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Every book Max Tegmark recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Max Tegmark has recommended or discussed 2 books on podcasts, as of January 9, 2023.
- Max Tegmark has talked about books on 2 podcasts, as of January 9, 2023.
- Those books came up in 2 episodes, as of January 9, 2023.
- The 2 books Max Tegmark has mentioned in the most episodes, as of January 9, 2023: The Feynman Lectures on Physics and Thinking, Fast and Slow.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Max Tegmark aired on January 9, 2023.
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Across 2 podcasts. Every show Max Tegmark appears on, in one place, not just one.
Max Tegmark appeared on multiple podcasts to discuss artificial intelligence, physics, and human decision-making. During his appearance on the Lex Fridman Podcast, Tegmark discussed his AI Feynman project and mentioned The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard Phillips Feynman. He noted that he and his team used equations from this work, which he described as one of his favorite physics textbooks and the very book that initially introduced him to the field of physics. Later, while appearing on People I (Mostly) Admire alongside podcast host Steve Levitt, Tegmark referenced Daniel Kahneman's influential book Thinking, Fast and Slow. In their conversation regarding information consumption and decision-making habits, Tegmark and Levitt pointed to Kahneman's concepts of System One and System Two thinking. Tegmark used these ideas to illustrate how individuals should apply deliberative reasoning, such as deciding on a diet before arriving at the supermarket, rather than yielding to impulse buying while hungry. Through these podcast discussions, Tegmark highlighted works that shaped his foundational understanding of scientific inquiry as well as contemporary perspectives on human behavior and cognitive processes.
Books Max Tegmark recommended or discussed
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics
Recommended“so we took the 100 most famous or complicated equations from one of my favorite physics textbooks in fact the one that got me into physics in the first place the feynman lectures on physics”
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Discussed“If you read Kahneman with System One and System Two, it's very clear that you want to use your System Two, your deliberative reasoning thinking, to decide your diet before you go to the supermarket rather than just impulse buying random things that come in front of you because you always shop hungry or something like that.”
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Books Max Tegmark wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| Max Tegmark on Why Superhuman Artificial Intelligence Won’t be Our Slave | Episode 52 | People I (Mostly) Admire | 2023-01-09 | 1 |
| #155 – Max Tegmark: AI and Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast | 2021-01-18 | 1 |
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“as I mentioned a lot of detail in my book”