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Lex Fridman Podcast

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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.

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February 22nd, 2024

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

March 25th, 2024

1:36:03

Dana White is the CEO and president of the UFC. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy

March 22nd, 2024

3:12:59

Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and author of “Nuclear War: A Scenario” and many other books on war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security. Please support this podcast by checking out our …

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

March 18th, 2024

2:02:04

Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, Sora, and many other state-of-the-art AI technologies. Please support this …

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

March 14th, 2024

5:04:51

Norman Finkelstein and Benny Morris are historians. Mouin Rabbani is a Middle East analyst. Steven Bonnell (aka Destiny) is a political livestreamer. …

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

March 10th, 2024

1:53:04

Kimbal Musk is a chef, entrepreneur, and author of The Kitchen Cookbook: Cooking for Your Community. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

March 7th, 2024

2:54:17

Yann LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, professor at NYU, Turing Award winner, and one of the most influential researchers in the history of AI. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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

March 4th, 2024

3:27:59

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: …

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

February 27th, 2024

3:12:35

Tucker Carlson is a highly-influential political commentator. You can watch and listen to him on the Tucker Carlson Network and the Tucker Carlson …

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

February 20th, 2024

3:41:00

Bill Ackman is an investor who has led some of the biggest and controversial financial trades in history. He is founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management. Please support this podcast by checking out our …

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

February 16th, 2024

1:52:23

Marc Raibert is founder and former long-time CEO of Boston Dynamics, and recently Executive Director of the newly-created Boston Dynamics AI Institute. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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

February 2nd, 2024

2:31:08

Omar Suleiman is a Palestinian-American Muslim scholar, civil rights leader, and President of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research. Please …

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

January 23rd, 2024

2:25:57

Ben Shapiro is a conservative political commentator, host of The Ben Shapiro Show, co-founder of The Daily Wire, and author of The Authoritarian …

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

January 17th, 2024

6:07:46

Matthew Cox is a former con man who served 13 years in federal prison for bank fraud, mortgage fraud, and identity theft. He is the author of many …

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

January 9th, 2024

1:55:59

Tal Wilkenfeld is a singer-songwriter, bassist, and guitarist. She has performed with legendary artists including Jeff Beck, Prince, Incubus, Eric Clapton, Herbie Hancock, Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart, Hans Zimmer, Pharrell …

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

December 29th, 2023

Guillaume Verdon (aka Beff Jezos on Twitter) is a physicist, quantum computing researcher, and founder of e/acc (effective accelerationism) movement. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

December 24th, 2023

2:15:38

Teddy Atlas is boxing trainer to 18 world champions, ESPN boxing commentator, and host of podcast THE FIGHT with Teddy Atlas. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin

December 14th, 2023

2:20:09

Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin.

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

December 9th, 2023

3:27:50

Lee Cronin is a chemist at University of Glasgow. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

December 3rd, 2023

Lisa Randall is a theoretical physicist at Harvard. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#402 – Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special

November 25th, 2023

1:47:51

Michael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, author, and anarchist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

November 18th, 2023

3:35:13

John Mearsheimer is an international relations scholar at University of Chicago. He is one of the most influential and controversial thinkers in the …

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

November 9th, 2023

2:27:12

Elon Musk is CEO of X, xAI, SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and The Boring Company.

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

October 11th, 2023

3:54:15

Jared Kushner is a former Senior Advisor to President Donald Trump and author of Breaking History. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse

September 28th, 2023

1:12:04

Mark Zuckerberg is CEO of Meta. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#397 – Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech

September 25th, 2023

Greg Lukianoff is a free speech advocate, first-amendment attorney, president of FIRE – Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, and co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind and a new book The Canceling of …

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

September 18th, 2023

3:51:11

James Sexton is a divorce attorney and author. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#395 – Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin

September 10th, 2023

Walter Isaacson is an author of biographies on Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, and many others. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature

September 1st, 2023

2:25:50

Neri Oxman is a designer, engineer, scientist, and artist working on computational design, synthetic biology and digital fabrication, previously at …

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

August 17th, 2023

2:20:40

Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist at Stanford and host of the Huberman Lab Podcast. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans

August 1st, 2023

2:59:04

Joscha Bach is a cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and philosopher. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

July 24th, 2023

2:23:13

Mohammed El-Kurd is a Palestinian writer and poet. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

July 17th, 2023

2:52:08

Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and Unstoppable Us. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

July 12th, 2023

1:17:06

Benjamin Netanyahu is the Prime Minister of Israel. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

July 6th, 2023

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an activist, lawyer, author, and candidate for the President of the Unites States. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God

June 30th, 2023

3:15:19

George Hotz is a programmer, hacker, and the founder of comma-ai and tiny corp. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#386 – Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI

June 22nd, 2023

3:15:37

Marc Andreessen is the co-creator of Mosaic, co-founder of Netscape, and co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

June 18th, 2023

3:19:37

Jimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#384 – Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love

June 13th, 2023

2:24:00

Matthew McConaughey is an Oscar-winning actor and author of Greenlights. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#383 – Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp

June 8th, 2023

2:47:17

Mark Zuckerberg is CEO of Meta. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#382 – Bert Kreischer: Comedy, Drinking, Rogan, Segura, Churchill & Kim Jong Un

June 5th, 2023

2:11:52

Bert Kreischer is a comedian, actor, and podcaster. Check him out on Bertcast, 2 Bears 1 Cave, Something is Burning, and the new movie The Machine. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI

June 2nd, 2023

3:38:29

Chris Lattner is a legendary software and hardware engineer, leading projects at Apple, Tesla, Google, SiFive, and Modular AI, including the …

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

May 28th, 2023

2:11:20

Neil Gershenfeld is the director of the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power

May 24th, 2023

3:14:10

Randall Kennedy is a law professor at Harvard and author of many seminal books on race, law, history, culture, and politics. Please support this …

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

May 18th, 2023

2:23:21

Anna Frebel is an astronomer and astrophysicist at MIT. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

May 16th, 2023

1:55:28

Harvey Silverglate is a free speech advocate, co-founder of FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Expression, and author of several books on freedom of speech and criminal justice. He is running for Harvard …

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

May 9th, 2023

4:19:53

Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, theoretical physicist, and the founder of Wolfram Research, a company behind Wolfram|Alpha, …

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

May 6th, 2023

3:36:04

David Pakman is a left-wing progressive political commentator and host of The David Pakman Show. Please support this podcast by checking out our …

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

April 28th, 2023

2:32:27

Robert Playter is CEO of Boston Dynamics, a legendary robotics company that over 30 years has created some of the most elegant, dextrous, and simply amazing robots ever built, including the humanoid robot Atlas and the …

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

April 21st, 2023

2:35:52

Manolis Kellis is a computational biologist at MIT. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design

April 16th, 2023

2:04:05

Simone Giertz is an inventor, designer, engineer, and roboticist famous for a combination of humor and brilliant creative design in the systems and products she creates. Please support this podcast by checking out our …

