Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2022-W37

“Eighteen years ago, in his book 'The Singularity is Near', he predicted that the onset of the singularity would happen in the year 2045.”

“I made this prediction in 1999 in my book 'The Age of Spiritual Machines', right?”

“Because I remember my first book, 'The Age of Intelligent Machines,' there was no way to get information from computers.”

“So if it would connect to your neocortex—and the neocortex, which I described in 'How to Create a Mind,' has different levels—it’s kind of like a pyramid.”

“But I show in this book that's coming out that the amount of people working, even as a percentage of the population, has gone way up.”

“I just recently finished a book titled 'Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich' by Norman Ohler.”

“Yeah, I'm happy for it, one of a book, I'm very proud of that, I wrote Undeniable. There was pressure to make it Undeniable, it seems like you missed an opportunity there.”

“At the beginning of 'Meditations,' where Marcus thanks all his teachers and specifically Rusticus for lending him his copy of Epictetus from his library, you realize that 20 centuries ago, someone gave this man a book, and a light went on for him—the switch flipped, just as it did for you and for me.”

“Or Epictetus—it feels like he’s calling you out instead of whoever it was in the lecture hall that he’s speaking to in Discourses.”

“Ooh, um, I am super curious about, I was saying how I love Michael Singer and I think what I really love, I'm reading The Surrender Experiment right now, and I'm only in the first couple chapters.”