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ACX Book Reviews 2023 - Part 4
W-Z
Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life, by Luke Burgis
The Imitation Game
The Social Media Games: Unmasking the Desire Arena
The Freshmainstan Chronicles
Escaping the Mimesis Matrix
Through The Thick and Thin
How Mimetic Rivalry Fueled the Birth of Lamborghini
Reinventing Desire: Finding Fulfillment Through Transformation
Taking the Red Pill
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
1. Translation and Epistemology
2. Themes
3. Aristocratic Life and Chance
4 Battlefield and Authority
5. Historical Causality
5.1 What Power Is Not
5.2 Direct Effect of Orders
5.3 Aggregation of Outcomes
5.4 The Nature of Power
5.5 Determinism
6. Conclusion
War in the Balkans, 1991-2002, by R. Craig Nation
Wealth in Families, by Charles Collier
"Without Marx or Jesus: the New American Revolution has begun" by Jean-François Revel
Why Does He Do That?
HISTORY
WHY DOES HE DO THAT?
THE RELATIONSHIP
OTHER KINDS OF ABUSE
CONCLUSION
Why Fish Don’t Exist
I. The Categories
II. A Rising Starr
III. The Author
IV. Jordan at Stanford
V. On Eugenics
VI. Giving up the fish
Why Liberalism Failed
The liberal regime
The anticulture
Individualism and statism
The Last Man?
Why Machines Will Never Rule the World (Review 1)
The Ghost of Friedrich Hayek
The Ghost of Alan Turing
The Ghost of Hans Moravec
The Ghost of Winston Churchill
The Ghost in the Machine
Why Machines Will Never Rule the World (Review 2)
Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, 2012.
1. What is this book about? Why is it not very good?
2. If Why Nations Fail isn't very good, why have multiple Nobel prize winners written it nice blurbs and why might the authors still get a Nobel prize of their own?
3. Even if they're right, how much does it matter?
Why People Die By Suicide by Thomas Joiner
Wild Problems, by Russ Roberts
What Are Wild Problems?
The Vampire Problem - Everyone Who Drinks Blood Says They Love It
But Is Roberts Right? What Lessons Should Rationalists Draw?
Wizard's First Rule, and the Sword of Truth Series
Part I: The Business of Epic Fantasy Novels
Part II: The Fine Line Between Trope and Plagiarism
Part III. Going Through the Plot, Blow by Blow, or at Least the Most Interesting Blows
