Recommended by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Elon Musk, Science Fiction, and Fantasy.
In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about.In another palace across the mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief bodyguard, too, has his enemies. But his enemies strike more swiftly, ...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Elon Musk, Science Fiction, and Fantasy.
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Elon Musk
Co-founder of PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink
“Reading The Culture series by Banks. Compelling picture of a grand, semiutopian galactic future. Hopefully not too optimistic about AI.”
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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