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Which books are you happy to read for the September Book of the Month?

by bestiaauris ·
A City On Mars Kelly & Zack Weinersmith 2023 Pop science/debunking. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125084292-a-city-on-mars Critically acclaimed, bestselling authors Kelly and Zach Weinersmith set out to write the essential guide to a glorious future of space settlements, but after years of research, they aren’t so sure it’s a good idea. Space technologies and space business are progressing fast, but we lack the knowledge needed to have space kids, build space farms, and create space nations in a way that doesn’t spark conflict back home.
% (2 votes)
Coyote America Dan Flores 2016 Non-Fiction https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/26195972-coyote-america It's about Coyotes and America. Specifically the history of Coyotes and Americans interacting.
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Probability Theory: The Logic of Science E.T. Jaynes 2003 Textbook https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/151848.Probability_Theory?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=zuGdCJBfoq&rank=1 This would make a bean happy. E.T. Jaynes is one of my heroes, and this book is about how frequentist statistics is stupid. Bayesian statistics is really cool, and it really helped make probability make sense.
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Watership Down Richard Adams 1972 Adventure Fiction https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76620.Watership_Down Group of rabbits flee their home warren and face the dangers of their natural predators as well as other rabbit societies.
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The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy Mariana Mazzucato 2020 Nonfiction: Economics https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29502362-the-value-of-everything The Value of Everything rigorously scrutinizes the way in which economic value has been determined and reveals how the difference between value creation and value extraction has become increasingly blurry. Mariana Mazzucato argues that this blurriness allowed certain actors in the economy to portray themselves as value creators, while in reality they were just moving existing value around or, even worse, destroying it.
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Superintelligence Nick Bostrom 2014 Nonfiction, Science https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/20527133-superintelligence The fate of the gorillas now depends more on humans than on the species itself, so would the fate of humankind depend on the actions of the artificial superintelligence. But we have one advantage: we get to make the first move. Will it be possible to construct a seed Artificial Intelligence, to engineer initial conditions so as to make an intelligence explosion survivable?
% (3 votes)
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