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Book Review Runners up Volume 1 Book Review Runners Up Volume 1. A -R A History of Generation Ships in Science-Fiction A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change by Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter Habit and Routine, Not Calculation and Optimization Economics Has Come A Long Way Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb I. Prologue II. The Triad III. Barbell Everything IV. Killing Volatility V. Against the Nerds VI. Against the Predictors VII. Via Negativa VIII. Against the Immortals IX. Autobiography Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Apocalypse Never by Michael Shellenberger I II III IVa IVb V Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction by Alec Nevala-Lee Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Quick reviews from 1957 Characters Review Blind Spots Closing remarks Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics by Ross Douthat The Heresy of Christian Nationalism The Heresy of “Pray and Grow Rich” The Heresy of the God Within The Heresy of “Brave Certainty” Why is Christianity in decline? Who are the “Nones?” What is Douthat’s Defense of Orthodox Christianity? But let’s talk about “Accommodation.” Can Christianity Recover? But how should Christianity respond? And What About the Nones? Behave by Robert Sapolsky Everything is connected Biology is too hard Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Or, Should I wirehead my cat? Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler Part A: Overview 1. A Need for Better Theory 2. Business and Industry 3. Accumulation of Power Summary of Part A Part B: Dilemmas of the Dismal Science 1. Politics and Economy 2. The Nominal and The Material 3. What is Value? Summary of Part B Part C: The Machine 1. Internal and External Logic 2. Capital and Capitalization 3. Profit and Differential Profit Summary of Part C Part D: The Machine in Context 1. Economic Implications 2. The Space of Political Systems 3. Connections with Other Theories Summary of Part D Should You Read This Book? Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett Introduction The Cartesian Theater What Makes Consciousness So Confusing? The Cartesian Theater The Multiple Drafts Model Do We Mean What We Say? Awareness The Unconscious / Conscious Boundary The Mind’s Eye Qualia Philosophical Zombies Conclusion Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson (1907) Ch. I Ch. II Ch. III & IV Other Quotes My Comments Defenders of the Truth: The Sociobiology Debate by Ullica Segerstråle Wilson and Lewontin at the center At the centers of different worlds Planters, weeders, couplers and decouplers Dawkins and Gould: the next generation Modern day descendants Circling back Democracy in America vol. I by Alexis de Tocqueville Disunited Nations (2020) vs Dawn of Eurasia (2017) The US World Order is coming to an end The US Navy patrols the world Zeihan’s geographic determinism The Dawn of Eurasia Determinism vs Hope How much of the future can anyone ever see? Reversion vs Evolution The Russian soul Lighting the path ahead Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood by Edward M. Hallowell & John J. Ratey Hypothetical Condition Case Studies Other People Treatment Conclusion Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell Enlightenment Now by Stephen Pinker Exploring Reality: The Intertwining of Science and Religion by John Polkinghorne Reality The Causal Nexus of the World Human Nature: The Evolutionary Context The Historical Jesus Divine Reality: The Trinity The Nature of Time: Unfolding Story The Spirit and the Faiths Evil Ethical Exploration: Genetics Imaginative Postscript: Some Naive Speculations Conclusion Fantasyland I. II. A summary-summary Part I: The Conjuring of America: 1517–1789 Part II: United States of Amazing: The 1800s Part III: A Long Arc Bending Toward Reason: 1900–1960 Part IV: Big Bang: The 1960s and '70s Part V: Fantasyland Scales: From the 1980s Through the Turn of the Century Part VI: The Problem with Fantasyland: From the 1980s to the Present and Beyond III. The Good 1. The hidden connection 2. Reframing culture An Aside: Boy Scouts 3. Combining real and fake 4. Americans believe crazy things IV. The Bad 1. Lack of Explanation 2. Out-of-hand dismissals and misrepresentations 3. Excessive credulity V. Conclusion Farmers for Forty Centuries by F. H. King Feed by M.T. Anderson Fitzpatrick’s War by Theodore Judson Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships by Eric Berne Background Transactional Analysis Games Game - Examples I’m only trying to help See what you made me do Vindication See what you made me do If it weren’t for you Debtor I’m only trying to help you Look how hard I’ve tried Self-reprimanding, obtaining forgiveness Alcoholic Schlemiel Confirming worldview and stereotypes Kick Me / Why does this always happen to me? Debtor Reassurance Courtroom If it weren’t for you Why don’t you - Yes but Feeling power & Control over others Now I’ve got you, you son