我们所有人的生活都受到有限空间和有限时间的限制，因此常常面临一系列难以抉择的问题。在一天或者一生的时光里，哪些事是我们应该做的，哪些是应该放弃的？我们对杂乱无序的容忍底线是什么？新的活动与熟悉并喜爱的活动之间如何平衡，才能取得令人愉快的结果？这些看似是人类特有的难题，其实不然，因为计算机也面临同样的问题，计算机科学家几十年来也一直在努力解决这些问题，而他们找到的解决方案可以给我们很多启发。
通过丰富的跨学科研究，作者指出，计算机算法也可以用来解答人类面临的这些问题。这本书告诉我们如何更有效地利用直觉、什么时候应该把选择权交给命运、无所适从的时候应该如何做出选择，以及如何有效地与他人保持联系。从找配偶到找停车位，从组织管理个人邮箱的收件箱到理解人类记忆的作用原理，这本书把计算机科学的智慧转化为人类生活的策略，引导我们做出明智的选择。
All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of new activities and familiar favorites is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not: computers, too, face the same constraints, so computer scientists have been grappling with their version of such problems for decades. And the solutions they’ve found have much to teach us.
In a dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, acclaimed author Brian Christian (who holds degrees in computer science, philosophy, and poetry, and works at the intersection of all three) and Tom Griffiths (a UC Berkeley professor of cognitive science and psychology) show how the simple, precise algorithms used by computers can also untangle very human questions. They explain how to have better hunches and when to leave things to chance, how to deal with overwhelming choices and how best to connect with others. From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one’s inbox to understanding the workings of human memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.
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