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2:09:09ENA Fight Is Not a Fight Until There Is Something to OvercomeGuest Teddy Atlas · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman came to talk boxing with Teddy Atlas and stayed for a story about loyalty, fear, and the night Cus D'Amato chose Mike Tyson.
1:39:02ENMost Things Suck. The Good Ones Change Your Life.Guest Michael Malice · Host Lex FridmanOn a Thanksgiving pirate special, Michael Malice and Lex Fridman range from mantis shrimp and roast funerals to 67 shaving soaps and why cynicism is a form of giving up.
2:16:46ENPhysics is the law. Everything else is a recommendationGuest Elon Musk · Host Lex FridmanOn his fourth Lex Fridman podcast, Elon Musk runs first-principles math on Gaza, Ukraine, Grok, aliens, and the coming shortage of useful compute per watt.
2:31:58ENCancel culture has already outpaced the Red Scare, Greg Lukianoff arguesGuest Greg Lukianoff · Host Lex FridmanThe FIRE president tells Lex Fridman why Harvard scored below zero on campus free speech, how left and right built rhetorical fortresses, and why “hate speech” remains censorship’s most successful brand.
3:44:36ENDisconnection Happens Slowly, Then All at OnceGuest James Sexton · Host Lex FridmanDivorce attorney James Sexton tells Lex Fridman why marriages fail, how small kindnesses and hidden selves undo them, and why people keep betting on love anyway.
2:18:25ENGrow Everything: Neri Oxman on Giving Nature a VoteGuest Neri Oxman · Host Lex FridmanThe designer-scientist who left MIT to build OXMAN talks silkworm pavilions, bees in space, and why the end of human agency might be the start of nature's.
2:44:47ENThe Next Machines Will Steal Intimacy, Not Just AttentionGuest Yuval Noah Harari · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Yuval Noah Harari tells Lex Fridman how stories built civilization, why fascism looks beautiful in the mirror, and why AI is the first tool that takes power away from humans.
2:28:37ENThe Marshals Came for an Underground City. RFK Jr. Still Wants a President Who Can Say NoGuest Robert F. Kennedy Jr · Host Lex FridmanOn Independence Day 2023, Lex Fridman sat with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for two and a half hours on Cuba, Ukraine, the CIA, pharma, and why the shopping cart still has to go back.
3:15:07ENWikipedia Worked Once Writing Stopped Feeling Like Grad SchoolGuest Jimmy Wales · Host Lex FridmanJimmy Wales tells Lex Fridman how Nupedia's seven-stage review died, why Wikipedia still refuses ads and governments, and what large language models should actually do with an encyclopedia.
2:19:00ENLess Impressed, More Involved: Matthew McConaughey on Messy Love and a Live LifeGuest Matthew McConaughey · Host Lex FridmanThe Oscar-winning actor talks with Lex Fridman about his parents' violent romance, the death of his father, green lights, and why some wounds should be kicked off the curb.
2:07:04ENThe Ribosome Already Solved Digital ManufacturingGuest Neil Gershenfeld · Host Lex FridmanNeil Gershenfeld tells Lex Fridman why Turing separated the head from the tape, how fab labs are the personal-computer moment for making things, and what it would take to grow a civilization from about twenty parts.
1:51:12ENHarvey Silverglate Would Fire 95 Percent of Harvard's AdministratorsGuest Harvey Silverglate · Host Lex FridmanThe FIRE co-founder, running as a write-in for Harvard's Board of Overseers, tells Lex Fridman why hate speech is more useful than love speech and why discomfort is the price of a free campus.
4:14:33ENThe Next Token Is Not a Proof: Stephen Wolfram on ChatGPT and Computational TruthGuest Stephen Wolfram · Host Lex FridmanIn his fourth conversation with Lex Fridman, Stephen Wolfram contrasts large language models with Wolfram|Alpha, then follows computational irreducibility from ChatGPT through observers, thermodynamics, and the three great theories of twentieth-century physics.
2:30:28ENAI Only Has a Neocortex: Manolis Kellis on Evolutionary Baggage and Superintelligent PartnersGuest Manolis Kellis · Host Lex FridmanOn his fifth Lex Fridman podcast, the MIT computational biologist argues that layered evolutionary history is what makes humans irreplaceable — and that alignment with AI has to run both ways.
2:48:12ENThe Asteroid We Are Building OurselvesGuest Max Tegmark · Host Lex FridmanPhysicist Max Tegmark tells Lex Fridman why a six-month pause on models larger than GPT-4 is not a ban on AI, but a chance to stop a suicide race.
3:46:39ENHe Hated School Math Until a Professor Opened the Book to QuarksGuest Edward Frenkel · Host Lex FridmanEdward Frenkel talks with Lex Fridman about Soviet childhood, the Langlands program, Gödel, AI, and why every hard objective theory still ends with an observer.
3:34:58ENAn 18-year-old bought a one-way ticket to the AmazonGuest Paul Rosolie · Host Lex FridmanPaul Rosolie had no degree, no funding, and no expedition. Seventeen years later he is still there, protecting a library of life we have not finished reading.
4:27:46ENHalf a Million Girls in Wells, and We Still Change the ChannelGuest Sam Harris · Host Lex FridmanSam Harris tells Lex Fridman why emotional contagion is a bad moral compass, why Trump broke norms more than laws, and why Twitter, COVID, and AGI all look like failures of seriousness.
2:50:03ENAll I see is silverGuest B-Team Jiu Jitsu · Host Lex FridmanCraig Jones, Nicky Rod, and Nicky Ryan on winning, the Death Squad split, and why a brown belt still will not take a black belt.
2:13:07ENHe Worked Scientology Full-Time and Never Learned What It Believed at the TopGuest Aaron Smith-Levin · Host Lex FridmanFormer Sea Org member Aaron Smith-Levin walks Lex Fridman from thetans and Dianetics to billion-year contracts, OT levels, and the family-destruction policy he uses to call it a cult.
3:07:18ENIf Human History Were a Thousand-Page Book, Nearly All of It Would Be BlankGuest Tim Urban · Host Lex FridmanTim Urban walks Lex Fridman through a self-help book for societies, from a gratitude dial in every head to the movements that hijack liberal institutions.
3:57:49ENAella's 500,000-person survey, and why she still fears looking stupidGuest Aella · Host Lex FridmanThe independent sex researcher and sex worker tells Lex Fridman why anyone can run a study, why childhood fetish stories feel true, and why she would not press a button that ends wanting.
3:17:27ENWe live in an eddy pool of counter-entropyGuest Paul Conti · Host Lex FridmanPsychiatrist Paul Conti tells Lex Fridman that creation is a rare reversal of the universe's drift toward nothing, and that most orchestrated evil is envy wearing a moral costume.
3:02:52ENI Wanted to Ask God About Hunger and War. I Was Afraid He’d Ask Me the Same QuestionGuest Omar Suleiman · Host Lex FridmanImam Omar Suleiman talks with Lex Fridman about God, his mother’s long illness, why Islam treats suffering as a pixel on a larger canvas, and why seeking truth is worthless if you will not live by it.
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