Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
>In Superforecasting, Tetlock and coauthor Dan Gardner offer a masterwork on prediction, drawing on decades of research and the results of a massive, government-funded forecasting tournament. The Good Judgment Project involves tens of thousands of ordinary people—including a Brooklyn filmmaker, a retired pipe installer, and a former ballroom dancer—who set out to forecast global events. Some of the volunteers have turned out to be astonishingly good. They’ve beaten other benchmarks, competitors, and prediction markets. They’ve even beaten the collective judgment of intelligence analysts with access to classified information. They are "superforecasters."
Dianetics: the modern science of mental health by L Ron Hubbard
Brayden Collins
I'm going to read that one. Very controversial, but that makes it more interesting. Kevin B. MacDonald certainly has impressive credentials.
Camden Ward
Global Warming False Alarm: The Bad Science Behind the United Nations' Assertion That Man-Made CO2 Causes Global Warming by Ralph B. Alexander
Zachary Evans
>What's the best non-fiction book you have read? Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. If you are at all interested in Microsoft, Apple, Silicon Valley, technology, Bill Gates or (as you expect) Steve Jobs then it is worth reading. Jobs himself was an absolute nutcase, subsisting on diets and battling cancer with homeopathy, and his original vision for Apple has definitely been eroded over time. Very interested and well told /shill
Personally, Superforecasting sounds equivalent to monkeys on typewriters - it may turn out right out of coincidence, not planning.
CoC is memed hard enough I almost wanr to read it.
>Ron Hubbard Hm, no thanks Tom Cruise.
Noah Sullivan
Seconding this
Logan Rivera
>Personally, Superforecasting sounds equivalent to monkeys on typewriters - it may turn out right out of coincidence, not planning. It's really not. It's funny how you used that analogy - it was, at least to a large degree, popularized by Philip E. Tetlock (one of the authors).
It's about an evidence based (scientific) approach to prediction.
Hudson Evans
The Greeks and the Irrational by E. R. Dodds
Austin Butler
>Personally, Superforecasting sounds equivalent to monkeys on typewriters - it may turn out right out of coincidence, not planning. Spotted the guy who flunked maths.
Angel Taylor
Bump.
Robert Foster
The fuck is this supposed to mean? There's far too many goddamn nonfiction books on too many topics with too many methodologies to realistically make a list. Do you mean histories? Philosophy? Sociology? What do you mean by nonfiction? Otherwise it's an unworkable topic, since you're comparing apples to oranges to figs to pomegranates
Jack Watson
Google the definition of non-fiction if you need to. If you can't pick your favorite than don't post or post one of your favorites.
Kevin Reyes
Scott Pruitt, pls go
Joseph Wright
In honor of the centenary of the Russian Revolution, I would suggest, "Stalin: Paradoxes of Power." The pre-revolutionary and revolutionary chapters are probably the best. When Kotkin gets into the establishment of the Soviet bureaucracy, it gets about as turgid as you'd expect descriptions of Soviet bureaucracy to be.
Anthony Jenkins
The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes
Aiden Sullivan
If you're ready to face reality
Logan Smith
The book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
Logan Rodriguez
Masterpiece of a book but it's not non-fiction, unless you're making some kind of joke I'm unaware of
Anthony Hill
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Asher Barnes
The Holy Bible
Wyatt Davis
It used to tickle me to no end to go around Borders putting all the bibles in the Christian Fiction section
Jeremiah Nguyen
Ok
Levi Reyes
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Leo Gomez
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Hunter Parker
HOUSE OF LEAVES.
William Thompson
It's funny how I read almost exclusively non-fiction but I cannot think of anything to recommend.