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

April 13th, 2023

2:53:58

Max Tegmark is a physicist and AI researcher at MIT, co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, and author of Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Please support this podcast by checking out our …

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

April 10th, 2023

3:51:31

Edward Frenkel is a mathematician at UC Berkeley working on the interface of mathematics and quantum physics. He is the author of Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality. Please support this podcast by checking out …

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

April 4th, 2023

3:38:41

Paul Rosolie is a conservationist, explorer, author, filmmaker, real life Tarzan, and founder of Junglekeepers which today protects over 50,000 acres …

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

March 30th, 2023

3:22:35

Eliezer Yudkowsky is a researcher, writer, and philosopher on the topic of superintelligent AI. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#367 – Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI

March 25th, 2023

2:28:08

Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, DALL-E, Codex, and many other state-of-the-art AI technologies. Please support …

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

March 21st, 2023

1:50:54

Dr. Shannon Curry is a clinical and forensic psychologist who conducts research, therapy, and clinical evaluation pertaining to trauma, violence, and …

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

March 14th, 2023

4:33:40

Sam Harris is an author, podcaster, and philosopher. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#364 – Chris Voss: FBI Hostage Negotiator

March 10th, 2023

2:15:56

Chris Voss is a former FBI hostage and crisis negotiator and author of Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#363 – B-Team Jiu Jitsu: Craig Jones, Nicky Rod, and Nicky Ryan

March 6th, 2023

2:54:11

Craig Jones, Nicky Rod and Nicky Ryan, together with Ethan Crelinsten are founders of the B-Team, a legendary jiu jitsu team based in Austin, TX. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

March 2nd, 2023

1:56:26

Ginni Rometty is a former long-time CEO, president, and chairman of IBM. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

February 25th, 2023

2:17:55

Aaron Smith-Levin is a former Scientologist, Vice President of the Aftermath Foundation, and host of the Growing Up In Scientology YouTube channel. …

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

February 20th, 2023

3:10:58

Tim Urban is the author of the blog Wait But Why and a new book What’s Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#359 – Andrew Strominger: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and Theoretical Physics

February 15th, 2023

2:25:03

Andrew Strominger is a theoretical physicist at Harvard. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#358 – Aella: Sex Work, OnlyFans, Porn, Escorting, Dating, and Human Sexuality

February 10th, 2023

4:02:14

Aella is a sex researcher, writer, and sex worker. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#357 – Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil

February 7th, 2023

3:22:27

Paul Conti is a psychiatrist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#356 – Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

February 2nd, 2023

5:21:22

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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#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds

January 28th, 2023

3:50:47

David Kipping is an astronomer at Columbia University, director of the Cool Worlds Lab, and host of the Cool Worlds YouTube channel. Please support …

#354 – Jeremi Suri: American Civil War

January 25th, 2023

Jeremi Suri is a historian at UT Austin. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy

January 21st, 2023

3:13:37

Dennis Whyte is a nuclear scientist at MIT and the director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#352 – Omar Suleiman: Islam

January 17th, 2023

3:07:17

Imam Omar Suleiman is the Founder and President of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research and a professor of Islamic Studies at Southern Methodist …

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

January 11th, 2023

2:24:49

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

December 29th, 2022

2:47:50

Betül Kaçar is an astrobiologist at University of Wisconsin. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism

December 22nd, 2022

3:52:04

Bhaskar Sunkara is a democratic socialist, political writer, founding editor of Jacobin, president of The Nation, and author of The Socialist …

#348 – Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

December 19th, 2022

2:12:12

Nathalie Cabrol is an astrobiologist at the SETI Institute, directing the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe. Please support …

#347 – Michael Malice: Christmas Special

December 15th, 2022

3:47:31

Michael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, author, and anarchist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels

December 12th, 2022

4:11:43

Ed Calderon is a security specialist who worked on counter-narcotics and organized crime investigation in Mexico. Please support this podcast by …

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

December 9th, 2022

3:51:31

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

December 6th, 2022

2:33:57

Noam Brown is a research scientist at FAIR, Meta AI, co-creator of AI that achieved superhuman level performance in games of No-Limit Texas Hold’em …

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

December 3rd, 2022

Roger Gracie is a legendary jiu jitsu competitor and MMA fighter. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#342 – Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

November 29th, 2022

2:49:59

Todd Howard is a legendary video game designer at Bethesda Game Studios. He led the development of the Elder Scrolls series and the Fallout series, …

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

November 26th, 2022

3:22:36

Guido van Rossum is the creator of Python programming language. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#340 – Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

November 22nd, 2022

3:02:59

Chris Tarbell is a former FBI special agent and cybercrime investigation specialist who brought down Ross Ulbricht and Silk Road, and Hector Monsegur …

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

November 18th, 2022

4:16:22

Bjørn Lomborg is author of “False Alarm”. Andrew Revkin is a climate journalist (21 years at NY Times). Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#338 – Chamath Palihapitiya: Money, Success, Startups, Energy, Poker & Happiness

November 15th, 2022

3:04:21

Chamath Palihapitiya is a venture capitalist, engineer, CEO of Social Capital, and co-host of the All-In Podcast. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#337 – Destiny: Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, War, and Relationships

November 11th, 2022

Steven Bonnell, aka Destiny, is a progressive political commentator and a live streamer on YouTube. Melina Goransson is a live streamer on Twitch. …

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

November 7th, 2022

2:36:39

Ben Shapiro is a conservative political commentator, host of The Ben Shapiro Show, co-founder of The Daily Wire, and author of The Authoritarian …

#335 – Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump

November 4th, 2022

3:24:37

Fiona Hill is a presidential advisor and foreign policy expert specializing in Russia. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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

November 2nd, 2022

3:11:25

Abbas Amanat is a historian at Yale specializing in the modern history of Iran. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI

October 29th, 2022

3:33:38

Andrej Karpathy is a legendary AI researcher, engineer, and educator. He’s the former director of AI at Tesla, a founding member of OpenAI, and an educator at Stanford. Please support this podcast by checking out our …

#332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview

October 24th, 2022

2:33:53

Ye is a legendary artist, producer, and designer. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA

October 20th, 2022

7:53:01

Balaji Srinivasan is an angel investor, tech founder, philosopher, and author of The Network State: How to Start a New Country. He was formerly the CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Please …

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

October 17th, 2022

2:54:07

Hikaru Nakamura is a chess super grandmaster and is currently the #1 ranked blitz chess player in the world. He is also one of the top chess streamers on Twitch and YouTube. Please support this podcast by checking out …

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

October 15th, 2022

3:09:50

Kate Darling is a researcher at MIT Media Lab interested in human robot interaction and robot ethics. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives

October 10th, 2022

4:55:49

John Danaher is one of the greatest coaches and minds in martial arts history. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#327 – GothamChess: Hans Niemann, Magnus Carlsen, Cheating Scandal & Chess Bots

October 7th, 2022

3:38:31

Levy Rozman, also known as GothamChess, is a professional chess player, streamer, and educator. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

