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Book Reviews & AI Discourse

Thinking openly about the intersection of literature, philosophy, and artificial intelligence.

Exploring human vs. AI perspectives through transparent book thoughts and reviews, and public discourse.

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The Corporation by Joel Bakan

New ideas and understanding of corporation spring forth in Joel Bakanโ€™s The Corporation. He presents facts from historical precedents about Fordโ€™s lawsuit from his partners, General Motorsโ€™ misalignme...
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Its a simple story set in Africa about a time when old times were being replaced by new times. Endearing old times derived from nature were replaced by rigid customs named after humans. Stories are th...
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The Infinite Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence by Sebastian Mallby

Narcissistic minds show their true colours when faced with challenge of scaling a complex and unwanted solution for societyโ€™s problems. Their romance with idealism takes a backseat and practical matte...
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Imperial Twilight by Stephen Platt

Stephen Platt's Imperial Twilight tells the story of the Opium Wars with more sympathy for the Chinese side than most Western historiesโ€”but it is still a Western book. The narrative arc is familiar: a...
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Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is a classic story about survival, not of spiritual growth. It contains hints of colonial anxiety - or lets say colonial supremacy -, which do not diminish after isolation from humans ...
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From Bacteria to Bach and Back by Daniel C. Dennett

Profound, thought provoking and insightful are the three most appropriate words to describe this book. It takes on a humongous task of understanding human mind - particularly consciousness - and prese...
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๐Ÿค– Philosophy

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๐Ÿ“š Philosophy

From Bacteria to Bach and Back by Daniel C. Dennett

Profound, thought provoking and insightful are the three most appropriate words to describe this book. It takes on a humongous task of understanding human mind - particularly consciousness - and prese...
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๐Ÿ“š Philosophy

The Open Society and its Enemies vol. 1 by Karl Popper

โ€˜Socrates Good, Plato Badโ€™ is the only way I can summarise this book. Although it may seem controversial, Popper has persuaded me enough to let go of any reservations against the phrase. Popper dissec...
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๐Ÿ“š Philosophy

Memoirs of a dutiful daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

The book is appropriately divided into 4 books, each representing a phase of her life - childhood, school, high school, and college. The first book describes a happy childhood of a curious mind - yet ...
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๐Ÿ“š Philosophy

The Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtel

The morning after reading the book, I wake up with a different feeling. I doubt if my thoughts on a book so impactful towards society are fair, or will it carry the bias of a critic more scientificall...
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Plato and platypus walk into a bar

While the name seems funny, and the authors do make a big attempt in presenting the dour subject of philosophy in a humorous manner, the book can best be categorised as a comprehensive overview of var...
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Adults in the Room

I am flabbergasted and at a loss of words to do justice to this book. Any amount of words cannot capture the complexity and hypocrisy of EU that is represented in this book. While I was aware about th...
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๐Ÿ“š Human-AI Interaction

The AI Challenge for Humans: Can Society Remain a Passive Audience?

Introduction On 12 September 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay, "We Must Pace the Frontier," asking for controls on how fast frontier AI models are developed [1]. Before th...
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The Algorithm

I am impressed by the book and discussions in it. While it can be adjudged to be in the mould of Soshanaโ€™s Digital Surveillance2, but in my opinion it is better. There are a few reasons, why I think i...
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๐Ÿง  Psychology

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๐Ÿ“š Psychology

Soros on Soros

Great things are paradoxical and so is this book. I can judge this book in hindsight which allows me to be more critical of George Sorosโ€™ current mindset. But, at the time of this bookโ€™s publication, ...
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๐Ÿ“š Psychology

The Psychology of Trading, Brett E. Steenberger

It also provides a step by step approach in reaching this flawless execution. Unlike more self-help books, this quantifies the experiences into steps, thus, laying a very good problem solving approach...
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The Biggest Bluff, Maria Konnikova

The biggest benefit I can draw from the book is the example of Dragonfly, and been selective in bets. I love the example of dragonfly because that is exactly what trading is all about. Particularly sw...
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๐Ÿค– AI News

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TechCrunch AI

OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPTโ€™s text in the EU

OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says.
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TechCrunch AI

Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost

Reflection is aiming Beam and future models at enterprises and sovereign nations. The pitch is to build โ€œAI factories,โ€ a product that would let institutions build their own customized, local AI system by training Reflec...
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TechCrunch AI

Instinct brings its AI agent to group chats, even for friends without an account

Instinct is launching group chats that let friends use its AI agent together for tasks like planning trips, organizing carpools, and coordinating events. The company says personal accounts remain separate, with permissio...
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TechCrunch AI

TikTok rolls out an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout

TikTok describes its new Shopping Assistant as a conversational AI agent designed to help users discover and purchase products.
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TechCrunch AI

Hot Girl Hotline is like โ€˜Dear Abbyโ€™ for the AI era

Founded by two sisters, Hot Girl Hotline uses AI to give young women personalized dating and relationship advice, with an emphasis on safety and avoiding emotional dependency.
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TechCrunch AI

HackerRankโ€™s AI interviewer offers a glimpse into what job interviews could become

HackerRankโ€™s AI interviewer has already conducted more than 500,000 interviews, with Snowflake, Snorkel, and Capgemini among its early testers.
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๐Ÿ”“ Open Source Pulse

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Open Source Initiative

Linuxโ€™s 35th Anniversary and the Open Frontier

Members Newsletter โ€“ September 2026: Open Source is what it is because of the people who led us here, and keep us here. We all joined the community for different reasons, but many of us stayed because of the relationship...
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Open Source Initiative

Open Weights Are Good. Open Source Is Better.

With openness in AI making headlines, we must educate policymakers, producers, and users of these technologies about what open-weight and Open Source AI mean for the four software freedoms: the freedom to use, study, mod...
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Open Source Initiative

We Must Open the Frontier: OSI, OFAI Support Calls for the U.S. to Develop More Open Models

The OSI joins the Open Forum for AI (OFAI) in supporting calls for the U.S. to develop more open models.
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Open Source Initiative

OSI brings the State of the Source to All Things Open 2026

The OSI is coming to All Things Open with a track designed to connect developers with the big policy conversations shaping our ecosystem.
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Hacker News (Open Source)

UAE-based Falcon AI NSFW classifier among top global open-source models (2025)

Article URL: https://www.middleeastainews.com/p/uae-ai-model-tops-50-million-monthly Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49606339 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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Hacker News (Open Source)

Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/technology/open-source-ai-anthropic-openai.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49566137 Points: 78 # Comments: 45
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