Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched
The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy [Paperback]
How to Read Numbers [Paperback]
Everything Is Predictable [Hardcover]
Tom Chivers 3 Books Collection Set (The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy, How to Read Numbers & Everything Is Predictable):
The Rationalist's Guide to the
This is a book about about a community of people who are trying to think rationally about intelligence and what insight they can and can't give us about the future of the human race. It explains why these people are worried about an AI apocalypse, why they might be right, and why they might be wrong.
How to Read
Every day, most of us will read or watch something in the news that is based on statistics in some way. Sometimes it'll be obvious - 'X people develop cancer every year' - and sometimes less obvious - 'How smartphones destroyed a generation'. Statistics are an immensely powerful tool for understanding the world, but in the wrong hands they can be dangerous.
Everything Is
Thomas Bayes was an eighteenth-century Presbyterian minister and amateur mathematician whose obscure life belied the profound impact of his work. Like most research into probability at the time, his theorem was mainly seen as relevant to games of chance, like dice and cards. But its implications soon became clear.
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