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#468 – Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions

5 maj 2025 | 187 min

#467 – Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming

30 april 2025 | min

#466 – Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China, Xi Jinping, Trade War, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mao

24 april 2025 | 194 min

#465 – Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

17 april 2025 | 215 min

#464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism

9 april 2025 | 207 min

#463 – Douglas Murray: Putin, Zelenskyy, Trump, Israel, Netanyahu, Hamas & Gaza

30 mars 2025 | 196 min

#462 – Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson: Politics, Trump, AOC, Elon & DOGE

26 mars 2025 | min

#461 – ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God

22 mars 2025 | 330 min

ThePrimeagen (aka Michael Paulson) is a programmer who has educated, entertained, and inspired millions of people to build software and have fun doing it.
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(10:27) – Love for programming
(20:00) – Hardest part of programming
(22:16) – Types of programming
(29:54) – Life story
(39:58) – Hardship
(41:29) – High school
(47:15) – Porn addiction
(57:01) – God
(1:12:44) – Perseverance
(1:22:40) – Netflix
(1:35:08) – Groovy
(1:40:13) – Printf() debugging
(1:46:35) – Falcor
(1:56:05) – Breaking production
(1:58:49) – Pieter Levels
(2:03:19) – Netflix, Twitch, and YouTube infrastructure
(2:15:22) – ThePrimeagen origin story
(2:30:37) – Learning programming languages
(2:39:40) – Best programming languages in 2025
(2:44:35) – Python
(2:45:15) – HTML & CSS
(2:46:05) – Bash
(2:46:45) – FFmpeg
(2:53:28) – Performance
(2:56:00) – Rust
(3:00:48) – Epic projects
(3:14:12) – Asserts
(3:23:26) – ADHD
(3:31:34) – Productivity
(3:35:58) – Programming setup
(4:11:28) – Coffee
(4:18:32) – Programming with AI
(5:01:16) – Advice for young programmers
(5:12:48) – Reddit questions
(5:20:20) – God

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#460 – Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India – Power, Democracy, War & Peace

16 mars 2025 | 206 min

Narendra Modi is the Prime Minister of India. On YouTube this episode is available in English, Hindi, Russian (and soon other languages). Captions and voice-over audio tracks are provided (for the main episode video on YouTube) in English, Hindi, Russian, and the original mixed-language version, with subtitles available in your preferred language. To listen to the original mixed-language version, please select the Hindi (Latin) audio track. The default is English overdub.
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(17:24) – Fasting
(29:42) – Early life
(41:38) – Advice to Young People
(47:20) – Journey in the Himalayas
(58:50) – Becoming a monk
(1:00:37) – RSS and Hindu nationalism
(1:08:22) – Explaining India
(1:12:32) – Mahatma Gandhi
(1:24:27) – Path to peace in Ukraine
(1:27:41) – India and Pakistan
(1:33:21) – Cricket and Football
(1:37:45) – Donald Trump
(1:48:56) – China and Xi Jinping
(1:56:01) – Gujarat riots in 2002
(2:11:37) – Biggest democracy in the world
(2:21:53) – Power
(2:26:39) – Hard work
(2:29:46) – Srinivasa Ramanujan
(2:31:53) – Decision-making process
(2:39:40) – AI
(2:49:55) – Education
(3:00:10) – Learning and focus
(3:06:01) – Mantra
(3:07:45) – Meditation
(3:13:43) – Lex visiting India
(3:18:08) – Siddhartha

#459 – DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters

3 februari 2025 | 316 min

Dylan Patel is the founder of SemiAnalysis, a research & analysis company specializing in semiconductors, GPUs, CPUs, and AI hardware. Nathan Lambert is a research scientist at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and the author of a blog on AI called Interconnects.
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(00:00) – Introduction
(13:28) – DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-V3
(35:02) – Low cost of training
(1:01:19) – DeepSeek compute cluster
(1:08:52) – Export controls on GPUs to China
(1:19:10) – AGI timeline
(1:28:35) – China’s manufacturing capacity
(1:36:30) – Cold war with China
(1:41:00) – TSMC and Taiwan
(2:04:38) – Best GPUs for AI
(2:19:30) – Why DeepSeek is so cheap
(2:32:49) – Espionage
(2:41:52) – Censorship
(2:54:46) – Andrej Karpathy and magic of RL
(3:05:17) – OpenAI o3-mini vs DeepSeek r1
(3:24:25) – NVIDIA
(3:28:53) – GPU smuggling
(3:35:30) – DeepSeek training on OpenAI data
(3:45:59) – AI megaclusters
(4:21:21) – Who wins the race to AGI?
(4:31:34) – AI agents
(4:40:16) – Programming and AI
(4:47:43) – Open source
(4:56:55) – Stargate
(5:04:24) – Future of AI

#458 – Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & Future of America

26 januari 2025 | 237 min

#457 – Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

19 januari 2025 | min

Jennifer Burns is a historian of ideas, focusing on the evolution of economic, political, and social ideas in the United States in the 20th century. She wrote two biographies, one on Milton Friedman, and the other on Ayn Rand.
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(10:05) – Milton Friedman
(24:58) – The Great Depression
(39:15) – Schools of economic thought
(50:22) – Keynesian economics
(58:10) – Laissez-faire
(1:06:00) – Friedrich Hayek
(1:11:18) – Money and monetarism
(1:26:03) – Stagflation
(1:30:56) – Moral case for capitalism
(1:34:53) – Freedom
(1:39:51) – Ethics of competition
(1:43:37) – Win-win solutions
(1:45:26) – Corruption
(1:47:51) – Government intervention
(1:54:10) – Conservatism
(2:00:33) – Donald Trump
(2:03:09) – Inflation
(2:07:38) – DOGE
(2:12:58) – Javier Milei
(2:18:03) – Richard Nixon
(2:25:17) – Ronald Reagan
(2:28:24) – Cryptocurrency
(2:43:40) – Ayn Rand
(2:51:18) – The Fountainhead
(3:02:58) – Sex and power dynamics
(3:19:04) – Evolution of ideas in history
(3:26:32) – Postmodernism
(3:37:33) – Advice to students
(3:45:50) – Lex reflects on Volodymyr Zelenskyy interview

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#456 – Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom

6 januari 2025 | 193 min

#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

22 december 2024 | 219 min

Adam Frank is an astrophysicist studying star systems and the search for extraterrestrial life and alien civilizations.
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(14:22) – Planet formation
(19:32) – Plate tectonics
(26:54) – Extinction events
(31:04) – Biosphere
(34:02) – Technosphere
(38:17) – Emergence of intelligence
(44:29) – Drake equation
(48:43) – Exoplanets
(51:28) – Habitable zones
(54:30) – Fermi Paradox
(1:03:28) – Alien civilizations
(1:12:55) – Colonizing Mars
(1:25:11) – Search for aliens
(1:41:37) – Alien megastructures
(1:47:43) – Kardashev scale
(1:52:56) – Detecting aliens
(1:59:38) – Warp drives
(2:05:45) – Cryogenics
(2:09:03) – What aliens look like
(2:17:48) – Alien contact
(2:28:53) – UFO sightings
(2:40:38) – Physics of life
(3:06:29) – Nature of time
(3:22:53) – Cognition
(3:27:16) – Mortality

#454 – Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics

8 december 2024 | 220 min

Saagar Enjeti is a political journalist & commentator, co-host of Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar and The Realignment Podcast. He is exceptionally well-read, and the books he recommends are always fascinating and eye-opening. You can check out all the books he mentions in this episode here: https://lexfridman.com/saagar-books
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(09:47) – Why Trump won
(14:48) – Book recommendations
(18:24) – History of wokeism
(25:54) – History of Scots-Irish
(32:32) – Biden
(36:34) – FDR
(38:36) – George W Bush
(40:59) – LBJ
(46:15) – Cuban Missile Crisis
(53:48) – Immigration
(1:25:46) – DOGE
(1:52:27) – MAGA ideology
(1:55:39) – Bernie Sanders
(2:04:00) – Obama vs Trump
(2:21:00) – Nancy Pelosi
(2:24:14) – Kamala Harris
(2:40:00) – 2020 Election
(3:03:49) – Sam Harris
(3:14:55) – UFOs
(3:20:47) – Future of the Republican Party
(3:27:24) – Future of the Democratic Party
(3:35:21) – Hope

#453 – Javier Milei: President of Argentina – Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

20 november 2024 | 129 min

#452 – Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity

11 november 2024 | 322 min

Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic, the company that created Claude. Amanda Askell is an AI researcher working on Claude’s character and personality. Chris Olah is an AI researcher working on mechanistic interpretability.
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(00:00) – Introduction
(10:19) – Scaling laws
(19:25) – Limits of LLM scaling
(27:51) – Competition with OpenAI, Google, xAI, Meta
(33:14) – Claude
(36:50) – Opus 3.5
(41:36) – Sonnet 3.5
(44:56) – Claude 4.0
(49:07) – Criticism of Claude
(1:01:54) – AI Safety Levels
(1:12:42) – ASL-3 and ASL-4
(1:16:46) – Computer use
(1:26:41) – Government regulation of AI
(1:45:30) – Hiring a great team
(1:54:19) – Post-training
(1:59:45) – Constitutional AI
(2:05:11) – Machines of Loving Grace
(2:24:17) – AGI timeline
(2:36:52) – Programming
(2:43:52) – Meaning of life
(2:49:58) – Amanda Askell – Philosophy
(2:52:26) – Programming advice for non-technical people
(2:56:15) – Talking to Claude
(3:12:47) – Prompt engineering
(3:21:21) – Post-training
(3:26:00) – Constitutional AI
(3:30:53) – System prompts
(3:37:00) – Is Claude getting dumber?
(3:49:02) – Character training
(3:50:01) – Nature of truth
(3:54:38) – Optimal rate of failure
(4:01:49) – AI consciousness
(4:16:20) – AGI
(4:24:58) – Chris Olah – Mechanistic Interpretability
(4:29:49) – Features, Circuits, Universality
(4:47:23) – Superposition
(4:58:22) – Monosemanticity
(5:05:14) – Scaling Monosemanticity
(5:14:02) – Macroscopic behavior of neural networks
(5:18:56) – Beauty of neural networks

#451 – Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

30 oktober 2024 | 217 min

#450 – Bernie Sanders Interview

23 oktober 2024 | 70 min

#449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History

16 oktober 2024 | 162 min

#448 – Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning

11 oktober 2024 | 150 min

#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

6 oktober 2024 | 158 min

#446 – Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America

30 september 2024 | 216 min

#445 – Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

25 september 2024 | 171 min

#444 – Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

20 september 2024 | 218 min

#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome

12 september 2024 | min

#442 – Donald Trump Interview

3 september 2024 | 73 min

#441 – Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism

30 augusti 2024 | min

#440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

20 augusti 2024 | min

#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling

14 augusti 2024 | 141 min

#438 – Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity

2 augusti 2024 | min

Elon Musk is CEO of Neuralink, SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, and CTO of X. DJ Seo is COO & President of Neuralink. Matthew MacDougall is Head Neurosurgeon at Neuralink. Bliss Chapman is Brain Interface Software Lead at Neuralink. Noland Arbaugh is the first human to have a Neuralink device implanted in his brain.

