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Lex Fridman Podcast

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

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

20 November 2024

2:08:34

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

11 November 2024

5:22:14

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

30 October 2024

3:36:54

#450 – Bernie Sanders Interview

23 October 2024

1:09:50

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

16 October 2024

2:41:34

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

11 October 2024

#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

06 October 2024

2:37:38

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

30 September 2024

3:36:19

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

25 September 2024

2:51:22

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

20 September 2024

3:37:43

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

12 September 2024

#442 – Donald Trump Interview

03 September 2024

1:12:35

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

30 August 2024

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

20 August 2024

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

14 August 2024

2:21:29

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

02 August 2024

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

21 July 2024

2:56:33

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

02 July 2024

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

28 June 2024

1:57:00

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

19 June 2024

3:11:22

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

13 June 2024

3:01:39

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

05 June 2024

#431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI

02 June 2024

2:22:39

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

25 May 2024

3:20:12

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

15 May 2024

4:12:20

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

22 April 2024

2:44:40

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

20 April 2024

2:35:25

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

17 April 2024

3:00:32

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

13 April 2024

2:59:43

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

05 April 2024

2:48:31

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

02 April 2024

1:56:56

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

29 March 2024

2:23:38

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

25 March 2024

1:36:03

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

22 March 2024

3:12:59

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

18 March 2024

2:02:04

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

14 March 2024

5:04:51

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

10 March 2024

1:53:04

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

07 March 2024

2:54:17

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

04 March 2024

3:27:59

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

27 February 2024

3:12:35

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

20 February 2024

3:41:00

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

16 February 2024

1:52:23

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

02 February 2024

2:31:08

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

23 January 2024

2:25:57

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

17 January 2024

6:07:46

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

09 January 2024

1:55:59

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

29 December 2023

3:00:12

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

24 December 2023

2:15:38

#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin

14 December 2023

2:20:09

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

09 December 2023

3:27:50

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

03 December 2023

1:10:18

#402 – Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special

25 November 2023

1:47:51

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

18 November 2023

3:35:13

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

09 November 2023

2:27:12

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

11 October 2023

3:54:15

#398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse

28 September 2023

1:12:04

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

25 September 2023

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

18 September 2023

3:51:11

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

10 September 2023

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

01 September 2023

2:25:50

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

17 August 2023

2:20:40

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

01 August 2023

2:59:04

#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

24 July 2023

2:23:13

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

17 July 2023

2:52:08

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

12 July 2023

1:17:06

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

06 July 2023

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

30 June 2023

3:15:19

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

22 June 2023

3:15:37

#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

18 June 2023

3:19:37

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

13 June 2023

2:24:00

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

08 June 2023

2:47:17

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

05 June 2023

2:11:52

#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI

02 June 2023

3:38:29

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

28 May 2023

2:11:20

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

24 May 2023

3:14:10

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

18 May 2023

2:23:21

#377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

16 May 2023

1:55:28

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

09 May 2023

4:19:53

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

06 May 2023

3:36:04

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

28 April 2023

2:32:27

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

21 April 2023

2:35:52

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

16 April 2023

2:04:05

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

13 April 2023

2:53:58

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

10 April 2023

3:51:31

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

04 April 2023

3:38:41

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

30 March 2023

3:22:35

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

25 March 2023

2:28:08

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

21 March 2023

1:50:54

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

14 March 2023

4:33:40

#364 – Chris Voss: FBI Hostage Negotiator

10 March 2023

2:15:56

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

06 March 2023

2:54:11

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

02 March 2023

1:56:26

#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

25 February 2023

2:17:55

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

20 February 2023

3:10:58

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

15 February 2023

2:25:03

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

10 February 2023

4:02:14

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

07 February 2023

3:22:27

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

02 February 2023

5:21:22

#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds

