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Foundation
Science Fiction
A mathematician predicts the fall of a galactic empire and engineers a 30,000-year compression of the dark age that follows. The series Musk credits with making him think about civilization at the scale of millennia.
Endorsed By
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Demis Hassabis
“one of the best science fiction series ever written (the original trilogy)”
Hassabis has repeatedly said he read the Foundation series around age 12 and that it was formative for his interest in intelligence and large-scale systems.
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Elon Musk
Frequently named as the single most influential book on his thinking about civilizational longevity.
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Sam Altman
Listed on his bookmarked.club page.
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Sahil Lavingia
Listed on his bookmarked.club page.
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Naval Ravikant
“I loved reading it as a kid.”
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Cameron Winklevoss
“I have a couple [favorite books], to name a few, Isaac Asimov's Foundation...”