Dwarkesh Podcast Books Mentioned, Recommendations & Quotes

Joseph Studwell

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Mentioned in Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake, Lars Doucet — Progress, poverty, Georgism, & why rent is too damn high +2 more.

The Power Broker

Robert Caro

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Mentioned in Nadia Asparouhova — Tech elites, democracy, open source, & philanthropy, Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism +2 more.

The Case Against Education

brian kaplan

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Mentioned in Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues, Tyler Cowen - Talent, Collapse, & Pessimism of Sex +1 more.

The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Mentioned in Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution, Tyler Cowen — Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, animal spirits, anarchy, & growth +1 more.

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Peter Thiel

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Mentioned in Tyler Cowen — Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, animal spirits, anarchy, & growth, Agustin Lebron - Trading, Crypto, and Adverse Selection +1 more.

1493

Charles Mann

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in "China is digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin." — Ken Rogoff, Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry.

A Scaling Era

2 mentions · 1 episode

Mentioned in AMA: career advice given AGI, how I research ft. Sholto & Trenton.

Against the Grain

James Scott

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago, Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry.

Better Angels of Our Nature

Steven Pinker

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return of history, Richard Hanania - Foreign Policy, Fertility, and Wokeness.

GOAT: Who Is the Greatest Economist of All Time and Why Does It Matter?

Tyler Cowen

2 mentions · 1 episode

Mentioned in Tyler Cowen — Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, animal spirits, anarchy, & growth.

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in Bryan Caplan - Discrimination, Poverty, & Mental Illness, Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas.

Moby Dick

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken, Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin.

Open Borders

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in Garett Jones — Immigration, national IQ, & less democracy, Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas.

The Art of War

Sun Tzu

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in Sarah Paine — How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China, Sarah Paine — Why Japan lost WWII (lecture & interview).

The Decadent Society

Ross Douthat

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty, Caleb Watney - America's Innovation Engine.

The Economics of World War II

Mark Harrison

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism, Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable, Adam Brown — Bubble universes, space elevators, & AdS/CFT.

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhodes

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin, Richard Rhodes — The making of the atomic bomb.

The Precipice

Toby ORD

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics, Fin Moorhouse - Longtermism, Space, & Entrepreneurship.

The Prize

Daniel Yergin

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in Sarah Paine — Why Japan lost WWII (lecture & interview), Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin.

The Problem of Political Authority

Michael Huber

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in David Friedman - Dating Markets, Legal Systems, Bitcoin, and Automation, Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress.

Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career

Scott Young

2 mentions · 1 episode

Mentioned in Scott Young - Ultralearning.

Where Is My Flying Car?

J. Storrs Hall

2 mentions · 1 episode

Mentioned in Brian Potter - Future of Construction, Ugly Modernism, & Environmental Review.

10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less

Garett Jones

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Garett Jones — Immigration, national IQ, & less democracy.

13 Days

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake.

1491

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry.

1491, New Revelations of America Before Columbus

Charles Man

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry.

1493, Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

Charles Man

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry.

A Brief History of Intelligence

Max Bennett

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Adam Marblestone — AI is missing something fundamental about the brain.

A Deepness in the Sky

Vernor Vinge

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Agustin Lebron - Trading, Crypto, and Adverse Selection.

A Swim in the Pond in the Rain

George Saunders

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics.

Abundance

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in "China is digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin." — Ken Rogoff.

Adam Smith

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry.

Adolescence of Technology

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential".

Aeropagitica

Milton

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution.

Against Method

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Matjaž Leonardis - Science, Identity, and Probability.

All the Devils Are Here

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Bethany McLean — Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, frauds, & visionaries.

An Economist Gets Lunch

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Tyler Cowen - Talent, Collapse, & Pessimism of Sex.

Apprentice to Genius

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Patrick Collison — Why Silicon Valley's most talented should leave.

Aztec warfare

Ross Hess

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry.

Biography of Churchill

Andrew Roberts

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Byrne Hobart - Optionality, Stagnation, and Secret Societies.

Blindsight

Peter Watts

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary.

Book of Hours

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution.

Book of Leviticus

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Nat Friedman (Github CEO) — Reading ancient scrolls, open source, & AI.

Borges and I (Borges y yo)

Jorge Luis Borges

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary.

Broad Strokes

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Kenneth T. Jackson - Robert Moses, Hero of New York?.

Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation

Bryan Caplan and Ady Branzei

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas.

Bushido: The Soul of Japan

Inazo Nitobe

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Sarah Paine — Why Japan lost WWII (lecture & interview).

