Science

A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains - by Max Bennett Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions - by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman - by Dave Hoover, Adewale Oshineye Coders at Work - by Peter Seibel Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World - by Clive Thompson Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos - by M. Mitchell Waldrop Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves - by James Nestor Everything is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer - by Duncan J. Watts Fooling Houdini - by Alex Stone Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - by Douglas R. Hofstadter How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology - by Philip Ball How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed - by Ray Kurzweil Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - by Max Tegmark Manthropology: The Science of Why the Modern Male Is Not the Man He Used to Be - by Peter McAllister Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships - by Christopher Ryan Simple Rules - by Donald Sull Situational Awareness - by Leopold Aschenbrenner Superintelligence - by Nick Bostrom The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth - by Robin Hanson The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence - by Ray Kurzweil The AI Does Not Hate You: Superintelligence, Rationality and the Race to Save the World - by Tom Chivers The Beginning of Infinity - by David Deutsch The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature - by Steven Pinker The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers - by Robert C. Martin The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle In The Dark - by Carl Sagan The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future - by Kevin Kelly The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World - by Pedro Domingos The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master - by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature - by Matt Ridley The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter - by Joseph Henrich The Software Craftsman: Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride - by Sandro Mancuso The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival - by John Vaillant This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking - by John Brockman What Technology Wants - by Kevin Kelly