD)
• Gray & Graham, The Atlas of Moral Psychology (TBD)

Movies

(only including movies which AFAIK have at least started principal photography)

• Stanton, Finding Dory (Jun 2016)
• Liu, Batman: The Killing Joke (Jul 2016)
• Cianfrance, The Light Between Oceans (Sep 2016)
• Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea (Nov 2016)
• Nichols, Loving (Nov 2016)
• Scorcese, Silence (Nov 2016)
• Edwards, Rogue One (Dec 2016)
• Villeneuve, Story of Your Life (TBD 2016)
• Dardenne brothers, The Unknown Girl (TBD 2016)
• Swanberg, Win It All (TBD 2016)
• Farhadi, The Salesman (TBD 2016)
• Reeves, War for the Planet of the Apes (Jul 2017)
• *Nolan, Dunkirk (Jul 2017)
• Unkrich, Coco (Nov 2017)
• Johnson, Star Wars: Episode VIII (Dec 2017)
• Payne, Downsizing (Dec 2017)

Books

• Wegner & Gray, The Mind Club
• Grant, Originals
• Arbesman, The Half-Life of Facts
• Rose, The End of Average
• Herculano-Houzel, The Human Advantage

Music

Music I most enjoyed discovering this month:

• Mogwai, Atomic (2016)
• Sergey Kuryokhin, The Rich’s Opera (1992)
• David Liebman, Lookout Farm (1973)
• Colin Stetson, Sorrow (2016)
• Steve Coleman, The Sonic Language of Myth (1999), Resistance is Futile (2002)
• Gary Thomas, Code Violations (1989), By Any Means Necessary (1989)
• Glen Velez, Assyrian Rose (1989)
• Trilok Gurtu, Usfret (1988)
• Elephant9, Silver Mountain (2016)
• The Necks, Aquatic (1994), Hanging Gardens (1999)

Movies/TV

Ones I really liked, or loved:

• Franz & Fiala, Goodnight Mommy (2014)
• C.K., Horace and Pete (2016)
• Better Call Saul, Season 2 (2016) [from now on I’ll list seasons I loved or really liked, rather than entire series]
• Boyle, Man from Reno (2014)
• Robertson, The Dark Horse (2014)

Books

* = added this round

• *Trout, Wondrous Truths (May 2016)
• *Greely, The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction (May 2016)
• *Scahill et al., The Assassination Complex (May 2016)
• *Kurz, Economic Thought: A Brief History (May 2016)
• Carroll, The Big Picture (May 2016)
• *Weisburd et al., What Works in Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation (May 2016)
• Gioia, How to Listen to Jazz (May 2016)
• Tapscott & Tapscott, Blockchain Revolution (May 2016)
• Mukherjee, The Gene (May 2016)
• Kelly, The Inevitable (Jun 2016)
• Hanson, The Age of Em (Jun 2016)
• Roach, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (Jun 2016)
• *Field, An Adventure in Statistics (Jul 2016)
• Bier, Gower Handbook of Extreme Risk (Jul 2016)
• *Arbesman, Overcomplicated (Jul 2016)
• Sunstein & Reisch, The Economics of Nudge (Jul 2016)
• Yong, I Contain Multitudes (Aug 2016)
• Joyce, Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy (Aug 2016)
• Hubbard, How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk (Aug 2016)
• Quirk, Seasteading (Sep 2016)
• *Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived (Sep 2016)
• Harari, Homo Deus (Sep 2016)
• Stanovich et al., The Rationality Quotient (Sep 2016)
• Gleick, Time Travel (Sep 2016)
• Mcpherson & Plunkett, Routledge Handbook of Metaethics (Oct 2016)
• *Edmunds, Philosophers Take on the World (Nov 2016)
• *Dhami, The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis (Nov 2016)
• *Pigliucci, The Nature of Philosophy (TBD 2016)
• Guyenet, The Hungry Brain (TBD 2016)
• Callaghan et al. (eds.), The Technological Singularity (TBD 2016)
• Ogden, Experimental Conversations (TBD 2016)
• Aaronson, Speaking Truth to Parallelism (TBD 2016)
• *Cowen, The Great Social Stagnation (Feb 2017)
• Hanson & Simler, The Elephant in the Brain (early 2017)
• Caplan, The Case Against Education (2017)
• Goodfellow et al., Deep Learning (TBD)
• Hernan & Robins, Causal Inference (TBD)
• Zimmer, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh (TBD)
• Morris, In the Beginning (TBD)
• Bloom, Against Empathy (TBD)
• Mody, The Long Arm of Moore’s Law (TBD)
• Arrhenius, Population Ethics (TBD)
• Forman, book on mass incarceration (TBD)
• Easwaran, The Foundations of Bayesian Epistemology (TBD)
• Smith, How Biology Shapes Philosophy (TBD)
• Pinker, The New Enlightenment (TBD)
• Sternberg et al., Scientists Making a Difference (TBD)
• Friedman, Legal Systems Very Different From Ours (TBD)
• Graham, Happiness for All? (TBD)
• Shalizi, Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View (TBD)
• Varner, Sustaining Animals (TBD)
• Gray & Graham, The Atlas of Moral Psychology (TBD)

