Episode 30: The Greatest Books Ever Written
Very Bad Wizards
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The Tortoise and Achilles
Every chapter starts with a dialogue between tortoise and Achilles in the tortoise that just presents an idea like self-reference or infinity. He takes after Lewis Carroll, who borrowed those characters from Zeno. And so there's a lot of ideas about just artificial intelligence and cognitive science which I only realized years later had planted the seed for my interest in these topics.
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