The Ruins of Gorlan (Ranger's Apprentice 1) - John Flanagan
Always brilliant worth reading once every five years or so
The Burning Bridge (Ranger's Apprentice 2) - John Flanagan
I cannot believe for the past decade I thought it was Alice who was across the bridge as it burned, and not Horace/Evalyan. Spent a decade misremembering that.
The Icebound Land (Ranger's Apprentice 3) - John Flanagan
Always brilliant worth reading once every five years or so
The Battle for Skandia (Ranger's Apprentice 4) - John Flanagan
Always brilliant worth reading once every five years or so
The Worlds I See - Fei Fei Li
Really good actually, people make fun of her because they think ImageNet was just a dataset, but she overcame a lot to put that together
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant - Eric Jorgenson
It's okay, pretty good advice standard intellectual curiosity stuff
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Super good book, would recommend, lots of great epithets. Honestly the prologue makes way more sense after reading it than before
Friendship is Optimal - Iceman
Represents what a __good__ AGI outcome could look like. Definitely worth reading if you have exisesntial angst around AGI/into rationalist fiction.
The Player of Games - Ian M. Banks
What does it look like to have benevolent gods? One can only hope they act in this fashion. Nonetheless it appears we are set to find out...