From Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality:
"So," Harry Potter said, "how much science do you know exactly? I can do calculus and I know some Bayesian probability theory and decision theory and a lot of cognitive science, and I've read The Feynman Lectures (or volume 1 anyway) and Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases and Language in Thought and Action and Influence: Science and Practice and Rational Choice in an Uncertain World and Godel, Escher, Bach and A Step Farther Out and -"
Reading list:
- Feynman Lectures
- Judgment Under Uncertainty
- Bayesian Statistics (using arbital.com)
- The Beginning of Infinity
- Influence by Cialdini
The books will be helpful, but not enough!
- Find a subject core to the world
- Read books about it
- Apply it every day
- Talk to people about it
- Rationality
- Physics
- Computers
- Music
- Philosophy
- Biology
- Artificial Intelligence