Daniel Kahneman
Books by Daniel Kahneman
“Kahneman’s most well-known book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, as well as his seminal work in the field, explore…how we can recognize our biases…Noise is a really cool sequel. It’s what the second book of Dune was to the first book of Dune…Noise is about the fact that while we have a lot of cognitive biases, in many cases the world is random. It’s what gamers call RNG or random number generator — a fun shorthand way to describe all the randomness in a game’s world, randomness that’s mirrored in ours. It creates this variability in our observation of the world and makes it even harder to make good decisions, because not only do we have to fix for all our biases and get all the systematic priors out of the way, but even accounting for all of that, testing the same samples six times may sometimes yield very different results.” Read more...
The best books on Making Good Decisions
Sebastian Park, Entrepreneurs & Business People
“Thinking, Fast and Slow is a book about the psychological and cognitive factors that influence how humans make decisions and solve problems. It is relevant to artificial intelligence (AI) because many AI systems are designed to assist with decision-making and problem-solving tasks. In Thinking, Fast and Slow the author, Daniel Kahneman, describes two systems of thinking that the human brain uses: System 1, which is fast and automatic, and System 2, which is slower and more deliberate. Kahneman discusses how these two systems work and how they can influence our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. He also discusses how these systems can lead to biases and errors in judgment, and how they can impact our ability to make good decisions. Understanding these psychological and cognitive factors can be useful for those working in the field of AI, as it can help them design systems that are more effective at assisting humans with decision-making and problem-solving tasks. By taking into account the ways in which the human mind works, AI designers can create systems that are more intuitive and easier for humans to use.” Read more...
The best books on Artificial Intelligence
ChatGPT, AI Chatbot
“This is another really good set of essays in a rapidly growing branch of intellectual enquiry called behavioural economics where they look at the irrationalities in the way that humans behave. I thought this was brilliant. One essay in particular on irrational optimism caught my eye. It’s the idea that individuals who have slightly inflated expectations of their own abilities tend to persevere longer and perform better. These top sportsmen when they perform under pressure – if they believe they are going to win they often will. This belief makes them more efficacious and the book is a really interesting look at that whole idea of positive thinking.” Read more...
Matthew Syed, Journalist
Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
by Daniel Kahneman & Paul Slovic and Amos Tversky
This is one of the most influential books in modern economics. But first of all, it’s just this list of incredibly clever experiments, where Kahneman and Tversky just asked their undergraduates very simple hypothetical questions. They took these very simple protocols and transformed them into the first really hard proof that people consistently violate the expectation of rational agents. That we don’t think like homo economicus at all. Irrationality is embedded deep into our operating system.
Interviews where books by Daniel Kahneman were recommended
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The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
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Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
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How Animals Work
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The Honest Rainmaker
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How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk
by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
The best books on Statistics, recommended by Andrew Gelman
The best books on Statistics, recommended by Andrew Gelman
Award-winning statistician and political scientist Andrew Gelman says that uncertainty is an important part of life, and recognition of that uncertainty is itself an important step. He picks the best books on statistics.
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
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Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
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How We Know What Isn’t So
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The Winner’s Curse
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Predictably Irrational
by Dan Ariely
The best books on Decision-Making, recommended by Jonah Lehrer
The best books on Decision-Making, recommended by Jonah Lehrer
Behavioural economics is a very new field, but its insights have huge ramifications for our daily lives, including life-or-death decisions. Here, author Jonah Lehrer talks us through some of its most important works.
The best books on Champions, recommended by Matthew Syed
Table tennis champion and author of Bounce: How Champions are Made, Matthew Syed believes that winning is partly the placebo effect of confidence.
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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
by Peter Norvig & Stuart Russell -
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Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)
by Aaron Courville, Ian Goodfellow & Yoshua Bengio -
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The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
The best books on Artificial Intelligence, recommended by ChatGPT
The best books on Artificial Intelligence, recommended by ChatGPT
Normally at Five Books we ask experts to recommend the best books in their field and talk to us about them in an interview, either in person, by phone or via Zoom. After a busy end-of-year, our human beings needed a few days off. Instead, we decided to ask the AI bot, ChatGPT, to recommend books to us on the topic of AI. Being an AI doesn’t necessarily make the chatbot an expert on AI books, but we thought it might have some ideas. Do not fear, next week we’ll be back with real human beings (unless readers feel the AI did a better job, in which case we’re happy to step aside).
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Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World — And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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Black Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth About Success
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The Art of Thinking Clearly
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Critical Thinking: Your Guide to Effective Argument, Successful Analysis and Independent Study
by Tom Chatfield
The best books on Critical Thinking, recommended by Nigel Warburton
The best books on Critical Thinking, recommended by Nigel Warburton
Do you know your straw man arguments from your weasel words? Nigel Warburton, Five Books philosophy editor and author of Thinking from A to Z, selects some of the best books on critical thinking—and explains how they will help us make better-informed decisions and construct more valid arguments.
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How Statesmen Think: The Psychology of International Politics
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Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence
by Dale Peterson & Richard Wrangham -
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Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
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Sex and World Peace
by Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Chad Emmett, Mary Caprioli & Valerie Hudson -
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
The best books on The Psychology of War, recommended by Rose McDermott
The best books on The Psychology of War, recommended by Rose McDermott
Traditionally, the study of international relations has been about institutions, not individuals and the psychology that motivates them. But that is changing. Rose McDermott, professor of international relations at Brown University, introduces the work of Robert Jarvis and others pioneering the field of ‘political psychology.’
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Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
by Cass Sunstein, Daniel Kahneman & Olivier Sibony -
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But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
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The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
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Money Games: The Inside Story of How American Dealmakers Saved Korea's Most Iconic Bank
by Weijian Shan -
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Exhalation
by Ted Chiang
The best books on Making Good Decisions, recommended by Sebastian Park
The best books on Making Good Decisions, recommended by Sebastian Park
Good decision-making is a crucial skill not only in business but in life. In this interview, entrepreneur, investor and poker player Sebastian Park advises how to make good decisions in a world of uncertainty, how to evaluate past decisions for future improvement, and how fiction can help us reflect on the choices we make.