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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(09:26) – Elon Musk
(12:42) – Telepathy
(19:22) – Power of human mind
(23:49) – Future of Neuralink
(29:04) – Ayahuasca
(38:33) – Merging with AI
(43:21) – xAI
(45:34) – Optimus
(52:24) – Elon’s approach to problem-solving
(1:09:59) – History and geopolitics
(1:14:30) – Lessons of history
(1:18:49) – Collapse of empires
(1:26:32) – Time
(1:29:14) – Aliens and curiosity
(1:36:48) – DJ Seo
(1:44:57) – Neural dust
(1:51:40) – History of brain–computer interface
(1:59:44) – Biophysics of neural interfaces
(2:10:12) – How Neuralink works
(2:16:03) – Lex with Neuralink implant
(2:36:01) – Digital telepathy
(2:47:03) – Retracted threads
(2:52:38) – Vertical integration
(2:59:32) – Safety
(3:09:27) – Upgrades
(3:18:30) – Future capabilities
(3:47:46) – Matthew MacDougall
(3:53:35) – Neuroscience
(4:00:44) – Neurosurgery
(4:11:48) – Neuralink surgery
(4:30:57) – Brain surgery details
(4:46:40) – Implanting Neuralink on self
(5:02:34) – Life and death
(5:11:54) – Consciousness
(5:14:48) – Bliss Chapman
(5:28:04) – Neural signal
(5:34:56) – Latency
(5:39:36) – Neuralink app
(5:44:17) – Intention vs action
(5:55:31) – Calibration
(6:05:03) – Webgrid
(6:28:05) – Neural decoder
(6:48:40) – Future improvements
(6:57:36) – Noland Arbaugh
(6:57:45) – Becoming paralyzed
(7:11:20) – First Neuralink human participant
(7:15:21) – Day of surgery
(7:33:08) – Moving mouse with brain
(7:58:27) – Webgrid
(8:06:28) – Retracted threads
(8:14:53) – App improvements
(8:21:38) – Gaming
(8:32:36) – Future Neuralink capabilities
(8:35:31) – Controlling Optimus robot
(8:39:53) – God
(8:41:58) – Hope

#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

21 juli 2024 | 177 min

#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life

2 juli 2024 | min

#435 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Controversy, Politics, and Relationships

28 juni 2024 | 117 min

#434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

19 juni 2024 | 191 min

#433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

13 juni 2024 | 182 min

#432 – Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

5 juni 2024 | min

#431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI

2 juni 2024 | min

#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

25 maj 2024 | min

#429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God

15 maj 2024 | 252 min

#428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens

22 april 2024 | 165 min

#427 – Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

20 april 2024 | 155 min

#426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs

17 april 2024 | 181 min

#425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

13 april 2024 | 180 min

#424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

5 april 2024 | 169 min

#423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex

2 april 2024 | 117 min

#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

29 mars 2024 | 144 min

#421 – Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

25 mars 2024 | 96 min

#420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy

22 mars 2024 | 193 min

#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

18 mars 2024 | 122 min

#418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

14 mars 2024 | 305 min

#417 – Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family

10 mars 2024 | 113 min

#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

7 mars 2024 | 174 min

#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

4 mars 2024 | 208 min

Serhii Plokhy is a Ukrainian historian at Harvard University, director of the Ukrainian Research Institute, and an author of many books on history of Eastern Europe, including his latest book The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Serhii’s X: https://x.com/splokhy
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Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute: https://huri.harvard.edu/
Serhii’s Books: https://amzn.to/3OS2EqK
2006 – The Origins of the Slavic Nations
2010 – Yalta: The Price of Peace
2012 – The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires
2014 – The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union
2015 – The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
2016 – The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story
2017 – Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
2018 – Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
2021 – Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
2021 – The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present
2022 – Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disaster
2023 – The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

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Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast
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OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(09:10) – Collapse of the Soviet Union
(25:19) – Origins of Russia and Ukraine
(38:22) – Ukrainian nationalism
(46:04) – Stepan Bandera
(1:15:05) – KGB
(1:30:03) – War in Ukraine
(2:06:19) – NATO and Russia
(2:17:22) – Peace talks
(2:31:09) – Ukrainian Army head Valerii Zaluzhnyi
(2:37:46) – Power and War
(2:48:37) – Holodomor
(2:55:09) – Chernobyl
(3:05:43) – Nuclear power
(3:15:20) – Future of the world

#414 – Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom

27 februari 2024 | 193 min

#413 – Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

20 februari 2024 | 221 min

#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

16 februari 2024 | 112 min

#411 – Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam

2 februari 2024 | 151 min

#410 – Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism

23 januari 2024 | 146 min

#409 – Matthew Cox: FBI Most Wanted Con Man – $55 Million in Bank Fraud

17 januari 2024 | 368 min

#408 – Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

9 januari 2024 | 116 min

#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

29 december 2023 | min

#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

24 december 2023 | 136 min

#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin

14 december 2023 | 140 min

#404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

9 december 2023 | 208 min

#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

3 december 2023 | min

#402 – Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special

25 november 2023 | 108 min

#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

18 november 2023 | 215 min

#400 – Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity

9 november 2023 | 147 min

#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

11 oktober 2023 | 234 min

#398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse

28 september 2023 | 72 min

#397 – Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech

25 september 2023 | min

#396 – James Sexton: Divorce Lawyer on Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Lies & Love

18 september 2023 | 231 min

#395 – Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin

10 september 2023 | min

#394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature

1 september 2023 | 146 min

#393 – Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, Sex, and Love

17 augusti 2023 | 141 min

#392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans

1 augusti 2023 | 179 min

#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

24 juli 2023 | 143 min

#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

17 juli 2023 | 172 min

#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

12 juli 2023 | 77 min

#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

6 juli 2023 | min

#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God

30 juni 2023 | 195 min

#386 – Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI

22 juni 2023 | 196 min

#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

18 juni 2023 | 200 min

#384 – Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love

13 juni 2023 | 144 min

#383 – Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp

8 juni 2023 | 167 min

#382 – Bert Kreischer: Comedy, Drinking, Rogan, Segura, Churchill & Kim Jong Un

5 juni 2023 | 132 min

#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI

2 juni 2023 | 218 min

Chris Lattner is a legendary software and hardware engineer, leading projects at Apple, Tesla, Google, SiFive, and Modular AI, including the development of Swift, LLVM, Clang, MLIR, CIRCT, TPUs, and Mojo. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Chris’s Website: http://nondot.org/sabre/
Mojo programming language: https://www.modular.com/mojo
Modular AI: https://modular.com/

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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:38) – Mojo programming language
(16:55) – Code indentation
(25:22) – The power of autotuning
(35:12) – Typed programming languages
(51:56) – Immutability
(1:04:14) – Distributed deployment
(1:38:41) – Mojo vs CPython
(1:54:30) – Guido van Rossum
(2:01:31) – Mojo vs PyTorch vs TensorFlow
(2:04:55) – Swift programming language
(2:10:27) – Julia programming language
(2:15:32) – Switching programming languages
(2:24:58) – Mojo playground
(2:29:48) – Jeremy Howard
(2:40:34) – Function overloading
(2:48:59) – Error vs Exception
(2:56:39) – Mojo roadmap
(3:09:41) – Building a company
(3:21:27) – ChatGPT
(3:27:50) – Danger of AI
(3:31:44) – Future of programming
(3:35:01) – Advice for young people

#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication

28 maj 2023 | 131 min

#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power

24 maj 2023 | 194 min

#378 – Anna Frebel: Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Galaxies, and Stars

18 maj 2023 | 143 min

#377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

16 maj 2023 | 115 min

#376 – Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation

9 maj 2023 | 260 min

#375 – David Pakman: Politics of Trump, Biden, Bernie, AOC, Socialism & Wokeism

6 maj 2023 | 216 min

#374 – Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

28 april 2023 | 152 min

#373 – Manolis Kellis: Evolution of Human Civilization and Superintelligent AI

21 april 2023 | 156 min

#372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design

16 april 2023 | 124 min

#371 – Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development

13 april 2023 | 174 min

#370 – Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox – Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love

10 april 2023 | 232 min

#369 – Paul Rosolie: Amazon Jungle, Uncontacted Tribes, Anacondas, and Ayahuasca

4 april 2023 | 219 min

#368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

30 mars 2023 | 203 min

#367 – Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI

25 mars 2023 | 148 min

#366 – Shannon Curry: Johnny Depp & Amber Heard Trial, Marriage, Dating & Love

21 mars 2023 | 111 min

#365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs

14 mars 2023 | 274 min

#364 – Chris Voss: FBI Hostage Negotiator

10 mars 2023 | 136 min

#363 – B-Team Jiu Jitsu: Craig Jones, Nicky Rod, and Nicky Ryan

6 mars 2023 | 174 min

#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

2 mars 2023 | 116 min

#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

25 februari 2023 | 138 min

#360 – Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics

20 februari 2023 | 191 min

#359 – Andrew Strominger: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and Theoretical Physics

15 februari 2023 | 145 min

#358 – Aella: Sex Work, OnlyFans, Porn, Escorting, Dating, and Human Sexuality

10 februari 2023 | 242 min

#357 – Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil

7 februari 2023 | 202 min

#356 – Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

2 februari 2023 | 321 min

Tim Dodd is host of the Everyday Astronaut YouTube channel, where he teaches about rocket engines and all things space travel. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Tim’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Erdayastronaut
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Tim’s Website: https://everydayastronaut.com

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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:18) – SpaceX rockets
(26:56) – Falcon 9
(31:08) – Starship
(35:27) – SpaceX rocket engines
(43:05) – Elon Musk
(58:41) – Twitter
(1:04:46) – How rocket engines work
(1:09:37) – Rocket fuel
(1:13:03) – Rocket engine cycles
(1:25:27) – Rocket cooling
(1:40:24) – Multistage rockets
(1:43:57) – Single-stage-to-orbit
(1:49:33) – Aerospike engine
(1:57:18) – Greatest car engine of all time
(2:02:27) – Starship
(2:05:19) – Wet dress rehearsal
(2:11:29) – Landing
(2:25:47) – Seeing starship in person
(2:34:54) – Starship orbital test
(2:41:32) – Gwynne Shotwell
(2:46:43) – dearMoon project
(3:05:46) – Fear of death
(3:14:12) – Everyday Astronaut origin story
(3:40:04) – Soviet Rocket Engine History
(3:58:51) – Russia, China, USA
(4:13:20) – Starlink
(4:21:06) – First human on Mars
(4:24:04) – Moon landing
(4:30:11) – Nuclear propulsion
(4:37:51) – Bob Lazar
(4:44:54) – Aliens
(4:48:42) – Sci-fi books
(4:52:00) – Long-term space travel
(4:58:47) – SpaceX competitors
(5:10:07) – Kerbal Space Program
(5:16:33) – Advice for young people

#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds

28 januari 2023 | 231 min

#354 – Jeremi Suri: American Civil War

25 januari 2023 | min

#353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy

21 januari 2023 | 194 min

#352 – Omar Suleiman: Islam

17 januari 2023 | 187 min

#351 – MrBeast: Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram

11 januari 2023 | 145 min

#350 – Betül Kaçar: Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens

29 december 2022 | 168 min

#349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism

22 december 2022 | 232 min

#348 – Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

19 december 2022 | 132 min

#347 – Michael Malice: Christmas Special

15 december 2022 | 228 min

#346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels

12 december 2022 | 252 min

#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

9 december 2022 | 232 min

#344 – Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation

6 december 2022 | 154 min

#343 – Roger Gracie: Greatest Jiu Jitsu Competitor of All Time

3 december 2022 | min

#342 – Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

29 november 2022 | 170 min

#341 – Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming

26 november 2022 | 203 min

#340 – Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

22 november 2022 | 183 min

#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

18 november 2022 | 256 min

#338 – Chamath Palihapitiya: Money, Success, Startups, Energy, Poker & Happiness

15 november 2022 | 184 min

#337 – Destiny: Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, War, and Relationships

11 november 2022 | min

#336 – Ben Shapiro: Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler, Extremism, and War

7 november 2022 | 157 min

#335 – Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump

4 november 2022 | 205 min

#334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

2 november 2022 | 191 min

#333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI

29 oktober 2022 | 214 min

#332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview

24 oktober 2022 | 154 min

#331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA

20 oktober 2022 | 473 min

#330 – Hikaru Nakamura: Chess, Magnus, Kasparov, and the Psychology of Greatness

17 oktober 2022 | 174 min

#329 – Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT

15 oktober 2022 | 190 min

#328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives

10 oktober 2022 | 296 min

#327 – GothamChess: Hans Niemann, Magnus Carlsen, Cheating Scandal & Chess Bots

7 oktober 2022 | 219 min

#326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

5 oktober 2022 | 166 min

#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots

1 oktober 2022 | 185 min

#324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker

27 september 2022 | min

#323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling

24 september 2022 | 148 min

#322 – Rana el Kaliouby: Emotion AI, Social Robots, and Self-Driving Cars

21 september 2022 | 162 min

#321 – Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality

17 september 2022 | 102 min

#320 – Christopher Capozzola: World War I, Ideology, Propaganda, and Politics

14 september 2022 | min

#319 – Botez Sisters: Chess, Streaming, and Fame

9 september 2022 | 163 min

#318 – Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness

7 september 2022 | 228 min

#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom

4 september 2022 | 197 min

#316 – Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War

31 augusti 2022 | 53 min

#315 – Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time

27 augusti 2022 | 160 min

#314 – Liv Boeree: Poker, Game Theory, AI, Simulation, Aliens & Existential Risk

24 augusti 2022 | 221 min

#313 – Jordan Peterson: Life, Death, Power, Fame, and Meaning

19 augusti 2022 | 190 min

#312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man

16 augusti 2022 | 206 min

#311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity

13 augusti 2022 | 218 min

#310 – Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy

8 augusti 2022 | 240 min

#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets

4 augusti 2022 | 323 min

John Carmack is a legendary programmer, co-founder of id Software, and lead programmer of many revolutionary video games including Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, and the Commander Keen series. He is also the founder of Armadillo Aerospace, and for many years the CTO of Oculus VR. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(09:49) – Programming languages
(40:53) – Modern programming
(50:55) – Day in the life
(58:45) – Hard work
(1:01:58) – Pizza and Diet Coke
(1:04:43) – Setup
(1:30:01) – id Software
(2:02:50) – Commander Keen
(2:09:36) – Hacker ethic
(2:17:16) – Wolfenstein 3D
(2:37:14) – Doom
(2:51:34) – Quake
(3:15:55) – John Romero
(3:23:42) – Metaverse
(3:52:04) – Elon Musk
(3:57:59) – Mars
(4:07:01) – Nuclear energy
(4:10:39) – AGI
(4:57:51) – Andrej Karpathy
(5:00:50) – Martial arts
(5:09:49) – Advice for young people
(5:18:49) – Meaning of life

