Book · recommended on 3 episodes
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace ISBN 0316920045
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David Foster Wallace ISBN 0316920045
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This book by David Foster Wallace has come up 3 times across 2 different shows: Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. 3 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: George Hotz, Michael Kearns, Michael Schur. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2019-11-19 and the most recent from 2022-01-21. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
A spoof on our culture featuring a drug-and-alcohol rehabilitation house near Boston. The center becomes a hotbed of revolutionary activity by Quebec separatists in revolt against the Organization of North American Nations which now rules the continent.
“february of 1996 i am at the end of my junior year in college and infinite just comes out”— Michael Schur
The guest here is Michael Schur: TV writer and showrunner who created The Good Place and co-created Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, after writing on SNL and The Office. He is also the author of the moral-philosophy book How to Be Perfect. Michael Schur on the Harvard Lampoon, SNL's brutal lessons, learning to write from Greg Daniels, and turning moral philosophy into comedy.
“infinite jest is a book about wireheading really very enjoyable to read very uh well-written you will grow as a person reading this book”— George Hotz
The guest here is George Hotz: Hacker known as geohot, famous for jailbreaking the iPhone and PlayStation 3. Founder of comma ai, which sells the $1,000 comma two device and open-source openpilot software for semi-autonomous driving. George Hotz riffs on hacking the simulation, crypto, immortality, and why end-to-end neural nets beat Tesla's task-by-task approach to self-driving.
“my favorite novel is Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace which actually coincidentally much of it takes place in the halls of buildings right around us”— Michael Kearns
The guest here is Michael Kearns: A University of Pennsylvania computer science professor and co-author of The Ethical Algorithm. He is a world-class researcher in machine learning theory, algorithmic game theory, and quantitative finance. Michael Kearns explains how fairness, privacy, and ethics can be encoded into algorithms, and where the math runs into human values.
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