Movies

(only including movies which AFAIK have at least started principal photography)

• Russo & Russo, Captain America: Civil War (May 2016)
• Stanton, Finding Dory (Jun 2016)
• Liu, Batman: The Killing Joke (Jul 2016)
• Cianfrance, The Light Between Oceans (Sep 2016)
• Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea (Nov 2016)
• Nichols, Loving (Nov 2016)
• Scorcese, Silence (Nov 2016)
• Edwards, Rogue One (Dec 2016)
• Villeneuve, Story of Your Life (TBD 2016)
• Dardenne brothers, The Unknown Girl (TBD 2016)
• Swanberg, Win It All (TBD 2016)
• Farhadi, The Salesman (TBD 2016)
• Reeves, War for the Planet of the Apes (Jul 2017)
• Unkrich, Coco (Nov 2017)
• Johnson, Star Wars: Episode VIII (Dec 2017)
• Payne, Downsizing (Dec 2017)

Books

• Kaplan, Dark Territory

Music

Music I most enjoyed discovering this month:

• Neil Ardley, Kaleidoscope of Rainbows (1976)
• Mike Westbrook, Metropolis (1971), On Duke’s Birthday (1984)
• Michael Gibbs, Tanglewood 63 (1971)
• Anna von Hausswolff, The Miraculous (2015)
• John Surman, Way Back When (rec. 1969, rel. 2005), Coruscating (2000), Invisible Nature (2002)
• Mason Bates, Mothership (2015), Works for Orchestra (2016)
• Anna Meredith, Varmints (2016)
• Nucleus, Labyrinth (1973), Under the Sun (1974)
• Soft Head, Rogue Element (1978)
• Dudu Pakwana, In the Townships (1974)
• Terje Rypdal, Odyssey (1975)
• Eberhard Weber, The Colours of Chloë (1973)

Movies/TV

Ones I really liked, or loved:

• [none this month]