#308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens

1 augusti 2022 | 157 min

#307 – Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation

29 juli 2022 | 156 min

#306 – Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence

26 juli 2022 | 135 min

#305 – Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang

23 juli 2022 | 139 min

#304 – Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church

20 juli 2022 | 121 min

#303 – Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics

17 juli 2022 | 217 min

#302 – Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences

14 juli 2022 | 171 min

#301 – Jack Barsky: KGB Spy

9 juli 2022 | 223 min

#300 – Joe Rogan: Comedy, Controversy, Aliens, UFOs, Putin, CIA, and Freedom

4 juli 2022 | 110 min

#299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind

1 juli 2022 | 137 min

#298 – Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts and Loneliness

28 juni 2022 | 126 min

#297 – Jonathan Reisman: The Human Body – From Sex & Sperm to Hands & Heart

25 juni 2022 | 170 min

#296 – Douglas Murray: Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West

21 juni 2022 | 165 min

#295 – Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism

17 juni 2022 | 179 min

#294 – Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, and Nest

15 juni 2022 | 173 min

#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth

12 juni 2022 | 203 min

#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity

9 juni 2022 | 259 min

#291 – Jonathan Haidt: The Case Against Social Media

4 juni 2022 | 109 min

#290 – Dan Reynolds: Imagine Dragons

30 maj 2022 | 139 min

#289 – Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine

25 maj 2022 | 169 min

#288 – Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan

23 maj 2022 | 261 min

#287 – Bobby Lee: Comedy, Skyrim, Sex Robots, Love, Fame, and Power

20 maj 2022 | 106 min

#286 – Oliver Stone: Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine

17 maj 2022 | 119 min

#285 – Glenn Loury: Race, Racism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture

14 maj 2022 | 219 min

#284 – Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics

11 maj 2022 | 261 min

#283 – Chris Mason: Space Travel, Colonization, and Long-Term Survival in Space

8 maj 2022 | 182 min

Chris Mason is a professor of genomics, physiology, and biophysics at Cornell, doing research on the long-term effects of space on the human body. He is the author of The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(0:00) – Introduction
(7:43) – Human extinction awareness
(16:29) – Heat death of the universe
(22:05) – Alone in the universe
(25:41) – Aliens
(33:50) – Entropy goggles
(48:04) – Genetics
(56:14) – Scott Kelly
(1:02:12) – Adapting to space
(1:12:13) – Sex in space
(1:14:46) – Colonizing planets
(1:21:25) – Culture on Mars
(1:25:51) – Commercial space flights
(1:33:09) – Podcast in space
(1:40:43) – Axiom Space
(1:42:59) – Designing space experiments
(1:49:49) – Robots in space
(1:52:30) – Space exploration
(1:56:28) – War in space
(2:00:05) – Launch toward the Second Sun
(2:06:14) – Chlorohumans
(2:11:50) – Extreme microbiome project
(2:18:17) – Space travel breakthroughs
(2:30:15) – Clones
(2:36:08) – AI age prediction
(2:41:38) – Advice for young people
(2:47:56) – Dark times
(2:52:19) – Mortality
(2:56:37) – Visiting ISS and deep space
(2:57:46) – Meaning of life

#282 – David Buss: Sex, Dating, Relationships, and Sex Differences

4 maj 2022 | 219 min

David Buss is an evolutionary psychologist at UT Austin. He is one of the founders of the field of evolutionary psychology. His current research is on sex differences in mate selection, mate attraction, infidelity, and the emotions of jealousy, lust, and love. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(08:04) – Sex vs Violence
(14:48) – Mating strategies
(26:44) – Social construct of beauty
(30:38) – Evolution of mating evaluation
(34:40) – Mating selection desires
(39:52) – Difficulties of monogamy
(46:16) – Importance of male appearance
(48:52) – Importance of wealth
(52:08) – Penis and breasts
(55:59) – Fashion
(58:58) – Body objectification
(1:06:33) – Wear sunscreen
(1:13:29) – Gender
(1:30:39) – What motivates humans
(1:32:29) – Dominance and submissiveness
(1:40:33) – Johnny Depp defamation trial
(1:50:24) – Jealousy
(1:58:45) – Mate poaching
(2:02:58) – Polyamory
(2:14:13) – Female vs Male sexuality
(2:23:11) – Pornography
(2:29:46) – Sex and Violence continued
(2:38:55) – Cancel culture
(2:50:38) – Elon Musk and Twitter
(2:59:02) – Serial killers
(3:04:55) – Advice for young people
(3:16:57) – Love
(3:22:57) – Mortality
(3:27:40) – Meaning of life

#281 – Grimes: Music, AI, and the Future of Humanity

29 april 2022 | 131 min

#280 – Cristiano Amon: Qualcomm CEO

27 april 2022 | 75 min

#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin

24 april 2022 | 251 min

#278 – Skye Fitzgerald: Hunger, War, and Human Suffering

20 april 2022 | 155 min

#277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship

17 april 2022 | 212 min

#276 – Michael Saylor: Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money

14 april 2022 | 242 min

#275 – Rick Rubin: Legendary Music Producer

10 april 2022 | 208 min

Rick Rubin is one of the greatest music producers of all time, working with many of the greats including Beastie Boys, Eminem, Metallica, LL Cool J, Kanye West, Slayer, Tom Petty, Johnny Cash, Dixie Chicks, Aerosmith, Adele, Danzig, Red Hot Chili Peppers, System of a Down, Jay-Z, Black Sabbath. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:46) – Nietzsche and music
(18:47) – Rick’s approach with artists
(30:10) – Beautiful simplicity in music
(33:54) – Marvin Gaye
(43:09) – Best album of all time
(47:02) – Paul McCartney
(49:08) – Ideas
(51:30) – Rebellion and conformity
(56:18) – Fitness
(59:27) – Johnny Cash
(1:09:23) – Tom Waits
(1:14:01) – Lyrics vs rhythm
(1:18:48) – Johnny Cash continued
(1:20:47) – Beastie Boys
(1:27:09) – Depression
(1:31:31) – Art vs Business
(1:40:18) – Art of conversation
(1:56:52) – Rick’s podcast
(2:00:02) – Advice for young people
(2:04:07) – Mortality
(2:06:42) – Meaning of life

#274 – Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry

7 april 2022 | 208 min

#273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence

3 april 2022 | 174 min

#272 – Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal

27 mars 2022 | 233 min

#271 – Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures

23 mars 2022 | 113 min

#270 – David Wolpe: Judaism

16 mars 2022 | 138 min

#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness

11 mars 2022 | 252 min

#268 – Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology

5 mars 2022 | 175 min

#267 – Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse

26 februari 2022 | 126 min

#266 – Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar

20 februari 2022 | 128 min

#265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling

16 februari 2022 | min

#264 – Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity

13 februari 2022 | 164 min

#263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma

11 februari 2022 | 144 min

#262 – Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens

6 februari 2022 | 110 min

#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind

3 februari 2022 | 173 min

#260 – Georges St-Pierre, John Danaher & Gordon Ryan: The Greatest of All Time

30 januari 2022 | min

#259 – Thomas Tull: From Batman Dark Knight Trilogy to AI and the Rolling Stones

26 januari 2022 | 143 min

#258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning

22 januari 2022 | 172 min

#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize

18 januari 2022 | 246 min

#256 – Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony

15 januari 2022 | 185 min

#255 – Mark Normand: Comedy!

8 januari 2022 | 118 min

#254 – Jay Bhattacharya: The Case Against Lockdowns

4 januari 2022 | 149 min

#253 – Michael Malice: New Year’s Special

31 december 2021 | 213 min

#252 – Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI

28 december 2021 | 160 min

Elon Musk is CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and Boring Company. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:38) – Elon singing
(08:26) – SpaceX human spaceflight
(15:12) – Starship
(23:48) – Quitting is not in my nature
(25:23) – Thinking process
(34:56) – Humans on Mars
(40:27) – Colonizing Mars
(44:13) – Wormholes
(48:50) – Forms of government on Mars
(55:54) – Smart contracts
(57:24) – Dogecoin
(58:55) – Cryptocurrency and Money
(1:05:04) – Bitcoin vs Dogecoin
(1:07:47) – Satoshi Nakamoto
(1:10:10) – Tesla Autopilot
(1:13:16) – Tesla Self-Driving
(1:25:19) – Neural networks
(1:34:16) – When will Tesla solve self-driving?
(1:36:19) – Tesla FSD v11
(1:43:53) – Tesla Bot
(1:54:33) – History
(2:02:24) – Putin
(2:08:04) – Meme Review
(2:22:29) – Stand-up comedy
(2:24:03) – Rick and Morty
(2:25:42) – Advice for young people
(2:33:39) – Love
(2:36:33) – Meaning of life

#251 – Ray Dalio: Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires

25 december 2021 | 100 min

#250 – Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality

23 december 2021 | 173 min

#249 – Albert Bourla: Pfizer CEO

18 december 2021 | 75 min

#248 – Norman Naimark: Genocide, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Absolute Power

13 december 2021 | 145 min

#247 – Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory

8 december 2021 | 302 min

#246 – Peter Woit: Theories of Everything and Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong

3 december 2021 | 143 min

#245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling

30 november 2021 | 63 min

#244 – Robert Crews: Afghanistan, Taliban, Bin Laden, and War in the Middle East

28 november 2021 | 169 min

#243 – Kevin Systrom: Instagram

23 november 2021 | 173 min

#242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA

20 november 2021 | 142 min

#241 – Boris Sofman: Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Robotics

16 november 2021 | 201 min

#240 – Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity

11 november 2021 | 168 min

#239 – Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth

8 november 2021 | 169 min

#238 – Francis Collins: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

5 november 2021 | 93 min

#237 – Steve Viscelli: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream

3 november 2021 | 199 min

#236 – Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions

31 oktober 2021 | 151 min

#235 – Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing

29 oktober 2021 | 114 min

#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality

27 oktober 2021 | 225 min

#233 – Carl Hart: Heroin, Cocaine, MDMA, Alcohol & the Role of Drugs in Society

23 oktober 2021 | 77 min

#232 – Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, Big Bang, Aliens, Life, Death, and Meaning

20 oktober 2021 | 112 min

#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights

16 oktober 2021 | 161 min

#230 – Kelsi Sheren: War, Artillery, PTSD, and Love

14 oktober 2021 | min

#229 – Richard Wrangham: Role of Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution

10 oktober 2021 | min

#228 – RZA: Wu-Tang Clan, Kung Fu, Chess, God, Life, and Death

5 oktober 2021 | min

#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning

30 september 2021 | min

#226 – Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math

27 september 2021 | min

#225 – Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence

26 september 2021 | min

#224 – Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming

23 september 2021 | min

#223 – Travis Stevens: Judo, Olympics, and Mental Toughness

21 september 2021 | min

#222 – Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition

20 september 2021 | min

#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI

15 september 2021 | min

Douglas Lenat is the founder of Cyc, a 37 year project aiming to solve common-sense knowledge and reasoning in AI. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:39) – What is Cyc?
(15:45) – How to form a knowledge base of the universe
(26:11) – How to train an AI knowledge base
(30:32) – Global consistency versus local consistency
(54:53) – Automated reasoning
(1:00:33) – Direct uses of AI and machine learning
(1:13:11) – The semantic web
(1:23:44) – Tools to help Cyc interpret data
(1:32:54) – The most beautiful idea about Cyc
(1:38:53) – Love and consciousness in AI
(1:45:52) – The greatness of Marvin Minsky
(1:50:46) – Is Cyc just a beautiful dream?
(1:55:31) – What is OpenCyc and how was it born?
(2:01:21) – The open source community and OpenCyc
(2:11:48) – The inference problem
(2:13:31) – Cyc’s programming language
(2:21:05) – Ontological engineering
(2:28:30) – Do machines think?
(2:37:15) – Death and consciousness
(2:47:16) – What would you say to AI?
(2:51:52) – Advice to young people
(2:53:48) – Mortality

#220 – Niels Jorgensen: New York Firefighters and the Heroes of 9/11

11 september 2021 | 170 min

#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life

9 september 2021 | 148 min

#218 – Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media & the Future of Humans and AI

