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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom
“that incredible book”
“if you read bostrom i'm sure you have you know bostrom nick bostrom you know super intelligence that incredible book on like the ways this thing is going to happen”— Duncan Trussell
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Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society
Carrie Galbraith and John Law (inferred)
“there's a great book”
“this evolves into something called the cacophony society there's a great book called tales of the cacophony society for people listening”— Duncan Trussell
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World of Warcraft
Blizzard Entertainment (inferred)
“one of my favorite video game memories”
“one of my favorite video game memories was like i started playing world of warcraft in its original incarnation”— Duncan Trussell
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The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“i'm reading about torture in the gulag archipelago currently there's a bit of a camaraderie you're in it together the torture and the tortured”— Lex Fridman
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On the Road
Jack Kerouac
“i think jack kerouac has that way he meets uh this mexican girl on a bus and like he talks about that heartbreak”— Lex Fridman
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The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
“when i was getting fascinated by dostoevsky i did have this very transient fantasy about learning russian brothers karamazov lost in that book just like oh god so in love with it”— Duncan Trussell
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The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
“you read the myth of sisyphus and now you like it know all existentialism and your certainty in regards to it is embarrassing”— Lex Fridman
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
“you getting a victor franco much yeah of course man search for meaning yeah the invitation to live your life as though you'd been on your deathbed”— Lex Fridman
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The Bhagavad Gita
Vyasa (inferred)
“most people are familiar with krishna from the bhagavad-gita he famously quoted the bhagavad-gita when the they split the atom”— Duncan Trussell
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Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk
“one of the members of the cacophony society was the author of fight club and so if you've seen fight club like you could see little ideas”— Duncan Trussell
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Good Enough
unknown (inferred)
“i read something in a book it's called good enough the mantra for a parent good enough because when you are in the presence of something you love”— Duncan Trussell
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Her
Spike Jonze (inferred)
“i don't know if you've seen the movie her yeah i think you can go to another world and where a digital being lives in the darkness”— Lex Fridman
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Rick and Morty
Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon (inferred)
“just visually it's like um it's like a super psychedelic version of rick and morty or something like that”— Lex Fridman
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