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The Precipice
Toby Ord
“has a great book about this”
“ever since really the first nuclear test when they uh tony orb has a great book about this called the precipice where the precipice for humanity”— guest
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Reasons and Persons
Derek Parfit
“wrote this great book”
“derek parfitt wrote this great book called reasons and persons about how you really define an individual is not just your own thoughts”— guest
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The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds
Chris Mason
“he also wrote an epic book titled the next 500 years engineering life to reach new worlds that boldly looks at what it takes to colonize space”— Lex Fridman
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The Age of Prediction
Chris Mason
“i think called the age of prediction so the next book that's coming is all the ways where machine learning tools predictive algorithms have fundamentally changed our life”— guest
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Contact
Carl Sagan
“like what carl sagan wrote about in contact doing prime numbers and sending those out to indicate intelligence”— guest
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The Andromeda Strain
Michael Crichton
“or michael creighton wrote a book the andromeda strain about this very idea and we could but it hopefully won't”— guest
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The Big Lebowski
Coen Brothers (inferred)
“they're called nihilist donnie that's a shout out for big lebowski they're like nothing matters”— guest
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Mars trilogy
Kim Stanley Robinson
“kim stanley robinson wrote a lot about this in his books the new martian religion that was created so i think this idea has been discussed”— guest
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Velcro
Velcro (inferred)
“it would be it would need a lot of velcro i think is my only real answer there”— guest
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Netflix
Netflix
“and also you'd still get up updates from netflix if you're on the way towards another star you can still get downloads”— guest
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2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick (inferred)
“for people who haven't seen 2001 space odyssey held 9000 is very kind of um focused on the mission cares a lot about the mission”— guest
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Amazon Alexa
Amazon
“that's why they talked about kids have to be polite to alexa um because they find if they're you know if kids are rude to ai systems”— guest
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Trading Places
John Landis (inferred)
“there's even movies like trading spaces about this with eddie murphy or like these are people who can swap bodies”— guest
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IBM Watson
IBM
“watson when notoriously was made by ibm to try and replace doctors i actually love ibm so i was in the room when we got a tour of watson”— guest
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Counter-Strike
Valve (inferred)
“in grad school i'd sometimes play like counter-strike or half-life like 12 hours straight now like what was i did”— guest
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Half-Life
Valve (inferred)
“in grad school i'd sometimes play like counter-strike or half-life like 12 hours straight now like what was i did”— guest
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Diablo
Blizzard Entertainment (inferred)
“the amount of hours i spent playing like diablo and like video like is insane i'm sure it adds up to like weeks maybe months”— guest
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Final Fantasy
Square Enix (inferred)
“some of the games like final fantasy things or things we actually had to solve problems and think and they were some degree of strategy”— guest
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