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Gödel, Escher, Bach
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Hofstadter's Pulitzer-winning meditation on how self-reference and strange loops give rise to consciousness, weaving incompleteness theorems, Bach's fugues, and Escher's prints. Hassabis read it while programming Theme Park as a teenager and says it was a kernel of what eventually became DeepMind.
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Demis Hassabis
Hassabis has described GEB in multiple interviews as 'one of the greatest books ever written' and credits it with helping push him toward a career in AI while he was still working on games.
- Patrick Collison
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Naval Ravikant
“Amazing book, but good luck finishing it”
The page cites a Naval tweet about the book.