Bushido: The Soul of Japan

Nitobe Inazō

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Sarah Paine — Why Japan lost WWII (lecture & interview).

By the People

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty.

C4 rice

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry.

Caro's biography of LBJ

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin.

Cavafy

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in AMA: career advice given AGI, how I research ft. Sholto & Trenton.

China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know

Arthur R. Kroeber

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Why China's manufacturing economy is dominating — Arthur Kroeber.

Churchill's Histories of the Second World War

Churchill

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Andrew Roberts — Why Hitler lost WWII, Churchill as applied historian, & Napoleon as startup founder.

Civilizations

Laurent Bin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry.

Collected editions of Borges' fiction and nonfiction

Jorge Luis Borges

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary.

Coming Apart

Charles Murray

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Bryan Caplan - Discrimination, Poverty, & Mental Illness.

Competition as a Discovery Procedure

Friedrich A. Hayek

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Tyler Cowen — Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, animal spirits, anarchy, & growth.

Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Andrew Roberts — Why Hitler lost WWII, Churchill as applied historian, & Napoleon as startup founder.

Creative Destruction

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Tyler Cowen - Talent, Collapse, & Pessimism of Sex.

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Andy Matuschak — The reason most learning tools fail.

De Rerum Natura

Lucretius

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution.

Death by Regulation

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Byrne Hobart - Optionality, Stagnation, and Secret Societies.

Deep Work

Cal Newport

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Scott Young - Ultralearning.

Democracy in America

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Sarah Paine — Why Russia Lost the Cold War.

Devotion to a Human Cause

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty.

Dictionary of Scientific Biography

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty.

Doing Capitalism

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Marc Andreessen — AI, crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, regrets, vulnerabilities, & managerial revolution.

Don't Be a Feminist

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues.

Don't Be a Feminist: A Letter to My Daughter

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues.

Dracula

Bram Stoker

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary.

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

John W. Dower

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World.

Encyclopédie

Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution.

Enlightenment Now

Steven Pinker

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Richard Hanania - Foreign Policy, Fertility, and Wokeness.

Enron

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Bethany McLean — Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, frauds, & visionaries.

Excellent Sheep

William Deresiewicz

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Byrne Hobart - Optionality, Stagnation, and Secret Societies.

Experience and Education

John Dewey

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Andy Matuschak — The reason most learning tools fail.

Failure to Disrupt

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown) — Past, present, & future of mathematics.

Fantastic Anachronism

Alvaro de Menard

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in AMA: career advice given AGI, how I research ft. Sholto & Trenton.

For the People

Charles Murray

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in David Friedman - Dating Markets, Legal Systems, Bitcoin, and Automation.

Foundations of International Macroeconomics

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in "China is digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin." — Ken Rogoff.

Founding Brothers

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Jimmy Soni - Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and the Paypal Mafia.

Freedom's Forge

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return of history.

Future Imperfect

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in David Friedman - Dating Markets, Legal Systems, Bitcoin, and Automation.

GOAT: Who's the Greatest Economist of All Time?

Tyler Cowen

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Tyler Cowen — The #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans.

Good Judgment

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Dominic Cummings - COVID, Brexit, & Fixing Western Governance.

Good Work If You Can Get It

Jason Brennan

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Scott Young - Ultralearning.

Harmonices Mundi

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery.

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Herbert P. Bix

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World.

History of Florence

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution.

Hitler's Willing Executioners

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Bryan Caplan - Discrimination, Poverty, & Mental Illness.

Hive Mind

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Garett Jones — Immigration, national IQ, & less democracy.

Hive Mind

Garrett Jones

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Bethany McLean — Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, frauds, & visionaries.

Homer

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution.

Housekeeping

Marilyn Robinson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics.

How the Mind Works

Stephen Pinker

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress.

How to Become a High School Superstar

Cal Newport

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Scott Young - Ultralearning.

How to Read a

Mortimer Adler

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Andy Matuschak — The reason most learning tools fail.

However Many Days of the Russian Revolution

Jack Reed

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Sarah Paine — How Mao conquered China (lecture & interview).

Human Accomplishment

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty.

Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences

Charles Murray

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty.

Hyperion

Dan Simmons

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary.

Imperial Japan

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake.

Inadequate Equilibria: Problems, Solutions, and the Failure of Market Efficiency

Eliezer Yudkowsky

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Alex Tabarrok - Prizes, Prices, and Public Goods.

Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge, Reality, and Value

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress.

Inventing the Renaissance

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution.

Isaacson biography

Isaacson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Scott Young - Ultralearning.

Japan Prepared for Total War

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World.

Japan prepares for total war

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World.

Java for Dummies in 10 Days

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Uncle Bob - The Long Reach of Code.

Kim

Rudyard Kipling

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Dominic Cummings - COVID, Brexit, & Fixing Western Governance.

King Lear

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Andy Matuschak — The reason most learning tools fail.

Knowledge, Reality, and Value: A Mostly Common Sense Guide to Philosophy

Michael Huemer

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Bryan Caplan - Discrimination, Poverty, & Mental Illness.

Kolyma Stories

Varlam Shalamov

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Agustin Lebron - Trading, Crypto, and Adverse Selection.

Labor Econ Versus the World

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Bryan Caplan - Discrimination, Poverty, & Mental Illness.

Land Is a Big Deal

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Lars Doucet — Progress, poverty, Georgism, & why rent is too damn high.

Launching the Innovation Renaissance

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Alex Tabarrok - Prizes, Prices, and Public Goods.

Learn C in 21 Days

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Uncle Bob - The Long Reach of Code.

Legal Systems

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in David Friedman - Dating Markets, Legal Systems, Bitcoin, and Automation.

Liberty

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty.

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Max Tegmark

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Carl Shulman (Pt 2) — AI Takeover, bio & cyber attacks, detecting deception, & humanity's far future.

Little Red Book

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Jung Chang (Wild Swans author) — Living through history's largest man-made famine.

M really a monster

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Jung Chang (Wild Swans author) — Living through history's largest man-made famine.

Machiavelli

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism.

Machines of Loving Grace

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential".

Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots

John Markoff

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential".

Making Common Sense of Japan

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Patrick McKenzie — Money laundering, big tech censorship, SBF & Japan.

Manhattan Project

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Dominic Cummings - COVID, Brexit, & Fixing Western Governance.

Mao: The Unknown Story

Jung Chang and Jon Halliday

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Jung Chang (Wild Swans author) — Living through history's largest man-made famine.

Masters and commanders

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Andrew Roberts — Why Hitler lost WWII, Churchill as applied historian, & Napoleon as startup founder.

Mind Children

Hans Moravec

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Carl Shulman (Pt 2) — AI Takeover, bio & cyber attacks, detecting deception, & humanity's far future.

Nanosystems

Eric Drexler

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Eliezer Yudkowsky — Why AI will kill us, aligning LLMs, nature of intelligence, SciFi, & rationality.

Nickel and Dimed

Barbara Ehrenreich

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Bryan Caplan - Discrimination, Poverty, & Mental Illness.

On Apollo

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty.

On Guerrilla Warfare

Mao Zedong

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Sarah Paine — How Mao conquered China (lecture & interview).

On Liberty

John Stuart Mill

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Tyler Cowen — Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, animal spirits, anarchy, & growth.

On War

Clausewitz

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Sarah Paine — Why Japan lost WWII (lecture & interview).

Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration

Bryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues.

Our Dollar, Your Problem

Kenneth Rogoff

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in "China is digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin." — Ken Rogoff.

Out of Control

Kevin Kelly

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary.

Palaces for the People

Eric Klinenberg

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Edward Glaeser - Cities, Terrorism, Housing, & Remote Work.

Paradise Lost

Milton

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution.

Plagues Upon the Earth

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper.

Plato

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution.

Play Angels in America

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics.

Plenty of Room at the Bottom

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Eliezer Yudkowsky — Why AI will kill us, aligning LLMs, nature of intelligence, SciFi, & rationality.

Pollyanna

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Sarah Fitz-Claridge - Taking Children Seriously.

Poverty: Who to Blame

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas.

Princes of the Yan

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism.

Principles (implied 'The Logic of the System')

Armen Elshian

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Tyler Cowen — Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, animal spirits, anarchy, & growth.

Progress and Poverty

Henry George

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Lars Doucet — Progress, poverty, Georgism, & why rent is too damn high.

Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy

Richard Hanania

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Richard Hanania - Foreign Policy, Fertility, and Wokeness.

Quantum Computing Since Democritus

Scott Aaronson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Scott Aaronson - Quantum Computing, Complexity, and Creativity.

Red Star Over China

Edgar Snow

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Sarah Paine — How Mao conquered China (lecture & interview).

Red-Blooded Risk: The Secret History of Wall Street

Aaron Brown

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Agustin Lebron - Trading, Crypto, and Adverse Selection.

