This book by Rodney Brooks has come up 2 times on Lex Fridman. The people who brought it up: Peter Woit, Rodney Brooks. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2021-09-03 and the most recent from 2021-12-03. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Every time it came up
Peter Woit: Theories of Everything & Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong | Lex Fridman Podcast #246
“part of the point of the book and its title was that you know that this this ultimately was it was a failure”— Peter Woit
The guest here is Peter Woit: Theoretical physicist and mathematician at Columbia University, author of the book and influential blog 'Not Even Wrong', best known as a leading critic of string theory. Columbia physicist-mathematician Peter Woit explains why string theory is 'not even wrong' and where the real beauty in math and physics lives.
Rodney Brooks: Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #217
“in fact i'm halfway through a i think it'll be about a 480 page book titled the working title is not even wrong”— Rodney Brooks
The guest here is Rodney Brooks: One of the most influential roboticists in history; he led MIT's CSAIL and co-founded iRobot (Roomba), Rethink Robotics (Baxter, Sawyer), and Robust.AI. Known for legit real-world engineering and contrarian critiques of AI hype. Legendary roboticist Rodney Brooks pushes back on AI hype while tracing the deep history and stubborn hard problems of building real-world robots.
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