Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2026-07-11
Books mentioned on Why The AI Doomers Might Be Right - Robert Wright - #1122
Robert Wright is a journalist and author. Is AI the next stage of human development?
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Moral Animal
The Moral Animal by Robert Wright is a renowned exploration of evolutionary psychology that examines human behavior through the lens of natural selection.
Recommended“Robert Wright, ladies and gentlemen. Dude, you rule. I love all of your work. Everyone should go and read The Moral Animal. It's over 30 years old now and still just all It's so good. It's so fantastic.”
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Nonzero
Discussed“You know, I've been arguing, I mean, I I had a book called Nonzero that was about this that that you know, 26 years ago or something. That was about the growing nonzero-sum dynamic among nations.”
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Superintelligence
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom is a widely influential philosophy and computer science book that examines the existential risks and control problems associated with the emergence of artificial general intelligence.
Discussed“I I've read too much Nick Bostrom to be able to No matter what, it's kind of like your first relationship, you know, you get into a relationship and your first relationship is with an and you're like, "God, I I I For the remainder of time, I've been pattern matched that every relationship is at least going to be”
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Three scientists and their gods
Discussed“So, my first book, and it's funny because I now have I mean, three of the six books I've written have the word God or gods in the title... That book was called Three Scientists and Their Gods, my first book.”
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