The Dark Side of the Enlightenment: Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason – John V. Fleming
The enlightenment produced a lot of good ideas, but it also had a whole lot of really terrible ones.
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
Vonneut’s most famous novel, largely not about a person being un-stuck in time.
If Anyone Builds it Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All – Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares
One can think that AI isn’t going to come alive anytime soon and still think that it is a very bad idea to build an AI
The Vacuum of Space – Julia Huni
One of the worst books I have read in some time.
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do – Erik J. Larson
AI isn’t going to reach the Kurzweilian dream any time soon
Satyricon – Petronius (Sarah Ruden, JP Sullivan)
The Satyricon is one of those books that shock people mostly because they had no idea how vulgar the Romans actually were.
Rancore – Gianrico Carofiglio
After some of his non-fiction, I read a detective story by Carofiglio
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It – Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow should be required reading for anyone living through the tragedy that is modern times.
Crime and Guilt – Ferdinand von Schirach
Two excellent collections of crime fiction, revolving around the lawyer who involved with them.
Failures in Polymathy 