Week 2020-W50
Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2020-W50
5 books, grouped by podcast.
Lex Fridman Podcast
Discussed Reinforcement Learning
“i mean that's really surprising to me when i first read that and then enriched rich sutton's book on the matter”
Discussed The Alignment Problem
“currently i'm i'm reading uh the alignment problem actually by brian christian so i don't know if you've seen this out there yet”
“I think I think stewart's book did a remarkably good job like a just a celebratory good job at describing ai technology and sort of how it works”
Discussed Exhalation
“So one sci-fi book to recommend is exhalations by ted chang a bunch of short stories”
The Realignment
“He was smart enough to understand this is the guy I have to talk to, and not only did he talk to him during the day, but Walter Isaacson described in The Wise Men how at the end of every day, Truman would make his staff get in the car and drive over to Vandenberg’s townhouse and brief him on”