Our Recommendations
Here are some of the books and podcasts we recommend. They're divided up first by topic, and then by medium (books / podcasts / blogs). An asterisk (*) indicates a particular favourite. Drop us an email if you picked any of these up and enjoyed them!
βοΈ Philosophy
π Books
- The Precipice by Toby Ord *
- Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit *
- GΓΆdel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter *
- Doing Good Better by William MacAskill
- Natural Justice by Ken Binmore
- Practical Ethics by Peter Singer
- Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
- The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers
- Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
π Blogs
- Eric Schwitzgebel's The Splintered Mind
- Maria Popova's Brain Pickings
- Scott Alexander's Astral Codex Ten (formerly Slate Star Codex)
π Podcasts
πΈ Economics
π Books
- Poor Economics by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo *
- Worldly Philosophers by Robert L. Heilbroner
- Economics: The User's Guide by Ha-Joon Change
- Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
- Why Nations Fail by Daron AcemoΔlu and James A. Robinson
- Global Inequality by Branko MilanoviΔ
- Radical Markets by Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl
- Mostly Harmless Econometrics by Joshua D. Angrist and JΓΆrn-Steffen Pischke
π Blogs
- Kevin Bryan's A Fine Theorem *
- Noah Smith's Noahopinion *
- Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok's Marginal Revolution
- Diane Coyle's The Enlightened Economist
- Robin Hanson's Overcoming Bias
π Podcasts
- Brad DeLong and Noah Smith's Hexapodia *
- Tyler Cowen's Conversations with Tyler *
- Russ Roberts' Econ Talk
π§ Social Sciences and Psychology
π Books
- Superforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner *
- Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker *
- The Righetous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
- The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
- Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
- The Passions and the Interests by Albert Hirschman
π§ͺ Maths and Science
π Books
- The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian *
- Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- Behave by Robert M. Sapolsky
- What is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam Becker
- Scale by Geoffrey B. West
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
π Podcasts
- Sean Carroll's Mindscape
- Lex Fridman's Artificial Intelligence
π₯ Videos
πΎ Miscellaneous
- Ezra Klein Show π
- Contrapoints π₯
- CGP Grey π₯
- Extra History π₯
- Dan Carlin's Hardcore History π
- Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian π
π Friends of the Podcast
- 80,000 Hours Podcast π
- Ben and Vaden's Increments Podcast π
- Richard Fisher's The Longtermist's Field Guide π
- Isabelle Boemeke's Isodope π
- Luke Robert Mason's Futures Podcast π
- Exploring Economics π
- Neel Nanda's Blog π