#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

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #330:

No books mentioned.

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.

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Other appearances: #98

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#328 – John Danaher

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #328:

No books mentioned.

John Danaher is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu and mixed martial arts instructor and coach from New Zealand. He is widely regarded as one of the best instructors and coaches in these sports. Wikipedia

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Other appearances: #182, #260

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#327 – GothamChess

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #327:

1. Game Changer: AlphaZero’s Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI by Matthew Sadler, Natasha Regan
2. Playing the Caro-Kann: A Counter-Attacking Repertoire by Lars Schandorff

Levy Rozman aka Gotham Chess (@GothamChess) is a professional chess player, chess teacher and streamer.

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#326 – Annaka Harris

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #326:

1. Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind by Annaka Harris
2. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
3. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
4. The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
5. Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
6. The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes by Donald Hoffman
7. Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time—and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything by George Musser

Annaka Harris (@annakaharris) is an author, editor and consultant for science writers, specializing in neuroscience, meditation, mind, consciousness andphysics.

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#325 – Michael Levin

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #325:

1. The Music of Life: Biology Beyond Genes by Denis Noble
2. Dance to the Tune of Life. Biological Relativity by Denis Noble
3. The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – and Us by Richard O. Prum

Michael Levin (@drmichaellevin) is a developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts Universit.

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#324 – Daniel Negreanu

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #324:

1. Modern Poker Theory: Building an unbeatable strategy based on GTO principles by Michael Acevedo
2. Power Hold’em Strategy by Daniel Negreanu

Daniel Negreanu (@realkidpoker) is a professional poker player. He has won six World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and two World Poker Tour (WPT) championship titles.

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