Book · recommended on 2 episodes
Enlightenment Now
Steven Pinker ISBN 9780525529798
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Steven Pinker ISBN 9780525529798
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This book by Steven Pinker has come up 2 times on Lex Fridman. One of those mentions was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Steven Pinker, guest. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2018-10-17 and the most recent from 2019-12-21. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Steven Pinker argues that despite the rampant pessimism about the state of the world today, the facts prove that we are on a significant path upward.
“Steven Pinker who as a very famous author and philosopher whom I really adore wrote a great book called enlightenment now and that's maybe the one book I would recommend”— guest
The guest here is Sebastian Thrun: Roboticist, computer scientist, and educator who led Stanford's DARPA-winning autonomous car and the Google self-driving car program. He co-founded Udacity and is CEO of flying-car company Kitty Hawk. Sebastian Thrun on building self-driving cars, flying cars, and democratizing education, plus why he loves being alive in this era.
“the short answer would be to read the sections that I wrote an Enlightenment I know about AI”— Steven Pinker
The guest here is Steven Pinker: Cognitive psychologist and linguist at Harvard; bestselling author on language, the mind, violence, and reason. Steven Pinker argues AI existential-threat fears are magical thinking, and that reason and engineering culture make AI a humanitarian boon.
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