6 september 2021 | 119 min

#217 – Rodney Brooks: Robotics

3 september 2021 | 151 min

#216 – Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines

1 september 2021 | 216 min

#215 – Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI

29 augusti 2021 | 178 min

Wojciech Zaremba is a co-founder of OpenAI. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:57) – The Fermi paradox
(14:59) – Systems of government
(17:36) – Life, intelligence, and consciousness
(24:49) – GPT language model
(27:02) – Engineering consciousness
(31:19) – Is there an algorithm for intelligence?
(38:41) – Neural networks and deep learning
(51:32) – Human reward functions
(56:26) – Love is part of the human condition
(58:53) – Expanding our circle of empathy
(1:02:58) – Psychedelics and meditation
(1:14:25) – Ilya Sutskever
(1:21:42) – How does GPT work?
(1:31:35) – AI safety
(1:38:21) – OpenAI Codex
(1:51:54) – Robotics
(2:01:11) – Developing self driving cars and robots
(2:12:02) – What is the benchmark for intelligence?
(2:15:04) – Will we spend more time in virtual reality?
(2:17:18) – AI Friendships
(2:26:48) – Sleep
(2:29:22) – Generating good ideas
(2:35:47) – Advice for young people
(2:40:31) – Getting started with machine learning
(2:43:44) – What is beauty?
(2:47:35) – Death
(2:54:23) – Meaning of life

#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science

27 augusti 2021 | 118 min

#213 – Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built

23 augusti 2021 | 150 min

#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness

21 augusti 2021 | 199 min

#211 – Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics

15 augusti 2021 | min

#210 – Matt Walker: Sleep

11 augusti 2021 | min

#209 – Luís and João Batalha: Fermat’s Library and the Art of Studying Papers

9 augusti 2021 | 183 min

#208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence

8 augusti 2021 | 146 min

#207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength

3 augusti 2021 | 169 min

Chris Duffin is a strength athlete, coach, and engineer, setting multiple strength world records including squatting and deadlifting 1000 lbs for multiple reps. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(07:10) – Performing feats of strength
(13:52) – What does it take to lift 1000 lbs for reps?
(16:43) – From 500 to 1000lb
(17:15) – The mechanics of heavy lifting
(28:32) – What did it feel like to do 1000lbs for reps?
(30:26) – Achieving peak performance
(35:16) – Importance of singular focus
(37:48) – Chris’s childhood
(50:37) – The Eagle and the Dragon: A Story of Strength and Reinvention
(58:21) – Lex on business
(1:04:52) – The Disciplines of Strength
(1:09:33) – Powerlifting
(1:22:37) – Role of strength in MMA, BJJ… and baseball
(1:32:38) – What is Kabuki Strength?
(1:38:55) – Equipment
(1:50:09) – The importance of strong feet
(1:59:15) – Chris’s diet
(2:05:37) – Lex on moderation in food
(2:06:11) – Steroids and PED’s
(2:24:14) – Whiskey and deadlifts
(2:33:03) – Is it better to work hard or smart?
(2:41:52) – Advice for young people
(2:45:02) – Fear of death

#206 – Ishan Misra: Self-Supervised Deep Learning in Computer Vision

31 juli 2021 | min

Ishan Misra is a research scientist at FAIR working on self-supervised visual learning. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:49) – Self-supervised learning
(16:24) – Self-supervised learning is the dark matter of intelligence
(20:17) – Categorization
(28:50) – Is computer vision still really hard?
(32:35) – Understanding Language
(42:14) – Harder to solve: vision or language
(48:59) – Contrastive learning & energy-based models
(52:59) – Data augmentation
(57:19) – Fixed audio spike by lowering sound with pen tool
(1:05:33) – Real data vs. augmented data
(1:09:16) – Non-contrastive learning energy based self supervised learning methods
(1:12:54) – Unsupervised learning (SwAV)
(1:15:37) – Self-supervised Pretraining (SEER)
(1:20:44) – Self-supervised learning (SSL) architectures
(1:26:43) – VISSL pytorch-based SSL library
(1:29:38) – Multi-modal
(1:37:06) – Active learning
(1:42:45) – Autonomous driving
(1:54:12) – Limits of deep learning
(1:58:19) – Difference between learning and reasoning
(2:03:26) – Building super-human AI
(2:11:14) – Most beautiful idea in self-supervised learning
(2:15:02) – Simulation for training AI
(2:18:27) – Video games replacing reality
(2:19:40) – How to write a good research paper
(2:24:08) – Best programming language for beginners
(2:25:01) – PyTorch vs TensorFlow
(2:28:26) – Advice for getting into machine learning
(2:30:31) – Advice for young people
(2:32:58) – Meaning of life

#205 – Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running

29 juli 2021 | 187 min

Zach Bitter is an ultramarathon runner and coach. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:34) – The marathon mentality
(14:43) – The psychology of quitting
(25:49) – Variety in ultramarathons
(33:04) – What does it take to run 100 miles?
(38:27) – Leading ultramarathon events
(42:09) – Training and race strategy
(44:39) – 100 Mile world record
(48:41) – Foot strike variability and cadence
(51:29) – The 11 hour barrier
(54:57) – The most beautiful thing about running
(1:01:19) – Zach’s training regime
(1:06:06) – MAF 180 Formula
(1:16:31) – Training plans
(1:31:30) – Marathons vs. 100 miles
(1:40:31) – Zach’s diet philosophy
(1:55:19) – Fueling for race day
(2:02:34) – Training while fasted
(2:06:11) – Embracing the chaos
(2:07:41) – 100-Mile treadmill WR
(2:11:51) – The legend of Bert Kreischer
(2:16:16) – The Transcontinental Run across America
(2:33:51) – Who is the greatest endurance athlete of all time?
(2:41:04) – Shoe technology in running
(2:54:14) – Human limits
(2:56:49) – Zach’s biggest obstacles
(3:00:34) – Advice for young people

#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory

26 juli 2021 | 139 min

#203 – Anya Fernald: Regenerative Farming and the Art of Cooking Meat

23 juli 2021 | 111 min

Anya Fernald is the co-founder of Belcampo farms, chef, and regenerative agriculture expert. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(09:04) – Cooking is an art and a service
(10:43) – Food is health
(12:45) – Anticipation makes food taste better
(14:36) – Lex on breaking the 72 hour fast
(18:47) – Falling in love with cooking
(20:28) – Alienation during the diet
(23:09) – Cooking advice for minimalists
(29:14) – Complexity of coconut oil
(32:35) – Anya’s favorite meal
(39:17) – Sources of heat
(41:46) – Why do people freak out about barbecue
(44:58) – Does the origin of the meat itself make a difference?
(47:06) – What is regenerative farming?
(51:16) – AI will be a better farmer than humans
(55:17) – Carbon negative farming is possible right now
(57:04) – Certified Humane
(1:00:34) – Evolutionary diet of animals
(1:03:17) – Neuralink can help us understand animals
(1:07:13) – All grass-fed meat made the same?
(1:11:57) – Health benefits of grass-fed beef
(1:16:29) – What does it take to be a woman CEO of a meat company?
(1:23:57) – Making cheese for Italian mafia
(1:27:56) – How to judge a good meal?
(1:29:58) – The best meal in the world
(1:37:48) – Anya played oboe in the Sicily municipal band
(1:39:23) – Hunting has inspired regenerative farming
(1:44:07) – Meaning of life
(1:45:27) – Advice for young people: grow through discomfort

#202 – Rick Doblin: Psychedelics

21 juli 2021 | 162 min

Rick Doblin is a psychedelics researcher and the founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:54) – Introduction to psychedelics
(11:09) – Psychedelics reveals the inner depths of humans
(23:43) – Differences between psychedelics
(31:08) – The future of psychedelics
(39:52) – Epigenetics
(45:49) – DMT
(53:16) – Ego dissolution
(56:33) – One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
(59:32) – Psychedelics and Creativity
(1:03:25) – MKUltra and the Grateful Dead
(1:08:04) – Ted Kaczynski
(1:13:46) – Timothy Leary
(1:21:10) – Good Friday Experiment
(1:25:46) – Forming of MAPS
(1:37:01) – Gaining access to psychedelics
(1:45:30) – MDMA Medical Trials
(2:17:00) – Clinical Trials for other substances
(2:21:43) – Future of society with psychedelics
(2:26:13) – Big Pharma
(2:32:32) – Advice for the younger generations
(2:38:17) – Meaning of life

#201 – Konstantin Batygin: Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System

19 juli 2021 | 166 min

Konstantin Batygin is a planetary astrophysicist at Caltech. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:17) – Overview of our Solar System
(22:14) – What is the Oort Cloud?
(27:10) – Life in the interstellar medium
(28:42) – Are there aliens out there?
(31:22) – How unique is Earth?
(34:02) – Did Jupiter destroy early planets?
(40:16) – How hard is it to simulate the Universe?
(44:49) – Quantum mechanics in evolution of objects in the Solar system
(49:15) – Simulating the first formations around the Sun
(55:02) – Will it be possible to simulate the full history of the Solar System?
(57:23) – How far should we go with the simulation?
(59:43) – Increasing immersion in video games
(1:06:09) – What is Planet Nine?
(1:12:37) – The origin of life
(1:15:02) – Evidence of Planet Nine
(1:17:32) – Discovery of Neptune
(1:18:42) – When will we find Planet Nine?
(1:21:21) – Planet Nine throws rocks into the Kuiper Belt
(1:25:15) – Could Planet Nine be a primordial black hole?
(1:35:20) – Commercial space revolution boosts science and the human condition
(1:42:46) – Solving sex in space
(1:43:24) – Would humans evolve if we couldn’t see the stars?
(1:49:08) – Military funding and science
(1:53:11) – Is Oumuamua space junk from a distant alien civilization?
(2:06:33) – Wild ideas create the future
(2:14:22) – The perfect place to die
(2:16:03) – Greatest song of all time
(2:22:34) – Music enables science for Konstantin
(2:24:51) – Music practice tips for busy people
(2:28:41) – Memories of 1990s Russia
(2:35:14) – Advice for young people
(2:41:10) – Meaning of life

#200 – Michael Malice: Totalitarianism and Anarchy

15 juli 2021 | 165 min

#199 – Roger Reaves: Smuggling Drugs for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel

11 juli 2021 | 136 min

#198 – Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds

9 juli 2021 | 125 min

Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist interested in the origin of life. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(07:44) – Origin of life
(15:38) – Did aliens seed life on Earth?
(20:48) – What is life?
(32:27) – Cellular automata
(36:56) – The laws of physics may change with time
(46:41) – Nobel Prize for the origin of life
(52:01) – Is consciousness fundamental to the universe?
(1:03:19) – Life is the most deterministic part of physics
(1:05:54) – Free will
(1:14:11) – How to detect alien life
(1:28:48) – How many alien civilization are out there?
(1:35:32) – Shadow biosphere
(1:41:59) – UFO sightings
(1:45:35) – Exponential population growth of AI lifeforms
(1:52:42) – The role of death in life
(1:56:45) – Advice for young people
(2:02:31) – Meaning of life

#197 – Jocko Willink: War, Leadership, and Discipline

5 juli 2021 | 123 min

#196 – Yeonmi Park: North Korea

1 juli 2021 | 126 min

#195 – Clara Sousa-Silva: Searching for Signs of Life on Venus and Other Planets

28 juni 2021 | 124 min

#194 – Bret Weinstein: Truth, Science, and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic

25 juni 2021 | 203 min

#193 – Rob Reid: The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses and Lab Leaks

21 juni 2021 | 185 min

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(08:33) – The most entertaining outcome is the most likely
(14:52) – Meme theory
(18:12) – Writing process
(24:59) – Engineered viruses as a threat to human civilization
(32:45) – Gain-of-function research on viruses
(44:54) – Did COVID leak from a lab?
(52:15) – Virus detection
(1:00:04) – Failure of institutions
(1:07:48) – Using AI to engineer viruses
(1:12:07) – Evil and competence
(1:21:26) – Where are the aliens?
(1:25:19) – Backing up human consciousness by colonizing space
(1:34:48) – Superintelligence and consciousness
(1:46:12) – Meditation
(1:54:20) – Fasting
(2:00:20) – Greatest song of all time
(2:05:46) – Early days of music streaming
(2:17:39) – Startup advice
(2:30:50) – Podcasting
(2:46:12) – Advice for young people
(2:55:15) – Mortality
(3:00:41) – Meaning of life

#192 – Charles Hoskinson: Cardano

16 juni 2021 | 305 min

Charles Hoskinson is the founder of Cardano, co-founder of Ethereum, a mathematician, and a farmer. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(09:12) – What programming language is the simulation written in?
(14:17) – Favorite philosophers
(23:18) – Theory vs engineering in cryptocurrency
(34:27) – What programming languages should everyone learn
(42:42) – Haskell and beyond
(46:26) – Plutus: Cardano’s smart contract platform based on Haskell
(50:53) – What is a blockchain?
(55:05) – Hybrid smart contracts
(1:00:55) – Proof of work vs proof of stake
(1:09:42) – Cardano’s proof of stake consensus algorithm
(1:20:14) – What is Cardano?
(1:28:55) – Cardano vs Ethereum vs Bitcoin
(1:38:50) – The problem with Bitcoin
(1:48:24) – Bitcoin Conference
(1:52:05) – Ergo and Alex Chepurnoy
(1:59:15) – Cardano’s Extended UTXO Model
(2:06:27) – Chainlink and Oracle Networks
(2:13:40) – Cardano and Wolfram Alpha
(2:18:35) – The future of video games
(2:27:10) – Smart contracts timeline for Cardano
(2:34:40) – Decentralized exchanges
(2:40:21) – Jack Dorsey and Bitcoin
(2:46:33) – Elon Musk and Tesla: Cardano, Ethereum, Bitcoin
(2:49:50) – Dogecoin and Elon Musk
(3:01:11) – Hydra vs Lightning Network
(3:08:45) – Non-Interactive Proofs of Proof-of-Work (NIPoPoWs)
(3:12:39) – Cardano failure modes
(3:21:00) – Cardano vs Polkadot
(3:26:05) – Vitalik Buterin
(3:34:16) – Corrupting nature of power
(3:44:26) – Satoshi Nakamoto
(3:50:37) – Cardano’s vision for decentralized governance
(4:03:31) – Cardano in Ethiopia
(4:07:33) – El Salvador and Bitcoin
(4:13:50) – Cryptocurrency will inject capitalism with long-term incentives
(4:23:42) – Day in the life of Charles Hoskinson
(4:30:59) – Mushrooms
(4:37:07) – Joe Rogan
(4:42:00) – Video games
(4:54:14) – Advice for young people
(4:57:23) – Meaning of life

