Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2025-01-16
Jordan Peterson & Marc Andreessen: books mentioned on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast #515
Superintelligence is Upon Us | Marc Andreessen | EP 515
Jordan Peterson discussed The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein and others. Marc Andreessen recommended A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell and Orwell's Revenge by Peter Huber, and discussed 1984 by George Orwell.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.
Discussed“it's like the allseeing eye of soron in The Lord of the Rings cycle”
Where to get it
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A Conflict of Visions
A Conflict of Visions is a work of political philosophy by Thomas Sowell that examines the underlying assumptions about human nature that shape competing political and social ideologies.
Recommended“um I'm very influenced on this by Thomas Soul wrote this great book called the conflict of visions and he talks about fundamentally there are two two classes of visions of the future”
Where to get it
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Orwell's Revenge
Orwell's Revenge by Peter Huber is a speculative novel that reimagines George Orwell's classic dystopian work, 1984, by introducing a two-way communication technology as a counterforce to totalitarian control.
Recommended“there's another book I'd really recommend on this uh the directly directly to your point uh this guy Peter Huber wrote this book called Orwell's Revenge”
Where to get it
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1984
1984 by George Orwell is a classic dystopian novel depicting a totalitarian regime characterized by extreme surveillance, historical denial, and psychological manipulation.
Discussed“and you know famously in 1984 you know as you mentioned there there you know there's this concept of the telescreen which is basically the one-way propaganda broadcast device”
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The Bell Curve
The Bell Curve by Richard J.
Discussed“I mean I I started to see all this happen back in 1992 because I was at Harvard when the uh bell curve was published and I watched that blow up the department at Harvard”
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