Podcasts by 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.
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#404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe from 2023-12-09T21:21:58
Lee Cronin is a chemist at University of Glasgow. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - NetSuite: http://netsuite.com/lex to get free product tour- BetterHelp: https://betterh...
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#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events from 2023-12-03T17:37:26
Lisa Randall is a theoretical physicist at Harvard. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Babbel: https://babbel.com/lexpod and use code Lexpod to get 55% off- Notion: https:/...
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#402 – Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special from 2023-11-25T21:11:31
Michael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, author, and anarchist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Policygenius: https://www.policygenius.com/- MasterClass: https:...
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#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3 from 2023-11-18T14:05:32
John Mearsheimer is an international relations scholar at University of Chicago. He is one of the most influential and controversial thinkers in the world on the topics of war and power. Please sup...
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#400 – Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity from 2023-11-09T19:03:46
Elon Musk is CEO of X, xAI, SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and The Boring Company. Thank you for listening ❤ Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:- LMNT: https://drinkLMNT.com/lex t...
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#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East from 2023-10-11T20:21:10
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: - InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.c...
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#398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse from 2023-09-28T21:15:22
Mark Zuckerberg is CEO of Meta. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - LMNT: https://drinkLMNT.com/lex to get free sample pack- InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/lex to ...
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#397 – Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship&Free Speech from 2023-09-25T01:12:01
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...
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#396 – James Sexton: Divorce Lawyer on Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Lies&Love from 2023-09-18T01:07:29
James Sexton is a divorce attorney and author. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/lex to get special savings- InsideTracker: https:/...
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#395 – Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci&Ben Franklin from 2023-09-10T20:21:44
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: - Ma...
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#394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design&Engineering with Nature from 2023-09-01T19:10:20
Neri Oxman is a designer, engineer, scientist, and artist working on computational design, synthetic biology and digital fabrication, previously at MIT, and now at OXMAN. Please support this podcas...
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#393 – Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, Sex, and Love from 2023-08-17T20:37:40
Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist at Stanford and host of the Huberman Lab Podcast. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/lex to get...
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#392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI&the Future of Humans from 2023-08-01T18:49:08
Joscha Bach is a cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and philosopher. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Numerai: https://numer.ai/lex- Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep....
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#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine from 2023-07-24T15:32:40
Mohammed El-Kurd is a Palestinian writer and poet. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Factor: https://factormeals.com/lex50 and use code lex50 to get 50% off first box- Sim...
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#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies from 2023-07-17T15:44:20
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: - Mas...
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace from 2023-07-12T18:07:31
Benjamin Netanyahu is the Prime Minister of Israel. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Numerai: https://numer.ai/lex- BetterHelp: https://betterhelp.com/lex to get 10% off ...
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#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning from 2023-07-06T22:07:19
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: - House of Macadamias: https://...
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#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI&God from 2023-06-30T01:16:21
George Hotz is a programmer, hacker, and the founder of comma-ai and tiny corp. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Numerai: https://numer.ai/lex- Babbel: https://babbel.com...
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#386 – Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI from 2023-06-22T02:04:50
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: - Insi...
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#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia from 2023-06-18T22:42:02
Jimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Hexclad Cookware: https://hexclad.com/lex and use code LEX to get 10% off- Eight Sleep: https...
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#384 – Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love from 2023-06-13T18:26:43
Matthew McConaughey is an Oscar-winning actor and author of Greenlights. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Riverside: http://creators.riverside.fm/LEX and use code LEX to ...
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#383 – Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp from 2023-06-08T22:49:41
Mark Zuckerberg is CEO of Meta. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Numerai: https://numer.ai/lex- Shopify: https://shopify.com/lex to get $1 per month trial - BetterHelp: h...
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#382 – Bert Kreischer: Comedy, Drinking, Rogan, Segura, Churchill&Kim Jong Un from 2023-06-05T17:10:35
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 s...
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#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI from 2023-06-02T21:20:17
Chris Lattner is a legendary software and hardware engineer, leading projects at Apple, Tesla, Google, SiFive, and Modular AI, including the development of Swift, LLVM, Clang, MLIR, CIRCT, TPUs, an...
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#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication from 2023-05-28T15:29:58
Neil Gershenfeld is the director of the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - LMNT: https://drinkLMNT.com/lex to get free sample pack- NetSuite:...
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#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word–History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power from 2023-05-24T15:27:23
Randall Kennedy is a law professor at Harvard and author of many seminal books on race, law, history, culture, and politics. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Eight Sleep:...
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#378 – Anna Frebel: Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Galaxies, and Stars from 2023-05-18T21:18:08
Anna Frebel is an astronomer and astrophysicist at MIT. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Hexclad Cookware: https://hexclad.com/lex and use code LEX to get 10% off- Numera...
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#377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech from 2023-05-16T01:18:32
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 ru...
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#376 – Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality&Computation from 2023-05-09T17:12:11
Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, theoretical physicist, and the founder of Wolfram Research, a company behind Wolfram|Alpha, Wolfram Language, and the Wolfram Physics and Met...
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#375 – David Pakman: Politics of Trump, Biden, Bernie, AOC, Socialism&Wokeism from 2023-05-06T17:39:54
David Pakman is a left-wing progressive political commentator and host of The David Pakman Show. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/...
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#374 – Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics from 2023-04-28T19:13:09
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 humanoi...
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#373 – Manolis Kellis: Evolution of Human Civilization and Superintelligent AI from 2023-04-21T22:21:23
Manolis Kellis is a computational biologist at MIT. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:- Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/lex to get special savings - NetSuite: http://...
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#372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design from 2023-04-16T19:51:34
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...
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#371 – Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development from 2023-04-13T16:26:42
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 podca...
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#370 – Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox–Mathematics, Physics, Truth&Love from 2023-04-10T02:14:34
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 pod...
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#369 – Paul Rosolie: Amazon Jungle, Uncontacted Tribes, Anacondas, and Ayahuasca from 2023-04-04T18:50:10
Paul Rosolie is a conservationist, explorer, author, filmmaker, real life Tarzan, and founder of Junglekeepers which today protects over 50,000 acres of threatened habitat. Please support this podc...
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#368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization from 2023-03-30T15:14:29
Eliezer Yudkowsky is a researcher, writer, and philosopher on the topic of superintelligent AI. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Linode: https://linode.com/lex to get $10...
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#367 – Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI from 2023-03-25T18:04:11
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 this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - NetSu...
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#366 – Shannon Curry: Johnny Depp&Amber Heard Trial, Marriage, Dating&Love from 2023-03-21T23:02:22
Dr. Shannon Curry is a clinical and forensic psychologist who conducts research, therapy, and clinical evaluation pertaining to trauma, violence, and relationships. She testified in the Johnny Depp...
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#365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI&UFOs from 2023-03-14T17:19:34
Sam Harris is an author, podcaster, and philosopher. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Notion: https://notion.com- Indeed: https://indeed.com/lex to get $75 credit - Maste...
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#364 – Chris Voss: FBI Hostage Negotiator from 2023-03-10T17:16:27
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 sponso...
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#363 – B-Team Jiu Jitsu: Craig Jones, Nicky Rod, and Nicky Ryan from 2023-03-06T18:33:58
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 spo...
