📚 2 Books mentioned in "Charles Isbell and Michael Littman: Machine Learning and Education | Lex Fridman Podcast #148" of Lex Fridman Podcast

You really need to be calculating god by sawyer It's a you'll read it in a night It's a very easy read But it's assuming you're that kind of reader But it's a it's a good story And it's kind of about this but not in a way that it appears And i uh really enjoyed the thought experiment um i think it's pretty sure it's robert sawyer but anyway he's he's apparently canadian's top science fiction writer which is why this story mostly takes place in toronto

Charles recommends the book 'Calculating God' by Robert J. Sawyer to Lex, describing it as a good story and an easy read related to the simulation hypothesis.

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um by the guy who did the martian who wrote the martian mm-hmm you know matt damon no the book

Lex asks about the author of 'The Martian' in the context of the short story 'The Egg'.

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