Book reviews on AI safety, philosophy of science, technical non-fiction and as well as a few of my favorites.
I’m Taggart Tufte, a math major at Montana State University graduating in May 2026, transitioning into AI/ML and alignment research.
I read almost exclusively via audiobooks at high speeds usually around 3x on audible. This does change a bit about how I read the books, Many of the books I listen to are when I am doing something else passively. My favorite is driving, just enough stimulus to keep my mind from wandering, a good second is playing sudoku. I occasionally have to slow it down or relisten to specific sections but for the most part I am quite comfortable at around 3x for non fiction.
My current interests have been in: Nassim Taleb’s Black swan and Fooled by Randomness, Albert Camus’s absurdism, Yudkowsky’s alignment arguments, Bostrom’s astronomical waste (and soon his books), Agnes Callard’s Socratic method.
These reviews are as much for me as for anyone else. Writing forces synthesis. It helps me collect my thoughts post reading or even a while after I completed it. It also allows me to see my thoughts at a point in time so I can revisit them and see how my views have changed or remained.