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#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity from 2023-03-02T19:08:42
Ginni Rometty is a former long-time CEO, president, and chairman of IBM. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.com/lex to get 1 month o...
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#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology from 2023-02-25T20:26:53
Aaron Smith-Levin is a former Scientologist, Vice President of the Aftermath Foundation, and host of the Growing Up In Scientology YouTube channel. Please support this podcast by checking out our s...
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#360 – Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics from 2023-02-20T20:18:52
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: - House of Macadamias:...
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#359 – Andrew Strominger: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and Theoretical Physics from 2023-02-15T17:17:16
Andrew Strominger is a theoretical physicist at Harvard. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/lex to get special savings- Rocket Money...
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#358 – Aella: Sex Work, OnlyFans, Porn, Escorting, Dating, and Human Sexuality from 2023-02-10T18:57:08
Aella is a sex researcher, writer, and sex worker. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - House of Macadamias: https://houseofmacadamias.com/lex and use code LEX to get 20% off...
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#357 – Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil from 2023-02-07T17:05:12
Paul Conti is a psychiatrist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - NetSuite: http://netsuite.com/lex to get free product tour- Indeed: https://indeed.com/lex to get $75 credi...
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#356 – Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel from 2023-02-02T17:36:01
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: - BetterHelp...
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#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds from 2023-01-28T20:03:06
David Kipping is an astronomer at Columbia University, director of the Cool Worlds Lab, and host of the Cool Worlds YouTube channel. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Simp...
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#354 – Jeremi Suri: American Civil War from 2023-01-25T17:22:29
Jeremi Suri is a historian at UT Austin. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/lex to get special savings- BetterHelp: https://betterhe...
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#353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy from 2023-01-21T18:37:56
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: - Rocket Money: https://rocketmone...
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#352 – Omar Suleiman: Islam from 2023-01-17T17:35:28
Imam Omar Suleiman is the Founder and President of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research and a professor of Islamic Studies at Southern Methodist University. Please support this podcast by chec...
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#351 – MrBeast: Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram from 2023-01-11T17:36:11
MrBeast is a legendary YouTube creator. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - House of Macadamias: https://houseofmacadamias.com/lex and use code LEX to get 20% off your first...
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#350 – Betül Kaçar: Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens from 2022-12-29T17:35:50
Betül Kaçar is an astrobiologist at University of Wisconsin. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - House of Macadamias: https://houseofmacadamias.com/lex and use code LEX to g...
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#349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism from 2022-12-22T19:41:28
Bhaskar Sunkara is a democratic socialist, political writer, founding editor of Jacobin, president of The Nation, and author of The Socialist Manifesto. Please support this podcast by checking out ...
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#348 – Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life from 2022-12-19T18:57:17
Nathalie Cabrol is an astrobiologist at the SETI Institute, directing the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - True C...
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#347 – Michael Malice: Christmas Special from 2022-12-15T20:28:53
Michael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, author, and anarchist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - House of Macadamias: https://houseofmacadamias.com/lex and use c...
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#346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels from 2022-12-12T17:10:47
Ed Calderon is a security specialist who worked on counter-narcotics and organized crime investigation in Mexico. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Policygenius: https://w...
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#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power from 2022-12-09T02:27:44
Coffeezilla is a journalist and investigator on YouTube who exposes financial frauds, scams, and fake gurus. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Rocket Money: https://rocket...
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#344 – Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation from 2022-12-06T17:23:36
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 and Diplomacy. Please support this podcast by che...
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#343 – Roger Gracie: Greatest Jiu Jitsu Competitor of All Time from 2022-12-03T17:10:50
Roger Gracie is a legendary jiu jitsu competitor and MMA fighter. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Bambee: https://bambee.com and use code LEX to get free HR audit- Mizze...
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#342 – Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield from 2022-11-29T17:04:46
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, and an upcoming game Starfield. Please support th...
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#341 – Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming from 2022-11-26T16:25:26
Guido van Rossum is the creator of Python programming language. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - GiveDirectly: https://givedirectly.org/lex to get gift matched up to $100...
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#340 – Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road from 2022-11-22T17:24:13
Chris Tarbell is a former FBI special agent and cybercrime investigation specialist who brought down Ross Ulbricht and Silk Road, and Hector Monsegur (aka Sabu) of LulzSec and Anonymous. Please sup...
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#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin from 2022-11-18T16:57:39
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: - Eight Sleep: https://www.eightslee...
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#338 – Chamath Palihapitiya: Money, Success, Startups, Energy, Poker&Happiness from 2022-11-15T16:58:05
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: - Bambee: https://bambee....
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#337 – Destiny: Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, War, and Relationships from 2022-11-11T17:48:28
Steven Bonnell, aka Destiny, is a progressive political commentator and a live streamer on YouTube. Melina Goransson is a live streamer on Twitch. Please support this podcast by checking out our sp...
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#336 – Ben Shapiro: Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler, Extremism, and War from 2022-11-07T15:43:59
Ben Shapiro is a conservative political commentator, host of The Ben Shapiro Show, co-founder of The Daily Wire, and author of The Authoritarian Moment and other books. Please support this podcast ...
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#335 – Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump from 2022-11-04T16:07:36
Fiona Hill is a presidential advisor and foreign policy expert specializing in Russia. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Mizzen+Main: https://mizzenandmain.com and use cod...
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#334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA&Nuclear Weapons from 2022-11-02T17:29:54
Abbas Amanat is a historian at Yale specializing in the modern history of Iran. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Henson Shaving: https://hensonshaving.com/lex and use cod...
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#333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI from 2022-10-29T16:36:12
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 ...
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#332 – Kanye‘Ye’West Interview from 2022-10-24T21:09:11
Ye is a legendary artist, producer, and designer. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Shopify: https://shopify.com/lex to get free trial- InsideTracker: https://insidetracke...
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#331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA from 2022-10-20T16:24:03
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...
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#330 – Hikaru Nakamura: Chess, Magnus, Kasparov, and the Psychology of Greatness from 2022-10-17T16:42:50
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 pod...
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#329 – Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT from 2022-10-15T19:33:53
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: - True Classic Tees: https://trueclas...
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#328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives from 2022-10-10T17:53:32
John Danaher is one of the greatest coaches and minds in martial arts history. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Audible: https://audible.com/lex to get 30-day free trial-...
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#327 – GothamChess: Hans Niemann, Magnus Carlsen, Cheating Scandal&Chess Bots from 2022-10-07T16:34:07
Levy Rozman, also known as GothamChess, is a professional chess player, streamer, and educator. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Notion: https://notion.com- Athletic Gree...
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#326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality from 2022-10-05T17:24:25
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: - Wealthfront: https://wealthfront.com/lex ...
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#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis&Xenobots from 2022-10-01T16:56:45
Michael Levin is a biologist at Tufts University working on novel ways to understand and control complex pattern formation in biological systems. Please support this podcast by checking out our spo...
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#324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker from 2022-09-27T18:37:49
Daniel Negreanu is one of the greatest poker players of all time. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Backbone: https://playbackbone.com/lex to get perks with order- Audible...
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#323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling from 2022-09-24T17:19:49
Will Sasso is a comedian, actor, and co-host of the Dudesy podcast. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/lex to get special savings- A...
