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The Avoidable War
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⿻ 數位 Plurality
The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
The book was presented as a collaborative, openauthored work about the future of collaborative technology and democracy.
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And then there's a book called Plurality that was led by Glenn Vile and Audrey Tang and a wide community of contributors. I also contributed a small part to this book. It's about the future of collabo...
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The book was presented as a collaborative, openauthored work about the future of collaborative technology and democracy.
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And then there's a book called Plurality that was led by Glenn Vile and Audrey Tang and a wide community of contributors. I also contributed a small part to this book. It's about the future of collaborative technology and democracy.
Holly Herndon & Mathew Dryhurst All Media is Training Data /anglais
The guest explained that the forthcoming book is a collection of essays and interviews documenting their tenyear approach to AI training data.
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This is a book that's a series of commissioned essays and interviews between me and Matt about our approach to AI data over the past 10 years. The title is All Media is Training Data.
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The guest explained that the forthcoming book is a collection of essays and interviews documenting their tenyear approach to AI training data.
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This is a book that's a series of commissioned essays and interviews between me and Matt about our approach to AI data over the past 10 years. The title is All Media is Training Data.
The Conservative Futurist
How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised
The host noted that Jim Bethacoukis was the author of the recent book The Conservative Futurist, which discusses how to create the scifi world promised by futurists.
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He's the author of the technologyfocused substack, Faster Please, and of the recent book, The Conservative Futurist.
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The host noted that Jim Bethacoukis was the author of the recent book The Conservative Futurist, which discusses how to create the scifi world promised by futurists.
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He's the author of the technologyfocused substack, Faster Please, and of the recent book, The Conservative Futurist.
Why Information Grows
The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
The guest said that the book Why Information Grows by physicist Cesar Hidalgo greatly influenced his own work on economic growth and connection economics.
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One book which greatly influenced my book was the book Why Information Grows, which is by a physicist named Cesar Hidalgo, who presents this as a very different way of thinking about...
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The guest said that the book Why Information Grows by physicist Cesar Hidalgo greatly influenced his own work on economic growth and connection economics.
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One book which greatly influenced my book was the book Why Information Grows, which is by a physicist named Cesar Hidalgo, who presents this as a very different way of thinking about economic growth.
The Expanse Hardcover Boxed Set
Leviathan Wakes, Caliban's War, Abaddon's Gate
The guest recommended the hardscience sciencefiction The Expanse series, noting its optimistic portrayal of a future where humanity has mastered the solar system, though not without challenges.
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Since I write about scifi so much on my book, the Expanse series, which they turned into a TV series, which I view as a futureoptimist hardscience series.
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The guest recommended the hardscience sciencefiction The Expanse series, noting its optimistic portrayal of a future where humanity has mastered the solar system, though not without challenges.
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Since I write about scifi so much on my book, the Expanse series, which they turned into a TV series, which I view as a futureoptimist hardscience series.
The American Dream Is Not Dead
(But Populism Could Kill It) (New Threats to Freedom Series)
The guest described The American Dream Is Not Dead as a nononsense examination of wage stagnation, income inequality, and productivity versus worker pay.
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My final book is The American Dream Is Not Dead by one of my AEI colleagues, Michael Strain, which is a nononsense look at issues like wage stagnation, income inequality, and the supp...
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The guest described The American Dream Is Not Dead as a nononsense examination of wage stagnation, income inequality, and productivity versus worker pay.
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My final book is The American Dream Is Not Dead by one of my AEI colleagues, Michael Strain, which is a nononsense look at issues like wage stagnation, income inequality, and the supposed gap between productivity and worker pay.
Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, Series Number 37)
The host said it retells the history of international law and the intellectual history of canonical European jurists, centering the colonial encounter as the structuring event that triggered the emergence of modern international law.
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The first I would recommend is Anthony Enghi's Imperialism, Sovereignty, and the Making of International Law, which retells the history of international law as well as the intellectual history of cano...
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The host said it retells the history of international law and the intellectual history of canonical European jurists, centering the colonial encounter as the structuring event that triggered the emergence of modern international law.
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The first I would recommend is Anthony Enghi's Imperialism, Sovereignty, and the Making of International Law, which retells the history of international law as well as the intellectual history of canonical European jurists by centering the colonial encounter as the structuring event that triggered the emergence of international law as we know it.
Worldmaking after Empire
The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
The host said it returns to the era of decolonization to offer an account of how anticolonial leaders understood selfdetermination differently and how that understanding might have yielded alternatives to partition logic underlying the UN's involvement in IsraelPalestine.
