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Another great source of reading material: FiveBooks[0] interviews "experts" and asks them to recommend five good books for understanding their field.

E.g., this[1] interview with David Brooks from 2009 is a lot of the source material/ inspiration for his book.

[0] http://fivebooks.com

[1] http://fivebooks.com/interview/david-brooks-on-neuroscience/




Vaguely reminds me of this list, where scholars were asked which book changed their mind the most: http://chronicle.com/article/What-Book-Changed-Your-Mind-/14...

Would love to find more lists of the sort


It's interesting now no book in the section about AI is an actually technical book (something like Russel and Norvig). They're all about philosophical conjectures about AI. Doesn't inspire confidence in other lists on that site tbh. :/


Oh my gosh, this is amazing. Thank you for sharing. How did you first come across this?




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