Doom Debates
Liron Shapira
It's time to talk about the end of the world! lironshapira.substack.com
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Doom Debates podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 4 episodes
Superintelligence
Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom
#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes
How the Mind Works
Steven Pinker
#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Nate Soares
#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Language Instinct
How the Mind Creates Language
Steven Pinker
#5 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Our Mathematical Universe
My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Max Tegmark
#6 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Doing Good Better
Will MacAskill
#7 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Quantum Computing Since Democritus
Scott Aaronson
#8 Mentioned in 2 episodes
AI 2027
None
Daniel Kokotajlo, Scott Alexander, Thomas Larsen, Eli Lifland, Romeo Dean
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Birth of the Mind
How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates The Complexities of Human Thought
Gary Marcus
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Mate
None
Geoffrey Miller
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Case against Education
Bryan Caplan
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Blank Slate
Steven Pinker
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Human Compatible
Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
Stuart J. Russell
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The TechLash and Tech Crisis Communication
Nirit Weisblatt
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Fabric of Reality
The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
David Deutsch
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Why greatness cannot be planned
Kenneth Stanley
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Origins of Woke
Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics
Richard Hanania
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Doomsday Machine
Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
Daniel Ellsberg