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I would also recommend Adom Getachew's Worldmaking after Empire, The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, which returns to the era of decolonization to offer an account of how the pri...
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The host said it returns to the era of decolonization to offer an account of how anticolonial leaders understood selfdetermination differently and how that understanding might have yielded alternatives to partition logic underlying the UN's involvement in IsraelPalestine.
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I would also recommend Adom Getachew's Worldmaking after Empire, The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, which returns to the era of decolonization to offer an account of how the principle of self-determination was differently understood by anti-colonial leaders and how that understanding had it prevailed might've yielded alternatives to logics of partition, logics like the logic that underlies the UN's involvement in Israel-Palestine and ideas of the two-state solution.
Drugs and Drug Policy
The Control of Consciousness Alteration
The guest highlighted the book as an accessible, dipin reference that answers any question about drug policy, reflecting the promise of its title.
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I decided to prioritize personal relationship, starting with your late friend of mine, Mark Kleiman, who wrote a book called Drugs and Drug Policy, What Everyone Needs to Know, co-aut...
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The guest highlighted the book as an accessible, dipin reference that answers any question about drug policy, reflecting the promise of its title.
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I decided to prioritize personal relationship, starting with your late friend of mine, Mark Kleiman, who wrote a book called Drugs and Drug Policy, What Everyone Needs to Know, co-authored with Jonathan Calkins and Angela Hawkins. And it is exactly what the title promises. It's accessible. It's something you can dip into and out of and answer any question you want.
DOGMAN
The guest described it as a bestseller that offers a vivid, personal look at addiction and the rewarddriven culture of modern life.
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Second book I would suggest, again, from a friend... the book is called DOGMAN Nation, which was a deserved bestseller around the world. It gives you much more of a human experience d...
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The guest described it as a bestseller that offers a vivid, personal look at addiction and the rewarddriven culture of modern life.
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Second book I would suggest, again, from a friend... the book is called DOGMAN Nation, which was a deserved bestseller around the world. It gives you much more of a human experience describing what it is like to be addicted... And then the book also talks about just the seeking of reward and a rewardsaturated society.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Reprinted From the First Edition, With Notes of De Quincey's Conversations by Richard Woodhouse, and Otheradditons
The guest noted it as a historic bestseller that details the pleasures and pains of opium use with a florid, poetic style, linking past experiences to today's drug issues.
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And the last one, maybe a more eccentric choice, but it's such a good book, is by Thomas De Quincey, and it's called Confessions of an English Opium Eater... he wrote a very scandalous account about h...
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The guest noted it as a historic bestseller that details the pleasures and pains of opium use with a florid, poetic style, linking past experiences to today's drug issues.
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And the last one, maybe a more eccentric choice, but it's such a good book, is by Thomas De Quincey, and it's called Confessions of an English Opium Eater... he wrote a very scandalous account about his experience of longtime opium use, the pains of opium and the pleasures of opium and a bit about how it affects social relationships and human psychology.
Drug Use for Grown-Ups
Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
Ezra referred to it as a candid book where the author discusses using heroin to relax, offering a frank look at adult drug use.
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You have a book by Carl Hart, who's a wellknown drug researcher at Columbia called Drug Use for GrownUps, where he talks openly about using heroin to relax at the end of the day.
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Ezra referred to it as a candid book where the author discusses using heroin to relax, offering a frank look at adult drug use.
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You have a book by Carl Hart, who's a wellknown drug researcher at Columbia called Drug Use for GrownUps, where he talks openly about using heroin to relax at the end of the day.
How to Change
The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
The podcast promo highlighted the book as a bestselling work by the host of Choiceology, focusing on decisionmaking psychology.
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Hosted by Katie Milkman, an awardwinning behavioral scientist and author of the bestselling book, How to Change, Choiceology is a show about the psychology and economics behind our de...
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The podcast promo highlighted the book as a bestselling work by the host of Choiceology, focusing on decisionmaking psychology.
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Hosted by Katie Milkman, an awardwinning behavioral scientist and author of the bestselling book, How to Change, Choiceology is a show about the psychology and economics behind our decisions.
Possible
How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict
He recommended Possible, praising its cleareyed analysis of hardtoabate sectors and the realistic solutions they may offer.
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my second pick is a book called Possible by Chris Goodall now he is a UK energy analyst and the key point of Chris's book is that you know it will be hard but it's Possible
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He recommended Possible, praising its cleareyed analysis of hardtoabate sectors and the realistic solutions they may offer.