* = added this round

• Parcelle, The Humane Economy (Apr 2016)
• *de Waal, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Apr 2016)
• Christian & Griffiths, Algorithms to Live By (Apr 2016)
• Macchi et al., Cognitive Unconscious and Human Rationality (Apr 2016)
• *Frank, Success and Luck (Apr 2016)
• *Stanovich et al., The Rationality Quotient (spring 2016)
• Carroll, The Big Picture (May 2016)
• *Gioia, How to Listen to Jazz (May 2016)
• Tapscott & Tapscott, Blockchain Revolution (May 2016)
• Biondi-Zoccai, Umbrella Reviews (Mar 2016)
• Mukherjee, The Gene (May 2016)
• *Kelly, The Inevitable (Jun 2016)
• Hanson, The Age of Em (Jun 2016)
• Roach, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (Jun 2016)
• Bier, Gower Handbook of Extreme Risk (Jul 2016)
• Sunstein & Reisch, The Economics of Nudge (Jul 2016)
• Yong, I Contain Multitudes (Aug 2016)
• Joyce, Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy (Aug 2016)
• Hubbard, How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk (Aug 2016)
• Quirk, Seasteading (Sep 2016)
• Harari, Homo Deus (Sep 2016)
• *Gleick, Time Travel (Sep 2016)
• Mcpherson & Plunkett, Routledge Handbook of Metaethics (Oct 2016)
• Guyenet, The Hungry Brain (TBD 2016)
• Callaghan et al. (eds.), The Technological Singularity (TBD 2016)
• Ogden, Experimental Conversations (TBD 2016)
• Aaronson, Speaking Truth to Parallelism (TBD 2016)
• Hernan & Robins, Causal Inference (TBD)
• Hanson & Simler, The Elephant in the Brain (early 2017)
• Caplan, The Case Against Education (2017)
• Goodfellow et al., Deep Learning (TBD)
• Zimmer, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh (TBD)
• Morris, In the Beginning (TBD)
• Bloom, Against Empathy (TBD)
• Mody, The Long Arm of Moore’s Law (TBD)
• Arrhenius, Population Ethics (TBD)
• Forman, book on mass incarceration (TBD)
• Easwaran, The Foundations of Bayesian Epistemology (TBD)
• *Smith, How Biology Shapes Philosophy (TBD)
• Pinker, The New Enlightenment (TBD)
• Sternberg et al., Scientists Making a Difference (TBD)
• Friedman, Legal Systems Very Different From Ours (TBD)
• Graham, Happiness for All? (TBD)
• Shalizi, Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View (TBD)
• Varner, Sustaining Animals (TBD)
• Gray & Graham, The Atlas of Moral Psychology (TBD)

Macrohistory and Macrohistorians (1997) summarizes and evaluates the macrohistorical theories of 20 major macrohistorians (Augustine, Hegel, Comte, Marx, Weber, etc.), and ends with some fascinating visual descriptions of their theories (PDF).

For example, here is the Marx visualization:

* = added this round

• Corbett, A Listener’s Guide to Free Improvisation (Mar 2016)
• Häggström, Here Be Dragons (Mar 2016)
• Herculano-Houzel, The Human Advantage (Mar 2016)
• Parcelle, The Humane Economy (Apr 2016)
• Christian & Griffiths, Algorithms to Live By (Apr 2016)
• Macchi et al., Cognitive Unconscious and Human Rationality (Apr 2016)
• Carroll, The Big Picture (May 2016)
• Tapscott & Tapscott, Blockchain Revolution (May 2016)
• Biondi-Zoccai, Umbrella Reviews (Mar 2016)
• Mukherjee, The Gene (May 2016)
• Hanson, The Age of Em (Jun 2016)
• Roach, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (Jun 2016)
• Bier, Gower Handbook of Extreme Risk (Jul 2016)
• Sunstein & Reisch, The Economics of Nudge (Jul 2016)
• Yong, I Contain Multitudes (Aug 2016)
• Joyce, Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy (Aug 2016)
• Hubbard, How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk (Aug 2016)
• Quirk, Seasteading (Sep 2016)
• Harari, Homo Deus (Sep 2016)
• Mcpherson & Plunkett, Routledge Handbook of Metaethics (Oct 2016)
• Guyenet, The Hungry Brain (TBD 2016)
• Callaghan et al. (eds.), The Technological Singularity (TBD 2016)
• Ogden, Experimental Conversations (TBD 2016)
• Aaronson, Speaking Truth to Parallelism (TBD 2016)
• Hernan & Robins, Causal Inference (TBD)
• Hanson & Simler, The Elephant in the Brain (early 2017)
• Caplan, The Case Against Education (TBD)
• Bengio et al., Deep Learning (TBD)
• Zimmer, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh (TBD)
• Morris, In the Beginning (TBD)
• Bloom, Against Empathy (TBD)
• Mody, The Long Arm of Moore’s Law (TBD)
• Arrhenius, Population Ethics (TBD)
• Forman, book on mass incarceration (TBD)
• Easwaran, The Foundations of Bayesian Epistemology (TBD)
• Pinker, The New Enlightenment (TBD)
• Sternberg et al., Scientists Making a Difference (TBD)
• Friedman, Legal Systems Very Different From Ours (TBD)
• Graham, Happiness for All? (TBD)
• Shalizi, Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View (TBD)
• *Varner, Sustaining Animals (TBD)
• *Gray & Graham, The Atlas of Moral Psychology (TBD)

Books

• Wittes & Blum, The Future of Violence
• Ross, The Industries of the Future

Music

Music I most enjoyed discovering this month:

• Johann Johansson, Virthulegu Forsetar (2004)
• Billy Cobham, Spectrum (1973), Total Eclipse (1974)
• Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Old Money (2009)
• Jack DeJohnette, Album Album (1984)
• Oregon, Together (1976)
• Cosmic Echoes, Astral Traveling (1973)
• Jean-Luc Ponty, Aurora (1975), Upon the Wings of Music (1975), Imaginary Voyage (1976), Enigmatic Ocean (1977)
• David Friesen, Star Dance (1976), Waterfall Rainbow (1978)
• Sonny Sharrock, Black Woman (1969), Paradise (1975)
• Pat Metheny, The Way Up (2005)
• Thundercat, Apocalypse (2013)
• Steve Tibbetts, The Fall of Us All (1994)
• Neil Ardley, A Symphony of Amaranths (1972)

Movies/TV

Ones I really liked, or loved:

• Crowley, Brooklyn (2015)
• McCarthy, Spotlight (2015)
• Perry, Queen of Earth (2015)
• Brice, The Overnight (2015)
• Haley, I’ll See You in My Dreams (2015)
• Baumbach, Mistress America (2015)
• Zahler, Bone Tomahawk (2015)
• Boyle, Steve Jobs (2015)
• Baker, Tangerine (2015)
• Muylaert, The Second Mother (2015)
• Schipper, Victoria (2015)
• White & Jones, Generation Kill (2008)

Toby Walsh has published a short new paper on the likelihood of intelligence explosion. Unfortunately, it doesn’t engage with three of the most detailed and thoughtful previous analyses on the topic.

If you want to write about the likelihood and nature of intelligence explosion, I consider the following sources required reading, in descending order of value per page (Walsh’s paper misses 2, 3, and 5):

1. Bostrom (2014), chapter 4
2. Yudkowsky (2013)
3. AI Impacts‘ posts on intelligence explosion: one, two (both 2015)
4. Chalmers (2010)
5. Hanson & Yudkowsky (2013)

There are many other sources worth reading, e.g. Hutter (2012), but they don’t make my cut as “required reading.”

(Note that although I work as a GiveWell research analyst, my focus at GiveWell is not AI risks, and my views on this topic are not necessarily GiveWell’s views.)

UC Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity has funded a UC Berkeley post-doc position to work under Stuart Russell on AI corrigibility (project details). Patrick LaVictoire of MIRI will also collaborate. If you’re interested, contact alex@intelligence.org.

Books

• Howick, The Philosophy of Evidence-Based Medicine
• Prasad & Cifu, Ending Medical Reversal

Music

Music I most enjoyed discovering this month:

• Sarah Kirkland Snider, Unremembered (2015)
• Missy Mazzoli, Vespers for a New Dark Age (2015)
• Billy Bang, The Fire From Within (1985), Vietnam: The Aftermath (2001), and Vietnam: Reflections (2005)
• Dave Holland, Gateway (1975), Overtime (2005), Pass it On (2008), Prism (2013)
• Hans Reichel, Yuxo (2002)
• Gerry Hemingway, A Perfect World (1996)
• Willem Breuker, In Holland (1982), Psalm 122 (1999), Hunger (2000), Thirst (2000), Misery (2002)
• Joe Zawinul, Dialects (1986)
• Weather Report, everything from Weather Report (1971) through Domino Theory (1984)
• Nana Vasconcelos, “Ondas” (1979)
• John McLaughlin, Extrapolation (1969), My Goal’s Beyond (1970), Devotion (1970), Shakti (1976)
• James Welburn, Hold (2015)
• Moon Duo, Shadow of the Sun (2015)
• Franz Koglmann, Schlaf Schlemmer Schlaf Magritte (1984), The Use of Memory (1990), L’Heure Bleue (1991)
• Joe Harriott & John Mayer, Indo Jazz Fusions (1967)
• Circle, Miljard (2006)

Movies/TV

Ones I really liked, or loved:

• Villeneuve, Sicario (2015)
• Tarantino, The Hateful Eight (2015)
• Iñárritu, The Revenant (2015)
• McKay, The Big Short (2015)
• McQuarrie, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)
• Scott, The Martian (2015)
• Spielberg, Bridge of Spies (2015)
• Abrahamson, Room (2015)
• Kaufman, Anomalisa (2015)
• Szifrón, Wild Tales (2014)
• Heller, Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)
• Ronit & Schlomi Elkabetz, Gett (2014)
• Nichols, Shotgun Stories (2007)
• Zellner, Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014)
• Demos & Ricciardi, Making a Murderer (2015)

* = added this round

• Corbett, A Listener’s Guide to Free Improvisation (Feb 2016)
• *Clark, The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism (Feb 2016)
• Helfand, A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age (Feb 2016)
• *Weisburd et al., What Works in Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation (Feb 2016)
• Keren & Wu, Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making (Feb 2016)
• Häggström, Here Be Dragons (Mar 2016)
• Herculano-Houzel, The Human Advantage (Mar 2016)
• *Kryger et al., Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine, 6th edition (Mar 2016)
• Boldizzoni & Hudson, Routledge Handbook of Global Economic History (early 2016)
• Hubbard, How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk (Apr 2016)
• Parcelle, The Humane Economy (Apr 2016)
• Christian & Griffiths, Algorithms to Live By (Apr 2016)
• *Macchi et al., Cognitive Unconscious and Human Rationality (Apr 2016)
• Carroll, The Big Picture (May 2016)
• Tapscott & Tapscott, Blockchain Revolution (May 2016)
• *Biondi-Zoccai, Umbrella Reviews (Mar 2016)
• *Mukherjee, The Gene (May 2016)
• Hanson, The Age of Em (Jun 2016)
• Roach, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (Jun 2016)
• Bier, Gower Handbook of Extreme Risk (Jul 2016)
• *Sunstein & Reisch, The Economics of Nudge (Jul 2016)
• Yong, I Contain Multitudes (Aug 2016)
• Joyce, Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy (Aug 2016)
• Quirk, Seasteading (Sep 2016)
• *Harari, Homo Deus (Sep 2016)
• Mcpherson & Plunkett, Routledge Handbook of Metaethics (Oct 2016)
• Guyenet, The Hungry Brain (TBD 2016)
• Callaghan et al. (eds.), The Technological Singularity (TBD 2016)
• Ogden, Experimental Conversations (TBD 2016)
• Aaronson, Speaking Truth to Parallelism (TBD 2016)
• Hernan & Robins, Causal Inference (TBD)
• Hanson & Simler, The Elephant in the Brain (early 2017)
• Caplan, The Case Against Education (TBD)
• Bengio et al., Deep Learning (TBD)
• Zimmer, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh (TBD)
• Morris, In the Beginning (TBD)
• Bloom, Against Empathy (TBD)
• Mody, The Long Arm of Moore’s Law (TBD)
• Arrhenius, Population Ethics (TBD)
• Forman, book on mass incarceration (TBD)
• Easwaran, The Foundations of Bayesian Epistemology (TBD)
• Pinker, The New Enlightenment (TBD)
• Sternberg et al., Scientists Making a Difference (TBD)
• Friedman, Legal Systems Very Different From Ours (TBD)
• Graham, Happiness for All? (TBD)
• Shalizi, Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View (TBD)

Barney Sherman’s 2015 classical music mega-meta-list is now up (part 1, part 2), pulling together the results of 64 different “best of the 2015” lists from classical music critics.

Most of the selections are new performances of older works. Here, I want to highlight the contemporary classical pieces that were recorded for the first time in 2015 (and usually composed in the last few years), and that were included in 6 or more of the lists in Sherman’s analysis:

1. Anna Thorvaldsdottir: In the Light of Air
2. Andrew Norman: Play / Try
3. Julia Wolfe: Anthracite Fields
4. Various composers: Render
5. Various composers: Clockworking
6. John Luther Adams: The Wind in High Places
7. John Adams: Absolute Jest

The links go to Spotify. If you’re relatively new to contemporary classical music, my guess is that Absolute Jest is the most widely accessible selection here, followed by Render.

Back in 2004, I wrote a list of (what I now call) “musical shiver moments.” A musical shiver moment is a moment in a musical track that hits you with special emotional force (perhaps sending a shiver down your spine). It can be the climax of a pop song, or the beginning of a catchy riff, or a particularly well-conceived mood shift, etc.

