Lex Fridman Podcast

By Lex Fridman

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EDCOR
 Oct 7, 2024

someone somewhere
 Sep 30, 2024
now has joined the ranks of the pretentious blowhards

austin
 Jul 25, 2024
had some good episodes once. hasn't had any recently

Top G 🇷🇴
 Jul 4, 2024

Axel
 Mar 24, 2024

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Conversations about science, technology, history, philosophy and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power. Lex is an AI researcher at MIT and beyond.

Episode Date
#451 – Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies
Oct 30, 2024
#450 – Bernie Sanders Interview
Oct 23, 2024
#449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History
Oct 16, 2024
#448 – Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning
Oct 11, 2024
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI
Oct 06, 2024
#446 – Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America
Sep 30, 2024
#445 – Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War
Sep 25, 2024
#444 – Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler
Sep 20, 2024
#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome
Sep 12, 2024
#442 – Donald Trump Interview
Sep 03, 2024
#441 – Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism
Aug 30, 2024
#440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life
Aug 20, 2024
#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling
Aug 14, 2024
#438 – Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity
Aug 02, 2024
#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6
Jul 21, 2024
#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life
Jul 02, 2024
#435 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Controversy, Politics, and Relationships
Jun 28, 2024
#434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet
Jun 19, 2024
#433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens
Jun 13, 2024
#432 – Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life
Jun 05, 2024
#431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI
Jun 02, 2024
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories
May 25, 2024
#429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God
May 15, 2024
#428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens
Apr 22, 2024
#427 – Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset
Apr 20, 2024
#426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs
Apr 17, 2024
#425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones
Apr 13, 2024
#424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame
Apr 05, 2024
#423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex
Apr 02, 2024
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs
Mar 29, 2024
#421 – Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck
Mar 25, 2024
#420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy
Mar 22, 2024
#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI
Mar 18, 2024
#418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris
Mar 14, 2024
#417 – Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family
Mar 10, 2024
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI
Mar 07, 2024
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War
Mar 04, 2024
#414 – Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom
Feb 27, 2024
#413 – Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech
Feb 20, 2024
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics
Feb 16, 2024
#411 – Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam
Feb 02, 2024
#410 – Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism
Jan 23, 2024
#409 – Matthew Cox: FBI Most Wanted Con Man – $55 Million in Bank Fraud
Jan 17, 2024
#408 – Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen
Jan 09, 2024
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI
Dec 29, 2023
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness
Dec 24, 2023
#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin
Dec 14, 2023
#404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe
Dec 09, 2023
#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events
Dec 03, 2023
#402 – Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special
Nov 25, 2023
#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3
Nov 18, 2023
#400 – Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity
Nov 09, 2023
#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
Oct 11, 2023
#398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse
Sep 28, 2023
#397 – Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
Sep 25, 2023
#396 – James Sexton: Divorce Lawyer on Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Lies & Love
Sep 18, 2023
#395 – Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin
Sep 10, 2023
#394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
Sep 01, 2023
#393 – Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, Sex, and Love
Aug 17, 2023
#392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans
Aug 01, 2023
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine
Jul 24, 2023
#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies
Jul 17, 2023
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Jul 12, 2023
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning
Jul 06, 2023
#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God
Jun 30, 2023
#386 – Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI
Jun 22, 2023
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia
Jun 18, 2023
#384 – Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love
Jun 13, 2023
#383 – Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
Jun 08, 2023
#382 – Bert Kreischer: Comedy, Drinking, Rogan, Segura, Churchill & Kim Jong Un
Jun 05, 2023
#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI
Jun 02, 2023
#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication
May 28, 2023
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
May 24, 2023
#378 – Anna Frebel: Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Galaxies, and Stars
May 18, 2023
#377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech
May 16, 2023
#376 – Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
May 09, 2023
#375 – David Pakman: Politics of Trump, Biden, Bernie, AOC, Socialism & Wokeism
May 06, 2023
#374 – Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics
Apr 28, 2023
#373 – Manolis Kellis: Evolution of Human Civilization and Superintelligent AI
Apr 21, 2023
#372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design
Apr 16, 2023
#371 – Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development
Apr 13, 2023
#370 – Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox – Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love
Apr 10, 2023
#369 – Paul Rosolie: Amazon Jungle, Uncontacted Tribes, Anacondas, and Ayahuasca
Apr 04, 2023
#368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization
Mar 30, 2023
#367 – Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI
Mar 25, 2023
#366 – Shannon Curry: Johnny Depp & Amber Heard Trial, Marriage, Dating & Love
Mar 21, 2023
#365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
Mar 14, 2023
#364 – Chris Voss: FBI Hostage Negotiator
Mar 10, 2023
#363 – B-Team Jiu Jitsu: Craig Jones, Nicky Rod, and Nicky Ryan
Mar 06, 2023
#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity
Mar 02, 2023
#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology
Feb 25, 2023
#360 – Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics
Feb 20, 2023
#359 – Andrew Strominger: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and Theoretical Physics
Feb 15, 2023
#358 – Aella: Sex Work, OnlyFans, Porn, Escorting, Dating, and Human Sexuality
Feb 10, 2023
#357 – Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil
Feb 07, 2023
#356 – Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel
Feb 02, 2023
#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds
Jan 28, 2023
#354 – Jeremi Suri: American Civil War
Jan 25, 2023
#353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy
Jan 21, 2023
#352 – Omar Suleiman: Islam
Jan 17, 2023
#351 – MrBeast: Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram
Jan 11, 2023
#350 – Betül Kaçar: Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens
Dec 29, 2022
#349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism
Dec 22, 2022
#348 – Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life
Dec 19, 2022
#347 – Michael Malice: Christmas Special
Dec 15, 2022
#346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels
Dec 12, 2022
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power
Dec 09, 2022
#344 – Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation
Dec 06, 2022
#343 – Roger Gracie: Greatest Jiu Jitsu Competitor of All Time
Dec 03, 2022
#342 – Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield
Nov 29, 2022
#341 – Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming
Nov 26, 2022
#340 – Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road
Nov 22, 2022
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin
Nov 18, 2022
#338 – Chamath Palihapitiya: Money, Success, Startups, Energy, Poker & Happiness
Nov 15, 2022
#337 – Destiny: Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, War, and Relationships
Nov 11, 2022
#336 – Ben Shapiro: Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler, Extremism, and War
Nov 07, 2022
#335 – Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump
Nov 04, 2022
#334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons
Nov 02, 2022
#333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI
Oct 29, 2022
#332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview
Oct 24, 2022
#331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA
Oct 20, 2022
#330 – Hikaru Nakamura: Chess, Magnus, Kasparov, and the Psychology of Greatness
Oct 17, 2022
#329 – Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT
Oct 15, 2022
#328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives
Oct 10, 2022
#327 – GothamChess: Hans Niemann, Magnus Carlsen, Cheating Scandal & Chess Bots
Oct 07, 2022
#326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality
Oct 05, 2022
#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots
Oct 01, 2022
#324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker
Sep 27, 2022
#323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling
Sep 24, 2022
#322 – Rana el Kaliouby: Emotion AI, Social Robots, and Self-Driving Cars
Sep 21, 2022
#321 – Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality
Sep 17, 2022
#320 – Christopher Capozzola: World War I, Ideology, Propaganda, and Politics
Sep 14, 2022
#319 – Botez Sisters: Chess, Streaming, and Fame
Sep 09, 2022
#318 – Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness
Sep 07, 2022
#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom
Sep 04, 2022
#316 – Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War
Aug 31, 2022
#315 – Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time
Aug 27, 2022
#314 – Liv Boeree: Poker, Game Theory, AI, Simulation, Aliens & Existential Risk
Aug 24, 2022
#313 – Jordan Peterson: Life, Death, Power, Fame, and Meaning
Aug 19, 2022
#312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man
Aug 16, 2022
#311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity
Aug 13, 2022
#310 – Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy
Aug 08, 2022
#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets
Aug 04, 2022
#308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens