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my second pick is a book called Possible by Chris Goodall now he is a UK energy analyst and the key point of Chris's book is that you know it will be hard but it's Possible and he breaks down cement and steel and aviation and plastics a long list of these troubling sectors and just looks at the hard data on what solutions we potentially have it gives a very very clear eyed vision of the sectors we need to tackle and what our options are
Interviews with Francis Bacon
A collection of nine interviews with the painter Francis Bacon that offers insight into his artistic process and thinking.
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One of them is a book of Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester. I think there's nine of them. I learned more about art from reading these interviews.
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A collection of nine interviews with the painter Francis Bacon that offers insight into his artistic process and thinking.
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One of them is a book of Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester. I think there's nine of them. I learned more about art from reading these interviews.
Amy Sillman
Faux Pas
A playful and insightful book that mixes the artist's own writings with illustrations, showcasing her humor and sharp thinking.
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Another book written by one of the subjects of the book, Amy Sillman is a book called Faux Pas. She's a great painter. She is amazing writer. And this book is so much fun, filled with...
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A playful and insightful book that mixes the artist's own writings with illustrations, showcasing her humor and sharp thinking.
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Another book written by one of the subjects of the book, Amy Sillman is a book called Faux Pas. She's a great painter. She is amazing writer. And this book is so much fun, filled with her own eerie edition, absolutely, but also illustrations, charlots. It's just a fun object and also really smart and wonderful.
Sketchbook For Drawing And Sketching
100 Blank Pages, Artist Sketch Pad, Durable Acid Free Drawing Paper, Ideal for Kids & Adults, White, 8' x 11.5'
A voluminous visual book compiling decades of Diebenkorn's sketchbooks, showing his evolving drawings and studies in pencil and ink.
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It's the sketchbooks of Richard Diebenkorn. It's just pages and pages and pages of years and years and years of his sketchbooks, his drawings of his wife himself, some in pencil, some in ink. I can ju...
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A voluminous visual book compiling decades of Diebenkorn's sketchbooks, showing his evolving drawings and studies in pencil and ink.
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It's the sketchbooks of Richard Diebenkorn. It's just pages and pages and pages of years and years and years of his sketchbooks, his drawings of his wife himself, some in pencil, some in ink. I can just sit and live in those pages imagining him as the drawer, which is kind of was what my project was all about.
Don't Blame Us
Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party (Politics and Society in Modern America)
It was described as a closeup look at Boston suburbs that traced the regulatory changes and opposition causing today's building slowdown.
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The first is by Lilly Geismar. It's called Don't Blame Us, and it's a book that looks very closely at the Boston suburbs to see the changes that led to a lot of the regulations and op...
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It was described as a closeup look at Boston suburbs that traced the regulatory changes and opposition causing today's building slowdown.
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The first is by Lilly Geismar. It's called Don't Blame Us, and it's a book that looks very closely at the Boston suburbs to see the changes that led to a lot of the regulations and opposition that is causing a lot of the sclerosis we see today.
The Bulldozer in the Countryside
Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (Studies in Environment and History)
It was praised as a great book that situates U.S. environmentalism as a reaction to urban core and suburbanization, highlighting suburban concerns.
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Then there's Bulldozer in the Countryside by Adam Rome. It's another really great book about environmentalism and really situates environmentalism in the United States as coming up as a reaction to th...
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It was praised as a great book that situates U.S. environmentalism as a reaction to urban core and suburbanization, highlighting suburban concerns.
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Then there's Bulldozer in the Countryside by Adam Rome. It's another really great book about environmentalism and really situates environmentalism in the United States as coming up as a reaction to the urban core and suburbanization, that that is really the catalyzing force for how it gets so many adherents is that suburbanites really get concerned about the change in their communities.
Leviathan Wakes
Book 1 of the Expanse (now a Prime Original series)
It was described as a sciencefiction series of books that expands into a futuristic world with long lifespans and space colonization, yet still mirrors present geopolitical and social inequalities.
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my second recommendation is a science fiction series the expanse series of books so i initially watched the show and then i read all the books and the world it creates is very advanced in some cases i...
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It was described as a sciencefiction series of books that expands into a futuristic world with long lifespans and space colonization, yet still mirrors present geopolitical and social inequalities.
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my second recommendation is a science fiction series the expanse series of books so i initially watched the show and then i read all the books and the world it creates is very advanced in some cases it has longer life spans and humans have expanded into space but we still face some of the same geopolitical questions and some of the same inequalities and exploitations that exist in our world
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