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2:41:13ENThe Minefield Used to Be the Point: Niall Ferguson on Universities, Money, and 1914Gast: Niall Ferguson · Moderation: Lex FridmanThe historian tells Lex Fridman why he is founding a university in Austin, why money is a technology of trust, and which cabinet decision turned a European war into the twentieth century.
1:26:53ENFrancis Collins Cannot Exclude a Lab LeakGast: Francis Collins · Moderation: Lex FridmanThe outgoing NIH director talks with Lex Fridman about COVID origins, gain-of-function research, Anthony Fauci, vaccines, and why scientific certainty is the wrong pose.
3:12:17ENYou Better Already Have Everything You Ever WantedGast: Steve Viscelli · Moderation: Lex FridmanA former long-haul driver turned Penn sociologist walks Lex Fridman through how trucking fell from a golden-age trade to a last-resort job, and the six ways robots might finish the work.
1:01:11ENAnil Madhavapeddy on MirageOS and the Evolution of Operating SystemsYaron Minsky, Anil Madhavapeddy · Jane StreetFrom Xen and unikernels to OCaml's multicore research, a systems researcher explains how changing abstractions reshape infrastructure.
2:23:08ENHate Losing More Than You Love Winning: Jimmy Pedro on Forging Judo ChampionsGast: Jimmy Pedro · Moderation: Lex FridmanThe four-time Olympian and coach of Kayla Harrison and Travis Stevens on uchi mata, visualization, and why American judo loses its teenagers at thirteen.
1:46:47ENA Perfect Rapid Test Would Fail the FDA. Michael Mina Explains Why That Is the PointGast: Michael Mina · Moderation: Lex FridmanThe Harvard immunologist tells Lex Fridman that paper-strip antigen tests answer the only public-health question that matters—are you infectious right now—and that one presidential sentence could unlock them.
3:38:43ENConsciousness Is a Step Down From IntelligenceGast: Stephen Wolfram · Moderation: Lex FridmanStephen Wolfram tells Lex Fridman how simple programs, a discrete fabric of space, and a computationally bounded observer together explain complexity, physics, and why the universe exists.
12:40ENThe 2021 Summer of Math Exposition: Selected Works and Lessons3Blue1Brown highlights mathematical explainers, from light in a mug to Bézier curves and Pick’s theorem.
1:11:03ENCarl Hart’s case that addiction lives outside the moleculeGast: Carl Hart · Moderation: Lex FridmanThe Columbia psychologist tells Lex Fridman that most drug effects are positive, that alcohol withdrawal is deadlier than heroin’s, and that the war on drugs pays a long list of people to keep a scapegoat in place.
1:45:45ENA Blink of Ordered Particles: Brian Greene on Entropy, Meaning, and DeathGast: Brian Greene · Moderation: Lex FridmanThe Columbia physicist talks with Lex Fridman about heat death, consciousness, string theory, the Big Bang, aliens, Mars, and the kind of freedom that survives without free will.
2:33:37ENNumber Go Up Hides Freedom Go Up: Alex Gladstein on Bitcoin, Dictators, and Human RightsGast: Alex Gladstein · Moderation: Lex FridmanThe Human Rights Foundation’s chief strategist argues that money was missing from the human-rights conversation, and that Bitcoin is a Trojan horse that turns greed into a tool for individual sovereignty.
4:06:06ENShe Picked Up a Perfectly Laced Boot and Said They Could Reuse ItGast: Kelsi Sheren · Moderation: Lex FridmanKelsi Sheren was a 19-year-old, 103-pound Canadian artillery gunner on an M777 howitzer in Afghanistan; she came home with the light switch off and spent a decade finding a way back.
26:05ENNewton’s Method and the Fractal Boundaries Between RootsAn everyday numerical algorithm produces unexpectedly intricate patterns when starting guesses are plotted in the complex plane.
2:35:22ENThe Goodness Paradox: How Humans Became Both Unusually Kind and Unusually LethalGast: Richard Wrangham · Moderation: Lex FridmanRichard Wrangham tells Lex Fridman how fire, a coup against alpha males, and a split between two kinds of aggression made Homo sapiens.
1:00:04ENTy Overby on Bonsai and Building Functional User InterfacesYaron Minsky, Ty Overby · Jane StreetWhy Jane Street built a composable OCaml UI framework, and what its design reveals about incremental computation, browsers, and visual programming.
1:26:20ENRZA: You Can Be Wisdom. You Cannot Raise the Dead.Gast: RZA · Moderation: Lex FridmanThe Wu-Tang Clan architect talks with Lex Fridman about his mother's death, kung fu, chess, Allah, and why confusion is a gift.
2:52:58ENYou Are Not a Great Writer Until You Write the BookGast: Sean Kelly · Moderation: Lex FridmanHarvard philosopher Sean Kelly talks with Lex Fridman about existentialism, nihilism, and how to live when nothing outside us grounds the self.
1:30:40ENI'm Giving You This Feedback Because I Believe in YouGast: Jo Boaler · Moderation: Lex FridmanStanford mathematician Jo Boaler on visual math, why struggle only works if you think you can get there, and how a 90-minute class raised classroom engagement 68 percent.
2:56:42ENSilicon Does Not Emit LightGast: Jeffrey Shainline · Moderation: Lex FridmanNIST physicist Jeffrey Shainline on why a brain-like computer should calculate in superconducting electronics and talk with single photons.
3:05:24ENTravis Oliphant wrote NumPy in an empty semester — and still wants open source to payGast: Travis Oliphant · Moderation: Lex FridmanThe creator of NumPy, SciPy, and Anaconda tells Lex Fridman how array thinking, a priced book, and the packaging wars shaped scientific Python.
3:42:43ENHe Fought for Eight Minutes and Didn't Get a Single VoteGast: Travis Stevens · Moderation: Lex FridmanTravis Stevens on judo, Olympic heartbreak, weight cutting as engineering, and the silver medal that arrived after he stopped treating winning as a goal.
2:31:57ENJay McClelland on How Thought Emerges From Neural NetworksGast: Jay McClelland · Moderation: Lex FridmanThe Stanford cognitive scientist talks with Lex Fridman about connectionism, backpropagation, David Rumelhart, and why intuition discovers what logic later proves.
2:52:56ENDouglas Lenat's 37-Year Bet That Common Sense Can Be Written DownGast: Douglas Lenat · Moderation: Lex FridmanSince 1984, Cyc has been encoding the unstated rules of the world so machines can reason instead of merely pattern-match.
2:44:08ENForty Feet Behind: A New York Firefighter's 9/11Gast: Niels Jorgensen · Moderation: Lex FridmanNiels Jorgensen, an FDNY veteran at Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, tells Lex Fridman who did not come home, what the dust did to the living, and why September 12 still matters.
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