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I may be wrong since I really haven't read him, apart from a failed attempt long ago with Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but I feel his opinion about it might have been a bit more nuanced than "it's bad"....

Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus - A Brief History Of Tomorrow. Fantastic book, and I'll bring forth one key topic it discusses - the belief system of humanism.

Humanism says that all meaning comes...

Finished A Little History of the World. Fantastic. From ancient Sumeria to WW2, reads like a children's story. 5/5

The actual original book is about 300 pages and it barely touches that. The edition I read also included a notes-section of close to 100 pages written some years after the release, they go a bit...

Things such as shark attacks, terrorism, stock market crashes etc. We either vastly exaggerate the probability and invest way too much in their countermeasures, such as completely avoiding swimming,...

C.F. Gauss yes. He hates Gaussian curves, since they average out anomalies and leave us blind to black swan events. Ok to be fair, I doubt he thinks Gauss was actually an idiot, that just how his...

The Black Swan - Nicholas Nassim Taleb

It took me quite a while to finish this, I found his arrogance, condescension and judgemental attitude off-putting and making it quite a drag to read....

Ya ya I know, some of these are obvious, but I would say obvious only to people who read a lot of non-fiction and have read them. Otherwise they're just names of books they might have heard before....

You sidetracking sonsabitches.

The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
I mean c'mon, read it. Exploration into evolution, altruism, memes etc. employing for example game theory. This is just a...

^Seconded, can also recommend Freakonomics by Levitt and The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford.

Will check out gorilla's mentions.

Why no thread on bookses? Let's make one. I mostly read nonfiction so let's stick with that. Here's a couple ones I've recently finished and think everyone should read.

Thinking, Fast And Slow -...