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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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Into the Dream Lab by Michelle Carr

Disappointing to read as a person who is curious about dreams and mental health, for someone who has been researching the same for the past two years. Still interesting enough to learn new techniques ...
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Down Under by Bill Bryson

Never knew Bryson was such a funny writer. In all those reading during the college days, I saw his โ€˜A short history of everythingโ€™, misjudged him to be a philosopher or an imitator from โ€˜A brief histo...
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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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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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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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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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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

Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder

Where Muse Spark aimed to be a lightweight model that could perform at low latency, the Wonder models are larger and said to be more capable, with higher benchmark scores and better results on complex tasks like coding.
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TechCrunch AI

WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data

A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather won a U.S. military contract worth almost $50 million.
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TechCrunch AI

Honeyjar offers AI tools to improve PR and comms at every company

Journalists, entrepreneurs, and even some public relations professionals will tell you that the PR process is broken. But could AI actually make things better?
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TechCrunch AI

Microsoft president says UK is best placed to drive AI regulation

Microsoft president Brad Smith calls for urgent AI regulation, saying milk and washing machines have more oversight than AI companies.
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TechCrunch AI

This AI startup says it can generate permit-ready blueprints in minutes

Blueprints AI, a bootstrapped startup based in Santa Monica, developed software that produces code-compliant construction blueprints from a photo, PDF, or sketch.
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TechCrunch AI

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts tomorrow: Your final chance to secure up to $100 ticket savings

Tomorrow at 8 a.m. PT, it all begins zโ€” 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech operators will gather at San Franciscoโ€™s Moscone West forย TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 for three days of ideas, connections, and startups shaping w...
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๐Ÿ”“ Open Source Pulse

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Hacker News (Open Source)

Show HN: SolidCraft โ€“ Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support)

Article URL: https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064840 Points: 37 # Comments: 4
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Open Source Initiative

Open Enables a Lot: The OSI at UNGA81

At UNGA81, OSI joined conversations on Open Source AI, digital sovereignty, and digital public infrastructure. Open by itself does very little but enables a lot.
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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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