Reiner's scaling book

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served.

Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Kenneth T. Jackson - Robert Moses, Hero of New York?.

Robert Moses and the Modern City

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Kenneth T. Jackson - Robert Moses, Hero of New York?.

Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York

Kenneth T. Jackson (editor)

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Kenneth T. Jackson - Robert Moses, Hero of New York?.

Rome's Last Citizen

Jimmy Soni

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Jimmy Soni - Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and the Paypal Mafia.

Romeo and Juliet

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution.

Saudi America

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Bethany McLean — Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, frauds, & visionaries.

Scale

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away.

Secrets of Our Success

Joseph Henrik

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo.

Seeing Like a State

James Scott

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Notes on China.

Seven Powers

Hamilton Helmer

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Patrick Collison — Why Silicon Valley's most talented should leave.

Shaky Ground

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Bethany McLean — Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, frauds, & visionaries.

Sherlock Holmes

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken — How LLMs actually think.

Slavery in the Late Roman World

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper.

Stalin Paradoxes of Power

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history.

Stalin Waiting for Hitler

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history.

Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928 (and subsequent volumes)

Stephen Kotkin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin.

Stalin's Library

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Tyler Cowen — The #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans.

Story of Your Life

Ted Chiang

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary.

Stranger in a Strange Land

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”.

Stubborn Attachments

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Tyler Cowen - The Great Reset.

Subtle is the Lord

Abraham Pais

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses.

Survival of the City

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Edward Glaeser - Cities, Terrorism, Housing, & Remote Work.

Suzanne Delage

Gene Wolfe

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary.

Talent: How to Find, Create, and Keep Energizers, Creatives, and Winners

Tyler Cowen

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Tyler Cowen - Talent, Collapse, & Pessimism of Sex.

Termination Shock

Neil Stevenson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry.

The Abolition of Man

C. S. Lewis

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Joe Carlsmith — Preventing an AI takeover.

The Age of Spiritual Machines

Ray Czolgosz

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) — 2028 AGI, superhuman alignment, new architectures.

The Anarchy

William Del Rimple

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry.

The Beginning of Infinity

David Deutsch

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Sarah Fitz-Claridge - Taking Children Seriously.

The Brain from Inside Out

Yuri Buzaki

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Adam Marblestone — AI is missing something fundamental about the brain.

The British Empire

Neil Ferguson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry.

The Commanding Heights

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin.

The Complacent Class

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Tyler Cowen - The Great Reset.

The Cosmic Landscape

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress.

The Cultural Transplant

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Garett Jones — Immigration, national IQ, & less democracy.

The Dawn of Everything

David Wingro and David Greyber

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry.

The Discoverers

Daniel Borsten

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty.

The Doomsday Machine

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Richard Rhodes — The making of the atomic bomb.

The Economic Consequences of the Pandemic

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Bethany McLean — Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, frauds, & visionaries.

The Elephant in the Brain

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Robin Hanson - The Long View.

The End of History and the Last Man

Francis Fukuyama

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism.

The Fabric of Reality

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Scott Aaronson - Quantum Computing, Complexity, and Creativity.

The Fall of Hyperion

Dan Simmons

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary.

The Fatal Conceit

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution.

The Fate of Rome

Kyle Harper

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago.

The Fate of Rome

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper.

The Foundation

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Nadia Asparouhova — Tech elites, democracy, open source, & philanthropy.

The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

Jimmy Soni

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Jimmy Soni - Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and the Paypal Mafia.

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress.

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

John Maynard Keynes

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Tyler Cowen — Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, animal spirits, anarchy, & growth.

The Goal

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha.

the green revolution

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry.

The Gulag Archipelago

Solzhenitsyn

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return of history.

The Gulag Archipelago

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Sarah Paine — The war for India (lecture & interview).

The Hagakure

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Sarah Paine — Why Japan lost WWII (lecture & interview).

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Tyler Cowen — Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, animal spirits, anarchy, & growth.

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

David W. Anthony

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo.

the humble potato

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry.

The Idea Factory

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Jimmy Soni - Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and the Paypal Mafia.

The Iliad

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism.

The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time

Jim McKelvey

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Caleb Watney - America's Innovation Engine.

The Innovator's Dilemma

Clayton M. Christensen

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Nat Friedman (Github CEO) — Reading ancient scrolls, open source, & AI.

The Invention of Science

David Wootton

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Scott Young - Ultralearning.

The Joy of Java

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Uncle Bob - The Long Reach of Code.