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#322 – Rana el Kaliouby: Emotion AI, Social Robots, and Self-Driving Cars from 2022-09-21T16:35:09
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 pod...
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#321 – Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality from 2022-09-17T16:54:53
Ray Kurzweil is an author, inventor, and futurist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Shopify: https://shopify.com/lex to get 14-day free trial- NetSuite: http://netsuite.c...
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#320 – Christopher Capozzola: World War I, Ideology, Propaganda, and Politics from 2022-09-14T18:12:58
Christopher Capozzola is a professor of history at MIT. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Wealthfront: https://wealthfront.com/lex to get $50 sign-up bonus- InsideTracker:...
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#319 – Botez Sisters: Chess, Streaming, and Fame from 2022-09-09T14:04:45
Alexandra and Andrea Botez are chess players, commentators, educators, entertainers, and streamers. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Calm: https://calm.com/lex to get 40%...
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#318 – Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness from 2022-09-07T15:29:01
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 support this podcast by checking out our sponsor...
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#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion&the Search for Wisdom from 2022-09-04T19:05:26
John Vervaeke is a psychologist and cognitive scientist at University of Toronto. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Mizzen+Main: https://mizzenandmain.com and use code LEX...
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#316 – Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War from 2022-08-31T20:41:11
Noam Chomsky is a linguist, philosopher, and political activist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Skiff: https://skiff.com/lex- InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/l...
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#315 – Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time from 2022-08-27T17:50:28
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: - Shopify: h...
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#314 – Liv Boeree: Poker, Game Theory, AI, Simulation, Aliens&Existential Risk from 2022-08-24T16:29:52
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: - Audible: https://audible.com...
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#313 – Jordan Peterson: Life, Death, Power, Fame, and Meaning from 2022-08-19T15:59:42
Jordan Peterson is a psychologist, lecturer, podcast host, and author. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Notion: https://notion.com/startups to get up to $1000 off team pl...
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#312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love&Burning Man from 2022-08-16T15:26:19
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: - Skiff: https://ski...
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#311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity from 2022-08-13T15:26:22
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: - Mizzen+Main: https://mizz...
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#310 – Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy from 2022-08-08T17:16:04
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: - Wealthfront: htt...
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#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets from 2022-08-04T17:04:07
John Carmack is a legendary programmer, co-founder of id Software, and lead programmer of many revolutionary video games including Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, and the Commander Keen series. He is ...
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#308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens from 2022-08-01T16:07:41
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 Air Force Research Labs on topics of multi-agen...
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#307 – Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation from 2022-07-29T16:26:01
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#306 – Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence from 2022-07-26T16:17:10
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#305 – Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang from 2022-07-23T15:53:10
Lord Martin Rees is a cosmologist and astrophysicist at Cambridge University and co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors...
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#304 – Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church from 2022-07-20T15:54:01
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#303–Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics from 2022-07-17T13:57:03
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#302–Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences from 2022-07-14T16:04:12
Richard Haier is a psychologist specializing in the science of human intelligence. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Calm: https://calm.com/lex to get 40% off- Linode: htt...
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#301 – Jack Barsky: KGB Spy from 2022-07-09T15:59:57
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: - InsideTra...
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#300 – Joe Rogan: Comedy, Controversy, Aliens, UFOs, Putin, CIA, and Freedom from 2022-07-04T13:14:02
Joe Rogan is a comedian, UFC commentator, and host of the Joe Rogan Experience. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Theragun: https://therabody.com/lex- Athletic Greens: htt...
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#299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind from 2022-07-01T10:12:10
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#298 – Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts and Loneliness from 2022-06-28T17:13:39
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. Please support this podcast by checking out our...
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#297 – Jonathan Reisman: The Human Body–From Sex&Sperm to Hands&Heart from 2022-06-25T18:11:25
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 from 2022-06-21T12:38:18
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#295–Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism from 2022-06-17T16:19:37
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#294–Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, and Nest from 2022-06-15T18:53:03
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 po...
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#293–Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion–How Evolution Hid the Truth from 2022-06-12T18:50:15
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: - Calm: https://calm.com/lex to get 40% off- L...
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#292–Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity from 2022-06-09T12:38:30
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#291–Jonathan Haidt: The Case Against Social Media from 2022-06-04T17:18:02
Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at NYU and author of The Coddling of the American Mind, The Righteous Mind, and The Happiness Hypothesis. Please support this podcast by checking out our spo...
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#290–Dan Reynolds: Imagine Dragons from 2022-05-30T17:13:22
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#289–Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine from 2022-05-25T14:27:52
Stephen Kotkin is a historian specializing in Stalin and Soviet history. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Lambda: https://lambdalabs.com/lex- Scale: https://scale.com/lex...
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#288–Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan from 2022-05-23T17:33
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#287–Bobby Lee: Comedy, Skyrim, Sex Robots, Love, Fame, and Power from 2022-05-20T17:10:40
Bobby Lee is a comedian and co-host of TigerBelly and Bad Friends podcasts. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Brave: https://brave.com/lex- GiveWell: https://www.givewell....
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#286–Oliver Stone: Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine from 2022-05-17T17:42:24
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, JFK, Nixon, Alexander, W, Snowden, and document...
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#285–Glenn Loury: Race, Racism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture from 2022-05-14T18:44:34
Glenn Loury is a professor of economics and social sciences at Brown University, and a prominent podcaster and social critic who speaks and writes about race, inequality, and social policy. Please ...
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#284–Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics from 2022-05-11T17:01:27
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#283–Chris Mason: Space Travel, Colonization, and Long-Term Survival in Space from 2022-05-08T20:52:32
Chris Mason is a professor of genomics, physiology, and biophysics at Cornell, doing research on the long-term effects of space on the human body. He is the author of The Next 500 Years: Engineerin...
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#282–David Buss: Sex, Dating, Relationships, and Sex Differences from 2022-05-04T15:17:27
David Buss is an evolutionary psychologist at UT Austin. He is one of the founders of the field of evolutionary psychology. His current research is on sex differences in mate selection, mate attrac...
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#281–Grimes: Music, AI, and the Future of Humanity from 2022-04-29T18:19:22
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#280–Cristiano Amon: Qualcomm CEO from 2022-04-27T18:01:38
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 ...
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#279–Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin from 2022-04-24T17:45:22
Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist. Lee Cronin is a chemist. This is a conversation and debate about alien life and alien civilizations. Please support this podcast by check...
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#278–Skye Fitzgerald: Hunger, War, and Human Suffering from 2022-04-20T22:23:59
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: – Not...
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#277–Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship from 2022-04-17T17:53:59
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#276–Michael Saylor: Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money from 2022-04-14T19:03:57
Michael Saylor is the CEO of MicroStrategy and a prominent holder and proponent of Bitcoin. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Scale: https://scale.com/lex – Coinbase: http...
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#275–Rick Rubin: Legendary Music Producer from 2022-04-10T16:43:38
Rick Rubin is one of the greatest music producers of all time, working with many of the greats including Beastie Boys, Eminem, Metallica, LL Cool J, Kanye West, Slayer, Tom Petty, Johnny Cash, Dixi...
