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Ender's Game (The Ender Saga, 1)

Orson Scott Card

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The Shawn Ryan Show

The scifi novel was referenced while describing future autonomous combat concepts, comparing pilots to conductors of an orchestra.

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I don't know if you've read the book or seen the movie Ender's Game. ... it's basically the, it's a science fiction novel ... the idea is that there's this guy Ender Wiggins, who is effectively contro...

— Episode: #245 Trae Stephens - Inside Anduril’s AI...

Episode: #245 Trae Stephens - Inside Anduril’s AI Superweap...

The scifi novel was referenced while describing future autonomous combat concepts, comparing pilots to conductors of an orchestra.

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I don't know if you've read the book or seen the movie Ender's Game. ... it's basically the, it's a science fiction novel ... the idea is that there's this guy Ender Wiggins, who is effectively controlling an entire like alien battle, ... from a bunker, where he's just there and he's giving the star fighters ... all operating autonomously in the battle space.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

It was mentioned as a science fiction book that Jim Kwik and Elon Musk enjoyed discussing together, highlighting their shared interest in the genre.

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Um, we bonded over Ender's game and all these great sci-fi books, but then a book we were talking about the structure of scientific revolution, and which basically says that all innovation from every...

— Episode: Jim Kwik: ON How To Learn Faster, Rememb...

Episode: Jim Kwik: ON How To Learn Faster, Remember More &...

It was mentioned as a science fiction book that Jim Kwik and Elon Musk enjoyed discussing together, highlighting their shared interest in the genre.

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Um, we bonded over Ender's game and all these great sci-fi books, but then a book we were talking about the structure of scientific revolution, and which basically says that all innovation from every industry, fashion, technology, automotive comes from somebody usually outside the industry because it takes somebody from the outside who didn't grow up with the same limiting beliefs in education as someone traditional to look in and say, why aren't you guys doing it like this?

Behind the Bastards

Yarden, who is the high priest of the neo-reactionary school of thought, was compared to Ender's brother in Ender's Game, who also wrote essays to try and overthrow the government.

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He is if you've read Inders game He's doing what Inders brother does an Inders game where he's writing his little essays for the internet Trying to like overthrow the government using them and there's...

— Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 143

Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 143

Yarden, who is the high priest of the neo-reactionary school of thought, was compared to Ender's brother in Ender's Game, who also wrote essays to try and overthrow the government.

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He is if you've read Inders game He's doing what Inders brother does an Inders game where he's writing his little essays for the internet Trying to like overthrow the government using them and there's a certain certain kind of guy Who is just deeply attracted to that idea

StarTalk Radio

It was discussed as a book about children in a battle school in space, developing new strategies and combat in zero gravity. It was also mentioned to be a bit creepy in nature.

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For those people who aren't familiar with Enders game, that was a novel written by Orson Scott Card a number of decades ago, where to fight an alien menace, a number of children were put into a place...

— Episode: Cosmic Queries: Space Balls?

Episode: Cosmic Queries: Space Balls?

It was discussed as a book about children in a battle school in space, developing new strategies and combat in zero gravity. It was also mentioned to be a bit creepy in nature.

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For those people who aren't familiar with Enders game, that was a novel written by Orson Scott Card a number of decades ago, where to fight an alien menace, a number of children were put into a place called the battle school. And they were out in space and trying to figure out all kinds of new strategies and methods that the adults put them in.

And it was a little creepy of a book actually. But nevertheless...

Timcast IRL

The book was mentioned as a similar story to 'Rainbow Six' about a need to eliminate an enemy that cannot be communicated with.

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It's 100% the same thing that happened if you read Ender's Game right it's the same exact idea it's like you can't communicate with them you have no ability to negotiate they're attacking you it's ove...

— Episode: Timcast IRL #774 Left Claims Texas Shoot...

Episode: Timcast IRL #774 Left Claims Texas Shooter Was Fan...

The book was mentioned as a similar story to 'Rainbow Six' about a need to eliminate an enemy that cannot be communicated with.

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It's 100% the same thing that happened if you read Ender's Game right it's the same exact idea it's like you can't communicate with them you have no ability to negotiate they're attacking you it's over you gotta go after them and try and wipe them out and I don't understand whether like service guarantees citizenship is a bad thing

The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

Tim cited the novel as an example of fiction that can convey leadership principles.

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Maybe it's something like Ender's Game.

— Episode: 647: Tim Ferriss - Chasing Your Curiosit...

Episode: 647: Tim Ferriss - Chasing Your Curiosity, Interna...

Tim cited the novel as an example of fiction that can convey leadership principles.

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Maybe it's something like Ender's Game.

Chuckle Sandwich

The hosts briefly referred to the book when describing how they organized their Minecraft realm, noting its premise of training children for war. Ted Nivison asked if anyone had read it, and Travis connected the concept to their server setup, resulting in a casual mention rather than a recommendation.

Episode: Chuckle Week 3.0 Begins! ft. Jarvis Johnson

It was mentioned as a basis for how the podcast hosts' Minecraft server was set up, with a passing reference to children being trained for war in the book.

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Have you guys read or seen uh Ender's Game?

Oh is that uh like many times many times well it's sort of how we set up our like a minecraft realm

no yeah i may be actually a little confused here well so look it is a spoiler alert but like in the media property Ender's Game it's about training children to do war because they think that how much

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