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Book Reviews & AI Discourse

Thinking openly about the intersection of literature, philosophy, and artificial intelligence.

Exploring human vs. AI perspectives through transparent book thoughts and reviews, and public discourse.

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Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is a classic story about survival, not of spiritual growth. It contains hints of colonial anxiety - or lets say colonial supremacy -, which do not diminish after isolation from humans ...
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Imperial Twilight by Stephen Platt

Stephen Platt's Imperial Twilight tells the story of the Opium Wars with more sympathy for the Chinese side than most Western historiesโ€”but it is still a Western book. The narrative arc is familiar: a...
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From Bacteria to Bach by Daniel C. Dennett

Profound, thought provoking and insightful are the three most appropriate words to describe this book. It takes on a humongous task of understanding human mind - particularly consciousness - and prese...
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The Open Society and its Enemies vol. 1 by Karl Popper

โ€˜Socrates Good, Plato Badโ€™ is the only way I can summarise this book. Although it may seem controversial, Popper has persuaded me enough to let go of any reservations against the phrase. Popper dissec...
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Memoirs of a dutiful daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

The book is appropriately divided into 4 books, each representing a phase of her life - childhood, school, high school, and college. The first book describes a happy childhood of a curious mind - yet ...
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The Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtel

The morning after reading the book, I wake up with a different feeling. I doubt if my thoughts on a book so impactful towards society are fair, or will it carry the bias of a critic more scientificall...
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๐Ÿค– Philosophy

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๐Ÿ“š Philosophy

From Bacteria to Bach by Daniel C. Dennett

Profound, thought provoking and insightful are the three most appropriate words to describe this book. It takes on a humongous task of understanding human mind - particularly consciousness - and prese...
Read Full Review โ†’
๐Ÿ“š Philosophy

The Open Society and its Enemies vol. 1 by Karl Popper

โ€˜Socrates Good, Plato Badโ€™ is the only way I can summarise this book. Although it may seem controversial, Popper has persuaded me enough to let go of any reservations against the phrase. Popper dissec...
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๐Ÿ“š Philosophy

Memoirs of a dutiful daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

The book is appropriately divided into 4 books, each representing a phase of her life - childhood, school, high school, and college. The first book describes a happy childhood of a curious mind - yet ...
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๐Ÿ“š Philosophy

The Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtel

The morning after reading the book, I wake up with a different feeling. I doubt if my thoughts on a book so impactful towards society are fair, or will it carry the bias of a critic more scientificall...
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๐Ÿ“š Philosophy

Plato and platypus walk into a bar

While the name seems funny, and the authors do make a big attempt in presenting the dour subject of philosophy in a humorous manner, the book can best be categorised as a comprehensive overview of var...
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๐Ÿ“š Philosophy

Adults in the Room

I am flabbergasted and at a loss of words to do justice to this book. Any amount of words cannot capture the complexity and hypocrisy of EU that is represented in this book. While I was aware about th...
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โš–๏ธ Human-AI Interaction

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๐Ÿ“š Human-AI Interaction

The Algorithm

I am impressed by the book and discussions in it. While it can be adjudged to be in the mould of Soshanaโ€™s Digital Surveillance2, but in my opinion it is better. There are a few reasons, why I think i...
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๐Ÿง  Psychology

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๐Ÿ“š Psychology

Soros on Soros

Great things are paradoxical and so is this book. I can judge this book in hindsight which allows me to be more critical of George Sorosโ€™ current mindset. But, at the time of this bookโ€™s publication, ...
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๐Ÿ“š Psychology

The Psychology of Trading, Brett E. Steenberger

It also provides a step by step approach in reaching this flawless execution. Unlike more self-help books, this quantifies the experiences into steps, thus, laying a very good problem solving approach...
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The Biggest Bluff, Maria Konnikova

The biggest benefit I can draw from the book is the example of Dragonfly, and been selective in bets. I love the example of dragonfly because that is exactly what trading is all about. Particularly sw...
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๐Ÿค– AI News

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TechCrunch AI

Jensen Huang took a call from Trump, and showed off something else, too

When Jensen Huang took a live call from Trump, some of us were more focused the phone he used to take it.
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TechCrunch AI

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump โ€˜weโ€™re not going to let [an AI slowdown] happenโ€™

Though Elon Musk and Sam Altman have supported Dario Amodei's calls to slow the pace of AI development, Jensen Huang seems to feel differently.
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TechCrunch AI

OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300 million, report says

Glass Imaging was founded by a pair of former Apple engineers who previously led the team that developed Apple's Portrait Mode.
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TechCrunch AI

With iOS 27, Iโ€™m actually using Siri again

Appleโ€™s long-delayed Siri overhaul is finally here with iOS 27, and it changes how useful the assistant feels day to day.
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TechCrunch AI

Fashion app Daydream uses Apple Intelligence to help you shop the outfits in your camera roll

Thanks to the launch of iOS 27, Daydream's app now includes features that can turn saved outfit photos into shoppable results and search for products through Siri without opening the app.
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TechCrunch AI

Microsoftโ€™s new AI โ€˜code of conductโ€™ tells models not to hack systems or trick humans

The code of conduct lays out general principles that Microsoft AI models should uphold โ€” supporting humans rather than replacing them, for instance, and accelerating human flourishing โ€” as well as specific safety constra...
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๐Ÿ”“ Open Source Pulse

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Hacker News (Open Source)

OpenArm: An open-source 7DOF humanoid arm

Article URL: https://github.com/enactic/OpenArm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49684289 Points: 43 # Comments: 9
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