Added this quarter:
- Manning, A History of Humanity (Apr 2020)
- Saldin & Teles, Never Trump (May 2020)
- Peters, Innumeracy in the Wild (May 2020)
- Lieber & Press, The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution (Jun 2020)
- Ritchie, Science Fictions (Jul 2020)
- Lissner & Rapp-Hooper, An Open World (Sep 2020)
- Perlroth, This is How They Tell Me the World Ends (Sep 2020)
- Kania, Fighting to Innovate (TBD)
- Johnson, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Warfare: USA, China, and Strategic Stability (TBD)
- Tinnirello, Global Politics of Artificial Intelligence (TBD)
- Caplan, Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Policy (TBD)
Books
bold = especially excited
- Rid, Active Measures (Apr 2020)
- Cobb, The Idea of the Brain (Apr 2020)
- Prasad, Malignant (Apr 2020)
- Norcross, Morality By Degrees (May 2020)
- Manning, A History of Humanity (Apr 2020)
- Saldin & Teles, Never Trump (May 2020)
- Peters, Innumeracy in the Wild (May 2020)
- Lieber & Press, The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution (Jun 2020)
- MacAskill et al., Moral Uncertainty (Jun 2020)
- Kriegel, Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness (Jul 2020)
- Ritchie, Science Fictions (Jul 2020)
- Lissner & Rapp-Hooper, An Open World (Sep 2020)
- Chen et al., Foundations of Prediction Markets (Sep 2020)
- Heinrich, The WEIRDest People in the World (Sep 2020)
- Perlroth, This is How They Tell Me the World Ends (Sep 2020)
- Yglesias, One Billion Americans (Sep 2020)
- MacAskill, What We Owe the Future (TBD)
- de Lazari-Radek, The Philosophy of Pleasure (TBD)
- Tye, book about vagueness and the evolution of consciousness (TBD)
- Frankish, Consciousness: The Basics (TBD)
- Russell, AI: A Modern Approach, 4th edition (TBD)
- Arrhenius et al., Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics (TBD)
- Pummer, Effective Altruism for Everyone (TBD)
- Dubber et al., Oxford Handbook of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (TBD)
- Unknown editors, The Cambridge World History of Slavery, Volume 2 (TBD)
- Caplan, Poverty: Who to Blame (TBD)
- Vincent, Beyond Measure (TBD)
- Pinker, untitled book about common knowledge (TBD)
- Fleischman, untitled forthcoming book (TBD)
- Schlosser, The Great Imprisonment (TBD)
- Clemens, The Walls of Nations (TBD)
- Harden, The Genetic Lottery (TBD)
- Gal, The Power of the Status Quo (TBD)
- Lindsay, Models of the Mind (TBD)
- DeLong, Slouching Towards Utopia (TBD)
- Sumner, The Money Illusion (TBD)
- Seth, Presence Chamber (TBD)
- Wellerstein, Restricted Data (TBD)
- Tetlock, untitled book about forecasting tournaments (TBD)
- Aaronson, Speaking Truth to Parallelism (TBD)
- Morris, Fog in the Channel (TBD)
- Arrhenius, Population Ethics (TBD)
- Hernan & Robins, Causal Inference (TBD)
- Chalmers, Reality 2.0 (TBD)
- Portmore, Oxford Handbook of Consequentialism (TBD)
- Kahneman et al., Noise (TBD)
- Easwaran, The Foundations of Bayesian Epistemology (TBD)
- Haidt, Three Stories about Capitalism (TBD)
- Varner, Sustaining Animals (TBD)
- Scheidel, The Demography of the Greco-Roman World (TBD)
- Prinz, The Moral Self (TBD)
- Ryder, Models in the Brain (TBD)
- Prinz, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Psychology (TBD)
- Henrich, untitled book on WEIRD societies (TBD)
- Merker, untitled book about consciousness (TBD)
- Guillot & Garcia-Carpintero, The Sense of Mineness (TBD)
- Galef, untitled book on “scout mindset” (TBD)
- Bowles et al., Coordination, Conflict and Competition (TBD)
- White, The Worst Form of Government (TBD)
- Singal, untitled about social psychology, social justice, and the replication crisis (TBD)
- Ahmed, The Value of the Future (TBD)
- Blattman, untitled book (TBD)
- Sandberg, Grand Futures (TBD)
- Kania, Fighting to Innovate (TBD)
- Johnson, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Warfare: USA, China, and Strategic Stability (TBD)
- Tinnirello, Global Politics of Artificial Intelligence (TBD)
- Caplan, Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Policy (TBD)
Movies & TV
(only including movies and TV series or miniseries which AFAIK have at least started principal photography)
- Docter, Soul (Jun 2020)
- Nolan, Tenet (Jul 2020)
- Fukunaga, No Time to Die (Nov 2020)
- Villeneuve, Dune (Dec 2020)
- Cameron, Avatar 2 (Dec 2021)
- Kaufman, I’m Thinking Of Ending Things (TBD)
Have you read anything by Cal Newport? I’d love to hear your take on his stuff. Seems to me like it’s nowhere near evidence-based enough, with hand picked anecdotes to reinforce the points already decided upon. But ironically I’ve still found it helpful! Equally, would love to hear any thoughts you had on recent books ‘Atomic Habits’ and ‘Power of Habit’.