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Every book Liv Boeree recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Liv Boeree has recommended or discussed 4 books on podcasts, as of August 7, 2024.
- Liv Boeree has talked about books on 2 podcasts, as of August 7, 2024.
- Those books came up in 3 episodes, as of August 7, 2024.
- The 3 books Liv Boeree has mentioned in the most episodes, as of August 7, 2024: Inadequate Equilibria, The Scout Mindset and Novacene.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Liv Boeree aired on August 7, 2024.
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Across 2 podcasts. Every show Liv Boeree appears on, in one place, not just one.
Olivia "Liv" Boeree is a British science communicator, philanthropist, host of the Win-Win podcast, and professional poker player. She is a World Series of Poker (WSOP) and European Poker Tour (EPT) champion, and is the only female player in history to win both a WSOP bracelet and an EPT event. Boeree is a 3× winner of the Global Poker Index European Female Player of the year. As of December 2024, having first retired in late 2019, Boeree still ranks among the top five women in poker history in terms of all-time money winnings, sitting at fourth all-time in the female category, and currently holds the record for the highest pay-out in a poker tournament for a woman at $2,800,000. During podcast appearances, Boeree recommended Julia Galef's The Scout Mindset as a resource for rational thinking and motivated reasoning, and Eliezer Yudkowsky's online book Inadequate Equilibria to discuss societal traps and Nash equilibria. She also highlighted James Lovelock's Novacene to talk about gaia theory and silicon-based intelligence, and mentioned Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl.
Books Liv Boeree recommended or discussed
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Inadequate Equilibria
Recommended“So there's this really incredible short online book called Inadequate Equilibria. By the guy who wrote most of the stuff on Less Wrong, Eliezer Yudkowsky.”
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The Scout Mindset
Recommended“The scout mindset. Yes. I mean, she did a TED Talk on it, but she's just written a book on it as well.”
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Novacene
Recommended“one of my favorite books i've ever read is nova scene by james lovelock who sadly just died um he wrote it when he was like 99. he died aged 102 so it's a fairly new book”
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Howl
Discussed“and then alan ginsberg wrote a poem in the 60s um which incredible poem called howl about this thing”
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