October 5th, 2022

2:46:15

Annaka Harris is the author of Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots

October 1st, 2022

3:05:29

Michael Levin is a biologist at Tufts University working on novel ways to understand and control complex pattern formation in biological systems. …

#324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker

September 27th, 2022

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

September 24th, 2022

2:28:16

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

September 21st, 2022

2:42:27

Rana el Kaliouby is a pioneer in the field of emotion recognition and human-centric AI. She is the founder of Affectiva, deputy CEO of Smart Eye, and author of Girl Decoded. Please support this podcast by checking out …

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

September 17th, 2022

1:42:20

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

September 14th, 2022

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

September 9th, 2022

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Alexandra and Andrea Botez are chess players, commentators, educators, entertainers, and streamers. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#318 – Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness

September 7th, 2022

3:47:44

Nick Lane is a biochemist at UCL and author of Transformer, The Vital Question, and many other amazing books on biology, chemistry, and life. Please …

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

September 4th, 2022

3:17:01

John Vervaeke is a psychologist and cognitive scientist at University of Toronto. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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

August 31st, 2022

52:56

Noam Chomsky is a linguist, philosopher, and political activist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#315 – Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time

August 27th, 2022

2:39:43

Magnus Carlsen is the highest-rated chess player in history and widely considered to be the greatest chess player of all time. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#314 – Liv Boeree: Poker, Game Theory, AI, Simulation, Aliens & Existential Risk

August 24th, 2022

3:41:13

Liv Boeree is a poker champion and science educator on topics of game theory, physics, complexity, and life. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#313 – Jordan Peterson: Life, Death, Power, Fame, and Meaning

August 19th, 2022

3:10:00

Jordan Peterson is a psychologist, lecturer, podcast host, and author. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man

August 16th, 2022

3:25:56

Duncan Trussell is a comedian, host of The Duncan Trussell Family Hour podcast, and co-creator of The Midnight Gospel. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity

August 13th, 2022

3:38:27

Magatte Wade is an entrepreneur with a passion for creating positive change in Africa through economic freedom. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#310 – Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy

August 8th, 2022

3:59:30

Andrew Bustamante is a former CIA covert intelligence officer. Check out his work and podcast at https://everydayspy.com Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets

August 4th, 2022

5:22:51

John Carmack is a legendary programmer, co-founder of id Software, and lead programmer of many revolutionary video games including Wolfenstein 3D, …

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

August 1st, 2022

2:37:18

Lt. Ryan Graves is a former Navy fighter pilot, who has worked on advanced research and development programs for DARPA, Office of Naval Research, and …

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

July 29th, 2022

2:36:02

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

July 26th, 2022

2:15:00

Oriol Vinyals is the Research Director and Deep Learning Lead at DeepMind. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#305 – Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang

July 23rd, 2022

2:19:10

Lord Martin Rees is a cosmologist and astrophysicist at Cambridge University and co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. Please …

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

July 20th, 2022

2:00:44

Robert Barron is a bishop and founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#303 – Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics

July 17th, 2022

3:36:45

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

July 14th, 2022

2:51:03

Richard Haier is a psychologist specializing in the science of human intelligence. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#301 – Jack Barsky: KGB Spy

July 9th, 2022

3:43:16

Jack Barsky is a former KGB spy and author of “Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America”. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#300 – Joe Rogan: Comedy, Controversy, Aliens, UFOs, Putin, CIA, and Freedom

July 4th, 2022

1:49:30

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#299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind

July 1st, 2022

2:17:02

Demis Hassabis is the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#298 – Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts and Loneliness

June 28th, 2022

2:05:42

Susan Cain is the author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, and Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole. …

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

June 25th, 2022

2:49:53

Jonathan Reisman is a physician and author of The Unseen Body who has practiced medicine in some of the most remote places in the world. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#296 – Douglas Murray: Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West

June 21st, 2022

2:44:40

Douglas Murray is an author and political commentator. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#295 – Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism

June 17th, 2022

2:59:19

Richard Wolff is a Marxist philosopher and economist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#294 – Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, and Nest

June 15th, 2022

2:52:32

Tony Fadell is an engineer and designer, co-creator of the iPod, iPhone, Nest Thermostat, and author of the new book Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making. Please support this podcast by checking out …

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

June 12th, 2022

3:23:17

Donald Hoffman is a cognitive scientist at UC Irvine and author of The Case Against Reality. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity

June 9th, 2022

4:18:35

Robin Hanson is a professor at George Mason University and researcher at Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#291 – Jonathan Haidt: The Case Against Social Media

June 4th, 2022

1:48:45

Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at NYU and author of The Coddling of the American Mind, The Righteous Mind, and The Happiness Hypothesis. …

#290 – Dan Reynolds: Imagine Dragons

May 30th, 2022

2:18:48

Dan Reynolds is the lead singer of Imagine Dragons, one of the most popular bands in the world. Please support this podcast by checking out our …

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

May 25th, 2022

2:49:16

Stephen Kotkin is a historian specializing in Stalin and Soviet history. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#288 – Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan

May 23rd, 2022

4:21:21

Sarma Melngailis is a chef and restauranteur who was the subject of the Netflix documentary Bad Vegan: Fame, Fraud, Fugitives. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#287 – Bobby Lee: Comedy, Skyrim, Sex Robots, Love, Fame, and Power

May 20th, 2022

1:45:38

Bobby Lee is a comedian and co-host of TigerBelly and Bad Friends podcasts. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#286 – Oliver Stone: Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine

May 17th, 2022

1:59:28

Oliver Stone is a filmmaker with 3 Oscar wins and 11 Oscar nominations. His films include Platoon, Wall Street, Born on the Fourth of July, Scarface, …

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

May 14th, 2022

3:38:37

Glenn Loury is a professor of economics and social sciences at Brown University, and a prominent podcaster and social critic who speaks and writes …

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

May 11th, 2022

4:21:08

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

May 8th, 2022

3:01:52

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 …

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

May 4th, 2022

3:38:34

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 …

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

April 29th, 2022

2:11:27

Grimes is a musician, artist, singer, songwriter, producer, and director. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#280 – Cristiano Amon: Qualcomm CEO

April 27th, 2022

1:14:35

Cristiano Amon is the CEO of Qualcomm, world-leader in 5G wireless communication and computation systems inside premium Android phones and other robots. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin

April 24th, 2022

4:11:09

Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist. Lee Cronin is a chemist. This is a conversation and debate about alien life and alien …

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

April 20th, 2022

2:34:50

Skye Fitzgerald is a two-time Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, his films include Hunger Ward, Lifeboat, and 50 Feet from Syria. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship

April 17th, 2022

3:31:39

Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist at Stanford and host of the Huberman Lab Podcast. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#276 – Michael Saylor: Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money

April 14th, 2022

4:02:29

Michael Saylor is the CEO of MicroStrategy and a prominent holder and proponent of Bitcoin. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

