Miles Brundage Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Policy research at @openai. I mostly tweet about AI, animals, and sci-fi. He/him. Views my own.
Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
Tara Isabella BurtonMiles BrundageInspired by reading Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World by @NotoriousTIB https://t.co/xF9gZMQHJT
Paperback, 2022
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American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work
Nick TaylorMiles BrundageBesides having an extremely unwieldy title with two colons, "American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work" is an interesting read + good food for thought re: AI/work stuff.
Paperback, 2009
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New Era - New Religions: Religious Transformation in Contemporary Brazil
Andrew DawsonMiles BrundageInspired by reading Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World by @NotoriousTIB https://t.co/xF9gZMQHJT
Paperback, 2021
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100 Things We've Lost to the Internet
Pamela PaulMiles BrundageEnjoying @PamelaPaulNYT's "100 Things We've Lost to the Internet." https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622522/100-things-weve-lost-to-the-internet-by-pamela-paul/ I suspect a comparable book* about AI in a few decades will have more coarse-grained categories, be less whimsical, and be written (largely) by AI. *if that isn't one of the categories
Hardcover, 2021
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Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan SwiftMiles BrundageJonathan Swift, inventor of large (mechanical) language models (from Gulliver’s Travels, 1726, chapter 5) https://t.co/au8jizz9ZH
Paperback, 2018
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Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations
Herman CappelenMiles BrundageP.S. Cappelin and Dever’s book “Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations” is a pretty interesting related read. Don’t agree with all of it + wish it engaged with LMs but gives some useful directions for thinking about these things, drawing on philosophy of language.
Hardcover, 2021
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Marvel: June 1962 Omnibus
Stan LeeMiles BrundageStan Lee having a cameo in all the Marvel movies has big “lab manager who has to be an author on all the papers even when they didn’t contribute” energy.
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Whole Numbers and Half Truths: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us about Modern India
Rukmini SMiles Brundage“Whole Numbers and Half Truths: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About Modern India” by @Rukmini is a very interesting read so far! H/t @anirvenu
Paperback, 2022
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Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact
Vaclav SmilMiles BrundageWhat’s your favorite non-fiction book plot twist/🎤 drop? E.g. in Creating the Twentieth Century, Vaclav Smil, after hundreds of pages, is like (paraphrasing) “you may have noticed I haven’t used the word technology at all. Precision is important + the term is used too loosely.”
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Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future
James HughesMiles Brundage@IasonGabriel James Hughes’s Citizen Cyborg is one that comes to mind off hand, but surely other stuff too... Cc also @karinavold whose “AI extender” stuff may be relevant
Paperback, 2006
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