Manifold
Steve Hsu
Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Join him for wide-ranging conversations with leading writers, scientists, technologists, academics, entrepreneurs, investors, and more.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Manifold podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Apple in China
The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
Patrick McGee
#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Superintelligence
Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom
#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Provoked, How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
Scott Horton
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
From Third World to first
The Singapore Story: 1965-2000
Lee Kuan Yew
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
JD Vance
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The art of learning
An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
Josh Waitzkin
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Fabric of Reality
The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
David Deutsch
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The many worlds of Hugh Everett III
Peter Byrne
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Genius
The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
James Gleick
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Meeting the Universe Halfway
Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
Karen Barad
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Against Empathy
The Case for Rational Compassion
Paul Bloom
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Crypto-Current
Nick Land
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Whatever
Michel Houellebecq
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Classical School: The Birth of Economics in 20 Enlightened Lives
Callum Williams
