#288 – Sarma Melngailis

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #288:

  1. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
  2. Party of One by Anneli Rufus
  3. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
  4. Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
  5. Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron
  6. Projections: A Story of Human Emotions by Karl Deisseroth
  7. Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight by M.E. Thomas
  8. Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il by Michael Malice
  9. On Love by Alain de Botton
  10. The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil by Michael Malice
  11. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer

Sarma Melngailis is an American chef, cookbook author, and businesswoman. She was the owner and co-founder of Pure Food and Wine and One Lucky Duck, both vegan raw food restaurants in New York City. Wikipedia


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#287 – Bobby Lee

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Robert Lee Jr. is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster. From 2001 to 2009, Lee was a cast member on MADtv, and he co-starred in the ABC single-camera sitcom series Splitting Up Together alongside Jenna Fischer and Oliver Hudson between 2018 and 2019. Wikipedia


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#286 – Oliver Stone

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #286:

  1. Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game by Oliver Stone
  2. A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow by Joshua S. Goldstein, Staffan A. Qvist

William Oliver Stone is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Stone won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as writer of Midnight Express, and wrote the gangster film remake Scarface. Wikipedia


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#285 – Glenn Loury

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #285:

  1. Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study by Orlando Patterson
  2. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
  3. The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
  4. Death’s End by Cixin Liu
  5. How to Eat to Live by Elijah Muhammad
  6. Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy
  7. The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray
  8. The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion – Our Social Skin by Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann
  9. Knowledge And Decisions by Thomas Sowell
  10. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
  11. As I Lay Dying: Meditations Upon Returning by Richard John Neuhaus

Glenn Cartman Loury is an American economist, academic, and author. He is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University, where he has taught since 2005. Wikipedia


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#284 – Saifedean Ammous

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #284:

  1. The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking by Saifedean Ammous
  2. The Fiat Standard: Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization by Saifedean Ammous
  3. Principles of Economics by Carl Menger
  4. The Theory of Money and Credit by Ludwig von Mises
  5. Human Action: A Treatise on Economics by Ludwig Von Mises
  6. The Bank of England 1914-21 (Unpublished War History) by John Osborne
  7. The Blocksize War: The Battle Over Who Controls Bitcoin’s Protocol Rules by Jonathan Bier
  8. The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil by Michael Malice

Saifedean Ammous is an Austrian economist and author of The Bitcoin Standard and The Fiat Standard.


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#283 – Chris Mason

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #283:

  1. The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds by Christopher E. Mason
  2. The Age of Prediction: Algorithms, AI, and the Shifting Shadows of Risk by Igor Tulchinsky, Christopher E. Mason
  3. The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity by Toby Ord
  4. The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
  5. Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit
  6. Books by Kim Stanley Robinson

Chris Mason is a professor of genomics, physiology, and biophysics at Cornell, doing research on the long-term effects of space on the human body.


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#282 – David Buss

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #282:

  1. The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies of Human Matin by David M. Buss
  2. Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind by David M. Buss
  3. The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex by David M. Buss
  4. Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between) by Cindy M. Meston, David M. Buss
  5. When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault by David M. Buss
  6. The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

David Michael Buss is an American evolutionary psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, researching human sex differences in mate selection. He is considered one of the founders of evolutionary psychology. Wikipedia


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#281 – Grimes

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #281:

  1. Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks
  2. The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
  3. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream: The Official Strategy Guide by Mel Odom
  4. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
  5. Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence by James Lovelock

Claire Elise Boucher, known professionally as Grimes, is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Her early work has been described as extending from “lo-fi R&B” to futuristic dance-pop, and has incorporated influences from electronic music, hip hop, and rock. Wikipedia


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#280 – Cristiano Amon

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #280:

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Cristiano Amon is an electrical engineer. He is currently the CEO and President of Qualcomm, a large semiconductor research and development company. Amon was born circa 1970 in Brazil, where he earned a degree in electrical engineering. He began his career working on wireless technology for early cell phone networks. Wikipedia


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#279 – Sara Walker and Lee Cronin

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #279 Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin:

  1. The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence by Paul Davies

Sara Imari Walker is an American theoretical physicist and astrobiologist with research interests in the origins of life, astrobiology, physics of life, emergence, complex and dynamical systems, and artificial life. Wikipedia

Lee Cronin is a chemist at the University of Glasgow.


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