Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-09-15
Lex Fridman & Douglas Lenat: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #221
#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI
Douglas Lenat is the founder of Cyc, a 37 year project aiming to solve common-sense knowledge and reasoning in AI. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Squarespace: https://lexfridman.
Douglas Lenat discussed The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker and The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Denial of Death
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning philosophical and psychological study that argues human behavior is fundamentally driven by an unconscious terror of mortality and the subsequent cultural mechanisms created to deny it.
Discussed“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”
Where to get it
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S.
Discussed“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”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“So you have the Eloy who only program in the epistemological higher order logic language yes and then you have the morlocks who are like under the under the ground figuring out what the Machinery is that will make this efficiently operate”