Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2026-05-28
Books mentioned on Psyop Expert: “Brainwashing Is Real And It’s Happening Now” - Chase Hughes - #1103
Chase Hughes is a former U.S.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Unrestricted warfare
Unrestricted warfare by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui is a strategic military treatise written by Chinese intelligence officers that explores asymmetric warfare and unconventional tactics used to challenge dominant superpowers.
Discussed“And two Chinese intelligence officers wrote a paper on this. Uh it's called I think it's called unrestricted warfare. It's been translated into English. And they use a hypothetical country that really looks like the United States uh in this paper. But they talk about this asymmetric warfare and how we have to get them fighting each other.”
Where to get it
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Human Compatible
Human Compatible by Stuart Russell is a book about artificial intelligence, computer science, and the control problem associated with artificial general intelligence.
Recommended“Interestingly, the coolest thing I learned about this is from Stuart Russell, guy that wrote the textbook on AI... He wrote this book called Human Compatible. He's talking about computers, humans, some psychology, a lot of AI and and and computer science.”
Where to get it
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Friends
Friends by Robin Dunbar is an insightful exploration of human social networks, evolutionary anthropology, and the strict cognitive limits governing our relationships.
Recommended“One of my favorite insights about blading is from Robin Dunbar, and he has this book called Friends. A cool thing that you can do the next time that you're a party is look at the angle of the feet of men talking to each other and of women talking to each other.”
Where to get it
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The Naked Ape
The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris is a classic popular science book that examines human behavior, evolution, and physiology through the lens of zoology, treating humans as just another animal species.
Discussed“He was in his 90s, but he's like the first researcher who wrote a book about really observing humans as if they were animals. Like what How do their How do their body move? And uh, so the book was called Naked Ape.”
Where to get it
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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M.
Recommended“And zebras um and Robert Sapolsky wrote a book about a lot of this stuff but how nature knows what to do. It doesn't suppress healing mechanisms. It's called Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers.”
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