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Episode: Elon Musk: Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot | Lex Fridman Podcast #49

Published on November 12, 2019

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!

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Pale Blue Dot

by Carl Sagan

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and as you're talking about the pale blue dot that picture there takes up less than a single pixel in that image you know appearing as a tiny blue dot as pale blue dot as Carl Sagan called it so he spoke about this dot of ours in 1994

The host refers to the picture of Earth taken by Voyager 1 and mentions Carl Sagan's phrase 'pale blue dot' for it.

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Thank You for Smoking

by Christopher Buckley

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or look at the back tobacco industry and how long they fought any thing about smoking That's part of why I helped make that movie thank you for smoking You can sort of see just how pernicious it can be when you have these companies that effectively achieve regulatory capture of government

Elon Musk mentions the movie 'Thank You for Smoking' in the context of the tobacco industry fighting regulation, noting he helped make the movie. The movie is based on the book.

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