Book · recommended on 2 episodes
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
Richard Feynman ISBN 0738205052
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Richard Feynman ISBN 0738205052
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This book by Richard Feynman has come up 2 times on Lex Fridman. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Max Tegmark, guest. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2021-01-18 and the most recent from 2021-05-29. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“i benefited enormously from as early in my career from reading in physics einstein in the original and feynman's lectures as they were coming out and darwin”— guest
The guest here is Frank Wilczek: Theoretical physicist at MIT who won the 2004 Nobel Prize for co-discovering asymptotic freedom in the strong interaction. Author of popular physics books including A Beautiful Question and Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality. Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek takes Lex Fridman from quarks and dark matter to consciousness, complementarity, and whether aliens exist.
“one of my favorite physics textbooks in fact the one that got me into physics in the first place the feynman lectures on physics”— Max Tegmark
The guest here is Max Tegmark: MIT physicist and AI researcher, co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, and author of Life 3.0. He works at the intersection of AI and physics and is a leading voice on AI safety and existential risk. Max Tegmark on making AI intelligible, aligning powerful systems, the threat of autonomous weapons, and whether we're alone in the universe.
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