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2023 in the Books

A bunch of things I read in 2023.

The Alignment Problem
The Alignment Problem
Machine Learning and Human Values
Brian Christian
American Midnight
American Midnight
Democracy's Forgotten Crisis, 1917-1921
Adam Hochschild
Blood Merdian
Blood Merdian
Or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy
Code
Code
The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Charles Petzold
Electron in Action
Electron in Action
Steve Kinney
Empire of Pain
Empire of Pain
The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Patrick Radden Keefe
The Fourth Man
The Fourth Man
Jeff McComsey
Moneyball
Moneyball
The Art of Winning an Unfair Ga
Michael Lewis
Quantum Bullshit
Quantum Bullshit
How to Ruin Your Life with Advice from Quantum Physics
Chris Ferrie
Recessional
Recessional
The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch
David Mamet
Rum Punch
Rum Punch
A Novel
Elmore Leonard
A Shortcut Through Time
A Shortcut Through Time
The Path to the Quantum Computer
George Johnson
Soonish
Soonish
Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
Kelly & Zach Weinersmith
Upgrade
Upgrade
Blake Crouch
What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work?
What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work?
Stephen Wolfram
What You Do Is Who You Are
What You Do Is Who You Are
How to Create Your Business Culture
Ben Horowitz
Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell
Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell
Nathan Ballingrud
Writing the Revolution
Writing the Revolution
Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age
Heather Ford
You Are Not Expected to Understand This
You Are Not Expected to Understand This
How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World
Torie Bosch
Zero
Zero
The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Charles Seife