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Every book Carissa Véliz recommended on podcasts
Books recommended by Carissa Véliz
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Privacy is Power
Discussed“I mean, you have a perspective that you got to have used comedy in this era. And that's sort of a counterweight to some of these ills that you see. Talk a little bit more about that. Yeah, it's really funny because my first book, Privacy is Power, is kind of gloomy, in a way.”
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The Joke
The Joke by Milan Kundera is a satirical novel that explores the devastating ripple effects of a seemingly minor political joke in totalitarian Czechoslovakia.
Discussed“And for example, um Milan Kundera, the novelist, wrote a novel called The Joke making exactly this point um given his experience with communism.”
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Books Carissa Véliz wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| Are We Too Obsessed With AI Predictions? — With Carissa Véliz | Big Technology Podcast | 2026-04-22 | 2 |
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
Plugged Prophecy
“I'm not saying I'd be mean or anything, but just like laugh a little bit about the absurdity of life. Um and humor is also a kind of intelligence. It's a kind of noticing um the absurd, and noticing what's off. And one example I give in the book is that of Seinfeld because it's it's also about curtailing predictions.”