Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2022-09-03
Books mentioned on Are We Living In A Simulation? - Sabine Hossenfelder
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Free Will
Free Will by Sam Harris is a concise philosophical exploration that argues human beings do not possess conscious control over their thoughts, desires, and actions.
Recommended“and so yeah I'm basically I'm I'm uh I'm with uh sam uh I like his book uh I mean to begin with it's a very short book so I can really recommend it You get through it very quickly I like the book except for the one paragraph that he has about physics when I came I think that”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Superintelligence
“yeah well i think that's maybe about 10 years ago when did super intelligence come out 2014 nick bostrom's book something like that when that came out and i read that i was adamant that the artificial general intelligence apocalypse was going to be with us within 10 or 15 years”