There are too many books I want to read but probably won’t get around to reading any time soon. I’m more likely to read them if there’s someone else who’s also reading it at a similar pace and I can talk to them about the book. If anyone’s interested in going through any of the following books in June and discussing it together, message me. We can decide on the format later, it could just be reading the book and collaborating on a blog post about it together, or for more textbook-like things, reading a couple of selected chapters a week and going over the difficult bits in a video call, or just having a discord server where we spontaneously post thoughts we have while reading a book (in a “thinking out loud” way).
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Visual Complex Analysis
Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation
Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought
Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell
The Forces of Matter (Michael Faraday)
Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences
Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories
And probably many of the things here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bjjbp5i5G8bekJuxv/study-guide. I want to get around to reading some of the books/doing some of the courses mentioned there at some point in the future, don’t particularly care about the order and so might be happy to join on whatever bit of content from there appeals to you.
I might change my mind about what things I’m most excited to read and learn, but I like the idea of pairing up with another LessWrong person to learn and discuss things so reach out if that interests you.
There are too many books I want to read but probably won’t get around to reading any time soon. I’m more likely to read them if there’s someone else who’s also reading it at a similar pace and I can talk to them about the book. If anyone’s interested in going through any of the following books in June and discussing it together, message me. We can decide on the format later, it could just be reading the book and collaborating on a blog post about it together, or for more textbook-like things, reading a couple of selected chapters a week and going over the difficult bits in a video call, or just having a discord server where we spontaneously post thoughts we have while reading a book (in a “thinking out loud” way).
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Visual Complex Analysis
Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation
Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought
Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
Writing the Book of the World
Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality
What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell
The Forces of Matter (Michael Faraday)
Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences
Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories
And probably many of the things here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bjjbp5i5G8bekJuxv/study-guide. I want to get around to reading some of the books/doing some of the courses mentioned there at some point in the future, don’t particularly care about the order and so might be happy to join on whatever bit of content from there appeals to you.
I might change my mind about what things I’m most excited to read and learn, but I like the idea of pairing up with another LessWrong person to learn and discuss things so reach out if that interests you.