#191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction

14 juni 2021 | 262 min

#190 – Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries

13 juni 2021 | 167 min

#189 – David Sinclair: Extending the Human Lifespan Beyond 100 Years

7 juni 2021 | 110 min

#188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0

3 juni 2021 | 189 min

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(00:00) – Introduction
(08:18) – Shiba Inu story
(25:35) – Regulation
(29:48) – Crime
(34:54) – Proof of stake vs proof of work
(47:43) – Miner extractable value
(53:19) – Scaling
(54:42) – Bitcoin blocksize wars
(1:00:51) – Hard fork vs soft fork
(1:04:34) – Craig Wright
(1:11:18) – Scaling: Sharding
(1:18:07) – Scaling: Rollups
(1:26:30) – Polygon and other Layer 2 technologies
(1:34:11) – Merging PoS and PoW chains
(1:43:49) – Lessons learned from Ethereum 2.0 failure incidents
(1:52:35) – Bitcoin vs Ethereum
(1:58:30) – Dogecoin
(2:04:38) – Elon Musk
(2:07:15) – Chainlink
(2:10:35) – Charles Hoskinson and Cardano
(2:18:08) – AI safety
(2:23:07) – NFTs
(2:25:57) – Scams
(2:35:34) – Longevity
(2:44:55) – Does death give meaning to life?
(2:50:38) – Lex and Vitalik speak Russian
(2:54:29) – Meaning of life
(2:59:48) – Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History and WWII

#187 – Frank Wilczek: Physics of Quarks, Dark Matter, Complexity, Life & Aliens

29 maj 2021 | 150 min

#186 – Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces

24 maj 2021 | 157 min

#185 – Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning

20 maj 2021 | 204 min

#184 – Katherine de Kleer: Planets, Moons, and Asteroids in Our Solar System

17 maj 2021 | 123 min

#183 – Po-Shen Loh: Mathematics, Math Olympiad, Combinatorics & Contact Tracing

14 maj 2021 | 147 min

#182 – John Danaher: The Path to Mastery in Jiu Jitsu, Grappling, Judo, and MMA

9 maj 2021 | 223 min

John Danaher is a coach, scholar, and educator of jiu jitsu, submission grappling, judo, MMA, and the martial arts. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:02) – Fear of death
(17:18) – The path to greatness
(22:57) – Judo
(27:07) – Seoi nage judo throw
(39:21) – Fundamentals of jiu jitsu
(45:34) – Developing new techniques
(53:24) – Value of training with lower belts
(1:03:23) – Escaping bad positions
(1:10:18) – Submissions
(1:14:30) – Reinventing yourself in 5 years
(1:30:38) – Drilling
(1:49:10) – Leglock system
(2:08:44) – How hard is it to break a leg?
(2:12:52) – Greatest jiu jitsu player ever
(2:17:42) – Roger Gracie
(2:22:25) – Gordon Ryan
(2:27:16) – Georges St-Pierre
(2:36:26) – Superintelligent Robot vs Cyborg Gordon Ryan
(3:12:07) – Advice to white belts
(3:15:24) – What does it take to get a black belt
(3:16:09) – Best martial art for street fighting
(3:23:23) – Tie chokes
(3:27:44) – Austin
(3:32:23) – Meaning of life

#181 – Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks

1 maj 2021 | min

#180 – Jeremi Suri: History of American Power

30 april 2021 | 135 min

#179 – Georges St-Pierre: The Science of Fighting

26 april 2021 | min

#178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy

24 april 2021 | min

#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation

19 april 2021 | 122 min

#176 – Robert Breedlove: Philosophy of Bitcoin from First Principles

17 april 2021 | 250 min

Robert Breedlove is a decentralized finance entrepreneur, philosopher, and podcaster. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(08:46) – Sovereignty
(15:50) – Territorial imperative
(20:28) – Property
(26:33) – Anarchism
(29:11) – Inflation is theft
(33:35) – Volatility is truth
(38:14) – Taleb and Bitcoin
(42:22) – Life is information propagating through flesh
(53:21) – Intelligence
(57:34) – Space and time
(1:04:16) – Pragmatic truth
(1:15:14) – Creative destruction
(1:19:03) – Capitalism vs Communism
(1:31:46) – Jordan Peterson on religion
(1:36:03) – Inflation
(1:39:54) – What is money?
(1:53:30) – What is Bitcoin?
(2:04:36) – Bitcoin vs other cryptocurrencies
(2:12:47) – Can governments ban Bitcoin?
(2:25:29) – Bitcoin toxicity is tough love
(2:38:47) – Crypto scammers
(2:47:58) – Eric Weinstein and Bitcoin
(2:54:21) – Satoshi Nakamoto
(2:58:51) – Money is energy
(3:06:05) – Proof of stake vs proof of work
(3:08:45) – Morality
(3:23:30) – Collapse of the Soviet Union
(3:27:00) – Jordan Peterson and Bitcoin
(3:39:28) – Book recommendations
(3:58:49) – Advice for young people
(4:02:20) – Love

#175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy

12 april 2021 | 117 min

#174 – Tyler Cowen: Economic Growth and the Fight Against Conformity and Mediocrity

10 april 2021 | 136 min

#173 – Nic Carter: Bitcoin Core Values, Layered Scaling, and Blocksize Debates

1 april 2021 | 153 min

Nic Carter is a financial researcher, investor, writer, and podcaster on topics of decentralized finance. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(13:05) – Can humans fully understand reality?
(15:34) – The dollar system
(21:44) – Bitcoin
(23:19) – Opendime
(27:22) – Core values of Bitcoin
(35:51) – Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
(41:39) – How Bitcoin works
(50:02) – Bitcoin blocksize wars
(1:02:27) – Layered scaling of Bitcoin
(1:07:25) – Lightning network
(1:10:25) – Schnorr/Taproot update to Bitcoin
(1:15:17) – Criticisms of Bitcoin
(1:25:04) – Bitcoin failure modes
(1:33:07) – Bitcoin vs Ethereum
(1:37:03) – Vitalik Buterin
(1:39:56) – Creative destruction
(1:44:51) – Future of Bitcoin
(1:48:38) – Tesla, Elon Musk, and Dogecoin
(1:56:44) – NFTs
(2:04:00) – Bitcoin maximalism
(2:10:37) – On writing
(2:16:37) – Writing a book on Bitcoin
(2:21:07) – Bitcoin resources
(2:23:57) – Book recommendations
(2:25:56) – Advice for young people
(2:29:13) – Meaning of life

#172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses

30 mars 2021 | 152 min

#171 – Anthony Pompliano: Bitcoin

25 mars 2021 | 189 min

#170 – Ronald Sullivan: The Ideal of Justice in the Face of Controversy and Evil

22 mars 2021 | 111 min

#169 – Ryan Hall: Solving Martial Arts from First Principles

20 mars 2021 | 181 min

#168 – Silvio Micali: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Algorand, Bitcoin, and Ethereum

15 mars 2021 | 121 min

#167 – Saagar Enjeti: Politics, History, and Power

14 mars 2021 | 197 min

#166 – Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media

5 mars 2021 | 189 min

#165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts

1 mars 2021 | 138 min

#164 – Andrew Huberman: Sleep, Dreams, Creativity & the Limits of the Human Mind

28 februari 2021 | 179 min

#163 – Eric Weinstein: Difficult Conversations, Freedom of Speech, and Physics

23 februari 2021 | 165 min

#162 – Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness

18 februari 2021 | 165 min

Jim Keller is a legendary microprocessor engineer, previously at AMD, Apple, Tesla, Intel, and now Tenstorrent. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:02) – Good design is both science and engineering
(13:03) – Javascript
(17:09) – RISC vs CISC
(21:09) – What makes a great processor?
(22:38) – Intel vs ARM
(24:27) – Steve Jobs and Apple
(27:05) – Elon Musk and Steve Jobs
(32:50) – Father
(36:33) – Perfection
(42:48) – Modular design
(48:22) – Moore’s law
(55:20) – Hardware for deep learning
(1:02:14) – Making neural networks fast at scale
(1:09:51) – Andrej Karpathy and Chris Lattner
(1:14:05) – How GPUs work
(1:18:12) – Tesla Autopilot, NVIDIA, and Mobileye
(1:22:52) – Andrej Karpathy and Software 2.0
(1:29:13) – Tesla Dojo
(1:31:49) – Neural networks will understand physics better than humans
(1:34:02) – Re-engineering the human brain
(1:38:56) – Infinite fun and the Culture Series by Iain Banks
(1:40:50) – Neuralink
(1:46:13) – Dreams
(1:50:06) – Ideas
(2:00:19) – Aliens
(2:05:16) – Jordan Peterson
(2:10:13) – Viruses
(2:13:22) – WallStreetBets and Robinhood
(2:21:25) – Advice for young people
(2:23:15) – Human condition
(2:25:43) – Fear is a cage
(2:30:34) – Love
(2:36:57) – Regrets

#161 – Jason Calacanis: Startups, Angel Investing, Capitalism, and Friendship

15 februari 2021 | 137 min

#160 – Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave

12 februari 2021 | 185 min

#159 – Richard Craib: WallStreetBets, Numerai, and the Future of Stock Trading

7 februari 2021 | 116 min

#158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds

5 februari 2021 | 110 min

#157 – Natalya Bailey: Rocket Engines and Electric Spacecraft Propulsion

1 februari 2021 | 100 min

Natalya Bailey is a rocket propulsion engineer from MIT and now CTO of Accion Systems. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:51) – Intelligent life in the universe
(10:52) – Life in our solar system
(12:57) – Humans on Mars
(16:31) – Robots vs human in space exploration
(17:25) – AI in space
(21:30) – How rocket engines work
(26:47) – How ion engines work
(31:10) – How colloid engines work
(40:07) – Material science
(42:57) – Nuclear powered rocket engines
(47:56) – Electric propulsion out in space
(51:23) – Satellites
(56:17) – Photo of Earth from the Moon
(57:55) – Humans on Mars
(1:00:17) – Propulsion without fuel
(1:08:12) – How to build a rocket company
(1:15:10) – SpaceX and commercial spaceflight
(1:19:42) – Advice to startup founders
(1:26:18) – Book recommendations
(1:34:36) – Meaning of life

#156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom

29 januari 2021 | 149 min

Lex Fridman: Ask Me Anything – AMA January 2021

27 januari 2021 | 79 min

#155 – Max Tegmark: AI and Physics

18 januari 2021 | 188 min

#154 – Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua

14 januari 2021 | 171 min

Avi Loeb is an astrophysicist at Harvard. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(10:08) – Are we alone in the universe?
(14:23) – Consciousness
(19:01) – Sending digital copies of humans to space
(23:38) – Oumuamua
(45:42) – Alien space junk
(49:41) – What do aliens look like?
(1:06:58) – Drake equation
(1:08:00) – Industrial polution from aliens
(1:19:52) – UFO sightings
(1:27:48) – How long will human civilization last?
(1:30:28) – Radio signal from Proxima Centauri
(1:33:49) – Breakthrough Starshot project
(1:36:49) – Space race
(1:42:00) – Human space exploration
(1:47:15) – Social media is a threat to society
(1:52:04) – Are humans ready for discovering an alien civilization?
(1:56:15) – Mayans used astrology to wage war
(1:57:31) – Black holes
(2:16:20) – Stephen Hawking
(2:19:59) – Grigori Perelman
(2:24:24) – Theory of everything
(2:31:23) – Dark matter
(2:34:06) – Advice for young people
(2:37:10) – Memories of my father and mother
(2:41:38) – Existentialism
(2:43:52) – Mortality
(2:46:27) – Meaning of life

