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Every book Scott Alexander recommended on podcasts
Books recommended by Scott Alexander
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
Discussed“one of my favorite examples of this is David Anthony, the guy who wrote the Horse, the Wheel and Language. He made this super impressive discovery before we had the genetic evidence for it”
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The Secret of Our Success
The Secret of Our Success by Joseph Henrich explores how human cultural evolution and cooperation, rather than raw individual intelligence alone, drove our species to dominate the globe.
Discussed“I think the thing everybody does is they’ve read many books in the past and when they read a new book, they have enough background to think about it. Like you are thinking about our ideas in the context of Joseph Henrich’s book.”
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Books Scott Alexander wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo | Dwarkesh Podcast | 2025-04-03 | 2 |
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing Unsong
“I can easily write a blog post, like a normal length ACX blog post, but if you ask me to write a novella or something that’s four times the length of the average ACX blog post, then it’s this giant mess of “re re re re” outline that just gets redone and redone and maybe eventually I make it work.”