Also, Dan Ariely's second book, The Upside of Irrationality is pretty good. For an introduction, I can recommmend Ariely's TED-talks.
Then, for the other books, Í read Sway, which was not bad, but not outstanding either.
I very much liked The Invisible Gorilla though, whose author did a good job of defending everyday-rationality, for example with respect to the 'antivax'-movement.
Lukeprog: of the other books, are there any you specifically recommend?
p.s. I'm an idiot. Where did the HTML cheat sheet for comments go?
The only 'idiocy' is the 'HTML' assumption. You have the HTML right but the markdown that you need is an asterix on either side (or, equivalently, an underscore on either side). The references is in the 'Help' link on the bottom right of the comment box.
Thanks... but I see no such 'Help' link. I use Chrome. Are there issues with Chrome?
I use Chrome myself but now notice that there is no link appearing now. 30 seconds debugging informs me that now there is no 'Help' when replying directly to a comment on the main page but there is the link when replying via 'Recent comments'. Bug!
For now: the wiki.
I recently read Stuart Sutherland's Irrationality, which also explains a lot of the more common biases and errors in reasoning. Decent book, but -again- probably not a lot of new ideas for less wrongers.
I found sway entertaining and the fact that I had already been exposed to the concept of bias probably made me slightly more open to less wrong. At the same time I don't think I got much direct benefit from it rationality wise.
Also, Dan Ariely's second book, (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004NSVE50/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_2?pf_rd_p=1278548962&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=006135323X&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0SCAH2GVK33FBAQ2VFN3)[The Upside of Irrationality] is pretty good. For an introduction, I can recommmend Ariely's (http://www.ted.com/speakers/dan_ariely.html)[TED-talks].
Then, for the other books, Í read Sway, which was not bad, but not outstanding either.
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I very much liked The Invisible Gorilla though, whose author did a good job of defending everyday-rationality, for example with respect to the 'antivax'-movement.
Lukeprog: of the other books, are there any you specifically recommend?