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Mentioned in 21 episodes

When We Cease to Understand the World

Book • 2021

Benjamín Labatut

Mentioned by

Blaise Aguera y Arcas

Jim O’Shaughnessy

Charles Broskoski

Mentioned in 21 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.

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

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

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)

Recommended by

Charlie Wood

as a fictional account of famous figures in science, including Heisenberg's breakthrough in quantum mechanics.

‘It’s a Mess’: A Brain-Bending Trip to Quantum Theory’s 100th Birthday Party

Mentioned by

Jim O’Shaughnessy

, who kept going back to the book while preparing for the conversation with

Sam Arbesman

.

Sam Arbesman — Science, Complexity and Humanistic Computation (EP.277)

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