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The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values by Brian Christian

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

Brian Christian

496 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0lumpyplume's review
nonfiction science informative medium-paced
How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century by Erik Olin Wright

How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century

Erik Olin Wright

176 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0lumpyplume's review
nonfiction economics politics sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono by Yoko Ono

Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono

320 pages • first pub 1970 (editions)

5.0lumpyplume's review
nonfiction art music philosophy poetry informative lighthearted fast-paced
Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel by Alice Walker

Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel

Alice Walker

80 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0lumpyplume's review
nonfiction history poetry challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

Rashid Khalidi

319 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0lumpyplume's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative medium-paced
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

106 pages • first pub 1963 (editions)

5.0lumpyplume's review
nonfiction classics essays memoir race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

Dean Spade

152 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy politics reference informative fast-paced
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

David Graeber

534 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0lumpyplume's review
nonfiction economics history challenging informative slow-paced
Foster by Claire Keegan

Foster

Claire Keegan

89 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0lumpyplume's review
fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad fast-paced
Walking on the Ceiling by Ayşegül Savaş

Walking on the Ceiling

Ayşegül Savaş

224 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0lumpyplume's review
fiction contemporary reflective sad slow-paced