Many smart people out there say AI is an existential risk. AI Armageddon is certainly is a top-5 concern of enough people that we feel it warrants a deeper understanding. And in Superintelligence, Bostrom is the perfect robot-impersonating-aut

The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins

Apr 5th, 2020 1h 18m

Selfish Gene answers a deep and fundamental question: How does evolution work? We start our story in the Primordial Soup served hot at the Big Bang’s favorite diner, the single-cell-stew that brewed in Earth’s original oceans (after millions of

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion - Jonathan Haidt

Apr 5th, 2020 1h 41m

The Righteous Mind answers a deep and fundamental question: why can’t we all just get along? Why can’t Democrats and Republicans understand each other better? Haidt answers these better than anyone (ever) by breaking down the social psychology

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari

Apr 5th, 2020 1h 39m

Sapiens is a 416-page story of humankind from 6M years ago to today. Harari wraps it all up: our psychology, technology, religion, economy, politics… Nobody puts things quite the way Yuval does - he’s got some weird/deep thoughts and spits some

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrum

Mar 15th, 2020 1h 5m

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

Mar 15th, 2020 1h 18m

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Mar 15th, 2020 1h 41m

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Mar 15th, 2020 1h 39m

Sapiens is a 416-page angle on the story and history of humankind from 6M years ago to today. Harari wraps it all up: our psychology, technology, religion, economy, politics… Nobody puts things quite the way Yuval does - he’s got some weird/dee

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom

Dec 20th, 2019 1h 6m

Some of the smartest people out there say a SUPERINTELLIGENT AI is an existential risk. Lets get some deeper understanding, and Bostrom is the perfect machine-impersonating author to give us the basics while capturing magnitude of the potential

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

Dec 20th, 2019 1h 18m

WHAT IS LIFE? HOW DOES IT KEEP CREATING ITSELF?If you hatch out of your egg first, should you try and chuck your brothers and sisters out of the nest?Dawkins tells us a great story about these teeny little replicators inside everyone one of ou

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt

Dec 14th, 2019 1h 43m

The deep psychology about "why we all can’t just get along?"1. Emotions come first, reasoning comes second2. We all have different moral tastebuds3. We are 90% chimp and 10% hiveish beeUsing insights from evolutionary psych to explain why we al

Sapiens: A Brief History of Human Kind by Yuval Noah Harari

Oct 8th, 2019 1h 39m

Aerial-flyover of the story and history of humankind from 6M years ago to today. Important and foundational themes for all of humanity: psychology, technology, religion, economy, politics… Cognitive Revolution 70,000 years agoAgricultural Revol