Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

This book by Ludwig Wittgenstein has been genuinely recommended 2 times on Lex Fridman. The people who vouched for it on air: guest. It comes up in conversations about consciousness, relationships, trauma & ptsd. The earliest recommendation we indexed is from Jun 2020 and the most recent from Sep 2020. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

Wittgenstein's book about the problems of language and his attempt of describing the world and an philosophical accurate and most of all logical language.

• “i would recommend that too even although he himself didn't believe in that by the end of his lifetime and he debunked his ideas”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “i would recommend that too”
  guest · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 202002:52:31

  Said during "Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion | Lex Fridman Podcast #121". The episode features Eugenia Kuyda: Co-founder and CEO of Replika, an app that lets users build a chatbot AI friend that connects emotionally. A former Russian investigative journalist who created the first version of the tech to memorialize a close friend who died. Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda on loneliness, losing her best friend, and building an AI companion born from grief.

• “if you read the attract address it's a very beautiful book but capacity one salt on 75 pages it's very non typical for philosophy”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “it's a very beautiful book ... the most beautiful philosophical text that was written in the twentieth century”
  guest · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 202000:17:08

  Said during "Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #101". The episode features Joscha Bach: AI researcher (VP of Research at the AI Foundation, with past positions at MIT and Harvard) known for sweeping theories of mind, consciousness, computation, and the simulated nature of reality. Cognitive scientist Joscha Bach argues consciousness is a simulation the brain runs on itself, and reality is computation all the way down.