📚 9 Books mentioned in "George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets | Lex Fridman Podcast #132" of Lex Fridman Podcast

fire upon the deep is interesting

George mentions the book 'A Fire Upon the Deep' is interesting.

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and if you want the controversial one bronze age mindset

George recommends the book 'Bronze Age Mindset', calling it controversial.

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i feel like dune i've never read dune

George mentions he has never read 'Dune'.

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i've been working through the foundation i've been i've haven't read much sci-fi my whole life and i'm trying to fix that the last few months that's been a little side project

Lex mentions reading 'The Foundation' series.

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Let me know if you have any recommendations what three books technical or fiction or philosophical had an impact on your life or you would recommend perhaps uh maybe we'll start with the least controversial uh infinite jest

Lex asks for book recommendations, mentioning 'Infinite Jest'.

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um i i could give these these two i'll just throw out uh there's sci-fi uh permutation city um great things to start thinking about copies of yourself and then um that is uh greg egan

George recommends the sci-fi book 'Permutation City' and mentions the author Greg Egan.

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and i'll set that up for the second book which is pornography it's called atlas shrugged um uh which um atlas drug is pornography i mean it is i will not i will not defend the i will not say atlas shrugged is a well-written book it is entertaining to read certainly just like pornography the production value isn't great um you know there's a 60-page monologue in there that ann rand's editor really wanted to take out and she uh paid she paid out of her pocket to keep that 60 page monologue in the book um but it is a great book for a kind of framework um of human relations

George recommends the book, humorously calling it pornography, and discusses the author Ayn Rand.

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everyone should read romance everyone should read snow crash if you haven't read those like start there

George recommends the book 'Snow Crash'.

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and then this one's online it's called the metamorphosis of prime intellect um it's a story set in a post-singularity world it's interesting

George recommends the online story/book 'The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect'.

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