These Unique Non-Fiction Books are So Good — You Shouldn’t Miss out on them

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Novel Nest
10 min readDec 14, 2023

Get ready for an intellectual treat.

Today’s assortment of books will answer a wide range of questions. How many hearts does an octopus have? Is Democracy good? How do penguins bring back food to their young ones? (They don’t have backpacks, obviously.)

If you like finding things out, you have to get your hands on these books.

Let’s go through a brief overview of each of them.

1. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom

These Unique Non-Fiction Books are So Good — You Shouldn’t Miss out on them
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An overview of the artificially intelligent future.

Nick Bostrom is a Swedish philosopher at the University of Oxford.

In this book, he explores the future of mankind if we are indeed able to make a machine as smart as us.

Bostrom thinks that given the current technological strides, such an innovation is quite possible. He puts forth a ‘singleton’ hypothesis where a single…

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