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#274–Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry from 2022-04-07T16:50:15
Karl Deisseroth is a professor of bioengineering, psychiatry, and behavioral sciences at Stanford University. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – BiOptimizers: http://www.ma...
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#273–Chris Blattman: War and Violence from 2022-04-03T16:54:27
Chris Blattman is a professor at the University of Chicago studying the causes and consequences of violence and war. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Truebill: https://tr...
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#272–Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal from 2022-03-27T16:31:26
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 ...
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#271–Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures from 2022-03-23T19:14:12
Ariel Ekblaw is the director of the MIT Space Exploration Initiative. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – BetterHelp: https://betterhelp.com/lex to get 10% off – Coinbase: h...
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#270–David Wolpe: Judaism from 2022-03-16T21:11:24
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#269–Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness from 2022-03-11T18:35:10
Lee Cronin is a chemist at the University of Glasgow. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Paperspace: https://gradient.run/lex to get $15 credit – Athletic Greens: https://a...
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#268–Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology from 2022-03-05T16:05:48
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#267–Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse from 2022-02-26T17:26:05
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#266–Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar from 2022-02-20T22:31:53
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#265–Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling from 2022-02-16T21:49
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#264–Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity from 2022-02-13T20:35:31
Tim Urban is the author and illustrator of the popular blog ‘Wait But Why’. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Audible: https://audible.com/lex to get $9.95 a month for 6 m...
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#263–John Abramson: Big Pharma from 2022-02-11T17:17:55
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 big pharma broke American healthcare and how we c...
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#262–Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens from 2022-02-06T22:20:41
Garry Nolan is a professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. His research is in microbiology, immunology, bio-computation, and analysis of UFO artifacts, materials, and reports of UFO enco...
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#261–Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind from 2022-02-03T17:36:56
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: – InsideTracker: https://insidet...
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#260–Georges St-Pierre, John Danaher&Gordon Ryan: The Greatest of All Time from 2022-01-30T20:47:31
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 respecti...
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#259–Thomas Tull: From Batman Dark Knight Trilogy to AI and the Rolling Stones from 2022-01-26T20:43:15
Thomas Tull is founder of Legendary Entertainment, Tulco, part-owner of Pittsburgh Steelers, and guitarist for the band Ghost Hounds. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Pap...
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#258–Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning from 2022-01-22T20:08:32
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 o...
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#257–Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens&Losing the Nobel Prize from 2022-01-18T20:28:05
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: – In...
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#256–Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony from 2022-01-15T19:50:01
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 o...
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#255–Mark Normand: Comedy! from 2022-01-08T21:53:16
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#254–Jay Bhattacharya: The Case Against Lockdowns from 2022-01-04T23:52:11
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: – Athletic Greens: ht...
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#253–Michael Malice: New Year’s Special from 2021-12-31T22:40:33
Michael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, author, and anarchist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – FightCamp: https://joinfightcamp.com/lex to get free shipping – ...
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#252–Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI from 2021-12-28T19:02:28
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#251–Ray Dalio: Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires from 2021-12-25T20:04:14
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#250–Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality from 2021-12-23T23:09:53
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 physicist and philosopher. Please support this podcast by ch...
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#249–Albert Bourla: Pfizer CEO from 2021-12-18T15:04:38
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#248–Norman Naimark: Genocide, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Absolute Power from 2021-12-13T05:13:10
Norman Naimark is a historian at Stanford, specializing in the history of genocide. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Coinbase: https://coinbase.com/lex to get $5 in free ...
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#247–Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory from 2021-12-08T18:28:39
Jamie Metzl is an author specializing in topics of genetic engineering, biotechnology, and geopolitics. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Mizzen+Main: https://mizzenandmai...
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#246–Peter Woit: Theories of Everything and Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong from 2021-12-03T20:27:34
Peter Woit is a theoretical physicist, mathematician, critic of string theory, and author of the popular science blog Not Even Wrong. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – The...
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#245–Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling from 2021-11-30T18:23:26
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: – FightCamp: htt...
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#244–Robert Crews: Afghanistan, Taliban, Bin Laden, and War in the Middle East from 2021-11-28T21:11:14
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: – MUD\WTR: https://mudwt...
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#243–Kevin Systrom: Instagram from 2021-11-23T20:55:28
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#242–Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA from 2021-11-20T18:15:18
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 check...
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#241–Boris Sofman: Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Robotics from 2021-11-16T23:17:58
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. ...
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#240–Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR&the Future of Humanity from 2021-11-11T21:24:43
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...
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#239–Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth from 2021-11-08T18:39:08
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 ...
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#238–Francis Collins: National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 2021-11-05T20:30:24
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: – Ten Thousand: https://www.tenthousand.cc/ and use...
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#237–Steve Viscelli: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream from 2021-11-03T23:36:02
Steve Viscelli is a former truck driver and now an economic sociologist at University of Pennsylvania studying freight transportation, including autonomous trucks. Please support this podcast by ch...
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#236–Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions from 2021-10-31T23:26:56
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: – ROKA: https://roka.com/ and use code ...
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#235–Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing from 2021-10-29T21:48:18
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#234–Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality from 2021-10-27T00:16:41
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#233–Carl Hart: Heroin, Cocaine, MDMA, Alcohol&the Role of Drugs in Society from 2021-10-23T17:11:38
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#232–Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, Big Bang, Aliens, Life, Death, and Meaning from 2021-10-20T18:05:14
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#231–Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights from 2021-10-16T21:23:02
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: – Stripe: https://stripe.com – Pape...
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#230–Kelsi Sheren: War, Artillery, PTSD, and Love from 2021-10-14T23:44:42
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#229–Richard Wrangham: Role of Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution from 2021-10-10T19:08:05
Richard Wrangham is a biological anthropologist at Harvard, specializing in the study of primates and the evolution of violence, sex, cooking, culture, and other aspects of ape and human behavior. ...
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#228–RZA: Wu-Tang Clan, Kung Fu, Chess, God, Life, and Death from 2021-10-05T22:06:26
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 from 2021-09-30T23:51:37
Sean Kelly is a philosopher at Harvard specializing in existentialism and the philosophy of mind. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Coinbase: https://coinbase.com/lex to g...
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#226–Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math from 2021-09-27T21:36:02
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: – Truebill: https://truebill.com/lex – Fundri...
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#225–Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence from 2021-09-26T23:16:52
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: – Stripe: https://stripe.com –...
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#224–Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python&Scientific Programming from 2021-09-23T01:41:13
Travis Oliphant is a data scientist, entrepreneur, and creator of NumPy, SciPy, and Anaconda. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Novo: https://banknovo.com/lex – Allform: h...
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#223–Travis Stevens: Judo, Olympics, and Mental Toughness from 2021-09-21T01:59:35
Travis Stevens is the 2016 Olympic Judo silver medalist and BJJ black belt. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Justworks: https://justworks.com – Indeed: https://indeed.com...
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#222–Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition from 2021-09-20T05:26:44
Jay McClelland is a cognitive scientist at Stanford. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Paperspace: https://gradient.run/lex to get $15 credit – Skiff: https://skiff.org/le...
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#221–Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI from 2021-09-15T16:35:47
Douglas Lenat is the founder of Cyc, a 37 year project aiming to solve common-sense knowledge and reasoning in AI. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Squarespace: https://l...
