Every book Risto Miikkulainen recommended on podcasts

Books recommended by Risto Miikkulainen

Who said what is determined automatically. In hand-checked samples, at least 6% of mentions were credited to the wrong speaker — sometimes an interviewer’s line recorded as the guest’s, sometimes the reverse. Every entry below quotes the words and links to the episode, so you can check it.

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   The Denial of Death

   Ernest Becker · Discussed · 1 episode

   The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning philosophical exploration arguing that human civilization and individual behavior are fundamentally driven by an underlying terror of mortality.

   Discussed

   “so like there's a i don't know if you're familiar there's a philosopher named ernest becker who wrote the denial of death and his whole idea and there's folks psychologists cognitive scientists that work on terror management theory and they think that one of the special things about humans is that we're able to sort of foresee our death”

   Lex Fridman Podcast #177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation 2021-04-19 Listen at 10:08

   Where to get it

   Amazon Audible
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   Wonderful Life the Burgess

   Stephen Jay Gould · Discussed · 1 episode

   Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould is a captivating scientific exploration of the Cambrian explosion of life and the wondrous fossil deposits found in the Rocky Mountains.

   Discussed

   “what if um like the wonderful life what if you're not here will somebody else do this”

   Lex Fridman Podcast #177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation 2021-04-19 Listen at 12:35

   Where to get it

   Amazon Audible

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