#338 – Chamath Palihapitiya

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #338:

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Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) is a venture capitalist, engineer, SPAC sponsor, founder and CEO of Social Capital. Palihapitiya was an early senior executive at Facebook, working at the company from 2007 to 2011. Wikipedia


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#337 – Destiny

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #337:

  1. The Humans by Matt Haig

Steven Kenneth Bonnell II, known online as Destiny, is an American live-streamer and political commentator. He was among the first people to stream video games online full-time and received attention as a pioneer of the industry. Wikipedia

Other appearances: #410


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#336 – Ben Shapiro

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #336:

  1. The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America’s Institutions Against Dissent by Ben Shapiro
  2. The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Clinton Rossiter, Charles R. Kessler
  3. Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics by Henry Hazlitt
  4. Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
  5. The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman
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#335 – Fiona Hill

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #335:

  1. Young James Herriot by John Lewis-Stempel
  2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  3. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav Zubok

Fiona Hill is a foreign affairs specialist specializing in Russian and European affairs and author.


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#334 – Abbas Amanat

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #334:

  1. Iran: A Modern History by Abbas Amanat

Abbas Amanat is a historian, author and professor. He serves as the William Graham Sumner Professor of History at Yale University and specializing in the modern history of Iran.


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#333 – Andrej Karpathy

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #333:

  1. The Vital Question: Why Is Life The Way It Is by Nick Lane
  2. Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution by Nick Lane
  3. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  4. Contact by Carl Sagan

Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) is a computer scientist, engineer and AI researcher. He is the former Sr. Director of AI and Autopilot Vision at Tesla. He teaches at Stanford an a founding member of OpenAI.


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#332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #332:

  1. The Bible

Ye formerly known as Kanye West (@kanyewest) is a musician, rapper, producer, and designer.


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#331 – Balaji Srinivasan

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #331:

  1. The Network State: How To Start a New Country by Balaji Srinivasan
  2. Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA by Daniel Carpenter
  3. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States by Albert O. Hirschman
  4. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott

Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis) is an entrepreneur and angel investor, co-founder of Counsyl, former the CTO of Coinbase.


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#330 – Hikaru Nakamura

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Hikaru Nakamura (@GMHikaru) chess grandmaster, one of the top chess streamers on Twitch and YouTube.


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#329 – Kate Darling

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #329:

  1. The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots by Kate Darling

Kate Darling is a researcher at MIT Media Lab interested in legal and ethical implications of technology.

Other appearances: #98


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