Book Summary: The Most Human Human by Brian Christian
This summary of The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive by Brian Christian discusses the essence of […]
Book summaries, podcast summaries, and some other things
This summary of The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive by Brian Christian discusses the essence of […]
This book summary sets out the key takeaways from Niccolo Machiavelli’s renowned work, The Prince. It turns out Machiavelli got a bit […]
This is a short post with some musings on motivation, morality and demandingness, after reading Atomic Habits and Tiny Habits. In Atomic […]
In Four Thousand Weeks, Oliver Burkeman discusses our finitude and the idea that we have to make trade-offs in life. What I […]
Four thousand weeks is roughly the number of weeks you’ll have if you live to about 80. Although the book’s subtitle is “Time management for mortals”, it’s not really about time management (in the conventional sense). Rather, it’s about values and priorities and making the most of our limited time on this earth.
Will MacAskill discusses longtermism and his book What We Owe the Future with Russ Roberts in this EconTalk podcast.
In this podcast summary, Will MacAskill talks about longtermism and his recent book, “What We Owe the Future”. The original podcast is 2 hours 54 minutes. The estimated reading time for this summary (excluding “My Thoughts”) is 42 minutes.
Summarising a podcast is a new one for me, and my decision to attempt this was a bit experimental. The original podcast […]
The Total View suggests that we should seek to maximise total wellbeing, including by creating new lives. There are problems with the Total View that have concerning implications in practice.
William MacAskill is one of the founders of the Effective Altruism (EA) movement. In Doing Good Better, he explains the reasoning behind a lot of EA ideas. The EA movement has changed a bit since 2015, when MacAskill wrote the book. But the core ideas in Doing Good Better are still very solid and worth understanding.