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8 Books From Elon Musk’s Reading List

8 Books From Elon Musk’s Reading List

8 books from Elon Musk’s reading list that could change your life

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When he’s not building rockets, boring tunnels beneath Los Angeles, or sending cars into space, Elon Musk reads a lot. Here are 9 nonfiction books he thinks we should all read.

8 Books From Elon Musk’s Reading List

8 books from Elon Musk’s reading list that could change your life

Human Compatible
Human Compatible
Stuart Russell
Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
22 min4.4
Zero to One
Zero to One
Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
Notes on Startups, or How to Build The Future
26 min4.6
Merchants of Doubt
Merchants of Doubt
Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway
How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues From Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
18 min3.8
Life 3.0
Life 3.0
Max Tegmark
Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
19 min4.3
The Big Picture
The Big Picture
Sean Carroll
On the Origins of Life, Meaning and the Universe Itself
18 min4.0
Lying
Lying
Sam Harris
Why we need to stop lying and start telling the truth
9 min3.7
Superintelligence
Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom
Paths, Dangers, Strategies
18 min4.1
The Wealth of Nations
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
The most influential economic book of all time
11 min4.3

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