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Brave New World
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Aldous Huxley's dystopia of a sterile, pleasure-managed society in which freedom has been bred and conditioned out. Recommended by Sam Altman.
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The page cites an archived Shelfie article listing Altman's bookshelf.
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“A book that I found particularly influential in my intellectual development.”
From Jordan Peterson's own book-list page of influential books.
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DHH named it in his five novels tweet.
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Listed on Stewart Brand's Manual for Civilization book list.
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“The most prophetic book of the 20th century... Today many people would easily mistake it for a utopia.”
Headlines Harari's self-curated 'A Haphazard Guided Tour of Humanity on the Brink' Apple Books collection; he also named it in a July 2018 Jakarta Post interview, contrasting it with Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four.' Both halves of the quote confirmed.
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