Must-Reads

Non Fiction

Life-changing books (in the order I read them)

• Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
• Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark
• The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
• Gödel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter (still working my way through this tome)

Books on my own To-Read list (have started most, but finished none)

• Who Owns The Future? - Jaron Lanier
• Eros and Civilization - Herbert Marcuse
• Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Our Mathematical Universe - Max Tegmark
• Homo Deus - Yuval Noah Harari

Great books to flip through

• A Pattern Language - Alexander et al.
• A New Kind of Science - Stephen Wolfram
• Tribe of Mentors - Timothy Ferriss

Most inspirational academic papers I’ve read

• On the necessity of abstraction - Konidaris
• From Skills to Symbols - Konidaris, Kaelbling, and Lozano-Perez
• How to Grow a Mind - Tenenbaum et al.
• Neurosymbolic AI - Garcez and Lamb
• Composition in Distributional Models of Semantics - Mitchell and Lapata

Fiction

Top Sci-Fi Books

• iRobot - Isaac Asimov
• 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
• Contact - Carl Sagan
• The Martian - Andy Weir

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