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Adaptation and Natural Selection
George C. Williams (inferred)
“a nice book if you've got the time to read it”
“a nice book if you've got the time to read it is adaptation and natural selection which is one of the founding books”— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition
Ed Regis (inferred)
“I grew up reading books like great Mambo chicken in the transhuman condition and later on engines of creation and mine children”— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Engines of Creation
K. Eric Drexler (inferred)
“I grew up reading books like great Mambo chicken in the transhuman condition and later on engines of creation and mine children”— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Mind Children
Hans Moravec (inferred)
“I grew up reading books like great Mambo chicken in the transhuman condition and later on engines of creation and mine children”— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I think of uh Prince mishkin character from uh The Idiot by uh Dostoevsky is this kind of a perfectly purely naive character”— Lex Fridman
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