In time for the holidays, I've added some books I've been excited by recently to my recommended reading list:https://meaningness.com/further-reading
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Unfortunately, our brains have no rationality module which would enable us to think logically (“if we just put cognitive biases aside”).
To think logically, we have to use pencil and paper, or a computer.
@cdutilhnovaes explains how that works! https://meaningness.com/further-reading#Dutilh …pic.twitter.com/PB5pjUd89k
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“Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences” explores the ways classification systems are constructed and used in practice. It explains the non-rational “infrastructure” a rational system relies on to function where it meets nebulosity.
https://meaningness.com/further-reading#Bowker …pic.twitter.com/YDkwsWuyp5
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Oooh, I'd like to make a lot of people in wearables read this.
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This is a pervasive problem in engineering practice, unfortunately. I’ve encountered it most directly in software engineering (my field); most software doesn’t do what the customer needs because the engineers just guess. Very well-known failing but somehow endlessly repeated.
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Printers are a Very Serious area of philosophical enquiry
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Yes, a funny similarity there! I'm using breakfast as a major running example in the meta-rationality book. A highly esoteric topic! (Almost entirely unstudied by Deep Thinkers; much low-hanging fruit!)
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