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Thomas
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“This is the most intelligent, the deepest, the most beautiful book in the world […] It is saddening to contemplate that every day, 150K humans die without reading what is indisputably one of the greatest achievements of our species. Don't let it happen to you. […]
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Thomas
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Sure, if you're just an average person, you might not understand everything in this book — but when you're done reading, you won't be an average person any more.”
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
This is Eliezer Yudkowsky’s review of Douglas Hofstadter’s 1979 Pulitzer Prize-wining “Gödel, Escher, Bach” (GEB), which motivated me to read the book a long time ago.
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Thomas
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GEB had a profound impact on me because it confronted me with sheer intelligence far above mine, and the interconnectedness of things. I wanted to share so that it perhaps motivates you to read it, too.
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James McComish
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Got a few sections in, but dropped of when I got distracted.. definitely an amazing book tho, need to pick it back up Led me to ‘I am a strange loop’ which was great (and I think a condensation of the main themes in geb)
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