BOOK · [2223]
Foundation
Sci-Fi
A mathematician predicts the fall of a galactic empire and engineers a 30,000-year compression of the dark age that follows. The series Musk credits with making him think about civilization at the scale of millennia.
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“one of the best science fiction series ever written (the original trilogy)”
Hassabis has repeatedly said he read the Foundation series around age 12 and that it was formative for his interest in intelligence and large-scale systems.
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Frequently named as the single most influential book on his thinking about civilizational longevity.
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The page cites an archived Shelfie article listing Altman's bookshelf.
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“I loved reading it as a kid”
The page cites a Naval tweet about loving it as a kid.
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“I wish I could get as excited about anything I read now as I used to get about science fiction novels when I was 15.”
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Listed on Stewart Brand's Manual for Civilization book list.
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Macrohistory reading: Asimov's psychohistory dramatizes the curriculum's core question — predicting and steering the rise and fall of civilizations.
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Hotz recommended the Foundation series in his book-recommendations segment on the Lex Fridman Podcast #132 (2020).
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Listed on Karpathy's personal science-fiction page.
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8 SOURCEs- x.com tweet
- web.archive.org · 24 Good Books to Read Heres What Sam Altman of Y Combinator Is Reading reading list
- twitter.com tweet
- twitter.com tweet
- blog.longnow.org · Stewart Brand Book List for Manual reading list
- Balaji's Network School Curriculum reading list
- lexlib.io · 132 George Hotz reading list
- Andrej Karpathy's Books reading list
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