Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2022-01-22
Books mentioned on #258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning
Yann LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, professor at NYU, Turing Award winner, and one of the seminal researchers in the history of machine learning. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Public Goods: https://publicgoods.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Denial of Death
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning philosophical and psychological study arguing that human civilization is fundamentally driven by the fear of mortality.
Discussed“Ernest Becker—I'm not sure if you're familiar with the philosopher; he wrote the book 'Denial of Death'—his idea is that one of the core motivations of human beings is our terror of death.”
Where to get it
