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Hippasus500

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Father (“Papa” to the grandkids)
Hacker (rusty, working on that)
Lover of philosophy (deontology, noetics)
Apple Fanboy
Outlander Fanboy
Atheist
One-time actor
Foundational books: The Bible (I wasn’t always an atheist); Mythology (Hamilton); The Hobbit; The Lord of the Rings; Future Shock; Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; Gödel, Escher, Bach, Doubt, A History; Good Without God; What We Owe To Each Other. There are many more. But who am I, how I think derives from these.

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ChrisMayLA6 , to bookstodon
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The holidays are upon us & many of you may be wondering just how many books to take with you (if, like me, you are an e-book refusenik).

Here's Tom Gauld's decision tool - enjoy.

And, you may need a bigger suitcase....

[This post is not intended to re-open the extended paperbacks vs. e-books debate that has played out in my timeline periodically over the last year]


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[Perhaps. But, inevitably, it will. Because…people <wink>]

bibliolater , to bookstodon
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What is the most difficult or you have ever ? What made the so difficult for you? Would you others that ?

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I thought Zuboff is an important book. I agree with her POV in most of her arguments. But the word that comes to mind when describing her style is turgid, rather than precise.

What bothered me most about the book was her lack of understanding of technology underlying the Internet. That weakens some of her reasoning, although not fatally.

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T.M. Scanlon’s “What We Owe To Each Other”.

It is closely reasoned and deliberative. It takes me a long time to internalize his arguments before I can go on to the next section.

Plus the font is small, and my eyes are not what they once were. <wink>

pretensesoup , to bookstodon
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Ok, if you're in a book club and the book really doesn't speak to you...do you force yourself to finish it?

Maybe a result of being in the middle of a lengthy and serious writing project, but I've bounced out of a lot of books this year, and a lot of them have been from book club. Maybe I should be pushing myself more, but this isn't grad school, so...I don't know.

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I do my best. I don’t always succeed. My attitude is that my friends make the effort to read what I choose. The least I can do is return the favor.

rabbit_fighter , to bookstodon
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@bookstodon I'm looking for book recommendations for an 11yo who reads at a much more advanced level. He likes sci-fi. He has read the Hitchhiker's Guide series and loved them. I think he would enjoy some more 'hard' sci-fi as well. He needs something challenging but without subject matter that is too mature. Thanks for any help!

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@rayckeith @rabbit_fighter @bookstodon

Asimov’s Robot series, definitely. It’s simultaneously prescient and dated. I’m not sure if that’s a recommendation. But his Three Laws profoundly affected how many scientists and philosophers have thought about artificial intelligence.

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