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3Blue1Brown
“One takeaway I had from reading and watching your stuff on the cosmic distance ladder… By the way, I highly recommend people watch your series with 3Blue1Brown on the cosmic distance ladder.”
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The Prize
“The thing I find wild when I'm reading The Prize is just how much economic development is ultimately contingent on the laws of physics.”
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The Storm of War
“You have this really interesting book, I think probably my favorite book about World War II, The Storm of War, which I highly recommend.”
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The Power Broker
“Yeah, I totally agree. I don't want to repeat myself, because I talked about this on my Byrne episode but we were talking about Robert Caro's books and one interesting thing is this guy was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize before he wrote The Power Broker. He was a top tier investigative journalist. Can you imagine crunching the numbers as a top tier investigative journalist at the peak of your career and you're like, “You know what would be a good use of my time? I'm going to spend the next seven years, in almost poverty, writing about this one guy who had a lot of influence in New York. I'm going to talk to any person who had conceivably even been in the same room as him or had been indirectly affected by his policies in any way. And I'm gonna do that obsessively for the next seven years.” There's no way the number crunching would get you there but it's probably been one of the most influential books in terms of how urban governance is done. Presidents have praised and read the book and said it changed how they think about politics. It is the kind of thing where you wouldn't have gone to that conclusion just from thinking about it beforehand and this is the most effective thing I could do.”
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Triumph of the City
“Your most recent book is Survival of the City. And before that Triumph of the City, both of which I highly recommend to readers.”
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01 / recommendation
Because if the data centers are built in America, you can fundamentally just tax the data centers.
“Because if the data centers are built in America, you can fundamentally just tax the data centers.”
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02 / recommendation
I think a good place to start will be Michelson-Morley and how special relativity is discovered, if it’s different from the story that you get off of YouTube videos.
“I think a good place to start will be Michelson-Morley and how special relativity is discovered, if it’s different from the story that you get off of YouTube videos.”
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03 / recommendation
One takeaway I had from reading and watching your stuff on the cosmic distance ladder… By the way, I highly recommend people watch your series with 3Blue1Brown on the cosmic distance ladder.
“One takeaway I had from reading and watching your stuff on the cosmic distance ladder… By the way, I highly recommend people watch your series with 3Blue1Brown on the cosmic distance ladder.”
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- Dwarkesh Patel
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04 / recommendation
Recommends your series with 3Blue1Brown on the cosmic distance ladder.
“I highly recommend people watch your series with 3Blue1Brown on the cosmic distance ladder.”
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05 / recommendation
Mentions personal use of The Prize.
“The thing I find wild when I'm reading The Prize is just how much economic development is ultimately contingent on the laws of physics.”
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06 / recommendation
David, thank you so much for coming on the podcast. I highly, highly recommend your book, Who We Are and How We Got Here.
“David, thank you so much for coming on the podcast. I highly, highly recommend your book, Who We Are and How We Got Here.”
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07 / recommendation
I don’t know practically if it works out that well. But that experience made me think that I should try to expand my horizons in an undirected way because there’s lots of different things you have to understand about the world to understand any one thing.
“I don’t know practically if it works out that well. But that experience made me think that I should try to expand my horizons in an undirected way because there’s lots of different things you have to understand about the world to understand any one thing.”
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08 / recommendation
I want to go back to the point you made earlier about how this process could be more sample efficient because it could generalize from its pre-training experiences of how to get unstuck in different scenarios.
“I want to go back to the point you made earlier about how this process could be more sample efficient because it could generalize from its pre-training experiences of how to get unstuck in different scenarios.”
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09 / recommendation
The global impact of 'Wild Swans' has been tremendous. A former guest of mine, Sarah Payne, recommended it to me, and I read it.
“The global impact of 'Wild Swans' has been tremendous. A former guest of mine, Sarah Payne, recommended it to me, and I read it.”
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10 / recommendation
Recommends The Storm of War.
“You have this really interesting book, I think probably my favorite book about World War II, The Storm of War, which I highly recommend.”
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- Andrew Roberts — Why Hitler lost WWII, Churchill as applied historian, & Napoleon as startup founder
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11 / recommendation
And also, I've really enjoyed your book on Japan, The Japanese Empire. And you also have these other textbooks and collections of essays, which I highly recommend because of the thorough nature and the diversity of sources.
“And also, I've really enjoyed your book on Japan, The Japanese Empire. And you also have these other textbooks and collections of essays, which I highly recommend because of the thorough nature and the diversity of sources.”
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12 / recommendation
I guess this maybe implies that if you do want to learn about a subject, it might just be helpful to just do an Intro to X subject course or textbook, not necessarily because it is instrumentally valuable to whatever problem you're interested in but because it'll give you the context by which to proceed on, the actual learning.
“I guess this maybe implies that if you do want to learn about a subject, it might just be helpful to just do an Intro to X subject course or textbook, not necessarily because it is instrumentally valuable to whatever problem you're interested in but because it'll give you the context by which to proceed on, the actual learning.”
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13 / recommendation
Likes The first third.
“The first third is about the scientific roots of the physics and it's also the best book I've read about the history of science in the early 20th century and the organization of it.”
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14 / recommendation
The people who are working on AI right now are huge fans of yours. They're the ones who initially recommended the book to me because the way they see the progress in the field reminded them of this book.
“The people who are working on AI right now are huge fans of yours. They're the ones who initially recommended the book to me because the way they see the progress in the field reminded them of this book.”
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15 / recommendation
Recommends The Power Broker.
“Yeah, I totally agree. I don't want to repeat myself, because I talked about this on my Byrne episode but we were talking about Robert Caro's books and one interesting thing is this guy was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize before he wrote The Power Broker. He was a top tier investigative journalist. Can you imagine crunching the numbers as a top tier investigative journalist at the peak of your career and you're like, “You know what would be a good use of my time? I'm going to spend the next seven years, in almost poverty, writing about this one guy who had a lot of influence in New York. I'm going to talk to any person who had conceivably even been in the same room as him or had been indirectly affected by his policies in any way. And I'm gonna do that obsessively for the next seven years.” There's no way the number crunching would get you there but it's probably been one of the most influential books in terms of how urban governance is done. Presidents have praised and read the book and said it changed how they think about politics. It is the kind of thing where you wouldn't have gone to that conclusion just from thinking about it beforehand and this is the most effective thing I could do.”
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- Dwarkesh Patel
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
16 / recommendation
There's many places where if you understand the economics of an issue he's talking about there's a lot to be left to Caro’s explanation but the actual breakdown of the personalities is just so fascinating and worth reading Caro for.
“There's many places where if you understand the economics of an issue he's talking about there's a lot to be left to Caro’s explanation but the actual breakdown of the personalities is just so fascinating and worth reading Caro for.”
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17 / recommendation
Recommends Triumph of the City.
“Your most recent book is Survival of the City. And before that Triumph of the City, both of which I highly recommend to readers.”
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18 / recommendation
Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Brian Potter, who is an engineer and the author of the excellent Construction Physics blog, where he writes about how the construction industry works and why it has been slow to industrialize and innovate. It's one of my favorite blogs on the internet, I highly, highly recommend that people check it out.
“Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Brian Potter, who is an engineer and the author of the excellent Construction Physics blog, where he writes about how the construction industry works and why it has been slow to industrialize and innovate. It's one of my favorite blogs on the internet, I highly, highly recommend that people check it out.”
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