We Are Not Saved Podcast
1) If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies - Yudkowsky at his Yudkowskiest
Don’t hold back guys, tell us how you really feel. If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All By: Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares Published: 2025 272 Pages Briefly, wha...Show More
2) Grant - A Brilliant General Constantly Deceived by His “Friends”
A man who possessed a singular talent for making war and being duped. Grant By: Ron Chernow Published: 2017 1104 Pages Briefly, what is this book about? A biography of Ulysses S. Grant, the greatest...Show More
3) Chasing My Cure - A Catastrophe of Chaotic Castleman's Crises
Chiefly Caused by Cytokine Cascades… Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope into Action By: David Fajgenbaum Published: 2019 256 Pages Briefly, what is this book about? Right as Fajgenbaum wa...Show More
4) The Dhammapada - The Eighth Oldest Wisdom Book
A small but powerful injection of Buddhism straight into your soul. The Dhammapada By: Unknown Translator: Gil Fronsdal Published: Sometime in the 3rd to 1st century BC 152 Pages Briefly, what is thi...Show More
5) A Primer for Forgetting - But Is It a Primer for Repairing?
The more people you’re asking to forget the messier things become. A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past By: Lewis Hyde Published: 2019 384 Pages Briefly, what is this book about? The necess...Show More
6) Ignition! - Explosion? The Exciting World of Rocket Science
The history of attempting to make “controlled explosion” into something other than an oxymoron. Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants By: John Drury Clark Published: 1972 216 Pa...Show More
7) The Warlord Chronicles - "King" Arthur With More Mud and Less Radiance
Bernard Cornwell's best (and shortest) historical fiction series. The Warlord Chronicles By: Bernard Cornwell The Winter King Published: 1996 431 Pages Enemy of God Published: 1998 397 Pages Excali...Show More
8) The Tyranny of Metrics - Measure Your Way to Misery
The superior man uses his superior judgement to look superior on all the metrics. The Tyranny of Metrics By: Jerry Z. Muller Published: 2019 248 Pages Briefly, what is this book about? The distortin...Show More
9) Can a Society Be Too Focused on the Law?
Lawyers vs. Engineers. Infrastructure in America, China and Europe. Edmund Burke and the Revolutionary War.
10) Breakneck - Hegelian Engineering
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future By: Dan Wang Published: 2025 288 Pages Briefly, what is this book about? The rise of China’s immense manufacturing prowess, where it comes from (a cult...Show More