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Every book Michael Kearns recommended on podcasts
Books recommended by Michael Kearns
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Infinite jest
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace is a sprawling, maximalist novel exploring addiction, entertainment, and modern American culture.
Discussed“well my favorite novel is Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace which actually coincidentally much of it takes place in the halls of buildings right around us here at MIT”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Kearns: Algorithmic Fairness, Privacy & Ethics | Lex Fridman Podcast #50 | Lex Fridman Podcast | 2019-11-19 | 1 |
Other mentions (3: passing, ad reads, own books)
Plugged The Ethical Algorithm
“and you know we discussed in the book the fact that really we are there's a sense in which we're kind of looking where the light is in that you know for example if police are racist in who they decide to stop and frisk”
Plugged The Ethical Algorithm
“for the most part in the book you know a point that we try to take some pains to make is that we don't view ourselves or people like us as being in the position of deciding for society what the right social norms are what the right definitions of fairness are”
Plugged The Ethical Algorithm
“and so you know I think we count among this body of work just you know the literature and practice of things like data anonymization which we kind of at the beginning of our discussion of privacy say like okay this is this is sort of notion of algorithmic privacy”