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Reminds me of the book "Thinking Fast and Slow", where the author describes the human brain as having two modes, the always on "fast" brain which makes lots of
by gleenn 4y ago
Reminds me of the book "Thinking Fast and Slow", where the author describes the human brain as having two modes, the always on "fast" brain which makes lots of mistakes but doesn't consume much energy, and the more thoughtful but far more energy consuming "slow" brain. I'm not sure I agree with everything in the book, but it's some amazing food for thought and one of the highest rated books by the Hacker News community.
- LordKeren 4y agoA solid book for crystallizing a lot of key ideas. But yeah, they need to make a new edition and cut out a lot of the “scientific” bits the crumbled after the replication crisis gained purchase It’s a hard book to suggest when topics about careful thought are backed up my junk science
- copperx 4y ago> one of the highest rated books by the Hacker News community. I hate to be cynical, but that is usually not a good sign. There are sites collecting the most appreciated books of HN and the ones that are not about technology are too simplistic.
- dang 4y agoHN doesn't rate books, so I'm not sure what those lists are measuring, unless it's 'most mentioned', in which case the list compilers might need more quality time with internet disgruntlement.
- gleenn 4y agoI believe the list was simply the most mentioned books but I don't have the link in front of me
- hanoz 4y agoAmongst the long list of comprehensively rubbished popular/woo science books out there, that one is certainly out there.
- Narretz 4y ago> one of the highest rated books by the Hacker News community. It's also one of the pop sci books that has been most intensively scrutinized for errors or failures to reproduce study effects. Probably in part because it's so popular.