#153 – Dmitry Korkin: Evolution of Proteins, Viruses, Life, and AI

11 januari 2021 | 138 min

Dmitry Korkin is a professor of bioinformatics and computational biology at WPI. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:21) – Proteins and the building blocks of life
(14:23) – Spike protein
(21:11) – Coronavirus biological structure explained
(26:09) – Virus mutations
(32:39) – Evolution of proteins
(42:25) – Self-replicating computer programs
(50:02) – Origin of life
(57:34) – Extraterrestrial life in our solar system
(59:31) – Joshua Lederberg
(1:05:30) – Dendral
(1:08:24) – Why did expert systems fail?
(1:10:35) – AlphaFold 2
(1:32:13) – Will AI revolutionize art and music?
(1:39:12) – Multi-protein folding
(1:43:39) – Will AlphaFold 2 result in a Nobel Prize?
(1:46:10) – Will AI be used to engineer deadly viruses?
(2:01:17) – Book recommendations
(2:11:00) – Family
(2:13:38) – A poem in Russian

#152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions

9 januari 2021 | 77 min

#151 – Dan Kokotov: Speech Recognition with AI and Humans

4 januari 2021 | 95 min

#150 – Michael Malice: The White Pill, Freedom, Hope, and Happiness Amidst Chaos

31 december 2020 | 189 min

#149 – Diana Walsh Pasulka: Aliens, Technology, Religion, and the Nature of Belief

28 december 2020 | 182 min

Diana Walsh Pasulka is a professor of philosophy and religion at UNCW and author of American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, and Technology. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(08:28) – What is real?
(13:56) – Can beliefs become reality?
(18:59) – Donald Hoffman
(22:57) – Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
(26:27) – Ayn Rand
(33:25) – How do religions start?
(48:38) – Religion is an evolutionary advantage
(53:59) – Religion used in propaganda
(58:32) – What did Nietzsche mean by “God is Dead”?
(1:03:59) – American Cosmic
(1:07:45) – What do aliens look like?
(1:16:28) – History of space programs
(1:19:30) – Jacques Vallee
(1:28:55) – Artificial intelligence
(1:34:25) – Ufology community
(1:45:38) – Psychedelics
(1:49:35) – Tic Tac UFO
(1:58:09) – Roswell UFO incident
(2:09:14) – Bob Lazar
(2:12:50) – Monoliths in the desert
(2:23:39) – Humans will co-evolve with AI
(2:26:58) – Neuralink
(2:31:48) – Singularity
(2:41:39) – Books: Nietzsche
(2:46:44) – Books: Hannah Arendt
(2:51:43) – Fear of death
(2:56:11) – Meaning of life

#148 – Charles Isbell and Michael Littman: Machine Learning and Education

26 december 2020 | 123 min

#147 – Dmitri Dolgov: Waymo and the Future of Self-Driving Cars

20 december 2020 | 149 min

Dmitri Dolgov is the CTO of Waymo, an autonomous vehicle company. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:46) – Computer games
(12:52) – Childhood
(15:24) – Robotics
(16:14) – Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
(18:26) – DARPA Urban Challenge
(28:46) – Waymo origin story
(44:27) – Waymo self-driving hardware
(53:00) – Connected cars
(58:53) – Waymo fully driverless service in Phoenix
(1:03:14) – Getting feedback from riders
(1:11:28) – Creating a product that people love
(1:17:18) – Do self-driving cars need to break the rules like humans do?
(1:24:03) – Waymo Trucks
(1:29:41) – Future of Waymo
(1:42:53) – Role of lidar in autonomous driving
(1:55:53) – Machine learning is essential for autonomous driving
(1:59:55) – Pedestrians
(2:06:32) – Trolley problem
(2:11:00) – Book recommendations
(2:22:26) – Meaning of life

#146 – Michael Mina: Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset

19 december 2020 | 139 min

#145 – Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics

14 december 2020 | 220 min

#144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI

13 december 2020 | 122 min

#143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence

6 december 2020 | 181 min

#142 – Manolis Kellis: Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything

30 november 2020 | min

#141 – Erik Brynjolfsson: Economics of AI, Social Networks, and Technology

25 november 2020 | 105 min

#140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain

20 november 2020 | 141 min

#139 – Andrew Huberman: Neuroscience of Optimal Performance

16 november 2020 | 156 min

#138 – Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Objectivism

13 november 2020 | 174 min

#137 – Alex Filippenko: Supernovae, Dark Energy, Aliens & the Expanding Universe

8 november 2020 | 160 min

Alex Filippenko is an astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at Berkeley. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:36) – Universe expansion
(08:00) – Dark energy
(15:28) – Scientific revolutions
(27:18) – Asteroid hitting Earth
(30:50) – Giant solar flares and the power grid
(37:50) – Elon Musk and space exploration
(42:41) – Exoplanets
(50:03) – Traveling close to the speed of light
(52:13) – Traveling faster than the speed of light
(1:00:39) – Intelligent life in the universe
(1:04:14) – Fermi Paradox
(1:13:52) – Finding alien life would be bad news
(1:18:49) – UFO sightings
(1:31:58) – Universe expansion speed
(1:36:42) – The universe is infinite
(1:40:58) – What happened before the Big Bang?
(1:45:14) – Roger Penrose
(1:48:48) – Nobel Prize for the accelerating universe
(2:10:23) – Supernova
(2:21:47) – The greatest story ever told
(2:25:44) – Richard Feynman
(2:32:37) – Meaning of life

#136 – Dan Carlin: Hardcore History

3 november 2020 | 207 min

Dan Carlin is a historian, political thinker, and podcaster. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:53) – Nature of evil
(14:50) – Is violence and force fundamental to human civilization?
(19:58) – Will we always have war?
(29:38) – The Russian front in World War II
(37:32) – Ideologies of the US, the Soviet Union, and China
(50:15) – Putin
(1:02:50) – Journalism is broken
(1:10:16) – Genghis Khan
(1:24:36) – Greatest leader in history
(1:32:21) – Could Hitler have been stopped?
(1:49:21) – Hitler’s Antisemitism
(1:55:12) – Destructive power of evil
(2:04:26) – Will human civilization destroy itself?
(2:16:31) – Elon Musk, Tesla, SpaceX
(2:24:53) – Steering around the iceberg – wow do we avoid collapse of society?
(2:47:00) – Advice on podcasting
(2:50:12) – Joe Rogan, Spotify, and the future of podcasting
(3:05:19) – Future episodes of Hardcore History podcast
(3:20:21) – Is Ben real?
(3:21:05) – Meaning of life

#135 – Charles Isbell: Computing, Interactive AI, and Race in America

2 november 2020 | 149 min

#134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness

30 oktober 2020 | 178 min

#133 – Manolis Kellis: Biology of Disease

25 oktober 2020 | 160 min

#132 – George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets

22 oktober 2020 | 193 min

#131 – Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages

19 oktober 2020 | 168 min

Chris Lattner is a world-class software & hardware engineer, leading projects at Apple, Tesla, Google, and SiFive. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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00:00 – Introduction
07:12 – Working with Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Jeff Dean
12:42 – Why do programming languages matter?
18:42 – Python vs Swift
29:35 – Design decisions
34:53 – Types
38:41 – Programming languages are a bicycle for the mind
41:13 – Picking what language to learn
47:12 – Most beautiful feature of a programming language
56:36 – Walrus operator
1:06:03 – LLVM
1:11:15 – MLIR compiler framework
1:15:21 – SiFive semiconductor design
1:27:56 – Moore’s Law
1:31:09 – Parallelization
1:35:37 – Swift concurrency manifesto
1:46:26 – Running a neural network fast
1:52:03 – Is the universe a quantum computer?
1:57:44 – Effects of the pandemic on society
2:14:56 – GPT-3
2:19:15 – Software 2.0
2:32:41 – Advice for young people
2:37:24 – Meaning of life

#130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness

12 oktober 2020 | 117 min

#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works

4 oktober 2020 | 144 min

#128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling

2 oktober 2020 | 205 min

#127 – Joe Rogan: Conversations, Ideas, Love, Freedom & The Joe Rogan Experience

26 september 2020 | 80 min

#126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing

24 september 2020 | 111 min

#125 – Ryan Hall: Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Violence, Power, and Grace

20 september 2020 | min

#124 – Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe

15 september 2020 | 264 min

Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist. This is our second conversation on the podcast.

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OUTLINE:
00:00 – Introduction
07:14 – Key moments in history of physics
12:43 – Philosophy of science
14:37 – Science and computational reducibility
22:08 – Predicting the pandemic
38:58 – Sunburn moment with Wolfram Alpha
39:46 – Computational irreducibility
46:45 – Theory of everything
52:41 – General relativity
1:01:16 – Quantum mechanics
1:06:46 – Unifying the laws of physics
1:12:01 – Wolfram Physics Project
1:29:53 – Emergence of time
1:34:11 – Causal invariance
1:53:03 – Deriving physics from simple rules on hypergraphs
2:07:24 – Einstein equations
2:13:04 – Simulating the physics of the universe
2:17:28 – Hardware specs of the simulation
2:24:37 – Quantum mechanics in Wolfram physics model
2:42:46 – Double-slit experiment
2:45:13 – Quantum computers
2:53:21 – Getting started with Wolfram physics project
3:14:46 – The rules that created our universe
3:24:22 – Alien intelligences
3:32:29 – Meta-mathematics
3:37:58 – Why is math hard?
3:52:55 – Sabine Hossenfelder and how beauty leads physics astray
4:01:07 – Eric Weinstein and Geometric Unity
4:06:17 – Travel faster than speed of light
4:16:59 – Why does the universe exist at all

#123 – Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness

12 september 2020 | 131 min

#122 – David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering

8 september 2020 | 237 min

Lex Solo #3 – In Memory of My Grandmother

7 september 2020 | 18 min

#121 – Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion

5 september 2020 | 182 min

Lex Solo #2 – The Future of Neuralink

1 september 2020 | 34 min

#120 – François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence

31 augusti 2020 | 155 min

#119 – David Eagleman: Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain

26 augusti 2020 | 102 min

New Name: Lex Fridman Podcast

24 augusti 2020 | 2 min

#118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown

23 augusti 2020 | 129 min

#117 – Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning

20 augusti 2020 | 177 min

#116 – Sara Seager: Search for Planets and Life Outside Our Solar System

16 augusti 2020 | 102 min

#115 – Dileep George: Brain-Inspired AI

14 augusti 2020 | 131 min

#114 – Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch

9 augusti 2020 | 169 min

#113 – Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics

31 juli 2020 | 150 min

#112 – Ian Hutchinson: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion

29 juli 2020 | 122 min

#111 – Richard Karp: Algorithms and Computational Complexity

26 juli 2020 | 128 min

Richard Karp is a professor at Berkeley and one of the most important figures in the history of theoretical computer science. In 1985, he received the Turing Award for his research in the theory of algorithms, including the development of the Edmonds–Karp algorithm for solving the maximum flow problem on networks, Hopcroft–Karp algorithm for finding maximum cardinality matchings in bipartite graphs, and his landmark paper in complexity theory called “Reducibility Among Combinatorial Problems”, in which he proved 21 problems to be NP-complete. This paper was probably the most important catalyst in the explosion of interest in the study of NP-completeness and the P vs NP problem.

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OUTLINE:
00:00 – Introduction
03:50 – Geometry
09:46 – Visualizing an algorithm
13:00 – A beautiful algorithm
18:06 – Don Knuth and geeks
22:06 – Early days of computers
25:53 – Turing Test
30:05 – Consciousness
33:22 – Combinatorial algorithms
37:42 – Edmonds-Karp algorithm
40:22 – Algorithmic complexity
50:25 – P=NP
54:25 – NP-Complete problems
1:10:29 – Proving P=NP
1:12:57 – Stable marriage problem
1:20:32 – Randomized algorithms
1:33:23 – Can a hard problem be easy in practice?
1:43:57 – Open problems in theoretical computer science
1:46:21 – A strange idea in complexity theory
1:50:49 – Machine learning
1:56:26 – Bioinformatics
2:00:37 – Memory of Richard’s father

#110 – Jitendra Malik: Computer Vision

21 juli 2020 | 102 min

#109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming

18 juli 2020 | 104 min

#108 – Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning

14 juli 2020 | 98 min

#107 – Peter Singer: Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI

8 juli 2020 | 70 min

#106 – Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind

3 juli 2020 | 121 min

#105 – Robert Langer: Edison of Medicine

30 juni 2020 | 63 min

#104 – David Patterson: Computer Architecture and Data Storage

27 juni 2020 | 110 min

David Patterson is a Turing award winner and professor of computer science at Berkeley. He is known for pioneering contributions to RISC processor architecture used by 99% of new chips today and for co-creating RAID storage. The impact that these two lines of research and development have had on our world is immeasurable. He is also one of the great educators of computer science in the world. His book with John Hennessy “Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach” is how I first learned about and was humbled by the inner workings of machines at the lowest level.

