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Robot & Frank
Jake Schreier (inferred)
“the one that i really like is”
“there's a movie called robot and frank which i think is really interesting because it's very near-term future”— Michael Littman
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Kinesis keyboard
Kinesis
“they're gorgeous”
“it's a kinesis keyboard which is this butt shaped keyboard yes i've seen them yeah and they're very i don't know sexy elegant”— Lex Fridman
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GNU Emacs
Richard Stallman (inferred)
“emacs is clearly so much better”
“emacs is clearly so much better i don't understand but you know why do i say that because i spent a block of time in the 80s”— Michael Littman
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Program or Be Programmed
Douglas Rushkoff
“that book had a big big impact on me”
“i find myself thinking of program or be programmed a lot by douglas roshkopf which basically put out the premise that we all need to become programmers”— Michael Littman
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Human Compatible
Stuart Russell
“did a remarkably good job”
“i think stewart's book did a remarkably good job like a just a celebratory good job at describing ai technology and sort of how it works”— Michael Littman
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Exhalation
Ted Chiang
“one sci-fi book to recommend”
“one sci-fi book to recommend is exhalations by ted chang a bunch of short stories”— Michael Littman
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2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick (inferred)
“i could use 2001 a space odyssey or x machina to talk about agi for one two three hours”— Lex Fridman
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Ex Machina
Alex Garland (inferred)
“i could use 2001 a space odyssey or x machina to talk about agi for one two three hours”— Lex Fridman
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Westworld
HBO (inferred)
“i saw a video of you talking to charles isbell about westworld the tv series you guys were doing a kind of thing”— Lex Fridman
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Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom
“for example i read boston's book and a bunch of other reading material about this sort of general way of thinking”— Michael Littman
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Calvin and Hobbes
Bill Watterson (inferred)
“there's this great calvin and hobb's cartoon where calvin's dad is always kind of a bit of a foil”— Michael Littman
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Piano Man
Billy Joel
“it was billy joel's the piano man nice which is a great song great song yeah yeah and sing me a song”— Michael Littman
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TRS-80 Model 1
Tandy RadioShack (inferred)
“i had a trs-80 model one before they were called model ones because there was nothing else i got my computer in 1979”— Michael Littman
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The Alignment Problem
Brian Christian
“currently i'm reading the alignment problem actually by brian christian so i don't know if you've seen this out there yet”— Michael Littman
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Arrival
Denis Villeneuve (inferred)
“ted chang is the guy who wrote the short story that became the movie arrival”— Michael Littman
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams (inferred)
“that is a book i read the historical hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy that that is the meaning of life”— Michael Littman
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