#275 – Rick Rubin: Legendary Music Producer

April 10th, 2022

3:27:48

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, …

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

April 7th, 2022

3:27:48

Karl Deisseroth is a professor of bioengineering, psychiatry, and behavioral sciences at Stanford University. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence

April 3rd, 2022

2:54:20

Chris Blattman is a professor at the University of Chicago studying the causes and consequences of violence and war. Please support this podcast by …

#272 – Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal

March 27th, 2022

3:53:05

Brett Johnson was a US Most Wanted cybercriminal, called the Original Internet Godfather by US Secret Service for building the the first organized cybercrime community called ShadowCrew, which was the precursor to …

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

March 23rd, 2022

1:52:53

Ariel Ekblaw is the director of the MIT Space Exploration Initiative. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#270 – David Wolpe: Judaism

March 16th, 2022

2:17:54

David Wolpe is a Rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness

March 11th, 2022

4:12:27

Lee Cronin is a chemist at the University of Glasgow. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#268 – Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology

March 5th, 2022

2:55:20

Robert Proctor is a historian of science at Stanford University. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#267 – Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse

February 26th, 2022

2:05:51

Mark Zuckerberg is CEO of Meta, formerly Facebook.

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

February 20th, 2022

2:07:42

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#265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling

February 16th, 2022

Devon Larratt is a professional arm wrestler, widely considered to be one of the best of all time. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#264 – Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity

February 13th, 2022

2:43:37

Tim Urban is the author and illustrator of the popular blog ‘Wait But Why’. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma

February 11th, 2022

2:24:13

John Abramson is faculty at Harvard Medical School and a family physician for over two decades. He’s the author of the new book Sickening about how …

#262 – Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens

February 6th, 2022

1:50:04

Garry Nolan is a professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. His research is in microbiology, immunology, bio-computation, and analysis of …

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

February 3rd, 2022

2:53:05

Philip Goff is a philosopher of mind and consciousness at Durham University and author of Galileo’s Error. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#260 – Georges St-Pierre, John Danaher & Gordon Ryan: The Greatest of All Time

January 30th, 2022

Georges St-Pierre is an MMA fighter. John Danaher is a martial arts coach. Gordon Ryan is a submission grappler. Each are considered by many to be the greatest of all time in each of their respective disciplines. Please …

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

January 26th, 2022

2:23:12

Thomas Tull is founder of Legendary Entertainment, Tulco, part-owner of Pittsburgh Steelers, and guitarist for the band Ghost Hounds. Please support …

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

January 22nd, 2022

2:51:40

Yann LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, professor at NYU, Turing Award winner, and one of the seminal researchers in the history of machine learning. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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

January 18th, 2022

4:06:09

Brian Keating is an experimental physicist at the UCSD, author of Losing the Nobel Prize, and host of the Into the Impossible podcast. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#256 – Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony

January 15th, 2022

3:04:47

Yaron Brook is an objectivist. Yoram Hazony is a national conservative. This is a conversation and debate about national conservatism vs individualism. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#255 – Mark Normand: Comedy!

January 8th, 2022

1:58:24

Mark Normand is a stand-up comedian. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#254 – Jay Bhattacharya: The Case Against Lockdowns

January 4th, 2022

2:28:33

Jay Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford University and co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#253 – Michael Malice: New Year’s Special

December 31st, 2021

3:32:37

Michael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, author, and anarchist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#252 – Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI

December 28th, 2021

2:39:30

Elon Musk is CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and Boring Company. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#251 – Ray Dalio: Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires

December 25th, 2021

1:40:20

Ray Dalio is an investor, author, and founder of Bridgewater Associates. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#250 – Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality

December 23rd, 2021

2:53:07

Peter Wang is the co-founder & CEO of Anaconda and one of the most impactful leaders and developers in the Python community. Also, he is a …

#249 – Albert Bourla: Pfizer CEO

December 18th, 2021

1:14:32

Albert Bourla is the Chairman and CEO of Pfizer. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#248 – Norman Naimark: Genocide, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Absolute Power

December 13th, 2021

2:25:24

Norman Naimark is a historian at Stanford, specializing in the history of genocide. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#247 – Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory

December 8th, 2021

5:01:37

Jamie Metzl is an author specializing in topics of genetic engineering, biotechnology, and geopolitics. Please support this podcast by checking out …

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

December 3rd, 2021

2:23:05

Peter Woit is a theoretical physicist, mathematician, critic of string theory, and author of the popular science blog Not Even Wrong. Please support …

#245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling

November 30th, 2021

1:03:16

Tom Brands is an Olympic and World Champion in freestyle wrestling and the head wrestling coach at the University of Iowa. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#244 – Robert Crews: Afghanistan, Taliban, Bin Laden, and War in the Middle East

November 28th, 2021

2:49:20

Robert Crews is a historian at Stanford, specializing in Afghanistan, Russia, Islam, Central Asia, and South Asia. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#243 – Kevin Systrom: Instagram

November 23rd, 2021

2:52:38

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#242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA

November 20th, 2021

2:21:31

Ben Askren is a wrestler and MMA fighter, former Bellator and ONE Championship welterweight champion, a two-time NCAA wrestling champion and four-time finalist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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

November 16th, 2021

3:20:48

Boris Sofman is the Senior Director Of Engineering and Head of Trucking at Waymo, formerly the Google Self-Driving Car project. He was also the CEO and co-founder of Anki, a home robotics company. Please support this …

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

November 11th, 2021

2:47:54

Neal Stephenson is a sci-fi writer (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and new book Termination Shock), former Chief Futurist at Magic Leap and first employee of Blue Origin. Please support this podcast by checking out our …

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

November 8th, 2021

2:48:49

Niall Ferguson is a historian at Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author of 16 books on the history of money, war, power, and catastrophe. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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

November 5th, 2021

1:33:22

Francis Collins is the director of the NIH and former head of the Human Genome Project. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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

November 3rd, 2021

3:19:01

Steve Viscelli is a former truck driver and now an economic sociologist at University of Pennsylvania studying freight transportation, including …

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

October 31st, 2021

2:30:32

Jimmy Pedro is a judo competitor and coach, world champion, 3x world medalist, 2x Olympic medalist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#235 – Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing

October 29th, 2021

1:53:50

Michael Mina is an immunologist, epidemiologist, and physician at Harvard. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality

October 27th, 2021

3:45:26

Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#233 – Carl Hart: Heroin, Cocaine, MDMA, Alcohol & the Role of Drugs in Society

October 23rd, 2021

1:16:47

Carl Hart is a psychologist at Columbia University. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#232 – Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, Big Bang, Aliens, Life, Death, and Meaning

October 20th, 2021

1:52:11

Brian Greene is a theoretical physicist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights

October 16th, 2021

2:40:35

Alex Gladstein is the Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation and the Oslo Freedom Forum. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#230 – Kelsi Sheren: War, Artillery, PTSD, and Love

