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Don't Look Up
Adam McKay (inferred)
“watch it”
“if you're watching this you haven't seen it watch it because we are actually acting out it's it's life imitating art”— Max Tegmark
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Needful Things
Stephen King
“I love Stephen King”
“have you seen the movie Needful Things it's a Stephen King novel I love Stephen King and Max fonseedov Swedish actors playing the guys it's brilliant”— Max Tegmark
The guest's own work
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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Max Tegmark
“allow me to briefly look at the book which at this point is becoming more and more Visionary that you've written I guess over five years ago life 3.0”— Lex Fridman
Also referenced (named, not recommended)
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Meditations on Moloch
Scott Alexander
“have you read meditations on malloc by Scott Alexander yes yeah it's a beautiful essay on this poem by Ginsburg”— Max Tegmark
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Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
Stuart Russell
“even though Stuart Russell has written a book and given a lot of talks on why it's a bad idea to have ai just blindly optimize something”— Max Tegmark
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
“don't let it read Daniel kahneman's book about cognitive biases and all that and then oops lol you know let's invent social media”— Max Tegmark
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Men in Black
Barry Sonnenfeld (inferred)
“you don't have to feel guilty about turning off gpt4 and wiping its memory whenever a new user comes along I wouldn't like if someone did that to me neutralized me like in Men In Black”— Max Tegmark
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