Episode · The Jordan Harbinger Show · 2026-09-15
Books mentioned on 1382: Emad Mostaque | Surviving the Coming AI Jobs Apocalypse
Digital feudalism or Star Trek at warp factor 9? The Last Economy author Emad Mostaque lays out the two futures toward which AI is racing us.
Jordan Harbinger discussed The Last Economy by Emad Mostaque. Emad Mostaque discussed Foundation by Isaac Asimov and The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Last Economy
Discussed“I want to get back to a little bit of what you wrote in the book, namely that there's this intelligence inversion that previous transitions were like, okay, you have land.”
Where to get it
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Foundation
Foundation by Isaac Asimov is an epic science fiction masterwork that chronicles the collapse and rebirth of a galactic empire through the lens of psychohistory and predictable social trends.
Discussed“If you read the Isaac Asimov Foundation and Robot series, right? I think I've got it up here. There were the three laws of robotics. That shall not cause harm to a human and things like that.”
Where to get it
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The Complete Robot
Discussed“If you read the Isaac Asimov Foundation and Robot series, right? I think I've got it up here. There were the three laws of robotics. That shall not cause harm to a human and things like that.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Talented Mr. Ripley
“They are replaced. Talented Mr. Ripley style by their facsimiles, you know, their doubles. Like, literally, because that's comfortable talking to them like this.”
Passing Brave New World
“That's insane. You don't need to pop Soma, right? Like in Brave New World, you're just happy because you like dial it up, right?”
Passing 1984
“Like I said, just to close on the great fragmentation, like state-owned AI mandated for all citizens is like mega dystopia. That's like, we have always been at war with Eurasia, Eurasia of history. Like, let's not go down that way. 1984.”