There is a blog called lesswrong. Many people contribute to it (how many people must contribute to a website before it stops being called a blog and starts being called... Not sure what?). The theme is rationality. They (not sure who they are) have made a best-of collection from lesswrong which is named
A Map that Reflects the Territory (available here)
Actually, its not one book, but five mini-books. I quote the titles and paraphrase the first sentence of each:
Epistemology: How we come to know the world.
Agency: The ability to take action in the world and control the future.
Coordination: The ability of multiple agents to work together.
Curiosity: The desire to understand how the world works.
Alignment: The problem of aligning the thoughts and goals.
I have written a review of the the book. The book was my first exposure to the blog, except sometimes reading about the blog, probably on Scott's blog.
I am posting this to both complexity blog and to lesswrong, though with lesswrong I will have a different intro since they know lesswrong but might not know complextyblog.
My review is here.
I would appreciate intelligent comments and suggestions, which I will use to improve the review.
I would update "The most common word in this book might be Bayes" to "The most common non-trivial word..." for the pedantic.
ReplyDeleteIndeed! It is likely that `the' is the most common word.
DeleteThanks- I have fixed it.