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- Off the cuff, here are a couple of textbooks not yet mentioned elsewhere on this page (so far):
* "An Introduction to Statistical Learning" by James, Witte, Hastie, and Tibshirani: possibly the best intro to the topic I've seen.
* "Introduction to Linear Algebra" by Gilbert Strang: possibly the best intro to the topic I've seen.
Also, here are some books that are not properly textbooks but could be used as such:
* "Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind" by Hans Moravec: remarkably prescient, in hindsight.
* "On the Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin: I was surprised at how readable it is.
* "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins: It made me question a lot about a lot.
* "The Better Angels of Our Nature" by Steven Pinker: I was shocked at the violence in our past.
* "Gödel, Escher, Bach" by Doug Hofstadter: an intellectual tour de force.
- If you want to feel happy again read “Robot” or "Mind Children” by Hans Moravec. He has some pretty good arguments based on human vision that support a AGI around 2030 to 2040 assuming Moore’s Law (the general not specific law) hold.
