#340 – Chris Tarbell

22 Nov 2022

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #340:

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

Christopher Tarbell is a Former FBI agent and cyber security expert who took on Anonymous and Silk Road.

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#339 – Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

18 Nov 2022

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #339 Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin:

False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet by Bjorn Lomborg
The Human Planet: Earth at the Dawn of the Anthropocene by George Steinmetz, Andrew Revkin
The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World by Andrew Revkin
Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast by Andrew Revkin
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels by Alex Epstein
Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas – Not Less by Alex Epstein
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Bjørn Lomborg is a Danish author and president of the think tank Copenhagen Consensus Center. He is former director of the Danish government’s Environmental Assessment Institute in Copenhagen. He became internationally known for his best-selling and controversial book The Skeptical Environmentalist. Wikipedia

Andrew C. Revkin is an American science and environmental journalist, author and educator. He has written on a wide range of subjects including destruction of the Amazon rain forest, the 2004 Asian tsunami, sustainable development, climate change, and the changing environment around the North Pole. Wikipedia

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#338 – Chamath Palihapitiya

15 Nov 2022

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #338:

No books mentioned.

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

11 Nov 2022

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #337:

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

07 Nov 2022

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #336:

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

#335 – Fiona Hill

04 Nov 2022

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #335:

Young James Herriot by John Lewis-Stempel
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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

02 Nov 2022

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #334:

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

29 Oct 2022

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #333:

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