📚 2 Books mentioned in "Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #221" of Lex Fridman Podcast
Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast
Episode: Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #221
Published on September 15, 2021
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
The Denial of Death
Buy The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker, Ernest Becker on Amazon
there's a bunch of philosophers like Ernest Becker who kind of think that this realization of mortality and then fear sometimes they call it Terror of of of mortality is one of the creative forces behind Human Condition
Lex Fridman mentions Ernest Becker and his idea about the fear of mortality as a creative force, referencing his key work.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Buy The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn on Amazon
so there all sorts of things where um humans are locked into paradigms what Thomas cun called paradigms and we can't get out of them very easily
Doug Lenat mentions Thomas Kuhn and his concept of paradigms as an example of humans being locked into ways of thinking.