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Alex Heath's book list: the books mentioned on Sources with Alex Heath
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Existence and being
Discussed“I'm reading Being in Time by Heidegger and a couple other like random things. But in particular, I don't know how much Heidegger you guys have read, but he's fucking impossible to understand.”
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The concept of time
Discussed“I'm reading Being in Time by Heidegger and a couple other like random things. But in particular, I don't know how much Heidegger you guys have read, but he's fucking impossible to understand.”
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Bible
Discussed“But the air receptionist that he filled he filled with tons of data from the Bible and like specific things that he wants uh you know uh the receptionist to say”
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Ghost in the Shell
Discussed“I'm reading the original Ghost in the Shell manga. Have you ever read it, Mina? Uh haven't read it, but huge fan of the the movie.”
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Nicomachean Ethics
Discussed“But I think it was like Nicomachean ethics where the sort of description of true friendship was as a second self.”
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The Futurological Congress
Discussed“it's probably the main way people are still using chat bots today is for this kind of companionship stuff a lot of these things were already covered by have already been covered by uh sci-fi there's for example there's the book by Stenisam Congress right that shows a very dystopian future of VR”
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The intelligent investor
Discussed“even if you read the intelligent investor by Benjamin Graham you know one of the seminal books of value investing he talks about how speculation is actually integral to the the proper functioning”
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What Computers Can't Do
Discussed“There's a professor I love. His name is Hubert Dreyfus, who wrote famously wrote this book about why the first generation of AI wouldn't work called what what computers can't do. And it was all based on Heidegger's philosophy and really good.”
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Discussed Existence and being
“I'm reading Being in Time by Heidegger and a couple other like random things. But in particular, I don't know how much Heidegger you guys have read, but he's fucking impossible to understand.”
Discussed The concept of time
“I'm reading Being in Time by Heidegger and a couple other like random things. But in particular, I don't know how much Heidegger you guys have read, but he's fucking impossible to understand.”
Discussed What Computers Can't Do
“There's a professor I love. His name is Hubert Dreyfus, who wrote famously wrote this book about why the first generation of AI wouldn't work called what what computers can't do. And it was all based on Heidegger's philosophy and really good.”
Discussed Nicomachean Ethics
“But I think it was like Nicomachean ethics where the sort of description of true friendship was as a second self.”
Discussed Ghost in the Shell
“I'm reading the original Ghost in the Shell manga. Have you ever read it, Mina? Uh haven't read it, but huge fan of the the movie.”
Discussed Bible
“But the air receptionist that he filled he filled with tons of data from the Bible and like specific things that he wants uh you know uh the receptionist to say”
Discussed The intelligent investor
“even if you read the intelligent investor by Benjamin Graham you know one of the seminal books of value investing he talks about how speculation is actually integral to the the proper functioning”
Discussed The Futurological Congress
“it's probably the main way people are still using chat bots today is for this kind of companionship stuff a lot of these things were already covered by have already been covered by uh sci-fi there's for example there's the book by Stenisam Congress right that shows a very dystopian future of VR”
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| Episode | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|
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| The AI writing app fighting AI slop | 2026-07-09 | 0 |
| This AI tells you what your friends won't | 2026-06-24 | 0 |
| OpenClaw for normies is here | 2026-04-09 | 0 |
| The future of AI might be on your finger | 2026-04-02 | 1 |
| French founders and AI priests with Maxime Germain | 2025-12-12 | 2 |
| Is Roblox making the internet better or worse? We asked the CEO | 2025-12-04 | 0 |
| Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev on predicting the future | 2025-11-13 | 1 |
| Eugenia Kuyda on software’s “YouTube moment” | 2025-10-30 | 1 |
| Avi Schiffmann thinks AI can be your best Friend | 2025-10-02 | 0 |
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