October 14th, 2021

Kelsi Sheren is a veteran, artillery gunner, and founder of Brass and Unity. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#229 – Richard Wrangham: Role of Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution

October 10th, 2021

Richard Wrangham is a biological anthropologist at Harvard, specializing in the study of primates and the evolution of violence, sex, cooking, …

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

October 5th, 2021

RZA is a rapper, record producer, filmmaker, actor, writer, philosopher, and the mastermind of the legendary hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning

September 30th, 2021

Sean Kelly is a philosopher at Harvard specializing in existentialism and the philosophy of mind. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#226 – Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math

September 27th, 2021

Jo Boaler is a professor of mathematics education at Stanford and the co-founder of youcubed. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#225 – Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence

September 26th, 2021

Jeffrey Shainline is a physicist at NIST working on. Note: Opinions expressed by Jeff do not represent NIST. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#224 – Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming

September 23rd, 2021

Travis Oliphant is a data scientist, entrepreneur, and creator of NumPy, SciPy, and Anaconda. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#223 – Travis Stevens: Judo, Olympics, and Mental Toughness

September 21st, 2021

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

September 20th, 2021

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

September 15th, 2021

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

September 11th, 2021

2:49:44

Niels Jorgensen is a former New York firefighter for over 21 years, who was there at Ground Zero on September 11th, 2001. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life

September 9th, 2021

2:27:39

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

September 6th, 2021

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#217 – Rodney Brooks: Robotics

September 3rd, 2021

2:30:51

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#216 – Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines

September 1st, 2021

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

August 29th, 2021

2:58:07

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

August 27th, 2021

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

August 23rd, 2021

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

August 21st, 2021

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#211 – Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics

August 15th, 2021

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#210 – Matt Walker: Sleep

August 11th, 2021

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

August 9th, 2021

3:02:43

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

August 8th, 2021

2:25:58

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#207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength

August 3rd, 2021

2:48:34

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

July 31st, 2021

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#205 – Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running

July 29th, 2021

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#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory

July 26th, 2021

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

July 23rd, 2021

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#202 – Rick Doblin: Psychedelics

July 21st, 2021

2:42:17

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

July 19th, 2021

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#200 – Michael Malice: Totalitarianism and Anarchy

July 15th, 2021

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

July 11th, 2021

2:15:54

Roger Reaves is one of the most prolific drug smugglers in history. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#198 – Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds

July 9th, 2021

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

July 5th, 2021

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#196 – Yeonmi Park: North Korea

July 1st, 2021

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

June 28th, 2021

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

June 25th, 2021

3:22:52

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

June 21st, 2021

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#192 – Charles Hoskinson: Cardano

June 16th, 2021

5:04:37

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

June 14th, 2021

4:21:41

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

June 13th, 2021

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

June 7th, 2021

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#188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0

June 3rd, 2021

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

May 29th, 2021

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#186 – Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces

May 24th, 2021

2:37:11

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

May 20th, 2021

3:23:42

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

May 17th, 2021

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

May 14th, 2021

2:27:20

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

May 9th, 2021

3:43:23

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

May 1st, 2021

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#180 – Jeremi Suri: History of American Power

April 30th, 2021

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

April 26th, 2021

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

April 24th, 2021

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#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation

April 19th, 2021

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

April 17th, 2021

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#175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy

April 12th, 2021

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

April 10th, 2021

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

April 1st, 2021

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

March 30th, 2021

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#171 – Anthony Pompliano: Bitcoin

March 25th, 2021

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

March 22nd, 2021

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

March 20th, 2021

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

March 15th, 2021

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

March 14th, 2021

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

March 5th, 2021

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

March 1st, 2021

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

February 28th, 2021

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

February 23rd, 2021

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

February 18th, 2021

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

February 15th, 2021

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

February 12th, 2021

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

February 7th, 2021

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

February 5th, 2021

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

February 1st, 2021

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

January 29th, 2021

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January 27th, 2021

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#155 – Max Tegmark: AI and Physics

January 18th, 2021

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

January 14th, 2021

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

January 11th, 2021

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

January 9th, 2021

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

January 4th, 2021

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

December 31st, 2020

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

December 28th, 2020

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

December 26th, 2020

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

December 20th, 2020

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

December 19th, 2020

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#145 – Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics

December 14th, 2020

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

December 13th, 2020

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

December 6th, 2020

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

November 30th, 2020

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

November 25th, 2020

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

November 20th, 2020

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#139 – Andrew Huberman: Neuroscience of Optimal Performance

November 16th, 2020

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

November 13th, 2020

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

November 8th, 2020

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#136 – Dan Carlin: Hardcore History

November 3rd, 2020

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

November 2nd, 2020

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

October 30th, 2020

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#133 – Manolis Kellis: Biology of Disease

October 25th, 2020

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

October 22nd, 2020

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

October 19th, 2020

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#130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness

October 12th, 2020

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

October 4th, 2020

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

October 2nd, 2020

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

September 26th, 2020

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

September 24th, 2020

1:51:28

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

September 20th, 2020

Ryan Hall is a jiu jitsu black belt, UFC fighter, and a philosopher of the martial arts.

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

September 15th, 2020

4:24:06

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

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

September 12th, 2020

2:11:20

Manolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group.

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

September 8th, 2020

3:56:51

David Fravor is a navy pilot of 18 years and a primary witness in one of the most credible UFO sightings in history, video of which has been released by the Pentagon and reported on by the NY Times.

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Lex Solo #3 – In Memory of My Grandmother

September 7th, 2020

18:22

My attempt to find the words to honor my grandmother, an amazing woman who is responsible for much of who I am, who taught me how to be a man, taught me about strength, about wisdom, about compassion, about love.

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#121 – Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion

September 5th, 2020

3:01:34

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September 1st, 2020

33:53

My thoughts on 8 possible long-term futures of Neuralink after attending the August 2020 progress update. This is a solo episode #2 of the podcast. …

#120 – François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence

August 31st, 2020

2:34:47

François Chollet is an AI researcher at Google and creator of Keras.

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#119 – David Eagleman: Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain

August 26th, 2020

1:41:52

David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford.

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New Name: Lex Fridman Podcast

August 24th, 2020

2:01

New podcast name. New Russian hitman thumbnail. Everything else stays the same. AI is still my passion, but this gives me a bit more freedom to talk …

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

August 23rd, 2020

2:08:53

Grant Sanderson is a math educator and creator of 3Blue1Brown.

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#117 – Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning

August 20th, 2020

2:56:51

Sheldon Solomon is a social psychologist, a philosopher, co-developer of Terror Management Theory, co-author of The Worm at the Core.

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

August 16th, 2020

1:42:02

Sara Seager is a planetary scientist at MIT, known for her work on the search for exoplanets.

