Every book Trenton Bricken recommended on podcasts

Books recommended by Trenton Bricken

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   MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE

   Herman Melville · Discussed · 1 episode

   Moby-Dick by Herman Melville is an epic American novel that chronicles the obsessive, self-destructive quest of Captain Ahab to hunt down the giant white whale that maimed him.

   Discussed

   “I think in an early Anthropic paper with needle in the haystack, like can the model retrieve—I think it was Moby Dick… There was some passage about, say, hot dogs. A lot of hot dog talk in Moby Dick?”

   Dwarkesh Podcast Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken 2025-05-22 Listen at 38:36

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