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OUTLINE:
00:00 – Introduction
03:28 – How have computers changed?
04:22 – What’s inside a computer?
10:02 – Layers of abstraction
13:05 – RISC vs CISC computer architectures
28:18 – Designing a good instruction set is an art
31:46 – Measures of performance
36:02 – RISC instruction set
39:39 – RISC-V open standard instruction set architecture
51:12 – Why do ARM implementations vary?
52:57 – Simple is beautiful in instruction set design
58:09 – How machine learning changed computers
1:08:18 – Machine learning benchmarks
1:16:30 – Quantum computing
1:19:41 – Moore’s law
1:28:22 – RAID data storage
1:36:53 – Teaching
1:40:59 – Wrestling
1:45:26 – Meaning of life

#103 – Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence

22 juni 2020 | 249 min

#102 – Steven Pressfield: The War of Art

20 juni 2020 | 88 min

#101 – Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality

13 juni 2020 | 181 min

Joscha Bach is the VP of Research at the AI Foundation, previously doing research at MIT and Harvard. Joscha work explores the workings of the human mind, intelligence, consciousness, life on Earth, and the possibly-simulated fabric of our universe.

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OUTLINE:
00:00 – Introduction
03:14 – Reverse engineering Joscha Bach
10:38 – Nature of truth
18:47 – Original thinking
23:14 – Sentience vs intelligence
31:45 – Mind vs Reality
46:51 – Hard problem of consciousness
51:09 – Connection between the mind and the universe
56:29 – What is consciousness
1:02:32 – Language and concepts
1:09:02 – Meta-learning
1:16:35 – Spirit
1:18:10 – Our civilization may not exist for long
1:37:48 – Twitter and social media
1:44:52 – What systems of government might work well?
1:47:12 – The way out of self-destruction with AI
1:55:18 – AI simulating humans to understand its own nature
2:04:32 – Reinforcement learning
2:09:12 – Commonsense reasoning
2:15:47 – Would AGI need to have a body?
2:22:34 – Neuralink
2:27:01 – Reasoning at the scale of neurons and societies
2:37:16 – Role of emotion
2:48:03 – Happiness is a cookie that your brain bakes for itself

#99 – Karl Friston: Neuroscience and the Free Energy Principle

28 maj 2020 | 89 min

#97 – Sertac Karaman: Robots That Fly and Robots That Drive

20 maj 2020 | 83 min

#96 – Stephen Schwarzman: Going Big in Business, Investing, and AI

15 maj 2020 | 71 min

#95 – Dawn Song: Adversarial Machine Learning and Computer Security

12 maj 2020 | 133 min

#94 – Ilya Sutskever: Deep Learning

8 maj 2020 | 98 min

#93 – Daphne Koller: Biomedicine and Machine Learning

5 maj 2020 | 73 min

#92 – Harry Cliff: Particle Physics and the Large Hadron Collider

29 april 2020 | 99 min

Harry Cliff is a particle physicist at the University of Cambridge working on the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment that specializes in searching for hints of new particles and forces by studying a type of particle called the “beauty quark”, or “b quark”. In this way, he is part of the group of physicists who are searching answers to some of the biggest questions in modern physics. He is also an exceptional communicator of science with some of the clearest and most captivating explanations of basic concepts in particle physics I’ve ever heard.

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Harry’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/harryvcliff
Beyond the Higgs Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edvdzh9Pggg
Harry’s stand-up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnediKM_Sts

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OUTLINE:
00:00 – Introduction
03:51 – LHC and particle physics
13:55 – History of particle physics
38:59 – Higgs particle
57:55 – Unknowns yet to be discovered
59:48 – Beauty quarks
1:07:38 – Matter and antimatter
1:10:22 – Human side of the Large Hadron Collider
1:17:27 – Future of large particle colliders
1:24:09 – Data science with particle physics
1:27:17 – Science communication
1:33:36 – Most beautiful idea in physics

#91 – Jack Dorsey: Square, Cryptocurrency, and Artificial Intelligence

24 april 2020 | 52 min

#90 – Dmitry Korkin: Computational Biology of Coronavirus

22 april 2020 | 130 min

Dmitry Korkin is a professor of bioinformatics and computational biology at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he specializes in bioinformatics of complex disease, computational genomics, systems biology, and biomedical data analytics. I came across Dmitry’s work when in February his group used the viral genome of the COVID-19 to reconstruct the 3D structure of its major viral proteins and their interactions with human proteins, in effect creating a structural genomics map of the coronavirus and making this data open and available to researchers everywhere. We talked about the biology of COVID-19, SARS, and viruses in general, and how computational methods can help us understand their structure and function in order to develop antiviral drugs and vaccines.

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Dmitry’s Website: http://korkinlab.org/
Dmitry’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/dmkorkin
Dmitry’s Paper that we discuss: https://bit.ly/3eKghEM

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OUTLINE:
00:00 – Introduction
02:33 – Viruses are terrifying and fascinating
06:02 – How hard is it to engineer a virus?
10:48 – What makes a virus contagious?
29:52 – Figuring out the function of a protein
53:27 – Functional regions of viral proteins
1:19:09 – Biology of a coronavirus treatment
1:34:46 – Is a virus alive?
1:37:05 – Epidemiological modeling
1:55:27 – Russia
2:02:31 – Science bobbleheads
2:06:31 – Meaning of life

#89 – Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics

18 april 2020 | 192 min

Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist who is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, a company behind Mathematica, Wolfram Alpha, Wolfram Language, and the new Wolfram Physics project. He is the author of several books including A New Kind of Science, which on a personal note was one of the most influential books in my journey in computer science and artificial intelligence.

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Stephen’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephen_wolfram
Stephen’s Website: https://www.stephenwolfram.com/
Wolfram Research Twitter: https://twitter.com/WolframResearch
Wolfram Research YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/WolframResearch
Wolfram Research Website: https://www.wolfram.com/
Wolfram Alpha: https://www.wolframalpha.com/
A New Kind of Science (book): https://amzn.to/34JruB2

This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify, or support it on Patreon.

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OUTLINE:
00:00 – Introduction
04:16 – Communicating with an alien intelligence
12:11 – Monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey
29:06 – What is computation?
44:54 – Physics emerging from computation
1:14:10 – Simulation
1:19:23 – Fundamental theory of physics
1:28:01 – Richard Feynman
1:39:57 – Role of ego in science
1:47:21 – Cellular automata
2:15:08 – Wolfram language
2:55:14 – What is intelligence?
2:57:47 – Consciousness
3:02:36 – Mortality
3:05:47 – Meaning of life

#88 – Eric Weinstein: Geometric Unity and the Call for New Ideas, Leaders & Institutions

13 april 2020 | 167 min

#87 – Richard Dawkins: Evolution, Intelligence, Simulation, and Memes

9 april 2020 | 68 min

Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist, and author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, The God Delusion, The Magic of Reality, The Greatest Show on Earth, and his latest Outgrowing God. He is the originator and popularizer of a lot of fascinating ideas in evolutionary biology and science in general, including funny enough the introduction of the word meme in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which in the context of a gene-centered view of evolution is an exceptionally powerful idea. He is outspoken, bold, and often fearless in his defense of science and reason, and in this way, is one of the most influential thinkers of our time.

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Richard’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins
Richard’s Books:
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– The Magic of Reality: https://amzn.to/3c0aqZQ
– The Blind Watchmaker: https://amzn.to/2RqV5tH
– The God Delusion: https://amzn.to/2JPrxlc
– Outgrowing God: https://amzn.to/3ebFess
– The Greatest Show on Earth: https://amzn.to/2Rp2j1h

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OUTLINE:
00:00 – Introduction
02:31 – Intelligent life in the universe
05:03 – Engineering intelligence (are there shortcuts?)
07:06 – Is the evolutionary process efficient?
10:39 – Human brain and AGI
15:31 – Memes
26:37 – Does society need religion?
33:10 – Conspiracy theories
39:10 – Where do morals come from in humans?
46:10 – AI began with the ancient wish to forge the gods
49:18 – Simulation
56:58 – Books that influenced you
1:02:53 – Meaning of life

#86 – David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning

3 april 2020 | 108 min

#85 – Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe

31 mars 2020 | 88 min

#83 – Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence

26 mars 2020 | 117 min

Nick Bostrom is a philosopher at University of Oxford and the director of the Future of Humanity Institute. He has worked on fascinating and important ideas in existential risks, simulation hypothesis, human enhancement ethics, and the risks of superintelligent AI systems, including in his book Superintelligence. I can see talking to Nick multiple times on this podcast, many hours each time, but we have to start somewhere.

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EPISODE LINKS:
Nick’s website: https://nickbostrom.com/
Future of Humanity Institute:
– https://twitter.com/fhioxford
– https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/
Books:
– Superintelligence: https://amzn.to/2JckX83
Wikipedia:
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_indifference
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risk

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OUTLINE:
00:00 – Introduction
02:48 – Simulation hypothesis and simulation argument
12:17 – Technologically mature civilizations
15:30 – Case 1: if something kills all possible civilizations
19:08 – Case 2: if we lose interest in creating simulations
22:03 – Consciousness
26:27 – Immersive worlds
28:50 – Experience machine
41:10 – Intelligence and consciousness
48:58 – Weighing probabilities of the simulation argument
1:01:43 – Elaborating on Joe Rogan conversation
1:05:53 – Doomsday argument and anthropic reasoning
1:23:02 – Elon Musk
1:25:26 – What’s outside the simulation?
1:29:52 – Superintelligence
1:47:27 – AGI utopia
1:52:41 – Meaning of life

#82 – Simon Sinek: Leadership, Hard Work, Optimism and the Infinite Game

21 mars 2020 | 38 min

#81 – Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering

19 mars 2020 | 99 min

#80 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money

16 mars 2020 | 96 min

#79 – Lee Smolin: Quantum Gravity and Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution

7 mars 2020 | 70 min

#78 – Ann Druyan: Cosmos, Carl Sagan, Voyager, and the Beauty of Science

5 mars 2020 | 70 min

Ann Druyan is the writer, producer, director, and one of the most important and impactful communicators of science in our time. She co-wrote the 1980 science documentary series Cosmos hosted by Carl Sagan, whom she married in 1981, and her love for whom, with the help of NASA, was recorded as brain waves on a golden record along with other things our civilization has to offer and launched into space on the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft that are now, 42 years later, still active, reaching out farther into deep space than any human-made object ever has. This was a profound and beautiful decision she made as a Creative Director of NASA’s Voyager Interstellar Message Project. In 2014, she went on to create the second season of Cosmos, called Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, and in 2020, the new third season called Cosmos: Possible Worlds, which is being released this upcoming Monday, March 9. It is hosted, once again, by the fun and brilliant Neil deGrasse Tyson.

EPISODE LINKS:
Cosmos Twitter: https://twitter.com/COSMOSonTV
Cosmos Website: https://fox.tv/CosmosOnTV

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OUTLINE:
00:00 – Introduction
03:24 – Role of science in society
07:04 – Love and science
09:07 – Skepticism in science
14:15 – Voyager, Carl Sagan, and the Golden Record
36:41 – Cosmos
53:22 – Existential threats
1:00:36 – Origin of life
1:04:22 – Mortality

#77 – Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science

3 mars 2020 | 72 min

#76 – John Hopfield: Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology

29 februari 2020 | 73 min

#75 – Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI

26 februari 2020 | 100 min

Marcus Hutter is a senior research scientist at DeepMind and professor at Australian National University. Throughout his career of research, including with Jürgen Schmidhuber and Shane Legg, he has proposed a lot of interesting ideas in and around the field of artificial general intelligence, including the development of the AIXI model which is a mathematical approach to AGI that incorporates ideas of Kolmogorov complexity, Solomonoff induction, and reinforcement learning.

EPISODE LINKS:
Hutter Prize: http://prize.hutter1.net
Marcus web: http://www.hutter1.net
Books mentioned:
– Universal AI: https://amzn.to/2waIAuw
– AI: A Modern Approach: https://amzn.to/3camxnY
– Reinforcement Learning: https://amzn.to/2PoANj9
– Theory of Knowledge: https://amzn.to/3a6Vp7x

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OUTLINE:
00:00 – Introduction
03:32 – Universe as a computer
05:48 – Occam’s razor
09:26 – Solomonoff induction
15:05 – Kolmogorov complexity
20:06 – Cellular automata
26:03 – What is intelligence?
35:26 – AIXI – Universal Artificial Intelligence
1:05:24 – Where do rewards come from?
1:12:14 – Reward function for human existence
1:13:32 – Bounded rationality
1:16:07 – Approximation in AIXI
1:18:01 – Godel machines
1:21:51 – Consciousness
1:27:15 – AGI community
1:32:36 – Book recommendations
1:36:07 – Two moments to relive (past and future)

#74 – Michael I. Jordan: Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, and the Future of AI

24 februari 2020 | 106 min

#73 – Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI

20 februari 2020 | 89 min

Andrew Ng is one of the most impactful educators, researchers, innovators, and leaders in artificial intelligence and technology space in general. He co-founded Coursera and Google Brain, launched deeplearning.ai, Landing.ai, and the AI fund, and was the Chief Scientist at Baidu. As a Stanford professor, and with Coursera and deeplearning.ai, he has helped educate and inspire millions of students including me.