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#115 – Dileep George: Brain-Inspired AI

August 14th, 2020

2:10:33

Dileep George is a researcher at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence, co-founder of Vicarious, formerly co-founder of Numenta. From the early work on Hierarchical temporal memory to Recursive …

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

August 9th, 2020

2:49:14

Russ Tedrake is a roboticist and professor at MIT and vice president of robotics research at TRI. He works on control of robots in interesting, …

#113 – Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics

July 31st, 2020

2:29:51

Manolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group. He is interested in understanding the human genome from a …

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

July 29th, 2020

2:01:43

Ian Hutchinson is a nuclear engineer and plasma physicist at MIT. He has made a number of important contributions in plasma physics including the magnetic confinement of plasmas seeking to enable fusion reactions, which …

#111 – Richard Karp: Algorithms and Computational Complexity

July 26th, 2020

2:08:00

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 …

#110 – Jitendra Malik: Computer Vision

July 21st, 2020

1:42:04

Jitendra Malik is a professor at Berkeley and one of the seminal figures in the field of computer vision, the kind before the deep learning …

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

July 18th, 2020

1:43:37

Brian Kernighan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. He co-authored the C Programming Language with Dennis Ritchie (creator of C) and has written a lot of books on programming, computers, and life …

#108 – Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning

July 14th, 2020

1:37:59

Sergey Levine is a professor at Berkeley and a world-class researcher in deep learning, reinforcement learning, robotics, and computer vision, including the development of algorithms for end-to-end training of neural …

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

July 8th, 2020

1:09:41

Peter Singer is a professor of bioethics at Princeton, best known for his 1975 book Animal Liberation, that makes an ethical case against eating meat. He has written brilliantly from an ethical perspective on extreme …

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

July 3rd, 2020

2:01:00

Matt Botvinick is the Director of Neuroscience Research at DeepMind. He is a brilliant cross-disciplinary mind navigating effortlessly between …

#105 – Robert Langer: Edison of Medicine

June 30th, 2020

1:02:42

Robert Langer is a professor at MIT and one of the most cited researchers in history, specializing in biotechnology fields of drug delivery systems …

#104 – David Patterson: Computer Architecture and Data Storage

June 27th, 2020

1:50:19

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 …

#103 – Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence

June 22nd, 2020

4:09:25

Ben Goertzel is one of the most interesting minds in the artificial intelligence community. He is the founder of SingularityNET, designer of OpenCog …

#102 – Steven Pressfield: The War of Art

June 20th, 2020

1:27:56

Steven Pressfield is a historian and author of War of Art, a book that had a big impact on my life and the life of millions of whose passion is to create in art, science, business, sport, and everywhere else. I highly …

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

June 13th, 2020

3:00:45

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 …

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

May 28th, 2020

1:29:29

Karl Friston is one of the greatest neuroscientists in history, cited over 245,000 times, known for many influential ideas in brain imaging, …

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

May 20th, 2020

1:23:18

Sertac Karaman is a professor at MIT, co-founder of the autonomous vehicle company Optimus Ride, and is one of top roboticists in the world, including robots that drive and robots that fly.

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

May 15th, 2020

1:10:44

Stephen Schwarzman is the CEO and Co-Founder of Blackstone, one of the world’s leading investment firms with over 530 billion dollars of assets under …

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

May 12th, 2020

2:13:04

Dawn Song is a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley with research interests in security, most recently with a focus on the intersection between computer security and machine learning.

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#94 – Ilya Sutskever: Deep Learning

May 8th, 2020

1:37:55

Ilya Sutskever is the co-founder of OpenAI, is one of the most cited computer scientist in history with over 165,000 citations, and to me, is one of …

#93 – Daphne Koller: Biomedicine and Machine Learning

May 5th, 2020

1:12:31

Daphne Koller is a professor of computer science at Stanford University, a co-founder of Coursera with Andrew Ng and Founder and CEO of insitro, a …

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

April 29th, 2020

1:38:47

Harry Cliff is a particle physicist at the University of Cambridge working on the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment that specializes in …

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

April 24th, 2020

51:42

Jack Dorsey is the co-founder and CEO of Twitter and the founder and CEO of Square.

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#90 – Dmitry Korkin: Computational Biology of Coronavirus

April 22nd, 2020

2:09:30

Dmitry Korkin is a professor of bioinformatics and computational biology at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he specializes in bioinformatics …

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

April 18th, 2020

3:11:36

Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist who is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, a company behind …

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

April 13th, 2020

2:47:04

Eric Weinstein is a mathematician with a bold and piercing intelligence, unafraid to explore the biggest questions in the universe and shine a light …

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

April 9th, 2020

1:07:48

Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist, and author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, The God Delusion, The Magic of Reality, The …

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

April 3rd, 2020

1:48:28

David Silver leads the reinforcement learning research group at DeepMind and was lead researcher on AlphaGo, AlphaZero and co-lead on AlphaStar, and MuZero and lot of important work in reinforcement learning.

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

March 31st, 2020

1:28:25

Roger Penrose is physicist, mathematician, and philosopher at University of Oxford. He has made fundamental contributions in many disciplines from …

#83 – Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence

March 26th, 2020

1:57:06

Nick Bostrom is a philosopher at University of Oxford and the director of the Future of Humanity Institute. He has worked on fascinating and …

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

March 21st, 2020

38:16

Simon Sinek is an author of several books including Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last, and his latest The Infinite Game. He is one of the best communicators of what it takes to be a good leader, to inspire, and to build …

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

March 19th, 2020

1:39:01

Anca Dragan is a professor at Berkeley, working on human-robot interaction — algorithms that look beyond the robot’s function in isolation, and …

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

March 16th, 2020

1:35:31

Vitalik Buterin is co-creator of Ethereum and ether, which is a cryptocurrency that is currently the second-largest digital currency after bitcoin. Ethereum has a lot of interesting technical ideas that are defining the …

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

March 7th, 2020

1:10:19

Lee Smolin is a theoretical physicist, co-inventor of loop quantum gravity, and a contributor of many interesting ideas to cosmology, quantum field …

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

March 5th, 2020

1:09:40

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 …

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

March 3rd, 2020

1:11:37

Alex Garland is a writer and director of many imaginative and philosophical films from the dreamlike exploration of human self-destruction in the movie Annihilation to the deep questions of consciousness and …

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

February 29th, 2020

1:13:16

John Hopfield is professor at Princeton, whose life’s work weaved beautifully through biology, chemistry, neuroscience, and physics. Most crucially, …

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

February 26th, 2020

1:40:23

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 …

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

February 24th, 2020

1:46:17

Michael I. Jordan is a professor at Berkeley, and one of the most influential people in the history of machine learning, statistics, and artificial intelligence. He has been cited over 170,000 times and has mentored …

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

February 20th, 2020

1:29:29

Andrew Ng is one of the most impactful educators, researchers, innovators, and leaders in artificial intelligence and technology space in general. He …

#72 – Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing

February 17th, 2020

1:34:09

Scott Aaronson is a professor at UT Austin, director of its Quantum Information Center, and previously a professor at MIT. His research interests center around the capabilities and limits of quantum computers and …

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

February 14th, 2020

1:45:23

Vladimir Vapnik is the co-inventor of support vector machines, support vector clustering, VC theory, and many foundational ideas in statistical learning. He was born in the Soviet Union, worked at the Institute of …

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

February 5th, 2020

1:35:11

Jim Keller is a legendary microprocessor engineer, having worked at AMD, Apple, Tesla, and now Intel. He’s known for his work on the AMD K7, K8, K12 and Zen microarchitectures, Apple A4, A5 processors, and co-author of …

David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness

January 29th, 2020

1:39:06

David Chalmers is a philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and consciousness. He is perhaps …

Cristos Goodrow: YouTube Algorithm

January 25th, 2020

1:31:19

Cristos Goodrow is VP of Engineering at Google and head of Search and Discovery at YouTube (aka YouTube Algorithm).

