📚 8 Books mentioned in "Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction | Lex Fridman Podcast #191" of Lex Fridman Podcast

obviously Jared diamond made a more popular book called collapse

Daniel mentions Jared Diamond's more popular book called "Collapse" in the context of societal collapse.

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Marvin Harris's work called cultural materialism looked at this deeply

Daniel mentions Marvin Harris's work called "Cultural Materialism" when discussing how technology changes social systems.

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I actually really respect Drexler for emphasizing greu in engines of creation back in the day

Daniel mentions Drexler's book "Engines of Creation" in the context of nanotech risks.

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I remember when reading when Sam Harris wrote the book Free Will and then denet critiqued it and then there was some writing back and forth between the two

Daniel mentions Sam Harris's book "Free Will" and a critique by Dennett.

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one of Kaufman's you know more recent books after investigations and some of the real fundamental stuff was called Reinventing the sacred and it had to do with some of these exact questions

Daniel mentions Stuart Kaufman's book "Reinventing the Sacred" in the context of complexity science and non-reductionist approaches.

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this is why the first verse of the TA Ching is the da that is namable is not the Eternal da

Daniel references the first verse of the "Tao Te Ching" when discussing models of reality and the unknown.

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it's worth looking at books like um the collapse of complex societies by Joseph tainter

Daniel recommends looking at Joseph Tainter's book "The Collapse of Complex Societies" when discussing collapse theory.

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like in uh heer's guide there's I think like a paragraph or a couple sentences

Lex mentions the book "Hitchhiker's Guide" in the context of summarizing human history for aliens.

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