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#220–Niels Jorgensen: New York Firefighters and the Heroes of 9/11 from 2021-09-11T21:12:40
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: – ROKA: https://r...
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#219–Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems&the Game of Life from 2021-09-09T17:04:19
Donald Knuth is a computer scientist, Turing Award winner, father of algorithm analysis, author of The Art of Computer Programming, and creator of TeX. Please support this podcast by checking out o...
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#218–Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media&the Future of Humans and AI from 2021-09-06T20:30:43
Jaron Lanier is a computer scientist, composer, artist, author, and founder of the field of virtual reality. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Skiff: https://skiff.org/lex...
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#217–Rodney Brooks: Robotics from 2021-09-03T21:32:27
Rodney Brooks is a roboticist, former head of CSAIL at MIT, and co-founder of iRobot, Rethink Robotics, and Robust.AI. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Paperspace: https:...
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#216–Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines from 2021-09-01T17:40:53
Vincent Racaniello is a virologist, immunologist, and microbiologist at Columbia. He is a co-author of the textbook Principles of Virology and co-host of This Week in Virology podcast. Please suppo...
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#215–Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI from 2021-08-29T17:41:06
Wojciech Zaremba is a co-founder of OpenAI. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Paperspace: https://gradient.run/lex to get $15 credit – Indeed: https://indeed.com/lex to ge...
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#214–Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science from 2021-08-27T21:11:29
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#213–Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built from 2021-08-23T19:18:41
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#212–Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness from 2021-08-21T23:50:34
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#211–Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics from 2021-08-15T01:55:25
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#210–Matt Walker: Sleep from 2021-08-11T13:55:29
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#209–Luís and João Batalha: Fermat’s Library and the Art of Studying Papers from 2021-08-09T03:15:55
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#208–Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence from 2021-08-08T04:30:20
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#207–Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength from 2021-08-03T18:14:17
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#206–Ishan Misra: Self-Supervised Deep Learning in Computer Vision from 2021-07-31T16:03:43
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#205–Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running from 2021-07-29T01:51:41
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#204–Cumrun Vafa: String Theory from 2021-07-26T01:07:44
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#203–Anya Fernald: Regenerative Farming and the Art of Cooking Meat from 2021-07-23T23:09:58
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#202–Rick Doblin: Psychedelics from 2021-07-21T02:24:45
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#201–Konstantin Batygin: Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System from 2021-07-19T05:23:11
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#200–Michael Malice: Totalitarianism and Anarchy from 2021-07-15T15:38:27
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#199–Roger Reaves: Smuggling Drugs for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel from 2021-07-11T19:51:49
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#198–Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds from 2021-07-09T22:14:56
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#197–Jocko Willink: War, Leadership, and Discipline from 2021-07-05T02:01:39
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#196–Yeonmi Park: North Korea from 2021-07-01T03:23:58
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#195–Clara Sousa-Silva: Searching for Signs of Life on Venus and Other Planets from 2021-06-28T01:24:27
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#194–Bret Weinstein: Truth, Science, and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic from 2021-06-25T23:34:22
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#193–Rob Reid: The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses and Lab Leaks from 2021-06-21T00:31:22
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#192–Charles Hoskinson: Cardano from 2021-06-16T15:38:35
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#191–Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction from 2021-06-14T07:03:23
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#190–Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries from 2021-06-13T03:12:52
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#189–David Sinclair: Extending the Human Lifespan Beyond 100 Years from 2021-06-07T01:18:48
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#188–Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0 from 2021-06-03T21:07:04
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#187–Frank Wilczek: Physics of Quarks, Dark Matter, Complexity, Life&Aliens from 2021-05-29T22:26:23
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#186–Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces from 2021-05-24T09:55:51
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#185–Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning from 2021-05-20T18:55:24
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#184–Katherine de Kleer: Planets, Moons, and Asteroids in Our Solar System from 2021-05-17T09:40:46
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#183–Po-Shen Loh: Mathematics, Math Olympiad, Combinatorics&Contact Tracing from 2021-05-14T22:33:44
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#182–John Danaher: The Path to Mastery in Jiu Jitsu, Grappling, Judo, and MMA from 2021-05-09T18:51:09
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#181–Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks from 2021-05-01T07:35:02
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#180–Jeremi Suri: History of American Power from 2021-04-30T01:38:44
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#179–Georges St-Pierre: The Science of Fighting from 2021-04-26T03:33:39
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#178–Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy from 2021-04-24T17:34:01
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#177–Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation from 2021-04-19T05:08:44
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#176–Robert Breedlove: Philosophy of Bitcoin from First Principles from 2021-04-17T22:42:36
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#175–Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy from 2021-04-12T20:38:54
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#174–Tyler Cowen: Economic Growth and the Fight Against Conformity and Mediocrity from 2021-04-10T20:10:48
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#173–Nic Carter: Bitcoin Core Values, Layered Scaling, and Blocksize Debates from 2021-04-01T02:12:34
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#172–Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses from 2021-03-30T06:47:13
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#171–Anthony Pompliano: Bitcoin from 2021-03-25T17:26:57
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#170–Ronald Sullivan: The Ideal of Justice in the Face of Controversy and Evil from 2021-03-22T04:24:16
Ronald Sullivan is a law professor at Harvard and previously a lawyer for Harvey Weinstein and Aaron Hernandez. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Brooklinen: https://brook...
