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1:16:15ENAll-In E7: California, Gig Work and the SPAC BoomModeration: Jason Calacanis, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks, David FriedbergFour investors debate California policy, police reform, markets and the 2020 election.
3:56:24ENThe Tic-Tac Knew We Were ThereGast: David Fravor · Moderation: Lex FridmanNavy commander David Fravor tells Lex Fridman what four Super Hornet aircrew saw off the USS Nimitz in 2004, why he does not buy a secret human aircraft, and how an unexplained object never made anyone's to-do list.
3:01:07ENLoneliness Has No Clinic. Eugenia Kuyda Built an AI Friend AnywayGast: Eugenia Kuyda · Moderation: Lex FridmanThe Replika co-founder talks with Lex Fridman about grief, conversation, and why memory—not a clever reply—is the real limit of AI companionship.
2:34:20ENIntelligence Is How Efficiently You Acquire Skills You Were Not Prepared ForGast: François Chollet · Moderation: Lex FridmanFrançois Chollet tells Lex Fridman why skill is not intelligence, why GPT-3 is still pattern matching, and why a grid puzzle called ARC still separates children from machines.
1:41:24ENA child can lose half a brain. The rest will rewire around the jobGast: David Eagleman · Moderation: Lex FridmanNeuroscientist David Eagleman tells Lex Fridman why the human brain is not hardware running software, but a livewired system that never stops physically reshaping itself.
2:08:26ENSatisfying Lectures Don't Stick: Grant Sanderson on Feynman, Fear, and Hitting PublishGast: Grant Sanderson · Moderation: Lex FridmanThe 3Blue1Brown creator talks with Lex Fridman about why the nicest explanations can fail, why he envies Bell Labs, and why the experts most qualified to teach are the ones least willing to post.
2:56:24ENIt Is Knowing We Will Die That Makes Us HumanGast: Sheldon Solomon · Moderation: Lex FridmanSheldon Solomon tells Lex Fridman how death anxiety, from an eight-year-old's stamp collection to 28-millisecond lab primes, quietly runs politics, religion, and everyday life.
1:41:35ENThe Smallest Lights: Sara Seager on Finding Life Beyond the SunGast: Sara Seager · Moderation: Lex FridmanThe MIT planetary scientist talks with Lex Fridman about exoplanets, biosignature gases, a flower-shaped starshade, and the grief that sent her looking for another Earth.
2:10:06ENYou Might Have to Understand the World to Understand the Letter AGast: Dileep George · Moderation: Lex FridmanDileep George on recursive cortical networks, why a five-year-old can read any new CAPTCHA, and what the Wright brothers actually learned from birds.
2:48:46ENLet Physics Walk: Russ Tedrake on Underactuated Robots, Contact, and Barefoot CommutesGast: Russ Tedrake · Moderation: Lex FridmanMIT’s Russ Tedrake talks with Lex Fridman about gravity-powered walkers, a dead trout that swims upstream, why contact still breaks classical control, and what the DARPA Robotics Challenge taught him about testing.
2:29:24ENWe Are the Descendants of the First Digital ComputerGast: Manolis Kellis · Moderation: Lex FridmanMIT computational biologist Manolis Kellis tells Lex Fridman why life is digital, why any two humans are 99.9 percent identical, and what evolutionary signatures reveal inside SARS-CoV-2.
1:34:10ENAll-In E6: Antitrust, Startup Acquisitions and Platform SpeechModeration: Jason Calacanis, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks, David FriedbergA July 2020 debate on Big Tech hearings, marketplace power and the presidential election.
2:01:15ENNobody Died from the Fukushima ReactorsGast: Ian Hutchinson · Moderation: Lex FridmanMIT plasma physicist Ian Hutchinson on fusion, a hundredfold carbon cut, scientism, and why faith is more than believing unproven claims.
2:07:32ENRichard Karp: Either All These Problems Are Easy, or None of Them AreGast: Richard Karp · Moderation: Lex FridmanThe Turing Award winner walks Lex Fridman from a geometry proof that stopped him at 13 through NP-completeness, randomized algorithms, and why no program yet outthinks a six-month-old.
11:41ENFive Ways to Calculate the Wait for a Successful ShotSawyer · Jane StreetA 20% success rate leads to an expected wait of five attempts—but two consecutive successes take 30. Explore the reasoning through series, recursion and a long-run argument.
1:41:37ENThe Fallacy of the Successful First Step: Jitendra Malik on Why Seeing Still Isn't SolvedGast: Jitendra Malik · Moderation: Lex FridmanBerkeley's Jitendra Malik tells Lex Fridman why computer vision keeps underestimating itself, why full self-driving still needs cognition, and why vision is the parent of language.
3:40ENBrian Kernighan on JavaScript and Software DependenciesGast: Brian Kernighan · Moderation: Lex FridmanA 2020 conversation about language evolution and package complexity.
1:43:10ENKen Thompson's Wife Left for Three Weeks. He Wrote Unix.Gast: Brian Kernighan · Moderation: Lex FridmanBrian Kernighan walks Lex Fridman through Bell Labs, C, AWK, AMPL, and a lifetime of tools that millions of people still run — including all of his mistakes.
10:32ENReal Numbers: Expected Time Between Exams and a Half-Court Shot ChallengeSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer solves an exam-scheduling problem in several ways, then asks how many basketball attempts it takes to make one shot or two in a row.
1:37:31ENThe Robot That Brought the Beer Was Being TeleoperatedGast: Sergey Levine · Moderation: Lex FridmanSergey Levine tells Lex Fridman why hardware is almost closed, why common sense has to be lived, and why offline reinforcement learning is the missing on-ramp from logs to robots that keep getting better.
6:04ENFinals Week and the Expected Number of Snowboards UsedSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer poses a new exam-scheduling puzzle and uses indicator variables in two ways to solve the previous snowboard problem.
6:16ENIndicator Variables: Marching Bands and SnowboardsSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer uses linearity of expectation to count in-step rows, then poses a six-snowboard challenge.
1:09:14ENSuffering Is a State You'd Rather Not Be In — Peter Singer on Animals, Robots, and UsGast: Peter Singer · Moderation: Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman's podcast, the Princeton bioethicist defines suffering, extends it from factory farms to possible machine minds, and still puts extreme poverty first.
9:40ENReal Numbers: A Marching Band Challenge, Expected Damage, and Bayes’ RuleSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer introduces a marching-band expected-value puzzle and uses linearity and Bayesian updating to solve a monster-attack problem.
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