Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2023-03-30
Books mentioned on #368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization
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Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Idiot
The Idiot is a classic novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky that explores the life and moral struggles of Prince Myshkin, a man of pure goodness navigating a corrupt society.
Discussed“I think of uh Prince mishkin character from uh The Idiot by uh Dostoevsky is this kind of a perfectly purely naive character”
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1984 (adaptation)
1984 is a classic dystopian novel by George Orwell that explores totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and the manipulation of truth.
Recommended“in particular like a a nice book if you've got the time to read it is adaptation and natural selection which is one of the founding books”
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Natural selection.
Adaptation and Natural Selection is a seminal work of evolutionary biology written by George C.
Recommended“in particular like a a nice book if you've got the time to read it is adaptation and natural selection which is one of the founding books”
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Engines of Creation
Engines of Creation by K.
Discussed“I grew up reading books like great Mambo chicken in the transhuman condition and later on engines of creation and mine children um you know like age age 12 or thereabouts”
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Great mambo chicken and the transhuman condition
Discussed“I grew up reading books like great Mambo chicken in the transhuman condition and later on engines of creation and mine children um you know like age age 12 or thereabouts”
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Mind children
Discussed“I grew up reading books like great Mambo chicken in the transhuman condition and later on engines of creation and mine children um you know like age age 12 or thereabouts”
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The transhuman condition
Discussed“I grew up reading books like great Mambo chicken in the transhuman condition and later on engines of creation and mine children um you know like age age 12 or thereabouts”
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