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#169–Ryan Hall: Solving Martial Arts from First Principles from 2021-03-20T21:14:02
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#168–Silvio Micali: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Algorand, Bitcoin, and Ethereum from 2021-03-15T04:55:40
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#167–Saagar Enjeti: Politics, History, and Power from 2021-03-14T00:48:05
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#166–Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media from 2021-03-05T00:27:52
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#165–Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts from 2021-03-01T13:36:20
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#164–Andrew Huberman: Sleep, Dreams, Creativity&the Limits of the Human Mind from 2021-02-28T16:59:51
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#163–Eric Weinstein: Difficult Conversations, Freedom of Speech, and Physics from 2021-02-23T05:36:12
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#162–Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness from 2021-02-18T17:39:43
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#161–Jason Calacanis: Startups, Angel Investing, Capitalism, and Friendship from 2021-02-15T14:07:29
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#160–Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave from 2021-02-12T14:06:59
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#159–Richard Craib: WallStreetBets, Numerai, and the Future of Stock Trading from 2021-02-07T23:20:51
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#158–Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds from 2021-02-05T19:59:53
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#157–Natalya Bailey: Rocket Engines and Electric Spacecraft Propulsion from 2021-02-01T14:15:06
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#156–Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom from 2021-01-29T22:22:59
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Lex Fridman: Ask Me Anything–AMA January 2021 from 2021-01-27T18:11:23
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#155–Max Tegmark: AI and Physics from 2021-01-18T06:16:39
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#154–Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua from 2021-01-14T04:04:03
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#153–Dmitry Korkin: Evolution of Proteins, Viruses, Life, and AI from 2021-01-11T10:49:20
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#152–Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness&the Making of Champions from 2021-01-09T23:07:40
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#151–Dan Kokotov: Speech Recognition with AI and Humans from 2021-01-04T09:25:10
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#150–Michael Malice: The White Pill, Freedom, Hope, and Happiness Amidst Chaos from 2020-12-31T23:08:49
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#149–Diana Walsh Pasulka: Aliens, Technology, Religion, and the Nature of Belief from 2020-12-28T04:33:48
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#148–Charles Isbell and Michael Littman: Machine Learning and Education from 2020-12-26T17:05:48
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#147–Dmitri Dolgov: Waymo and the Future of Self-Driving Cars from 2020-12-20T23:26:15
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#146–Michael Mina: Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset from 2020-12-19T02:18:32
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#145–Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics from 2020-12-14T07:25:34
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#144–Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI from 2020-12-13T04:29:13
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#143–John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence from 2020-12-06T18:54:35
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#142–Manolis Kellis: Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything from 2020-11-30T19:17:57
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#141–Erik Brynjolfsson: Economics of AI, Social Networks, and Technology from 2020-11-25T17:57:38
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#140–Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain from 2020-11-20T17:51:17
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#139–Andrew Huberman: Neuroscience of Optimal Performance from 2020-11-16T16:02:15
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#138–Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Objectivism from 2020-11-13T14:36:43
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#137–Alex Filippenko: Supernovae, Dark Energy, Aliens&the Expanding Universe from 2020-11-08T00:02:56
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#136–Dan Carlin: Hardcore History from 2020-11-03T03:06:21
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#135–Charles Isbell: Computing, Interactive AI, and Race in America from 2020-11-02T00:51:41
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#134–Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness from 2020-10-30T03:56:27
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#133–Manolis Kellis: Biology of Disease from 2020-10-25T23:12:31
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#132–George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation&Learning to Drive with Neural Nets from 2020-10-22T01:08:41
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#131–Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages from 2020-10-19T01:56:41
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#130–Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness from 2020-10-12T06:19:23
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#129–Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works from 2020-10-04T17:03:58
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#128–Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling from 2020-10-02T15:15:51
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#127–Joe Rogan: Conversations, Ideas, Love, Freedom&The Joe Rogan Experience from 2020-09-26T17:00:48
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#126–James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing from 2020-09-24T14:31:26
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#125–Ryan Hall: Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Violence, Power, and Grace from 2020-09-20T21:50:08
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#124–Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe from 2020-09-15T23:36:19
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#123–Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness from 2020-09-12T18:29:51
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#122–David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering from 2020-09-08T16:14:41
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 from 2020-09-07T20:59:01
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 compassi...
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#121–Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion from 2020-09-05T17:31:13
Eugenia Kuyda co-founder of Replika, an AI companion. Please check out our sponsors to get a discount and to support this podcast: – Dollar Shave Club: https://dollarshaveclub.com/lex – DoorDash: d...
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Lex Solo #2–The Future of Neuralink from 2020-09-01T19:45:29
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. Hopefully it’s interesting to some folks. The aim...
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#120–François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence from 2020-08-31T00:10:34
François Chollet is an AI researcher at Google and creator of Keras. Support this podcast by supporting our sponsors (and get discount): – Babbel: https://babbel.com and use code LEX – MasterClass:...
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#119–David Eagleman: Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain from 2020-08-26T14:02:09
David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford. Support this podcast by supporting our sponsors: – Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.com/lex – BetterHelp: https://betterhelp.com/lex – Cash Ap...
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New Name: Lex Fridman Podcast from 2020-08-24T23:40:32
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 to interesting folks from all over. Thanks for t...
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#118–Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks&Teaching with 3Blue1Brown from 2020-08-23T22:43:27
Grant Sanderson is a math educator and creator of 3Blue1Brown. Support this podcast by supporting our sponsors: – Dollar Shave Club: https://dollarshaveclub.com/lex – DoorDash: download app&use cod...
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#117–Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning from 2020-08-20T23:13:46
Sheldon Solomon is a social psychologist, a philosopher, co-developer of Terror Management Theory, co-author of The Worm at the Core. Please support this channel by supporting our sponsors: – Blink...
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#116–Sara Seager: Search for Planets and Life Outside Our Solar System from 2020-08-16T20:12:23
Sara Seager is a planetary scientist at MIT, known for her work on the search for exoplanets. Support this podcast by supporting our sponsors. Click links, get discount: – Public Goods at https://p...
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#115–Dileep George: Brain-Inspired AI from 2020-08-14T22:51:34
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 ...
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#114–Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch from 2020-08-09T16:30:42
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, complicated, underactuated, stochastic, difficult to ...
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#113–Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics from 2020-07-31T13:20:37
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 computational, evolutionary, biological, and other cr...
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#112–Ian Hutchinson: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion from 2020-07-29T17:01:15
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 f...
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#111–Richard Karp: Algorithms and Computational Complexity from 2020-07-26T15:49:07
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...
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#110–Jitendra Malik: Computer Vision from 2020-07-21T23:16:54
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 revolution, and the kind after. He has been cited over 18...
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#109–Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming from 2020-07-18T21:28:25
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 programmin...
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#108–Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning from 2020-07-14T15:59:56
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...
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#107–Peter Singer: Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI from 2020-07-08T14:40:18
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 per...
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#106–Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind from 2020-07-03T15:08:10
Matt Botvinick is the Director of Neuroscience Research at DeepMind. He is a brilliant cross-disciplinary mind navigating effortlessly between cognitive psychology, computational neuroscience, and ...
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#105–Robert Langer: Edison of Medicine from 2020-06-30T22:04
Robert Langer is a professor at MIT and one of the most cited researchers in history, specializing in biotechnology fields of drug delivery systems and tissue engineering. He has bridged theory and...
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#104–David Patterson: Computer Architecture and Data Storage from 2020-06-27T19:20:23
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 fo...
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#103–Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence from 2020-06-22T17:21:26
Ben Goertzel is one of the most interesting minds in the artificial intelligence community. He is the founder of SingularityNET, designer of OpenCog AI framework, formerly a director of the Machine...
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#102–Steven Pressfield: The War of Art from 2020-06-20T17:48:10
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 every...
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#101–Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality from 2020-06-13T16:59:20
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...
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#100–Alexander Fridman: My Dad, the Plasma Physicist from 2020-06-03T22:10:32
Alexander Fridman is a plasma physicists and most importantly to me, he is my dad.
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#99–Karl Friston: Neuroscience and the Free Energy Principle from 2020-05-28T12:42:21
Karl Friston is one of the greatest neuroscientists in history, cited over 245,000 times, known for many influential ideas in brain imaging, neuroscience, and theoretical neurobiology, including th...
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#98–Kate Darling: Emotional Connection Between Humans and Robots from 2020-05-23T10:49:39
Kate Darling is a researcher at MIT, interested in social robotics, robot ethics, and generally how technology intersects with society. She explores the emotional connection between human beings an...
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#97–Sertac Karaman: Robots That Fly and Robots That Drive from 2020-05-20T01:28:48
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. Support...
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#96–Stephen Schwarzman: Going Big in Business, Investing, and AI from 2020-05-15T21:34:34
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 management. He is one of the most successful bu...
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#95–Dawn Song: Adversarial Machine Learning and Computer Security from 2020-05-12T23:20:29
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. Suppo...
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#94–Ilya Sutskever: Deep Learning from 2020-05-08T20:25:12
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 the most brilliant and insightful minds ever in ...
