Episode · People I (Mostly) Admire · 2024-03-30
Books mentioned on 128. Are Our Tools Becoming Part of Us?
Google researcher Blaise Agüera y Arcas spends his work days developing artificial intelligence models and his free time conducting surveys for fun. He tells Steve how he designed an algorithm for the U.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Who Are We Now?
Discussed“and then there are popular books written by academics and these intentionally gloss over the details and they focus on fun stories that hopefully have some scientific Merit, but your book who are we now is neither of these”
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book Who Are We Now?
“you have a hobby that you put enormous amount of work into which you started many years ago where you are doing a massive survey project which eventually became the backbone of a book entitled who are we now”
Passing The Selfish Gene
“You can even turn things upside down a little bit in the same spirit that Dawkins did with selfish genes. They talked about genes having a kind of agency and reproducing, sometimes even at the expense of the larger organism.”
“do you know who wrote the unbearable lightness of being, uh the man who wrote that book, I don't have any idea”