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

January 21st, 2020

1:03:39

Paul Krugman is a Nobel Prize winner in economics, professor at CUNY, and columnist at the New York Times. His academic work centers around …

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

January 17th, 2020

1:40:24

Ayanna Howard is a roboticist and professor at Georgia Tech, director of Human-Automation Systems lab, with research interests in human-robot interaction, assistive robots in the home, therapy gaming apps, and remote …

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

January 14th, 2020

1:19:09

Daniel Kahneman is winner of the Nobel Prize in economics for his integration of economic science with the psychology of human behavior, judgment and …

Grant Sanderson: 3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics

January 7th, 2020

1:03:12

Grant Sanderson is a math educator and creator of 3Blue1Brown, a popular YouTube channel that uses programmatically-animated visualizations to …

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

January 3rd, 2020

1:37:49

Stephen Kotkin is a professor of history at Princeton university and one of the great historians of our time, specializing in Russian and Soviet history. He has written many books on Stalin and the Soviet Union …

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

December 30th, 2019

1:46:13

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, …

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

December 28th, 2019

1:53:07

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 …

Jim Gates: Supersymmetry, String Theory and Proving Einstein Right

December 25th, 2019

1:35:28

Jim Gates (S James Gates Jr.) is a theoretical physicist and professor at Brown University working on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory. He served on former President Obama’s Council of Advisors on …

Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education

December 21st, 2019

1:19:01

Sebastian Thrun is one of the greatest roboticists, computer scientists, and educators of our time. He led development of the autonomous vehicles at Stanford that won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge and placed second in …

Michael Stevens: Vsauce

December 17th, 2019

58:55

Michael Stevens is the creator of Vsauce, one of the most popular educational YouTube channel in the world, with over 15 million subscribers and over …

Rohit Prasad: Amazon Alexa and Conversational AI

December 14th, 2019

1:46:15

Rohit Prasad is the vice president and head scientist of Amazon Alexa and one of its original creators.

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

December 11th, 2019

1:23:21

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 …

Whitney Cummings: Comedy, Robotics, Neurology, and Love

December 5th, 2019

1:17:18

Whitney Cummings is a stand-up comedian, actor, producer, writer, director, and the host of a new podcast called Good for You. Her most recent Netflix special called “Can I Touch It?” features in part a robot, she …

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

December 2nd, 2019

1:30:39

Ray Dalio is the founder, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world’s largest and most successful …

Noam Chomsky: Language, Cognition, and Deep Learning

November 29th, 2019

36:10

Noam Chomsky is one of the greatest minds of our time and is one of the most cited scholars in history. He is a linguist, philosopher, cognitive …

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

November 25th, 2019

50:16

Gilbert Strang is a professor of mathematics at MIT and perhaps one of the most famous and impactful teachers of math in the world. His MIT …

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

November 22nd, 2019

39:45

Dava Newman is the Apollo Program professor of AeroAstro at MIT and the former Deputy Administrator of NASA and has been a principal investigator on …

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

November 19th, 2019

1:49:01

Michael Kearns is a professor at University of Pennsylvania and a co-author of the new book Ethical Algorithm that is the focus of much of our conversation, including algorithmic fairness, bias, privacy, and ethics in …

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

November 12th, 2019

36:22

Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and a co-founder of several other companies. This is the second time Elon has been on the podcast. You can watch the first time on YouTube or listen to the first time on …

Bjarne Stroustrup: C++

November 7th, 2019

1:47:19

Bjarne Stroustrup is the creator of C++, a programming language that after 40 years is still one of the most popular and powerful languages in the …

Sean Carroll: Quantum Mechanics and the Many-Worlds Interpretation

November 1st, 2019

1:30:06

Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at Caltech and Santa Fe Institute specializing in quantum mechanics, arrow of time, cosmology, and …

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

October 27th, 2019

55:34

Garry Kasparov is considered by many to be the greatest chess player of all time. From 1986 until his retirement in 2005, he dominated the chess world, ranking world number 1 for most of those 19 years. While he has …

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

October 22nd, 2019

1:01:10

Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist, futurist, and professor at the City College of New York. He is the author of many fascinating books on the …

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

October 11th, 2019

2:24:33

David Ferrucci led the team that built Watson, the IBM question-answering system that beat the top humans in the world at the game of Jeopardy. He is also the Founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist of Elemental Cognition, a …

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

October 3rd, 2019

1:25:09

Gary Marcus is a professor emeritus at NYU, founder of Robust.AI and Geometric Intelligence, the latter is a machine learning company acquired by Uber in 2016. He is the author of several books on natural and artificial …

Peter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

September 30th, 2019

1:03:22

Peter Norvig is a research director at Google and the co-author with Stuart Russell of the book Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach that …

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

September 26th, 2019

57:40

Leonard Susskind is a professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University, and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. He is widely regarded as one of the fathers of string theory and in …

Regina Barzilay: Deep Learning for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

September 23rd, 2019

1:17:38

Regina Barzilay is a professor at MIT and a world-class researcher in natural language processing and applications of deep learning to chemistry and …

Colin Angle: iRobot

September 19th, 2019

37:51

Colin Angle is the CEO and co-founder of iRobot, a robotics company that for 29 years has been creating robots that operate successfully in the real …

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

September 14th, 2019

56:57

François Chollet is the creator of Keras, which is an open source deep learning library that is designed to enable fast, user-friendly …

Vijay Kumar: Flying Robots

September 8th, 2019

56:57

Vijay Kumar is one of the top roboticists in the world, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Dean of Penn Engineering, former director of GRASP lab, or the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception …

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

August 31st, 2019

1:16:07

Yann LeCun is one of the fathers of deep learning, the recent revolution in AI that has captivated the world with the possibility of what machines …

Jeremy Howard: fast.ai Deep Learning Courses and Research

August 27th, 2019

1:44:17

Jeremy Howard is the founder of fast.ai, a research institute dedicated to make deep learning more accessible. He is also a Distinguished Research Scientist at the University of San Francisco, a former president of …

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

August 23rd, 2019

1:00:17

Pamela McCorduck is an author who has written on the history and philosophical significance of artificial intelligence, the future of engineering, …