The Kill Chain

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Dominic Cummings - COVID, Brexit, & Fixing Western Governance.

The King's biography of Newton

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses.

The Last Animal

Ramona Ausubel

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper.

The Laws of Trading

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Agustin Lebron - Trading, Crypto, and Adverse Selection.

The Laws of Trading: A Trader's Guide to Better Decision Making for Everyone

Agustin Lebron

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Agustin Lebron - Trading, Crypto, and Adverse Selection.

The Lives of the Noble Romans (Ab Urbe Condita / Lives of Rome)

Titus Livius (Livy)

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution.

The Looming Tower

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Byrne Hobart - Optionality, Stagnation, and Secret Societies.

The Machine (uncertain)

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha.

The Man from the Future

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War.

The Man From the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann

Ananyo Bhattacharya

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War.

The Meditation Handbook

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Robin Hanson - The Long View.

The Methodologies of Scientific Research Programs

Imre Lakatos

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses.

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”.

The Napoleonic Wars of Global History

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Alexander Mikaberidze - Napoleon, War, Progress, and Global Order.

The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History

Alexander Mikaberidze

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Alexander Mikaberidze - Napoleon, War, Progress, and Global Order.

The New Map

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin.

The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

Daniel Yergin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin.

The Poker Face of Wall Street

Aaron Brown

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Agustin Lebron - Trading, Crypto, and Adverse Selection.

The Prince

Machiavelli

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution.

The Prize of the Venture

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin.

The Quest

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin.

The Reckoning

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism.

The Renaissance in Italy

Guido Ruggiero

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution.

The Russian Revolution

Richard Pipes

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues.

The Secret

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution.

The Secret of Our Success

Joe Heinrich

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken.

The Secret of Our Success

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution.

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Steve Hsu - Intelligence, Embryo Selection, & The Future of Humanity.

The Smartest Guys in the Room

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Bethany McLean — Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, frauds, & visionaries.

The Specter of Skepticism in the Age of Enlightenment

Anton Matitsin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution.

The Storms of War

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Andrew Roberts — Why Hitler lost WWII, Churchill as applied historian, & Napoleon as startup founder.

The Swerve

Greenblatt

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution.

The Symbolic Species

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken — How LLMs actually think.

The Syntopicon

Adler

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Andy Matuschak — The reason most learning tools fail.

The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Adam Smith

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution.

The Toyota Production System

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha.

The Trenches of the First World War

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Richard Rhodes — The making of the atomic bomb.

The Venturesome Economy

Amar Boudet

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Why China's manufacturing economy is dominating — Arthur Kroeber.

The Vital Question

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable.

The War for Asia

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Sarah Paine — How Mao conquered China (lecture & interview).

The Weird

Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution.

The Weirdest People in the World

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution.

The Wizard and the Prophet

Charles Mann

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues.

The Wizard and the Prophet

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry.

The World Set Free

H. G. Wells

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Richard Rhodes — The making of the atomic bomb.

The Years of Lyndon Johnson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism.

The Years of Lyndon Johnson (series)

Robert A. Caro

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro [Narration].

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Matjaž Leonardis - Science, Identity, and Probability.

This Time is Different

Carmen Reinhart

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in "China is digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin." — Ken Rogoff.

Time and Chance

David Albert

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress.

Transfer of Cognitive Skill

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Scott Young - Ultralearning.

Triumph of the City

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Edward Glaeser - Cities, Terrorism, Housing, & Remote Work.

W ma biography

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Jung Chang (Wild Swans author) — Living through history's largest man-made famine.

Wanting

Luke Burgess

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Jimmy Soni - Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and the Paypal Mafia.

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Alexander Mikaberidze - Napoleon, War, Progress, and Global Order.

Wars for Asia

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake.

What We Owe the Future

William MacAskill

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Will MacAskill - Longtermism, Altruism, History, & Technology.

When Genius Failed

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Steve Hsu - Intelligence, Embryo Selection, & The Future of Humanity.

Where's My Flying Car

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Byrne Hobart - Optionality, Stagnation, and Secret Societies.

Who We Are and How We Got Here

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago.

Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past

David Reich

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago.

Wild Swans

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Jung Chang (Wild Swans author) — Living through history's largest man-made famine.

Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

Nadia Eghbal

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Nadia Asparouhova — Tech elites, democracy, open source, & philanthropy.

Wretched Refuse

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Garett Jones — Immigration, national IQ, & less democracy.

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