#149 – Diana Walsh Pasulka

28 Dec 2020

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #149:

Heaven Can Wait: Purgatory in Catholic Devotional and Popular Culture by Diana Walsh Pasulka
American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology by Diana Walsh Pasulka
The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
The Life of the Mind by Hannah Arendt
Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred by Professor Jeffrey J. Kripal

#148 – Charles Isbell and Michael Littman

26 Dec 2020

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #148:

Machine Learning by Tom M. Mitchell
The Martian by Andy Weir
Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer

#147 – Dmitri Dolgov

21 Dec 2020

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #147:

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Snail on the Slope by Arkady Strugatsky
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Last Question by Isaac Asimov

#146 – Michael Mina

19 Dec 2020

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #146:

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

#145 – Matthew Johnson

14 Dec 2020

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #145:

Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime by Sean M. Carroll
The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience: The Classic Guide to the Effects of LSD on the Human Psyche by Robert Masters Ph.D., Jean Houston Ph.D.
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload by Cal Newport

#144 – Michael Littman

13 Dec 2020

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #144:

Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction by Andrew Barto, Richard S. Sutton
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Peter Norvig, Stuart J. Russell
Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age by Douglas Rushkoff
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values by Brian Christian
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

#143 – John Clarke

06 Dec 2020

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #143:

Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

#142 – Manolis Kellis

01 Dec 2020

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #142:

Contact by Carl Sagan
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

#141 – Erik Brynjolfsson

25 Nov 2020

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #141:

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

#140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett

20 Nov 2020

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #140:

How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays by Anne Fadiman
The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment by Richard Lewontin
Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA by Richard Lewontin
Naming the Mind: How Psychology Found Its Language by Kurt Danziger
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – and Us by Richard O. Prum
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand: A Novel by Helen Simonson
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje