Lex Fridman

having written incredible books on Albert Einstein Steve Jobs Leonardo da Vinci Jennifer doudna Benjamin Franklin Henry Kissinger and now a new one on Elon Musk

one sci-fi book to recommend is exhalations by ted chang

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having written incredible books on Albert Einstein Steve Jobs Leonardo da Vinci Jennifer doudna Benjamin Franklin Henry Kissinger and now a new one on Elon Musk

i recommend ascent of money as a great book on this history both the book and audiobook are great

I highly recommend people read his new book on Elon

one of them comes again from Paul he wrote this book years ago about um you know like the Eerie silence and why we're alone

Lex Fridman mentioned this book on Instagram.

the plot actually of a great science fiction book called Eon by Greg bear

euclid's elements were the the kind of the touch point of a coherent document

prozac nation was a good example of making the argument that why should people settle for normal happiness when they can have better than normal happiness and if you're not having normal happiness you should take a drug

Nick Lane has a book called life ascending where he lists the 10 great inventions of evolution

"The fascinating thing about [this book] is there's philosophy, there's wisdom, but there's plots." - Lex Fridman

he previously wrote the seminal book on the subject titled on intelligence

one of the people who kind of revealed the expressive power of computation aside from alen touring is Steven Wolfram through all the explorations of like cell aoma type of objects that uh he did in a new kind of Science and after afterwards

in Marvin Minsky is the Society of Mind you know he truly thinks of the human brain as a society of different kind of capabilities

you mentioned milton friedman and you mentioned his book called capitalism and freedom

sometimes as I did with the innovators there's teams and people build on each other

there's this great book um by Kim Stanley Robinson called Aurora

she has written an amazing new upcoming book titled life as no one knows it the physics of life's emergence this book is coming out on August 6th so please go pre-order it now it will blow your mind

i find myself thinking of program or be programmed a lot by douglas roshkopf

he's the author of several popular books one on the arrow of time called from eternity to here one on the Higgs boson called particle at the end of the universe and one on science of philosophy called the big picture on the origins of life meaning in the universe itself