#2091

Mentioned in 23 episodes

When We Cease to Understand the World

Book • 2021

Benjamín Labatut

Mentioned by

Blaise Aguera y Arcas

Zach Yerushalmi

Charles Broskoski

Mentioned in 23 episodes

Mentioned when talking about fiction and how writing is like picking flowers off the ground.

29: Billy Oppenheimer - Attuned to Clues

Mentioned by

Coco Krumme

as a book that miraculously blends fiction and nonfiction, exploring the origins of ideas.

ReThinking: The problem with optimizing our lives (w/ Barry Schwartz and Coco Krumme)

Mentioned by

Mario Gabriele

while discussing writers who use fiction to reveal deeper truths about reality and narrative.

43: Mario Gabriele - Reality is Story-Shaped

Has a line about writing, that it's less like creating something, more like picking up flowers off the ground.

22: Nadia Asparouhova - Ideas that Infect

Recommended by

Derek Thompson

as a book that fills him with curiosity about scientific discovery.

Derek Thompson on AI, abundance, and human progress

Mentioned by

Blaise Aguera y Arcas

as an alternative reference to find pseudo-documentation of Niels Albaricelli's A-life experiments.

Google Researcher Shows Life "Emerges From Code" - Blaise Agüera y Arcas

Recommended by

Hannah Fry

as capturing the exhilaration of being at the brink of new knowledge.

Hannah Fry on AI, Algorithms, and Human Nature

Recommended by

Zach Yerushalmi

as a provocative, mind-bending weekend read about the consequences of scientific discovery.

Mentioned by

Jackson Dahl

quoting

Charles Broskoski

about a writer who treats creativity as research and finding others' phrases.

40: Charles Broskoski - Everything is Personal

Recommended by

Coco Krumme

as a blend of fiction and nonfiction about mathematicians and philosophers.

Why aiming for the best isn't always good for you (w/ Barry Schwartz and Coco Krumme)

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