Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2018-12-04
Joe Rogan & Dr. Ben Goertzel: books mentioned on The Joe Rogan Experience #1211
#1211 - Dr. Ben Goertzel
Dr. Ben Goertzel is the founder and CEO of SingularityNET, a blockchain-based AI marketplace. Learn more about your ad choices.
Ben Goertzel recommended A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge, and discussed Solaris by Stanisław Lem, The Transparent Society by David Brin, and The Prometheus Project by Gerald Feinberg. Joe Rogan discussed True Hallucinations by Terence McKenna.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Solaris
Discussed“this reminds me of the novel solaris by stanislaw which was published in in the 60s which was really quite quite a deep novel much deeper than the the movie that was made of it”
Where to get it
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The Transparent Society
Discussed“he wrote a book in oh years ago called the transparent society where he said there's two possibilities surveillance and surveillance it's like the power elite watching everyone or everyone watching everyone”
Where to get it
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The Prometheus Project
Discussed“and you know in 1971 or two when i was a little kid i read a book called the the prometheus project by a princeton physicist called jaron gerald feinberg”
Where to get it
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A Fire Upon The Deep
Recommended“His book uh fire upon the deep one of the great science fiction books”
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True Hallucinations
Discussed“he read their their book with true hallucinations right yeah”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The phenomenon of science
“i mentioned valentin terchin a friend of mine who was the founder of russian ai he wrote a book called the phenomenon of science in the late 60s”