Discussion What are some essential, profound or otherwise important books one should have a copy of?

[GGWP]

The internet archive is finally back up and I want to make sure I've got copies of a bunch of important books before they nuke it again for having information that's too based.

Does anyone have any essential reading lists? Please do tell of some books that you found insightful or interesting to read!

 

[Majestic]

Bookmarked, need some too man

 

[wsada]

The quran

 

[Deleted member 9]

 

[GGWP]

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Thank you for sharing as there looks to be lots of interesting material contained here, however I do think Hitler, Napoleon and Luther were not as trailblazing as subversive material would have you believe, and I am always wary of neatly-presented 'ideology flowcharts' like these as the people who go to such lengths are generally trying to enforce an ideology onto you rather than present you reality with your best interests in mind.

 

[vermeulean]

The Man Without Qualities

 

[GGWP]

The Man Without Qualities

Thank you, it looks like a very intriguing novel!

 

[spooky_Heejin]

 

[Myst]

I really really like "Secrets of Divine Love" by A. Helwa, I even recommend it to atheists as it offers a much fresher and friendlier approach to god and knowing god. 10/10 book imo

 

[Sushifart]

I think the only digital books I got from archives were some stuff related to Arthurian legends and Parasite Pill 2.0 (this doc is kind of relevant to looksmaxxing shit funny enough)

 

[Quintilian]

The education of man : Froebel, Friedrich [Wilhelm August], 1782-1852. [from old catalog] : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

vi, 273, [1] p. 19 cm

archive.org

Encyclopædia Britannica - Great Books Of The Western World - Volumes 1-54 : Encyclopaedia Britannica : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Volumes 1-54 of Encyclopaedia Britannica's Great Books of the Western World

archive.org

Friedrich Froebel's pedagogics of the kindergarten : Fröbel, Friedrich, 1782-1852 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

xxxvii, 337 p. 19 cm

archive.org

Friedrich Froebel's Education by development, the second part of the Pedagogics of the kindergarten; : Fröbel, Friedrich, 1782-1852 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

xxvi, 347 p. 19 cm

archive.org

 

[Quintilian]

https://archive.org/details/utilitarianism_dew_librivox/utilitarianism-02-mill.mp3

https://archive.org/details/criticalthinking0000moor_a6a0/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/mark-passio-fake-ass-christians-part-2-of-2

https://archive.org/details/isbn_9787802002111/mode/2up

 

[Myst]

I really really like "Secrets of Divine Love" by A. Helwa, I even recommend it to atheists as it offers a much fresher and friendlier approach to god and knowing god. 10/10 book imo

There are a few mistakes in the book in terms of islamic knowledge/information but besides that, the book is inspiring @ilovewhitepill

 

[クーロ]

Simulations of God by John C Lilly
The myth of mental illness by Thomas Szasz
Principles of Mathematics by Bertrand Russell
Gödel's god

 

[CPT馬冠宇]

I dont recommend religious books to incels because incels arent hip.
theres likely good religious texts in every religion. I recommend checking it out.
Non religious books i liked was... Pathfinder-Impossible lands. thats all. Its hard for me to recommend anything not religious,

 

[machinicoccultist]

Max Stirner's, the man who enraged Marx to write more pages in response than his (stirner) total sum of work, The Unique and Its Property (formerly Ego and Its Own but that was a poor translation; attatched below) and his ideas personally captured me. He took arms against all that is sacred—against God, religion, the State, morality, and Humanity. I know that he only survived due to internet shitposts, but genuinely it will set you free. Keep in mind he makes a mockery of his contemporaries and hegelian dialectics in Part 1 Humanity.

Stirner's a predecessor of Nietzsche and it is speculated that Nietzsche read him though Nietzsche never mentioned him himself. I personally prefer Stirner over Nietzsche due to the fact Stirner is an nihilist where he proclaims the 'creative nothing' rather than Nietzsche's ideal of being an ubermensch (i could not care less). Perhaps this criticism is from ignorance; i don't know. Anyways...

Interested? I'd suggest reading his first chapter 'I have based my affair on nothing', which summarises his entire book. Then I'd suggest to read Stirner's Critics (attached below also), where he is clear with his words without his sarcastic manner in the former book before tackling the rest of the book. I think you could skip the entire section of 1. Humanity except for 1.3.4. Postscript followed by chapter 2.x. onwards then go back. However, you can just read the entire book from beginning to end.

 

[fatcel_3000]

how have any of these gay books by these gay nerds improved your life?

 

[GGWP]

Simulations of God by John C Lilly
The myth of mental illness by Thomas Szasz
Principles of Mathematics by Bertrand Russell
Gödel's god

I've been meaning to read Principia Mathematica given that formal logic systems are a keystone of ML, I'll give it a shot.
I am just learning now that 'Principles of Mathematics' is a different thing, a good reminder nonetheless.
A cursory glance at the introduction to 'Simulations of God'...

