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Infinite Jest
Fiction
A sprawling postmodern novel set partly at a tennis academy and a halfway house, centered on a film cartridge so entertaining that anyone who watches it loses all desire to do anything else. Hotz returns to its premise repeatedly as a metaphor for addictive, hyper-optimized media and AI-generated content.
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“Infinite Jest, it's introduced in the first 50 pages, is about a tape that once you watch it once you only ever want to watch that tape.”
Quoted from the Lex Fridman Podcast #387 (2023), in his discussion of wireheading and addictive media; also among the books listed for his Lex Fridman Podcast #132 (2020) book-recommendations segment.
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