A classic example is the moment the drums finally enter in Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight.” Another is the chord shift for the final performance of the chorus in Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You.”

(Note that for most of these shiver moments to have their impact, you need to listen to all or most of the track up to that point, first. You can’t just jump right to the shiver moment.)

It’s been over a decade since I made my original list. Here are a few more I’ve discovered since then:

• “Solo begins” – Carla Bley – Escalator Over the Hill: Hotel Overture – 7:45
• “The world crumbles” – Arvo Pärt – Tabula Rasa: Ludus – 7:20
• “I knew nothing of the horses” – Scott Walker – Tilt: Farmer in the City – 5:22
• “The riff enters” – Justice – Cross: Genesis – 0:38
• “Desperate cry” – Osvaldo Golijov – The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind: Agitato – 7:00
• “Sudden slices” – Klaus Schulze – Irrlicht: Ebene – 9:30
• “The theme enters” – John Adams – Grand Pianola Music: On the Great Divide – 2:20
• “Swelling” – M83 – Hurry Up We’re Dreaming: My Tears Are Becoming a Sea – 1:11
• “The sweet” – Anna von Hausswolff – Ceremony: Red Sun – 2:10
• “Drums enter” – The Shining – In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster: Goretex Weather Report – 1:05
• “Entrance” – Ryan Power – Identity Picks: Sweetheart – 0:05
• “Tone added” – Jon Hopkins – Immunity: We Disappear – 2:20
• “Verse 2 begins” – The Fiery Furnaces – EP: Here Comes the Summer – 1:30
• “Tonight” – Frank Ocean – channel ORANGE: Pyramids – 5:22
• “Electronic instruments solo” – James Blake – James Blake: I Never Learnt to Share – 3:40
• “Guitar solo peaks” – Janelle Monae – The ArchAndroid: Cold War – 2:11
• “Surprising transition” – Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: Lost in the World – 0:59
• “Soprano rising” – Henryk Górecki – Symphony No. 3: 1st movement – 15:57
• “New instrument enters” – Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport: Surf Solar – 5:18
• “Into the final stretch” – Lindstrøm – Where You Go I Go Too: Where You Go I Go Too – 22:46
• “New instrument” – Modeselektor – Happy Birthday!: Sucker Pin – 3:10
• “Rising” – Glasvegas – Glasvegas: Ice Cream Van – 3:30
• “Quiet after the storm” – Howard Shore – The Fellowship of the Ring: The Bridge of Khazad Dum – 4:57
• “Finale” – John Adams – Harmonielehre: Part I – 17:01
• “Chorus” – Phantom Planet – Phantom Planet: Knowitall – 1:06
• “Suddenly, a groove” – Herbie Hancock – Crossings: Sleeping Giant – 11:09
• “You thought this track couldn’t get any more epic. You were wrong.” – Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!: We Drift Like Worried Fire – 18:48
• “One of my favorite melodies, 2nd time” – Jean Sibelius – Symphony No. 5: 3rd movement – 1:55

(The time markings for the classical pieces will be off for some performances/recordings, naturally.)

What are some of your musical shiver moments?

…added after initial publication of this post:

• “From percussion to melody” – Nils Frahm – Spaces: For / Peter / Toilet Brushes / More – 13:49
• “Final atmospheric passage” – Dave Douglas – Dark Territory: Loom Large – 4:57
• “One last time” – John Murphy – Adagio in D Minor: Adagio in D Minor (2012 Remaster) – 3:04
• “Building groove” – Tonbruket – Forevergreens: First Flight of a Newbird – 3:19
• “Is this the climax yet?” – Blanck Mass – World Eater: Rhesus Negative – 7:44
• “Panic” & “Double time” – The Algorithm – Polymorphic Code: Panic – 3:32 & 6:51
• “Explosion” – The Great Harry Hillman – Tilt: 354° – 2:37
• “Voices rise” – Eskaton – 4 Visions: Ecoute – 5:52
• “After a brief pause” – Frederik Magle – Anastasis-Messe: Tenebrae / Lux Aeterna – 2:41
• “Solo peaks” – Phish – A Live One: Stash (Clifford Ball 1994) – 11:05 & 11:32
• [more to come]