#293 – Donald Hoffman

12 Jun 2022

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #293:

The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes by Donald D. Hoffman
Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information by David Marr

Donald David Hoffman is an American cognitive psychologist and popular science author. He is a professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine Wikipedia

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#292 – Robin Hanson

09 Jun 2022

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #292:

The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson
The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth by Robin Hanson

Robin Hanson is a professor at George Mason University and researcher at Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford.

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#291 – Jonathan Haidt

04 Jun 2022

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #291:

The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt
iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy — and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood and What That Means for the Rest of Us by Jean M. Twenge
Free-Range Kids: How Parents and Teachers Can Let Go and Let Grow by Lenore Skenazy
The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure by Yascha Mounk
The Turner Diaries by Andrew Macdonald
The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri

Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at NYU and author of The Coddling of the American Mind, The Righteous Mind, and The Happiness Hypothesis.

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#290 – Dan Reynolds

30 May 2022

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #290:

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer

Daniel Coulter Reynolds is an American singer and songwriter. He is the lead vocalist of the pop rock band Imagine Dragons. Reynolds also released an EP in 2011, titled Egyptian – EP, as a duo with his former wife Aja Volkman under the moniker Egyptian. Wikipedia

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#289 – Stephen Kotkin

25 May 2022

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #289:

Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin

Stephen Mark Kotkin is an American historian, academic, and author. He is currently the Kleinheinz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Wikipedia

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#288 – Sarma Melngailis

23 May 2022

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #288:

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

20 May 2022

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #287:

No books mentioned.

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

17 May 2022

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #286:

Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game by Oliver Stone
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

14 May 2022

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #285:

Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study by Orlando Patterson
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
Death’s End by Cixin Liu
How to Eat to Live by Elijah Muhammad
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray
The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion – Our Social Skin by Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann
Knowledge And Decisions by Thomas Sowell
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
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

11 May 2022

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #284:

The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking by Saifedean Ammous
The Fiat Standard: Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization by Saifedean Ammous
Principles of Economics by Carl Menger
The Theory of Money and Credit by Ludwig von Mises
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics by Ludwig Von Mises
The Bank of England 1914-21 (Unpublished War History) by John Osborne
The Blocksize War: The Battle Over Who Controls Bitcoin’s Protocol Rules by Jonathan Bier
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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