Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2022-01-22

Lex Fridman & Yann LeCun: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #258

#258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning

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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.

Lex Fridman discussed The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   The Denial of Death

   Ernest Becker · at 1:28:17 · mentioned 2 times

   The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning philosophical and psychological study that argues human behavior is fundamentally driven by an unconscious terror of mortality and the subsequent cultural mechanisms created to deny it.

   Discussed

   “so ernest becker i'm not sure if you're familiar with the philosopher he wrote the book denial of death”

   Lex Fridman #258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Lea… 2022-01-22 Listen at 1:28:17

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