#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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#278 – Skye Fitzgerald

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #278:

  1. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
  2. Ten Points by Bill Strickland
  3. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
  4. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Skye Fitzgerald is a two-time Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, his films include Hunger Ward, Lifeboat, and 50 Feet from Syria.


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#277 – Andrew Huberman

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #277:

  1. On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
  2. Projections: A Story of Human Emotions by Karl Deisseroth
  3. The Enlightenment Trap: Obsession, Madness and Death on Diamond Mountain by Scott Carney
  4. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
  5. Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time by Dean Buonomano
  6. The Erotic Imagination: French Histories of Perversity by Vernon A. Rosario
  7. Attached: Are you Anxious, Avoidant or Secure? How the science of adult attachment can help you find – and keep – love by Amir Levine, Rachel Heller
  8. Can Love Last?: The Fate of Romance over Time by Stephen A. Mitchell

Andrew D. Huberman is an American neuroscientist and tenured associate professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine who has made contributions to the fields of brain development, brain plasticity, and neural regeneration and repair. Wikipedia

Other appearances: #139, #164, #393, #435


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#276 – Michael Saylor

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #276:

  1. The Mobile Wave: How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything by Michael Saylor
  2. The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking by Saifedean Ammous
  3. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Michael J. Saylor is an American entrepreneur and business executive. He is the executive chairman and a co-founder of MicroStrategy, a company that provides business intelligence, mobile software, and cloud-based services. Saylor served as MicroStrategy’s chief executive officer from 1989 to 2022. Wikipedia


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#275 – Rick Rubin

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #275:

  1. Slow Burn: Burn Fat Faster by Exercising Slower by Stu Mittleman, Katherine Callan
  2. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall

Frederick Jay Rubin is an American record executive and record producer. He is the co-founder of Def Jam Recordings, founder of American Recordings, and former co-president of Columbia Records. Wikipedia


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#274 – Karl Deisseroth

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #274:

  1. Projections: A Story of Human Emotions by Karl Deisseroth
  2. Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  3. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  4. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
  5. Two English Poems by Jorge Luis Borges

Karl Alexander Deisseroth is an American scientist. He is the D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University. Wikipedia


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