> I sometimes think of myself as both male and female, an androgyne if you wish. At other times I battle the female, pushing her back into the deep recesses of my unconscious; at still other times I am the female deeply repressing the male.
> It was after I had experimented with Ketamine that I saw that LSD, Ketamine, and various other chemicals that change one’s thinking, feeling, being, and doing are merely small tools in a much larger context.

Bless you, John C. Lily!


It has echoes of integral theory, steeped in similar Aquarian terminologies of the 80s. Many such cases of authors from that time who have a spiritual journey through drugs breaking down their self-reference networks. I do however think concepts in integral theory are relevant to the whitepill, especially the 'supermind' concept as a ballast against blackpill social necrosis.

It's fairly dated but a good read, 7/10.

The education of man : Froebel, Friedrich [Wilhelm August], 1782-1852. [from old catalog] : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

vi, 273, [1] p. 19 cm

archive.org

Encyclopædia Britannica - Great Books Of The Western World - Volumes 1-54 : Encyclopaedia Britannica : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Volumes 1-54 of Encyclopaedia Britannica's Great Books of the Western World

archive.org

Friedrich Froebel's pedagogics of the kindergarten : Fröbel, Friedrich, 1782-1852 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

xxxvii, 337 p. 19 cm

archive.org

Friedrich Froebel's Education by development, the second part of the Pedagogics of the kindergarten; : Fröbel, Friedrich, 1782-1852 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

xxvi, 347 p. 19 cm

archive.org

Encyclopaedia Britannica is timeless for sure.

how have any of these gay books by these gay nerds improved your life?

Reading is important!
Okay, what books have you read that aren't authored by allegedly homosexual scholars? Insane Difficulty: Don't mention L. Ron Hubbard or Ray Peat.

 

[xaxs]

I've been meaning to read Principia Mathematica given that formal logic systems are a keystone of ML, I'll give it a shot.

Isn't this book just really arcane, and has 0 application?

Also isn't ML almost entirely driven by linear algebra and probability? Or what do you mean formal logic being a keystone?

Reading is important!

ngl, I haven't read a book in years

 

[Jacob]

Any First Aid handbook.

Wilderness Survival 101 for Rookies.

 

[Jacob]

The Anarchist Cookbook.

Any military related handbook encompassing all types of infantry tactics that can be applied on the ground.

 

[Jacob]

The quran

 

[GGWP]

Isn't this book just really arcane, and has 0 application?

Also isn't ML almost entirely driven by linear algebra and probability? Or what do you mean formal logic being a keystone?


ngl, I haven't read a book in years

I literally have no idea because I haven't read any of Bertrand Russell's books yet, I just know they deal with proofs and logic. Whitehead is one of my favorite philosophers though, alongside de Chardin and Kant. My understanding is that Russell's work on logic theory laid the foundations for Turing's work which later blossomed into Cybernetics --> Connectionism --> Modern ML/AI.

ML has a lot of linear algebra and probability, lots of matrices & tensors, bayesian and gaussian probability.
It also has formal logic such as with Markov Logic Networks and Inductive Logic Programming. Basically, formal logic is used to provide a semantic framework to evaluate AI actions and the field has historical relevance also, it is more of a historical keystone in the development of ML systems and keeps re-emerging in various forms throughout AI development over the decades.

It's true that, with the rise of Transformers, logic systems are not as relevant to modern AI as they used to be...

 

[xaxs]

I literally have no idea because I haven't read any of Bertrand Russell's books yet, I just know they deal with proofs and logic. Whitehead is one of my favorite philosophers though, alongside de Chardin and Kant. My understanding is that Russell's work on logic theory laid the foundations for Turing's work which later blossomed into Cybernetics --> Connectionism --> Modern ML/AI.

ML has a lot of linear algebra and probability, lots of matrices & tensors, bayesian and gaussian probability.
It also has formal logic such as with Markov Logic Networks and Inductive Logic Programming. Basically, formal logic is used to provide a semantic framework to evaluate AI actions and the field has historical relevance also, it is more of a historical keystone in the development of ML systems and keeps re-emerging in various forms throughout AI development over the decades.

It's true that, with the rise of Transformers, logic systems are not as relevant to modern AI as they used to be...

Yeah, I've got no idea of his books as well. I've just heard some talk about that book you mentioned. It's really dense, more of a "appreciation for history" kind of book. I think it has the meme that it proves 1+1=2 on page 200 or something. It's kinda useless, but can be a fun intellectual challenge, ig.

Yeah, I guess they use those tools as well. Haven't looked too much into it. But I believe modern MLs are dominated 99% by linear algebra, probability, optimization, etc.

But yeah, I guess it can be a fun challenge.

 

[Mentally Lost Cel]

George rr Martin's a song of ice and fire