Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2018-12-04
Books mentioned on #1211 - Dr. Ben Goertzel
Dr. Ben Goertzel is the founder and CEO of SingularityNET, a blockchain-based AI marketplace.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Solaris
Solaris by Stanisław Lem is a classic science fiction novel about a scientific research station hovering above an enigmatic, sentient ocean planet that manifests the deeply repressed psychological traumas of the human crew.
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”
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The Transparent Society
The Transparent Society by David Brin is a thought-provoking nonfiction book that explores the profound societal implications of ubiquitous information technology, privacy erosion, and ubiquitous surveillance in the modern world.
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”
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The Prometheus Project
The Prometheus Project by Gerald Feinberg is an early futurist work written by a Princeton physicist that explores concepts of nanotechnology, life extension, and artificial general intelligence.
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”
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A Fire Upon The Deep
A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge is a celebrated hard science fiction novel known for its imaginative world-building, space opera scope, and foundational explorations of the technological singularity.
Recommended“His book uh fire upon the deep one of the great science fiction books”
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True Hallucinations
True Hallucinations by Terence McKenna is an autobiographical account of the author and his brother Dennis McKenna's expedition into the Amazon rainforest in search of an elusive species of hallucinogenic mushrooms and otherworldly experiences.
Discussed“he read their their book with true hallucinations right yeah”
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“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”