Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2015-04-29
Joe Rogan & Sam Harris: books mentioned on The Joe Rogan Experience #641
#641 - Sam Harris
Sam Harris is a neuroscientist and author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, and The Moral Landscape. His latest book "Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality without Religion" is available now.
Sam Harris recommended Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti, The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker, and Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom, and discussed The Professor in the Cage by Jonathan Gottschall, Among the Thugs by Bill Buford, and 9-11 by Noam Chomsky.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Professor in the Cage
Discussed“he's got this book The Professor in the cage where he's he's an academic he's an English professor and he decided to get really into MMA and and fight a a real you know cage match um and so it's a it's an interesting book”
Where to get it
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Crowds and Power
Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti is a twentieth-century sociological and literary study that attempts to analyze the entirety of human history, anthropology, and political behavior through the lens of crowd dynamics.
Recommended“it's you know there was a um philosopher um Elias kedy who wrote a book crowds and power which is very interesting on this topic”
Where to get it
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Among the Thugs
Among the Thugs by Bill Buford is a journalistic exploration of British soccer hooliganism and the psychological and social dynamics of crowd violence.
Discussed“uh among the thugs by Bill Buford he um it's probably 20 25 years ago”
Where to get it
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker is a sweeping historical and data-driven book arguing that violence has steadily declined over the course of human history.
Recommended“he wrote This truly Landmark book on the decline of violence in the last century that the better angels of our nature came out a few years ago it was like 800 pages on this topic”
Where to get it
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9-11
Discussed“the example I I dealt with in my first book the end of Faith was uh and this was in reaction to a short book he did right after 9/11 called 911”
Where to get it
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Superintelligence
Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom is an influential examination of the potential paths, scenarios, and existential risks associated with the emergence of artificial superintelligence.
Recommended“there's a great book if if you really want to get into this is the book by the philosopher Nick Bostrom uh and he actually might have been the one who convinced Elon this is such a problem”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Sam Harris is a neuroscientist and author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, and The Moral Landscape. His latest book "Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality without Religion" is available now.”
“Sam Harris is a neuroscientist and author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, and The Moral Landscape.”
“Sam Harris is a neuroscientist and author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, and The Moral Landscape.”
“Sam Harris is a neuroscientist and author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, and The Moral Landscape.”
“the example I I dealt with in my first book the end of Faith was uh and this was in reaction to a short book he did right after 9/11 called 911”