Aug 01, 2022
#307 – Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation
Jul 29, 2022
#306 – Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence
Jul 26, 2022
#305 – Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang
Jul 23, 2022
#304 – Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church
Jul 20, 2022
#303 – Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics
Jul 17, 2022
#302 – Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences
Jul 14, 2022
#301 – Jack Barsky: KGB Spy
Jul 09, 2022
#300 – Joe Rogan: Comedy, Controversy, Aliens, UFOs, Putin, CIA, and Freedom
Jul 04, 2022
#299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind
Jul 01, 2022
#298 – Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts and Loneliness
Jun 28, 2022
#297 – Jonathan Reisman: The Human Body – From Sex & Sperm to Hands & Heart
Jun 25, 2022
#296 – Douglas Murray: Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West
Jun 21, 2022
#295 – Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism
Jun 17, 2022
#294 – Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, and Nest
Jun 15, 2022
#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth
Jun 12, 2022
#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity
Jun 09, 2022
#291 – Jonathan Haidt: The Case Against Social Media
Jun 04, 2022
#290 – Dan Reynolds: Imagine Dragons
May 30, 2022
#289 – Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine
May 25, 2022
#288 – Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan
May 23, 2022
#287 – Bobby Lee: Comedy, Skyrim, Sex Robots, Love, Fame, and Power
May 20, 2022
#286 – Oliver Stone: Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine
May 17, 2022
#285 – Glenn Loury: Race, Racism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture
May 14, 2022
#284 – Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics
May 11, 2022
#283 – Chris Mason: Space Travel, Colonization, and Long-Term Survival in Space
May 08, 2022
#282 – David Buss: Sex, Dating, Relationships, and Sex Differences
May 04, 2022
#281 – Grimes: Music, AI, and the Future of Humanity
Apr 29, 2022
#280 – Cristiano Amon: Qualcomm CEO
Apr 27, 2022
#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin
Apr 24, 2022
#278 – Skye Fitzgerald: Hunger, War, and Human Suffering
Apr 20, 2022
#277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship
Apr 17, 2022
#276 – Michael Saylor: Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money
Apr 14, 2022
#275 – Rick Rubin: Legendary Music Producer
Apr 10, 2022
#274 – Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry
Apr 07, 2022
#273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence
Apr 03, 2022
#272 – Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal
Mar 27, 2022
#271 – Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures
Mar 23, 2022
#270 – David Wolpe: Judaism
Mar 16, 2022
#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness
Mar 11, 2022
#268 – Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology
Mar 05, 2022
#267 – Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse
Feb 26, 2022
#266 – Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar
Feb 20, 2022
#265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling
Feb 16, 2022
#264 – Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity
Feb 13, 2022
#263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma
Feb 11, 2022
#262 – Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens
Feb 06, 2022
#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind
Feb 03, 2022
#260 – Georges St-Pierre, John Danaher & Gordon Ryan: The Greatest of All Time
Jan 30, 2022
#259 – Thomas Tull: From Batman Dark Knight Trilogy to AI and the Rolling Stones
Jan 26, 2022
#258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning
Jan 22, 2022
#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize
Jan 18, 2022
#256 – Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony
Jan 15, 2022
#255 – Mark Normand: Comedy!
Jan 08, 2022
#254 – Jay Bhattacharya: The Case Against Lockdowns
Jan 04, 2022
#253 – Michael Malice: New Year’s Special
Dec 31, 2021
#252 – Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI
Dec 28, 2021
#251 – Ray Dalio: Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires
Dec 25, 2021
#250 – Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality
Dec 23, 2021
#249 – Albert Bourla: Pfizer CEO
Dec 18, 2021
#248 – Norman Naimark: Genocide, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Absolute Power
Dec 13, 2021
#247 – Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory
Dec 08, 2021
#246 – Peter Woit: Theories of Everything and Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong
Dec 03, 2021
#245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling
Nov 30, 2021
#244 – Robert Crews: Afghanistan, Taliban, Bin Laden, and War in the Middle East
Nov 28, 2021
#243 – Kevin Systrom: Instagram
Nov 23, 2021
#242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA
Nov 20, 2021
#241 – Boris Sofman: Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Robotics
Nov 16, 2021
#240 – Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity
Nov 11, 2021
#239 – Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth
Nov 08, 2021
#238 – Francis Collins: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Nov 05, 2021
#237 – Steve Viscelli: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream
Nov 03, 2021
#236 – Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions
Oct 31, 2021
#235 – Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing
Oct 29, 2021
#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality
Oct 27, 2021
#233 – Carl Hart: Heroin, Cocaine, MDMA, Alcohol & the Role of Drugs in Society
Oct 23, 2021
