Podcaster and AI Researcher at MIT
by Yuval Noah Harari
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by Arthur C. Clarke
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by Ernest Hemingway
“Old Man and The Sea by Hemingway”
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by Iain M. Banks
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by Jordan B. Peterson
“Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #448: 2. **[12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos] **by Jordan B. Peterson”
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by George Orwell
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by Ogi Ogas, Sai Gaddam
“Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #448: 7. **[A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships] **by Ogi Ogas, Sai Gaddam”
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by Franz Kafka
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by Stephen Wolfram
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by Frank McCourt
“Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #448: 8. **[Angela’s Ashes] **by Frank McCourt”
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by George Orwell
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by Ayn Rand
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by Friedrich Nietzsche
“Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #448: 3. **[Beyond Good and Evil] **by Friedrich Nietzsche”
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by Aldous Huxley
“Brave New World by Aldous Huxley”
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by Unknown
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by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #448: 6. **[Demons] **by Fyodor Dostoevsky”
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by Philip K. Dick
“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick”
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by Frank Herbert
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by S. C. Gwynne
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by Orson Scott Card
“Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card”
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by Charles Bukowski
“Because I've been doing the startup, I've been suffering so I'm reading a lot of Bukowski.”
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by Graham Hancock
“Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #449: 4. **[Fingerprints of the Gods] **by Graham Hancock”
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by Terence McKenna
“Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #449: 7. **[Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution] **by Terence McKenna”
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by Giorgio de Santillana, Hertha von Dechen
“Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #449: 5. **[Hamlet’s Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge And Its Transmission Through Myth] **by Giorgio de Santillana, Hertha von Dechen”
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by Lisa Feldman Barrett
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by Isaac Asimov
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by Max Tegmark
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by Francis Crick
“Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #449: 6. **[Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature] **by Francis Crick”
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by Viktor E. Frankl
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by Marcus Aurelius
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by Franz Kafka
“Metamorphosis, Hunger Artist, Penal Colony by Franz Kafka”
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by Isaac Asimov
“Nightfall, Last Question by Isaac Asimov”
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by Jack Kerouac
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by Peter Norvig
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by Ray Dalio
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by Unknown
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by Hermann Hesse
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by Robert A. Heinlein
“Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein”
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by Gary Shteyngart
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by Richard Feynman
“Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman”
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by Sun Tzu
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by David Deutsch
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by Steven Pinker
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by Miyamoto Musashi
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by Ray Dalio
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by Ayn Rand
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by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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by Mikhail Bulgakov
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by Franz Kafka
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by Franz Kafka
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by David Lewis-Williams
“Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #449: 8. **[The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art] **by David Lewis-Williams”
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by Robert A. Heinlein
“The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein”
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by Michael Malice
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by William L. Shirer
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by Cormac McCarthy
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by Cormac McCarthy
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by Mircea Eliade
“Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #448: 4. **[The Sacred and the Profane; The Nature of Religion] **by Mircea Eliade”
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by Graham Hancock
“Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #449: 3. **[The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant] **by Graham Hancock”
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by Albert Camus
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by Cixin Liu
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by Tor Norretranders
“Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #448: 5. **[The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size] **by Tor Norretranders”
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by Steven Pressfield
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by Graham Hancock
“Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #449: 1. **[Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization] **by Graham Hancock”
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by Graham Hancock
“Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #449: 2. **[Visionary: The Mysterious Origins of Human Consciousness] **by Graham Hancock”
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by Henry David Thoreau
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by Jordan B. Peterson
“Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #448: 1. **[We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine] **by Jordan B. Peterson”
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by James Clear
by Franz Kafka
by Richard Dawkins
by Daniel Kahneman