Books Read

2021

1. Wake Up and Live - Dorothea Brande. 19th century style, simple, powerful. A book to tile your mind with.

   “Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.”

   “Act as if it were impossible to fail.”

2. Alignment - Less Wrong Community. AI safety essays that were previously online take on a new seriousness in printed form.

   “Agent models like AIXI are dualistic: the agent exists outside of the environment, with only set interactions between agent-stuff and environment-stuff. They require the agent to be larger than the environment and don’t tend to model self-referential reasoning because the agent is made of different stuff than what the agent reasons about.”