EPISODE LINKS:
Andrew Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndrewYNg
Andrew Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.ng.96
Andrew LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewyng/
deeplearning.ai: https://www.deeplearning.ai
landing.ai: https://landing.ai
AI Fund: https://aifund.ai/
AI for Everyone: https://www.coursera.org/learn/ai-for-everyone
The Batch newsletter: https://www.deeplearning.ai/thebatch/

This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify, or support it on Patreon.

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OUTLINE:
00:00 – Introduction
02:23 – First few steps in AI
05:05 – Early days of online education
16:07 – Teaching on a whiteboard
17:46 – Pieter Abbeel and early research at Stanford
23:17 – Early days of deep learning
32:55 – Quick preview: deeplearning.ai, landing.ai, and AI fund
33:23 – deeplearning.ai: how to get started in deep learning
45:55 – Unsupervised learning
49:40 – deeplearning.ai (continued)
56:12 – Career in deep learning
58:56 – Should you get a PhD?
1:03:28 – AI fund – building startups
1:11:14 – Landing.ai – growing AI efforts in established companies
1:20:44 – Artificial general intelligence

#72 – Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing

17 februari 2020 | 94 min

Vladimir Vapnik: Predicates, Invariants, and the Essence of Intelligence

14 februari 2020 | 105 min

Jim Keller: Moore’s Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles

5 februari 2020 | 95 min

David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness

29 januari 2020 | 99 min

Cristos Goodrow: YouTube Algorithm

25 januari 2020 | 91 min

Paul Krugman: Economics of Innovation, Automation, Safety Nets & Universal Basic Income

21 januari 2020 | 64 min

Ayanna Howard: Human-Robot Interaction and Ethics of Safety-Critical Systems

17 januari 2020 | 100 min

Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI

14 januari 2020 | 79 min

Grant Sanderson: 3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics

7 januari 2020 | 63 min

Stephen Kotkin: Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power

3 januari 2020 | 98 min

Donald Knuth: Algorithms, TeX, Life, and The Art of Computer Programming

30 december 2019 | 106 min

Donald Knuth is one of the greatest and most impactful computer scientists and mathematicians ever. He is the recipient in 1974 of the Turing Award, considered the Nobel Prize of computing. He is the author of the multi-volume work, the magnum opus, The Art of Computer Programming. He made several key contributions to the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms. He popularized asymptotic notation, that we all affectionately know as the big-O notation. He also created the TeX typesetting which most computer scientists, physicists, mathematicians, and scientists and engineers use to write technical papers and make them look beautiful.

This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify, or support it on Patreon.

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Episode Links:
The Art of Computer Programming (book set)

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00:00 – Introduction
03:45 – IBM 650
07:51 – Geeks
12:29 – Alan Turing
14:26 – My life is a convex combination of english and mathematics
24:00 – Japanese arrow puzzle example
25:42 – Neural networks and machine learning
27:59 – The Art of Computer Programming
36:49 – Combinatorics
39:16 – Writing process
42:10 – Are some days harder than others?
48:36 – What’s the “Art” in the Art of Computer Programming
50:21 – Binary (boolean) decision diagram
55:06 – Big-O notation
58:02 – P=NP
1:10:05 – Artificial intelligence
1:13:26 – Ant colonies and human cognition
1:17:11 – God and the Bible
1:24:28 – Reflection on life
1:28:25 – Facing mortality
1:33:40 – TeX and beautiful typography
1:39:23 – How much of the world do we understand?
1:44:17 – Question for God

Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI

28 december 2019 | 113 min

Melanie Mitchell is a professor of computer science at Portland State University and an external professor at Santa Fe Institute. She has worked on and written about artificial intelligence from fascinating perspectives including adaptive complex systems, genetic algorithms, and the Copycat cognitive architecture which places the process of analogy making at the core of human cognition. From her doctoral work with her advisors Douglas Hofstadter and John Holland to today, she has contributed a lot of important ideas to the field of AI, including her recent book, simply called Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans.

This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify, or support it on Patreon.

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Episode Links:
AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans (book)

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00:00 – Introduction
02:33 – The term “artificial intelligence”
06:30 – Line between weak and strong AI
12:46 – Why have people dreamed of creating AI?
15:24 – Complex systems and intelligence
18:38 – Why are we bad at predicting the future with regard to AI?
22:05 – Are fundamental breakthroughs in AI needed?
25:13 – Different AI communities
31:28 – Copycat cognitive architecture
36:51 – Concepts and analogies
55:33 – Deep learning and the formation of concepts
1:09:07 – Autonomous vehicles
1:20:21 – Embodied AI and emotion
1:25:01 – Fear of superintelligent AI
1:36:14 – Good test for intelligence
1:38:09 – What is complexity?
1:43:09 – Santa Fe Institute
1:47:34 – Douglas Hofstadter
1:49:42 – Proudest moment

Jim Gates: Supersymmetry, String Theory and Proving Einstein Right

25 december 2019 | 95 min

Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education

21 december 2019 | 79 min

Michael Stevens: Vsauce

17 december 2019 | 59 min

Rohit Prasad: Amazon Alexa and Conversational AI

14 december 2019 | 106 min

Judea Pearl: Causal Reasoning, Counterfactuals, Bayesian Networks, and the Path to AGI

11 december 2019 | 83 min

Judea Pearl is a professor at UCLA and a winner of the Turing Award, that’s generally recognized as the Nobel Prize of computing. He is one of the seminal figures in the field of artificial intelligence, computer science, and statistics. He has developed and championed probabilistic approaches to AI, including Bayesian Networks and profound ideas in causality in general. These ideas are important not just for AI, but to our understanding and practice of science. But in the field of AI, the idea of causality, cause and effect, to many, lies at the core of what is currently missing and what must be developed in order to build truly intelligent systems. For this reason, and many others, his work is worth returning to often.

This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on Apple Podcasts or support it on Patreon.

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00:00 – Introduction
03:18 – Descartes and analytic geometry
06:25 – Good way to teach math
07:10 – From math to engineering
09:14 – Does God play dice?
10:47 – Free will
11:59 – Probability
22:21 – Machine learning
23:13 – Causal Networks
27:48 – Intelligent systems that reason with causation
29:29 – Do(x) operator
36:57 – Counterfactuals
44:12 – Reasoning by Metaphor
51:15 – Machine learning and causal reasoning
53:28 – Temporal aspect of causation
56:21 – Machine learning (continued)
59:15 – Human-level artificial intelligence
1:04:08 – Consciousness
1:04:31 – Concerns about AGI
1:09:53 – Religion and robotics
1:12:07 – Daniel Pearl
1:19:09 – Advice for students
1:21:00 – Legacy

Whitney Cummings: Comedy, Robotics, Neurology, and Love

5 december 2019 | 77 min

Ray Dalio: Principles, the Economic Machine, Artificial Intelligence & the Arc of Life

2 december 2019 | 91 min

Noam Chomsky: Language, Cognition, and Deep Learning

29 november 2019 | 36 min

Gilbert Strang: Linear Algebra, Deep Learning, Teaching, and MIT OpenCourseWare

25 november 2019 | 50 min

Dava Newman: Space Exploration, Space Suits, and Life on Mars

22 november 2019 | 40 min

Michael Kearns: Algorithmic Fairness, Bias, Privacy, and Ethics in Machine Learning

19 november 2019 | 109 min

Elon Musk: Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot

12 november 2019 | 36 min

Bjarne Stroustrup: C++

7 november 2019 | 107 min

Sean Carroll: Quantum Mechanics and the Many-Worlds Interpretation

1 november 2019 | 90 min

Garry Kasparov: Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin

27 oktober 2019 | 56 min

Michio Kaku: Future of Humans, Aliens, Space Travel & Physics

22 oktober 2019 | 61 min

David Ferrucci: IBM Watson, Jeopardy & Deep Conversations with AI

11 oktober 2019 | 145 min

Gary Marcus: Toward a Hybrid of Deep Learning and Symbolic AI

3 oktober 2019 | 85 min

Peter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

30 september 2019 | 63 min

Leonard Susskind: Quantum Mechanics, String Theory, and Black Holes

26 september 2019 | 58 min

Regina Barzilay: Deep Learning for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

23 september 2019 | 78 min

Colin Angle: iRobot

19 september 2019 | 38 min

François Chollet: Keras, Deep Learning, and the Progress of AI

14 september 2019 | 57 min

Vijay Kumar: Flying Robots

8 september 2019 | 57 min

Yann LeCun: Deep Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks, and Self-Supervised Learning

31 augusti 2019 | 76 min

Jeremy Howard: fast.ai Deep Learning Courses and Research

27 augusti 2019 | 104 min

Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think and the Early Days of AI

23 augusti 2019 | 60 min

Keoki Jackson: Lockheed Martin

19 augusti 2019 | 73 min

Paola Arlotta: Brain Development from Stem Cell to Organoid

12 augusti 2019 | 58 min

George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles

5 augusti 2019 | 120 min

Kevin Scott: Microsoft CTO

1 augusti 2019 | 58 min

Gustav Soderstrom: Spotify

29 juli 2019 | 107 min

Chris Urmson: Self-Driving Cars at Aurora, Google, CMU, and DARPA

22 juli 2019 | 45 min

Kai-Fu Lee: AI Superpowers – China and Silicon Valley

15 juli 2019 | 87 min

Sean Carroll: The Nature of the Universe, Life, and Intelligence

10 juli 2019 | 35 min

Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence

1 juli 2019 | 130 min

Rosalind Picard: Affective Computing, Emotion, Privacy, and Health

17 juni 2019 | 60 min

Gavin Miller: Adobe Research

10 juni 2019 | 69 min

Rajat Monga: TensorFlow

3 juni 2019 | 71 min

Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators

13 maj 2019 | 73 min

Oriol Vinyals: DeepMind AlphaStar, StarCraft, Language, and Sequences

29 april 2019 | 106 min

Ian Goodfellow: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)

18 april 2019 | 69 min

Elon Musk: Tesla Autopilot

12 april 2019 | 33 min

Greg Brockman: OpenAI and AGI

3 april 2019 | 85 min

Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society

20 mars 2019 | 82 min

Leslie Kaelbling: Reinforcement Learning, Planning, and Robotics

12 mars 2019 | 62 min

Kyle Vogt: Cruise Automation

7 februari 2019 | 56 min

Tomaso Poggio: Brains, Minds, and Machines

19 januari 2019 | 80 min

Tuomas Sandholm: Poker and Game Theory

28 december 2018 | 66 min

Juergen Schmidhuber: Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs

23 december 2018 | 80 min

Pieter Abbeel: Deep Reinforcement Learning

16 december 2018 | 43 min

Stuart Russell: Long-Term Future of AI

9 december 2018 | 86 min

Eric Schmidt: Google

4 december 2018 | 33 min

Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror

29 november 2018 | 80 min

Guido van Rossum: Python

22 november 2018 | 87 min

Vladimir Vapnik: Statistical Learning

16 november 2018 | 54 min

Yoshua Bengio: Deep Learning

20 oktober 2018 | 43 min

Steven Pinker: AI in the Age of Reason

17 oktober 2018 | 38 min

Christof Koch: Consciousness

2 september 2018 | 60 min

Max Tegmark: Life 3.0

26 augusti 2018 | 83 min

Lex Fridman Podcast

Conversations about science, technology, history, philosophy and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power.

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#468 – Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions

#467 – Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming

#466 – Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China, Xi Jinping, Trade War, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mao

#465 – Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

#464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism

#463 – Douglas Murray: Putin, Zelenskyy, Trump, Israel, Netanyahu, Hamas & Gaza

#462 – Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson: Politics, Trump, AOC, Elon & DOGE

#461 – ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God

#460 – Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India – Power, Democracy, War & Peace

#459 – DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters

#458 – Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & Future of America

#457 – Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

#456 – Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom

#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

#454 – Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics

#453 – Javier Milei: President of Argentina – Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

#452 – Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity

#451 – Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

#450 – Bernie Sanders Interview

#449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History

#448 – Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning

#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

#446 – Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America

#445 – Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

#444 – Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome

#442 – Donald Trump Interview

#441 – Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism

#440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling

#438 – Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity

#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life

#435 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Controversy, Politics, and Relationships

#434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

#433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

#432 – Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

#431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI

#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

#429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God

#428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens

#427 – Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

#426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs

#425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

#424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

#423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex

#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

#421 – Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

#420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy

#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

#418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

#417 – Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family

#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

#414 – Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom

#413 – Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

#411 – Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam

#410 – Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism

#409 – Matthew Cox: FBI Most Wanted Con Man – $55 Million in Bank Fraud

#408 – Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin

#404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

#402 – Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special

#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

#400 – Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity

#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

#398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse

#397 – Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech

#396 – James Sexton: Divorce Lawyer on Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Lies & Love

#395 – Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin

#394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature

#393 – Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, Sex, and Love