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Yoshua Bengio: Deep Learning

Space Odyssey 2001
Space Odyssey 2001
Arthur C. Clarke
Ex Machina
Ex Machina
Alex Garland
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke

#101 – Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality

Denial of Death
Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
Philosophical Investigations
Philosophical Investigations
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Solaris
Solaris
Stanislaw Lem
Tractatus
Tractatus
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Undine
Undine
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
The Complete Works of Aristotle
The Complete Works of Aristotle
Aristotle

#331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA

Red Famine
Red Famine
Anne Applebaum
Bloodlands
Bloodlands
Timothy Snyder
Gerdanstadt
Gerdanstadt
Theodor Herzl
The Problem of China
The Problem of China
Bertrand Russell
The Great Lady Winked
The Great Lady Winked
Ashley Rindsberg
The Forgotten Man
The Forgotten Man
Amity Shlaes
Ten Days That Shook the World
Ten Days That Shook the World
John Reed
Red Star Over China
Red Star Over China
Edgar Snow
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA
Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA
Daniel Carpenter
The Sovereign Individual
The Sovereign Individual
James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
Mao's Great Famine
Mao's Great Famine
Frank Dikötter
The Man Who Created Fidel
The Man Who Created Fidel
Anthony DePalma
The Road to Reality
The Road to Reality
Roger Penrose
Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
Norman Ohler
Seeing Like a State
Seeing Like a State
James C. Scott
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
Albert O. Hirschman
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Timothy Snyder
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Walter Isaacson
The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth
The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth
Robin Hanson

#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

The History of Human Civilization
The History of Human Civilization
Will Durant and Ariel Durant
The Gulag Archipelago
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
War and Peace
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Werner Herzog

Eric Schmidt: Google

Love and Math
Love and Math
Edward Frankl

Garry Kasparov: Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin

How Life Imitates Chess
How Life Imitates Chess
Garry Kasparov
Winter Is Coming
Winter Is Coming
Garry Kasparov
Deep Thinking
Deep Thinking
Garry Kasparov
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Rings
Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien

Guido van Rossum: Python

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas Hofstadter
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Monty Python (Comedy Group)

Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror

Code Complete
Code Complete
Steve McConnell
Masters of Doom
Masters of Doom
David Kushner
The War of Art
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
On Writing
On Writing
Stephen King
Peopleware
Peopleware
Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister

Pieter Abbeel: Deep Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction
Richard Sutton
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Steven Pinker

Stuart Russell: Long-Term Future of AI

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Stuart Russell
The Machine Stops
The Machine Stops
E. M. Forster

Vladimir Vapnik: Statistical Learning

Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
Eugene Wigner
The Second World War
The Second World War
Winston Churchill

#370 – Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox – Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love

War and Peace
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
The Void
The Void
Georges Perec
Elements
Elements
Euclid

#371 – Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development

Needful Things
Needful Things
Stephen King

#373 – Manolis Kellis: Evolution of Human Civilization and Superintelligent AI

Ego is the Enemy
Ego is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday

#375 – David Pakman: Politics of Trump, Biden, Bernie, AOC, Socialism & Wokeism

Animal Farm
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman

#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God

Infinite Jest
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace

#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

Profiles in Courage
Profiles in Courage
John F. Kennedy
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus

#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

Fact is Better than Fiction
Fact is Better than Fiction
Winston Churchill

#393 – Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, Sex, and Love

An Immense World
An Immense World
Ed Yong
Fighter's Heart
Fighter's Heart
Sam Sheridan

#394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature

War and Peace
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
The Alchemist
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Moby Dick
Moby Dick
Herman Melville

#395 – Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin

Einstein: His Life and Universe
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson
Kissinger: A Biography
Kissinger: A Biography
Walter Isaacson
Elon Musk
Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
The Double Helix
The Double Helix
James Watson

#397 – Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech

So You've Been Publicly Shamed
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
John Ronson
Repressive Tolerance
Repressive Tolerance
Herbert Marcuse
Woke Racism
Woke Racism
John McWhorter
The Quran
The Quran
Prophet Muhammad

#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

Prisoners of Geography
Prisoners of Geography
Tim Marshall
100-Year Marathon
100-Year Marathon
Michael Pillsbury

#400 – Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Werner Herzog
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke
Silo
Silo
Hugh Howey

#402 – Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special

Animal Farm
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Gulag Archipelago
Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Empires of the Sea
Empires of the Sea
Roger Crowley
Catch-22
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye
Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
American Beauty
American Beauty
Alan Ball

#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin

Invent and Wander
Invent and Wander
Jeff Bezos and Walter Isaacson

#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse

#408 – Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen

#410 – Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism

Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad
Vince Gilligan
The Quest for Cosmic Justice
The Quest for Cosmic Justice
Thomas Sowell

#413 – Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

Intelligent Investor
Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham

#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

Gulag Archipelago
Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The History of the Rus
The History of the Rus
Anonymous

#424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

The Daily Show
The Daily Show
Jon Stewart

#426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs

Jabberwocky
Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll

#417 – Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family

Kitchen Confidential
Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain
Liars Poker
Liars Poker
Michael Lewis

#423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex

For Love of Country
For Love of Country
Tulsi Gabbard

#429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God

The Fountain
The Fountain
Darren Aronofsky
Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers
Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers
Richard Evans Schultes

#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
Charan Ranganath
Peak Mind
Peak Mind
Amishi Jha
Deep Work
Deep Work
Cal Newport

#425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

On the Road
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
The Great Shark Hunt
The Great Shark Hunt
Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
Siddhartha
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse

#428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens

Quanta and Fields
Quanta and Fields
Sean Carroll