Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2023-03-30
Lex Fridman & Eliezer Yudkowsky: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #368
#368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization
Eliezer Yudkowsky is a researcher, writer, and philosopher on the topic of superintelligent AI.
Lex Fridman discussed The Idiot by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский. Eliezer Yudkowsky recommended Natural selection. by Peter Robinson and Adaptation by Michael R. Rose and others, and discussed Engines of Creation by K. Eric Drexler, Great mambo chicken and the transhuman condition by Ed Regis, The transhuman condition by Keith Ansell-Pearson, and Mind children by Hans Moravec.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Idiot
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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Natural selection.
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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Adaptation
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
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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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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