28 January 2023

3:50:47

#354 – Jeremi Suri: American Civil War

25 January 2023

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

21 January 2023

3:13:37

#352 – Omar Suleiman: Islam

17 January 2023

3:07:17

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

11 January 2023

2:24:49

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

29 December 2022

2:47:50

#349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism

22 December 2022

3:52:04

#348 – Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

19 December 2022

2:12:12

#347 – Michael Malice: Christmas Special

15 December 2022

3:47:31

#346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels

12 December 2022

4:11:43

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

09 December 2022

3:51:31

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

06 December 2022

2:33:57

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

03 December 2022

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

29 November 2022

2:49:59

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

26 November 2022

3:22:36

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

22 November 2022

3:02:59

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

18 November 2022

4:16:22

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

15 November 2022

3:04:21

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

11 November 2022

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

07 November 2022

2:36:39

#335 – Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump

04 November 2022

3:24:37

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

02 November 2022

3:11:25

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

29 October 2022

3:33:38

#332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview

24 October 2022

2:33:53

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

20 October 2022

7:53:01

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

17 October 2022

2:54:07

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

15 October 2022

3:09:50

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

10 October 2022

4:55:49

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

07 October 2022

3:38:31

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

05 October 2022

2:46:15

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

01 October 2022

3:05:29

#324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker

27 September 2022

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

24 September 2022

2:28:16

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

21 September 2022

2:42:27

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

17 September 2022

1:42:20

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

14 September 2022

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

09 September 2022

2:42:41

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

07 September 2022

3:47:44

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

04 September 2022

3:17:01

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

31 August 2022

52:56

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

27 August 2022

2:39:43

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

24 August 2022

3:41:13

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

19 August 2022

3:10:00

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

16 August 2022

3:25:56

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

13 August 2022

3:38:27

#310 – Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy

08 August 2022

3:59:30

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

04 August 2022

5:22:51

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

01 August 2022

2:37:18

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

29 July 2022

2:36:02

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

26 July 2022

2:15:00

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

23 July 2022

2:19:10

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

20 July 2022

2:00:44

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

17 July 2022

3:36:45

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

14 July 2022

2:51:03

#301 – Jack Barsky: KGB Spy

09 July 2022

3:43:16

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

04 July 2022

1:49:30

#299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind

01 July 2022

2:17:02

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

28 June 2022

2:05:42

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

25 June 2022

2:49:53

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

21 June 2022

2:44:40

#295 – Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism

17 June 2022

2:59:19

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

15 June 2022

2:52:32

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

12 June 2022

3:23:17

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

09 June 2022

4:18:35

#291 – Jonathan Haidt: The Case Against Social Media

04 June 2022

1:48:45

#290 – Dan Reynolds: Imagine Dragons

30 May 2022

2:18:48

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

25 May 2022

2:49:16

#288 – Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan

23 May 2022

4:21:21

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

20 May 2022

1:45:38

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

17 May 2022

1:59:28

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

14 May 2022

3:38:37

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

11 May 2022

4:21:08

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

08 May 2022

3:01:52

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

04 May 2022

3:38:34

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

29 April 2022

2:11:27

#280 – Cristiano Amon: Qualcomm CEO

27 April 2022

1:14:35

#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin

24 April 2022

4:11:09

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

20 April 2022

2:34:50

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

17 April 2022

3:31:39

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

14 April 2022

4:02:29

#275 – Rick Rubin: Legendary Music Producer

10 April 2022

3:27:48

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

07 April 2022

3:27:48

#273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence

03 April 2022

2:54:20

#272 – Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal

27 March 2022

3:53:05

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

23 March 2022

1:52:53

#270 – David Wolpe: Judaism

16 March 2022

2:17:54

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

11 March 2022

4:12:27

#268 – Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology

05 March 2022

2:55:20

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

26 February 2022

2:05:51

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

20 February 2022

2:07:42

#265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling

16 February 2022

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

13 February 2022

2:43:37

#263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma

11 February 2022

2:24:13

#262 – Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens

06 February 2022

1:50:04

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

03 February 2022

2:53:05

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

30 January 2022

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

26 January 2022

2:23:12

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

22 January 2022

2:51:40

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

18 January 2022

4:06:09

#256 – Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony

15 January 2022

3:04:47

#255 – Mark Normand: Comedy!