of a bitch Kiss Off Interesting observations Complementary games Reversible roles Rough model Children are impressionable Sabotage Antithesis: How to Stop Games See What You Made Me Do - Vindication Look How Hard I’m Trying - Vindication Self-reprimanding & Obtaining Forgiveness Why don’t you … Yes but - Reassurance Control and Power over others Epilogue Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter I. Formal systems and interpretations II. Jumping out of the system III. Truth vs. provability V. Self-reference and the proof of Gödel's theorem VI. GEB Part II Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond How Children Fail by John Holt Human Scale Revisited by Kirkpatrick Sale I II III IV Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker Aerial Bombing Churchill On blockades: Churchill on the Thickness of Shells: Roosevelt Roosevelt on Entering the War: On Entering the War: Churchill on Hearing about Pearl Harbor: Pacifists Gandhi on Pacifism: Nazis On Kristallnacht: On Sterilization: On Gassing: On Mass Graves: European Jews Anti-Semitism In Lithuania: Churchill on Jewish Foreign Nationals: Churchill on Palestinian Jews: Roosevelt on Immigration Quotas: Roosevelt on Relocation: Roosevelt on the Wagner-Rogers Child Refugee Bill: Why You Should Read This Book On the Title: Last Tsar. Nicholas II, His Reign & His Russia by Sergei Oldenburg Loserthink by Scott Adams Think like a Psychologist Think like an Artist Think like a Historian Engineer Leader Scientist Entrepreneur Economist Comedian Using the Ego as a Tool Conclusion Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. On Numbers and Games by John H. Conway A Divine Game Human Games Numbers Worlds Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration by Bryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith The argument The objections 1: Parochialism 2: Humility 3: Environment 4: Culture 5: Inequality Conclusion Appendix: Other Arguments I Would Have Used Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the meaning of life by Nick Lane I - What is this book about? II - What is this book actually about? III - But now, really, what is this book actually about? IV - So, is that all? Probability Theory: The Logic of Science by E. T. Jaynes On the origin of PT:TLoS. What Jaynes taught. À la recherche du temps perdu. Paradox lost. Exegi monumentum. Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction by Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto What is reinforcement learning How reinforcement learning works Mistakes drive learning Dopamine and Happiness Simulated Experience Simulated Rewards Importance Sampling Conclusion Revolt of the Public by Martin Gurri A History of Generation Ships in Science-Fiction (This essay contains multiple spoilers about several science fiction novels; I will put the spoilers all in footnotes at the bottom: SO DON'T READ THE FOOTNOTES IF YOU WANT TO AVOID THE SPOILERS) In 1958, British World War II veteran Brian Aldiss published his first novel, one that relied on some of his experiences during the Burma campaign in the humid Southeast Asian jungle. In the novel, a group of jungle dwellers wanders around their strange environment, and the reader quickly realizes that the jungle has grown inside a gigantic starship. Multiple adventures occur before the protagonists understand that they live inside a sort of interstellar ark in which their ancestors lived, died and bred for generations. Eventually, something even more astounding about their predicament is revealed (1). Aldiss' novel, called "Non-Stop," was the founding piece for a new kind of science-fiction tale: stories about generation starships, a hypothetical type of craft that travels at sub- light speed while its human occupants spend generations inside, waiting to set foot on another world. These tales are interesting in themselves, and as illustrations of current concerns, as well as plans and hopes for the future expansion of the human race. Some generation ship novels are among the best sci-fi books ever written; many others are frustrating pieces overflowing with ideas but also prejudices, clichés and particular obsessions that reflect our age only too well. When we discuss generation ship stories, we not only discuss the future of an idea, or the present state of that idea: we also discuss what writers have imprinted in their minds when they execute that idea. "Non-Stop" may not have been the first actual story to depict a generation ship, but is definitely the first complete example of the genre, since it contains almost all of the features later to be seen in similar novels: characters confounded by their situation; characters who come to forget the reason why they're floating in space in the first time, or doubt that they're actually floating in space; internal struggles for power that go beyond anything the mission designers anticipated; frustration; sickness; swift death; a melancholy reflection on the fragility of human societies.
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