Keoki Jackson: Lockheed Martin

August 19th, 2019

1:13:15

Keoki Jackson is the CTO of Lockheed Martin, a company that through its long history has created some of the most incredible engineering marvels that human beings have ever built, including planes that fly fast and …

Paola Arlotta: Brain Development from Stem Cell to Organoid

August 12th, 2019

57:52

Paola Arlotta is a professor of stem cell and regenerative biology at Harvard University. She is interested in understanding the molecular laws that …

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

August 5th, 2019

1:59:41

George Hotz is the founder of Comma.ai, a machine learning based vehicle automation company. He is an outspoken personality in the field of AI and …

Kevin Scott: Microsoft CTO

August 1st, 2019

57:55

Kevin Scott is the CTO of Microsoft. Before that, he was the Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations at LinkedIn. And before that, he oversaw mobile ads engineering at Google. This conversation is part of …

Gustav Soderstrom: Spotify

July 29th, 2019

1:47:10

Gustav Soderstrom is the Chief Research & Development Officer at Spotify, leading Product, Design, Data, Technology & Engineering teams. This …

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

July 22nd, 2019

44:59

Chris Urmson was the CTO of the Google Self-Driving Car team, a key engineer and leader behind the Carnegie Mellon autonomous vehicle entries in the DARPA grand challenges and the winner of the DARPA urban challenge. …

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

July 15th, 2019

1:26:35

Kai-Fu Lee is the Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures that manages a 2 billion dollar dual currency investment fund with a focus on developing …

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

July 10th, 2019

35:02

Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at Caltech, specializing in quantum mechanics, gravity, and cosmology. He is the author of several popular …

Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence

July 1st, 2019

2:09:45

Jeff Hawkins is the founder of Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience in 2002 and Numenta in 2005. In his 2004 book titled On Intelligence, and in his research before and after, he and his team have worked to …

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

June 17th, 2019

1:00:21

Rosalind Picard is a professor at MIT, director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab, and co-founder of two companies, Affectiva and Empatica. Over two decades ago she launched the field of …

Gavin Miller: Adobe Research

June 10th, 2019

1:09:20

Gavin Miller is the Head of Adobe Research. Adobe have empowered artists, designers, and creative minds from all professions working in the digital medium for over 30 years with software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, …

Rajat Monga: TensorFlow

June 3rd, 2019

1:11:07

Rajat Monga is an Engineering Director at Google, leading the TensorFlow team. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to

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

May 13th, 2019

1:13:15

Chris Lattner is a senior director at Google working on several projects including CPU, GPU, TPU accelerators for TensorFlow, Swift for TensorFlow, and all kinds of machine learning compiler magic going on behind the …

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

April 29th, 2019

1:46:07

Oriol Vinyals is a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind. Before that he was at Google Brain and Berkeley. His research has been cited over …

Ian Goodfellow: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)

April 18th, 2019

1:08:47

Ian Goodfellow is the author of the popular textbook on deep learning (simply titled “Deep Learning”). He coined the term Generative Adversarial …

Elon Musk: Tesla Autopilot

April 12th, 2019

32:58

Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and a co-founder of several other companies. Video version is available on YouTube. If you would …

Greg Brockman: OpenAI and AGI

April 3rd, 2019

1:25:15

Greg Brockman is the Co-Founder and CTO of OpenAI, a research organization developing ideas in AI that lead eventually to a safe & friendly artificial general intelligence that benefits and empowers humanity. Video …

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

March 20th, 2019

1:21:45

Eric Weinstein is a mathematician, economist, physicist, and managing director of Thiel Capital. He formed the “intellectual dark web” which is a loosely assembled group of public intellectuals including Sam Harris, …

Leslie Kaelbling: Reinforcement Learning, Planning, and Robotics

March 12th, 2019

1:01:34

Leslie Kaelbling is a roboticist and professor at MIT. She is recognized for her work in reinforcement learning, planning, robot navigation, and several other topics in AI. She won the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award …

Kyle Vogt: Cruise Automation

February 7th, 2019

55:34

Kyle Vogt is the President and CTO of Cruise Automation, leading an effort in trying to solve one of the biggest robotics challenges of our time: …

Tomaso Poggio: Brains, Minds, and Machines

January 19th, 2019

1:20:29

Tomaso Poggio is a professor at MIT and is the director of the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines. Cited over 100,000 times, his work has had a profound impact on our understanding of the nature of intelligence, in …

Tuomas Sandholm: Poker and Game Theory

December 28th, 2018

1:06:26

Tuomas Sandholm is a professor at CMU and co-creator of Libratus, which is the first AI system to beat top human players at the game of Heads-Up …

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

December 23rd, 2018

1:20:06

Juergen Schmidhuber is the co-creator of long short-term memory networks (LSTMs) which are used in billions of devices today for speech recognition, translation, and much more. Over 30 years, he has proposed a lot of …

Pieter Abbeel: Deep Reinforcement Learning

December 16th, 2018

42:56

Pieter Abbeel is a professor at UC Berkeley, director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab, and is one of the top researchers in the world working on how to make robots understand and interact with the world around them, …

Stuart Russell: Long-Term Future of AI

December 9th, 2018

1:26:27

Stuart Russell is a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley and a co-author of the book that introduced me and millions of other people to AI, called Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach.  Video version is …

Eric Schmidt: Google

December 4th, 2018

33:18

Eric Schmidt was the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, and its executive chairman from 2011 to 2017, guiding the company through a period of incredible growth and a series of world-changing innovations.  Video version is …

Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror

November 29th, 2018

1:20:15

Jeff Atwood is a co-founder of Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, websites that are visited by millions of people every day. Much like with …

Guido van Rossum: Python

November 22nd, 2018

1:26:51

Guido van Rossum is the creator of Python, one of the most popular and impactful programming languages in the world. Video version is available on …

Vladimir Vapnik: Statistical Learning

November 16th, 2018

54:12

Vladimir Vapnik is the co-inventor of support vector machines, support vector clustering, VC theory, and many foundational ideas in statistical learning. His work has been cited over 170,000 times. He has some very …

Yoshua Bengio: Deep Learning

October 20th, 2018

42:54

Yoshua Bengio, along with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann Lecun, is considered one of the three people most responsible for the advancement of deep learning during the 1990s, 2000s, and now. Cited 139,000 times, he has been …

Steven Pinker: AI in the Age of Reason

October 17th, 2018

38:23

Steven Pinker is a professor at Harvard and before that was a professor at MIT. He is the author of many books, several of which have had a big …

Christof Koch: Consciousness

September 2nd, 2018

59:37

A conversation with Christof Koch as part of MIT course on Artificial General Intelligence. Video version is available on YouTube. He is the President and Chief Scientific Officer of the Allen Institute for Brain …

Max Tegmark: Life 3.0

August 26th, 2018

1:22:38

A conversation with Max Tegmark as part of MIT course on Artificial General Intelligence. Video version is available on YouTube. He is a Physics Professor at MIT, co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, and author …

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