08 January 2022

1:58:24

#254 – Jay Bhattacharya: The Case Against Lockdowns

04 January 2022

2:28:33

#253 – Michael Malice: New Year’s Special

31 December 2021

3:32:37

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

28 December 2021

2:39:30

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

25 December 2021

1:40:20

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

23 December 2021

2:53:07

#249 – Albert Bourla: Pfizer CEO

18 December 2021

1:14:32

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

13 December 2021

2:25:24

#247 – Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory

08 December 2021

5:01:37

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

03 December 2021

2:23:05

#245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling

30 November 2021

1:03:16

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

28 November 2021

2:49:20

#243 – Kevin Systrom: Instagram

23 November 2021

2:52:38

#242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA

20 November 2021

2:21:31

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

16 November 2021

3:20:48

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

11 November 2021

2:47:54

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

08 November 2021

2:48:49

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

05 November 2021

1:33:22

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

03 November 2021

3:19:01

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

31 October 2021

2:30:32

#235 – Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing

29 October 2021

1:53:50

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

27 October 2021

3:45:26

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

23 October 2021

1:16:47

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

20 October 2021

1:52:11

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

16 October 2021

2:40:35

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

14 October 2021

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

10 October 2021

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

05 October 2021

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

30 September 2021

#226 – Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math

27 September 2021

#225 – Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence

26 September 2021

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

23 September 2021

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

21 September 2021

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

20 September 2021

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

15 September 2021

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

11 September 2021

2:49:44

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

09 September 2021

2:27:39

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

06 September 2021

1:58:54

#217 – Rodney Brooks: Robotics

03 September 2021

2:30:51

#216 – Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines

01 September 2021

3:35:45

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

29 August 2021

2:58:07

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

27 August 2021

1:58:20

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

23 August 2021

2:30:12

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

21 August 2021

3:18:56

#211 – Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics

15 August 2021

#210 – Matt Walker: Sleep

11 August 2021

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

09 August 2021

3:02:43

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

08 August 2021

2:25:58

#207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength

03 August 2021

2:48:34

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

31 July 2021

#205 – Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running

29 July 2021

3:06:51

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14 March 2021

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23 February 2021

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18 February 2021

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12 February 2021

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29 January 2021

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18 January 2021

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14 January 2021

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11 January 2021

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26 December 2020

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20 December 2020

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08 July 2020

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12 May 2020

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13 April 2020

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21 March 2020

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16 March 2020

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07 March 2020

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29 February 2020

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26 February 2020

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24 February 2020

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20 February 2020

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17 February 2020

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14 February 2020

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05 February 2020

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29 January 2020

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21 January 2020

1:03:39

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17 January 2020

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14 January 2020

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07 January 2020

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03 January 2020

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28 December 2019

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25 December 2019

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21 December 2019

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17 December 2019

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14 December 2019

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11 December 2019

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05 December 2019

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02 December 2019

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29 November 2019

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25 November 2019

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22 November 2019

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19 November 2019

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12 November 2019

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07 November 2019

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27 October 2019

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22 October 2019

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11 October 2019

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03 October 2019

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26 September 2019

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23 September 2019

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14 September 2019

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08 September 2019

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31 August 2019

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27 August 2019

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23 August 2019

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12 August 2019

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05 August 2019

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22 July 2019

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10 July 2019

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17 June 2019

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13 May 2019

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29 April 2019

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18 April 2019

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12 April 2019

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03 April 2019

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20 March 2019

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12 March 2019

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07 February 2019

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19 January 2019

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23 December 2018

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16 December 2018

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09 December 2018

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04 December 2018

33:18

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29 November 2018

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22 November 2018

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16 November 2018

54:12

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20 October 2018

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17 October 2018

38:23

Christof Koch: Consciousness

02 September 2018

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