#232 – Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, Big Bang, Aliens, Life, Death, and Meaning
Oct 20, 2021
#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights
Oct 16, 2021
#230 – Kelsi Sheren: War, Artillery, PTSD, and Love
Oct 14, 2021
#229 – Richard Wrangham: Role of Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution
Oct 10, 2021
#228 – RZA: Wu-Tang Clan, Kung Fu, Chess, God, Life, and Death
Oct 05, 2021
#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning
Sep 30, 2021
#226 – Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math
Sep 27, 2021
#225 – Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence
Sep 26, 2021
#224 – Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming
Sep 23, 2021
#223 – Travis Stevens: Judo, Olympics, and Mental Toughness
Sep 21, 2021
#222 – Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition
Sep 20, 2021
#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI
Sep 15, 2021
#220 – Niels Jorgensen: New York Firefighters and the Heroes of 9/11
Sep 11, 2021
#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life
Sep 09, 2021
#218 – Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media & the Future of Humans and AI
Sep 06, 2021
#217 – Rodney Brooks: Robotics
Sep 03, 2021
#216 – Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines
Sep 01, 2021
#215 – Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI
Aug 29, 2021
#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science
Aug 27, 2021
#213 – Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built
Aug 23, 2021
#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness
Aug 21, 2021
#211 – Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics
Aug 15, 2021
#210 – Matt Walker: Sleep
Aug 11, 2021
#209 – Luís and João Batalha: Fermat’s Library and the Art of Studying Papers
Aug 09, 2021
#208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
Aug 08, 2021
#207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength
Aug 03, 2021
#206 – Ishan Misra: Self-Supervised Deep Learning in Computer Vision
Jul 31, 2021
#205 – Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running
Jul 29, 2021
#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory
Jul 26, 2021
#203 – Anya Fernald: Regenerative Farming and the Art of Cooking Meat
Jul 23, 2021
#202 – Rick Doblin: Psychedelics
Jul 21, 2021
#201 – Konstantin Batygin: Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System
Jul 19, 2021
#200 – Michael Malice: Totalitarianism and Anarchy
Jul 15, 2021
#199 – Roger Reaves: Smuggling Drugs for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel
Jul 11, 2021
#198 – Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds
Jul 09, 2021
#197 – Jocko Willink: War, Leadership, and Discipline
Jul 05, 2021
#196 – Yeonmi Park: North Korea
Jul 01, 2021
#195 – Clara Sousa-Silva: Searching for Signs of Life on Venus and Other Planets
Jun 28, 2021
#194 – Bret Weinstein: Truth, Science, and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic
Jun 25, 2021
#193 – Rob Reid: The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses and Lab Leaks
Jun 21, 2021
#192 – Charles Hoskinson: Cardano
Jun 16, 2021
#191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction
Jun 14, 2021
#190 – Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries
Jun 13, 2021
#189 – David Sinclair: Extending the Human Lifespan Beyond 100 Years
Jun 07, 2021
#188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0
Jun 03, 2021
#187 – Frank Wilczek: Physics of Quarks, Dark Matter, Complexity, Life & Aliens
May 29, 2021
#186 – Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces
May 24, 2021
#185 – Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning
May 20, 2021
#184 – Katherine de Kleer: Planets, Moons, and Asteroids in Our Solar System
May 17, 2021
#183 – Po-Shen Loh: Mathematics, Math Olympiad, Combinatorics & Contact Tracing
May 14, 2021
#182 – John Danaher: The Path to Mastery in Jiu Jitsu, Grappling, Judo, and MMA
May 09, 2021
#181 – Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks
May 01, 2021
#180 – Jeremi Suri: History of American Power
Apr 30, 2021
#179 – Georges St-Pierre: The Science of Fighting
Apr 26, 2021
#178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy
Apr 24, 2021
#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation
Apr 19, 2021
#176 – Robert Breedlove: Philosophy of Bitcoin from First Principles
Apr 17, 2021
#175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy
Apr 12, 2021
#174 – Tyler Cowen: Economic Growth and the Fight Against Conformity and Mediocrity
Apr 10, 2021
#173 – Nic Carter: Bitcoin Core Values, Layered Scaling, and Blocksize Debates
Apr 01, 2021
#172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses
Mar 30, 2021
#171 – Anthony Pompliano: Bitcoin
Mar 25, 2021
#170 – Ronald Sullivan: The Ideal of Justice in the Face of Controversy and Evil
Mar 22, 2021
#169 – Ryan Hall: Solving Martial Arts from First Principles
Mar 20, 2021
#168 – Silvio Micali: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Algorand, Bitcoin, and Ethereum
Mar 15, 2021
#167 – Saagar Enjeti: Politics, History, and Power
Mar 14, 2021
#166 – Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media
Mar 05, 2021
#165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts
Mar 01, 2021
#164 – Andrew Huberman: Sleep, Dreams, Creativity & the Limits of the Human Mind
Feb 28, 2021
#163 – Eric Weinstein: Difficult Conversations, Freedom of Speech, and Physics
Feb 23, 2021
#162 – Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness
Feb 18, 2021
#161 – Jason Calacanis: Startups, Angel Investing, Capitalism, and Friendship
Feb 15, 2021
#160 – Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave
Feb 12, 2021
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