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#93–Daphne Koller: Biomedicine and Machine Learning from 2020-05-05T20:08:59
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 company at the intersection of machine learning an...
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#92–Harry Cliff: Particle Physics and the Large Hadron Collider from 2020-04-29T22:52:14
Harry Cliff is a particle physicist at the University of Cambridge working on the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment that specializes in searching for hints of new particles and forces by stud...
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#91–Jack Dorsey: Square, Cryptocurrency, and Artificial Intelligence from 2020-04-24T20:45:47
Jack Dorsey is the co-founder and CEO of Twitter and the founder and CEO of Square. Support this podcast by signing up with these sponsors: – MasterClass: https://masterclass.com/lex EPISODE LINKS:...
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#90–Dmitry Korkin: Computational Biology of Coronavirus from 2020-04-22T20:57:43
Dmitry Korkin is a professor of bioinformatics and computational biology at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he specializes in bioinformatics of complex disease, computational genomics, syste...
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#89–Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics from 2020-04-18T18:23:57
Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist who is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, a company behind Mathematica, Wolfram Alpha, Wolfram Language, and ...
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#88–Eric Weinstein: Geometric Unity and the Call for New Ideas, Leaders&Institutions from 2020-04-13T20:50:23
Eric Weinstein is a mathematician with a bold and piercing intelligence, unafraid to explore the biggest questions in the universe and shine a light on the darkest corners of our society. He is the...
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#87–Richard Dawkins: Evolution, Intelligence, Simulation, and Memes from 2020-04-09T22:35:30
Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist, and author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, The God Delusion, The Magic of Reality, The Greatest Show on Earth, and his latest Outgrowing God...
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#86–David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning from 2020-04-03T21:05:03
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 reinforcemen...
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#85–Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe from 2020-03-31T14:33:28
Roger Penrose is physicist, mathematician, and philosopher at University of Oxford. He has made fundamental contributions in many disciplines from the mathematical physics of general relativity and...
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#84–William MacAskill: Effective Altruism from 2020-03-29T01:02:48
William MacAskill is a philosopher, ethicist, and one of the originators of the effective altruism movement. His research focuses on the fundamentals of effective altruism – the use of evidence and...
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#83–Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence from 2020-03-26T00:19:25
Nick Bostrom is a philosopher at University of Oxford and the director of the Future of Humanity Institute. He has worked on fascinating and important ideas in existential risks, simulation hypothe...
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Lex Solo #1–Seven Levels of Coronavirus Impact from 2020-03-24T23:07:24
The coronavirus pandemic is a global tragedy, but it is also a moment that unites us, that reveals the strength of our community, the human capacity to be compassionate to each other and to work ha...
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#82–Simon Sinek: Leadership, Hard Work, Optimism and the Infinite Game from 2020-03-21T18:25:44
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 ...
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#81–Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering from 2020-03-19T17:33:29
Anca Dragan is a professor at Berkeley, working on human-robot interaction — algorithms that look beyond the robot’s function in isolation, and generate robot behavior that accounts for interaction...
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#80–Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money from 2020-03-16T17:48:32
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...
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#79–Lee Smolin: Quantum Gravity and Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution from 2020-03-07T20:53:01
Lee Smolin is a theoretical physicist, co-inventor of loop quantum gravity, and a contributor of many interesting ideas to cosmology, quantum field theory, the foundations of quantum mechanics, the...
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#78–Ann Druyan: Cosmos, Carl Sagan, Voyager, and the Beauty of Science from 2020-03-05T14:37:43
Ann Druyan is the writer, producer, director, and one of the most important and impactful communicators of science in our time. She co-wrote the 1980 science documentary series Cosmos hosted by Car...
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#77–Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science from 2020-03-03T16:07:30
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 conscio...
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#76–John Hopfield: Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology from 2020-02-29T16:09:54
John Hopfield is professor at Princeton, whose life’s work weaved beautifully through biology, chemistry, neuroscience, and physics. Most crucially, he saw the messy world of biology through the pi...
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#75–Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI from 2020-02-26T17:45:10
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...
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#74–Michael I. Jordan: Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, and the Future of AI from 2020-02-24T13:46:17
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 time...
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#73–Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI from 2020-02-20T17:11:39
Andrew Ng is one of the most impactful educators, researchers, innovators, and leaders in artificial intelligence and technology space in general. He co-founded Coursera and Google Brain, launched ...
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#72–Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing from 2020-02-17T21:21:56
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 quantu...
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Vladimir Vapnik: Predicates, Invariants, and the Essence of Intelligence from 2020-02-14T17:22:26
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 ...
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Jim Keller: Moore’s Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles from 2020-02-05T20:08:44
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 process...
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David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness from 2020-01-29T21:38:14
David Chalmers is a philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and consciousness. He is perhaps best known for formulating the hard problem of c...
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Cristos Goodrow: YouTube Algorithm from 2020-01-25T19:33:36
Cristos Goodrow is VP of Engineering at Google and head of Search and Discovery at YouTube (aka YouTube Algorithm). This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would li...
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Paul Krugman: Economics of Innovation, Automation, Safety Nets&Universal Basic Income from 2020-01-21T17:32:32
Paul Krugman is a Nobel Prize winner in economics, professor at CUNY, and columnist at the New York Times. His academic work centers around international economics, economic geography, liquidity tr...
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Ayanna Howard: Human-Robot Interaction and Ethics of Safety-Critical Systems from 2020-01-17T15:44:19
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 gami...
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Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI from 2020-01-14T18:04:15
Daniel Kahneman is winner of the Nobel Prize in economics for his integration of economic science with the psychology of human behavior, judgment and decision-making. He is the author of the popula...
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Grant Sanderson: 3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics from 2020-01-07T17:11:45
Grant Sanderson is a math educator and creator of 3Blue1Brown, a popular YouTube channel that uses programmatically-animated visualizations to explain concepts in linear algebra, calculus, and othe...
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Stephen Kotkin: Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power from 2020-01-03T17:35:49
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...
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Donald Knuth: Algorithms, TeX, Life, and The Art of Computer Programming from 2019-12-30T17:57:13
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, considered the Nobel Prize of computing. He is t...
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Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense&Future of AI from 2019-12-28T18:42:41
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 fa...
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Jim Gates: Supersymmetry, String Theory and Proving Einstein Right from 2019-12-25T16:09:18
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 Coun...
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Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education from 2019-12-21T17:48:06
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...
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Michael Stevens: Vsauce from 2019-12-17T14:11:51
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 1.7 billion views. His videos often ask and ans...
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Rohit Prasad: Amazon Alexa and Conversational AI from 2019-12-14T15:02:53
Rohit Prasad is the vice president and head scientist of Amazon Alexa and one of its original creators. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get mo...
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Judea Pearl: Causal Reasoning, Counterfactuals, Bayesian Networks, and the Path to AGI from 2019-12-11T16:33:31
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 intelli...
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Whitney Cummings: Comedy, Robotics, Neurology, and Love from 2019-12-05T12:41:59
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 p...
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Ray Dalio: Principles, the Economic Machine, Artificial Intelligence&the Arc of Life from 2019-12-02T17:09:54
Ray Dalio is the founder, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world’s largest and most successful investment firms that is famous for the principles of...
