Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2024-08-13
Ezra Klein & Nate Silver: books mentioned on The Ezra Klein Show (Aug 2024)
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Nate Silver recommended The hour between dog and wolf, The making of the atomic bomb by Richard Rhodes, and Addiction by Design by Natasha Dow Schüll, and discussed The Contrarian by Max Chafkin.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Contrarian
Discussed“There's a good book by I think Max Chafkin was the journalist or Chafkin, I don't know how you say his last name. Um about Peter Thiel called the Contrarian, which is convincing that Thiel is like actually quite conservative more than libertarian and probably quite religious.”
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The hour between dog and wolf
Recommended“Um so, one book is pertinent to the discussion that we had a moment ago, which is called The Hour Between Dog and Wolf. It's written by John Coates, who is an academic economist who then um became a derivatives trader, I think, for Deutsche Bank in New York.”
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The making of the atomic bomb
Recommended“Number two, in a totally different direction, um The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. We didn't talk as much about some of the AI stuff today, but at the end of the book there's a pretty long, elaborate comparison between the Manhattan Project and the building of these large language models”
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Addiction by Design
Recommended“The third is called Addiction by Design um by Natasha Schüll. And Natasha is an NYU anthropologist who studied Las Vegas as like her thesis, basically.”
Where to get it
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Plugged On the Edge
“Partially because he's been writing a book about risk. Book is called On the Edge, The Art of Risking Everything.”