The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler

The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler

This book exposes our unconscious selfish motives, those we're reluctant to discuss or even think about. These motives drive our body language, laughter, and conversation, as well as venerated institutions like art, school, charity, medicine, politics, and religion. You'll never see yourself, or the world, the same again.

The argument that Simler and Hanson make is rather comprehensive, and compellingThey bring together research on various topics of limited reach that, when combined, speak to the outrageous gall of the mind in recreating reality to its own liking, and then covering its tracks. * Katherine Oktober Matthews, Riding the Dragon *

Kevin Simler is a writer and software engineer currently living in Brooklyn, NY. He's worked for ten years as a programmer, product designer, and engineering director, and continues to advise startups about technology, leadership, and recruiting. Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He has a doctorate in social science, master's degrees in physics and philosophy, and nine years of experience as a research programmer in artificial intelligence and Bayesian statistics. With over 3100 citations and sixty academic publications, he's recognized not only for his contributions to economics (especially, pioneering the theory and use of prediction markets), but also for the wide range of fields in which he's been published. He is the author of The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth (OUP 2016).

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ISBN 13	9780190495992
ISBN 10	0190495995
Title	The Elephant in the Brain
Author	Kevin Simler
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	2018-02-08
Number of pages	416
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