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Noam Chomsky: Language, Cognition, and Deep Learning from 2019-11-29T15:11:16
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 scientist, historian, social critic, and political a...
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Gilbert Strang: Linear Algebra, Deep Learning, Teaching, and MIT OpenCourseWare from 2019-11-25T14:04:43
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 OpenCourseWare lectures on linear algebra have been viewe...
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Dava Newman: Space Exploration, Space Suits, and Life on Mars from 2019-11-22T18:14:43
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 four spaceflight missions. Her research interest...
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Michael Kearns: Algorithmic Fairness, Bias, Privacy, and Ethics in Machine Learning from 2019-11-19T17:52:43
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, pr...
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Elon Musk: Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot from 2019-11-12T17:31:26
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 liste...
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Bjarne Stroustrup: C++ from 2019-11-07T17:47:59
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 world. Its focus on fast, stable, robust code unde...
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Sean Carroll: Quantum Mechanics and the Many-Worlds Interpretation from 2019-11-01T16:50:59
Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at Caltech and Santa Fe Institute specializing in quantum mechanics, arrow of time, cosmology, and gravitation. He is the author of Something Deeply Hidden a...
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Garry Kasparov: Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin from 2019-10-27T17:49:24
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 y...
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Michio Kaku: Future of Humans, Aliens, Space Travel&Physics from 2019-10-22T14:26:14
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 nature of our reality and the future of our civili...
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David Ferrucci: IBM Watson, Jeopardy&Deep Conversations with AI from 2019-10-11T16:46:13
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 E...
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Gary Marcus: Toward a Hybrid of Deep Learning and Symbolic AI from 2019-10-03T11:26:20
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 ...
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Peter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach from 2019-09-30T17:44:35
Peter Norvig is a research director at Google and the co-author with Stuart Russell of the book Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach that educated and inspired a whole generation of researche...
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Leonard Susskind: Quantum Mechanics, String Theory, and Black Holes from 2019-09-26T16:28:26
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 o...
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Regina Barzilay: Deep Learning for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment from 2019-09-23T16:49:34
Regina Barzilay is a professor at MIT and a world-class researcher in natural language processing and applications of deep learning to chemistry and oncology, or the use of deep learning for early ...
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Colin Angle: iRobot from 2019-09-19T13:56
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 world, not as a demo or on a scale of dozens, bu...
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François Chollet: Keras, Deep Learning, and the Progress of AI from 2019-09-14T15:44:33
François Chollet is the creator of Keras, which is an open source deep learning library that is designed to enable fast, user-friendly experimentation with deep neural networks. It serves as an int...
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Vijay Kumar: Flying Robots from 2019-09-08T16:35:51
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, Sen...
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Yann LeCun: Deep Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks, and Self-Supervised Learning from 2019-08-31T15:43:51
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 can learn from data. He is a professor at New York...
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Jeremy Howard: fast.ai Deep Learning Courses and Research from 2019-08-27T15:24:36
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 fo...
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Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think and the Early Days of AI from 2019-08-23T14:27:03
Pamela McCorduck is an author who has written on the history and philosophical significance of artificial intelligence, the future of engineering, and the role of women and technology. Her books in...
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Keoki Jackson: Lockheed Martin from 2019-08-19T14:20:03
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 ...
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Paola Arlotta: Brain Development from Stem Cell to Organoid from 2019-08-12T15:09:23
Paola Arlotta is a professor of stem cell and regenerative biology at Harvard University. She is interested in understanding the molecular laws that govern the birth, differentiation and assembly o...
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George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles from 2019-08-05T14:18:20
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 technology in general. He first gained recognition...
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Kevin Scott: Microsoft CTO from 2019-08-01T18:58:07
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 conv...
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Gustav Soderstrom: Spotify from 2019-07-29T14:06:39
Gustav Soderstrom is the Chief Research&Development Officer at Spotify, leading Product, Design, Data, Technology&Engineering teams. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast...
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Chris Urmson: Self-Driving Cars at Aurora, Google, CMU, and DARPA from 2019-07-22T14:17:34
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 DAR...
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Kai-Fu Lee: AI Superpowers–China and Silicon Valley from 2019-07-15T14:53:32
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 the next generation of Chinese high-tech companies...
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Sean Carroll: The Nature of the Universe, Life, and Intelligence from 2019-07-10T15:39:19
Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at Caltech, specializing in quantum mechanics, gravity, and cosmology. He is the author of several popular books: one on the arrow of time called From Eterni...
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Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence from 2019-07-01T15:25:44
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 tea...
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Rosalind Picard: Affective Computing, Emotion, Privacy, and Health from 2019-06-17T15:56:22
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 lau...
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Gavin Miller: Adobe Research from 2019-06-10T19:12:42
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 Ph...
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Rajat Monga: TensorFlow from 2019-06-03T16:10:16
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 https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridm...
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Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators from 2019-05-13T15:47:58
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 ...
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Oriol Vinyals: DeepMind AlphaStar, StarCraft, Language, and Sequences from 2019-04-29T15:31:56
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 39,000 times. He is one of the most brilliant and ...
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Ian Goodfellow: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) from 2019-04-18T16:33:48
Ian Goodfellow is the author of the popular textbook on deep learning (simply titled “Deep Learning”). He coined the term Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and with his 2014 paper is responsib...
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Elon Musk: Tesla Autopilot from 2019-04-12T15:15:06
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 like to get more information about this podcast go...
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Greg Brockman: OpenAI and AGI from 2019-04-03T15:39:36
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 ...
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society from 2019-03-20T16:12:26
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 inc...
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Leslie Kaelbling: Reinforcement Learning, Planning, and Robotics from 2019-03-12T16:06:45
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 Comput...
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Kyle Vogt: Cruise Automation from 2019-02-07T15:30:42
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: vehicle autonomy. He is the co-founder of 2 success...
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Tomaso Poggio: Brains, Minds, and Machines from 2019-01-19T15:03:04
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 natur...
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Tuomas Sandholm: Poker and Game Theory from 2018-12-28T21:40:12
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 No-Limit Texas Hold’em. He has published over 450 pa...
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Juergen Schmidhuber: Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs from 2018-12-23T17:03:45
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 ha...
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Pieter Abbeel: Deep Reinforcement Learning from 2018-12-16T19:48:50
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 t...
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Stuart Russell: Long-Term Future of AI from 2018-12-09T16:45:15
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...
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Eric Schmidt: Google from 2018-12-04T16:13:24
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 innovati...
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Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror from 2018-11-29T15:41:18
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 Wikipedia, it is difficult to understate the impact on gl...
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Guido van Rossum: Python from 2018-11-22T17:00:28
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 YouTube. If you would like to get more information...
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Vladimir Vapnik: Statistical Learning from 2018-11-16T15:30:48
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....
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Yoshua Bengio: Deep Learning from 2018-10-20T17:02:02
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...
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Steven Pinker: AI in the Age of Reason from 2018-10-17T11:55:50
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 impact on the way I see the world for the better. In ...
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Christof Koch: Consciousness from 2018-09-02T01:57:49
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 Inst...
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Max Tegmark: Life 3.0 from 2018-08-26T22:37:16
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 I...
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