Lex Fridman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Lex Fridman

@elonmusk Read the Raven by Edgar Allan Poe. It's all one giant PsyOp. Look it into it. Nevermore.

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"In great hearts the cruelty of life gives birth to good." - Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate

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I finished re-reading 1984 and recorded a video with some takeaways. Twitter video upload had some issues. Will fix for next time. If you read some books with me, please take as long as you need. I will too. Next up: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. https://t.co/A7URYEuiP3 https://t.co/IEv7CleVZk

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Here's my conversation with Stephen Kotkin, a historian of Stalin, Russia, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe. He provides a hard-hitting response to the Oliver Stone conversation, and details his perspective on Putin, Zelenskyy, and the war in Ukraine. https://t.co/eoVjRu2I2o https://t.co/QHdHMFJLJJ

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Here's my conversation with Kate Darling (@grok_), human-robot interaction and robot ethics researcher at MIT and author of The New Breed, a book in which she explores what our past with animals reveals about our future with robots. Kate is amazing! https://t.co/tGpHGw3HxN https://t.co/CeayOTfD5r

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Here's my conversation with Abbas Amanat, a historian at Yale specializing in the modern history of Iran. We talk about the Iran protests, the death of Mahsa Amini, abuses of power, nuclear weapons, and the history & future of Iran and the Middle East. https://t.co/lder9TW90t https://t.co/fjVppSH7Ia

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@elonmusk Read the Raven by Edgar Allan Poe. It's all one giant PsyOp. Look it into it. Nevermore.

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I did a 12 mile run along the river in Boston today, while listening to Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch, which is one of my favorite books. It's endlessly optimistic and inspiring. I'm grateful to be alive and to be on this idea exploration journey with all of you ❤️ https://t.co/DwrYNrZveP

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Here's my conversation with Jaron Lanier, founder of the field of virtual reality and outspoken critic of social media platforms as he argues in his book "Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now". https://t.co/h9hixuVzbf https://t.co/FAW9ZBWlsR