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Lex Fridman· Mar 25, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersDana White Built the UFC From What He Loved — and Hated — About BoxingGuest Dana White · Host Lex FridmanThe UFC president tells Lex Fridman how a $2 million bargain, a jiu-jitsu mat, and a lifetime of fight-fan grudges became a global sport.
3:07:27ENLex Fridman· Mar 22, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersFive Billion Dead, and One Person Has Six MinutesGuest Annie Jacobsen · Host Lex FridmanAnnie Jacobsen walks Lex Fridman from a second-by-second nuclear exchange to CIA secrecy, Area 51, and why she still wants the word “could” kept in the sentence.
1:55:10ENLex Fridman· Mar 18, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersSam Altman Expects the Road to AGI to Be a Power StruggleGuest Sam Altman · Host Lex FridmanOn a Friday afternoon in November 2023, OpenAI's board fired its CEO. Four and a half days later he was back, still refusing super-voting control.
1:47:08ENLex Fridman· Mar 10, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersKimbal Musk Cooks So People Will Sit DownGuest Kimbal Musk · Host Lex FridmanThe chef, Tesla board member, and author of The Kitchen Cookbook talks with Lex Fridman about apartheid South Africa, a broken neck, Zip2, and why a table beats a nightclub.
2:47:17ENLex Fridman· Mar 7, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersIf You Want Human-Level AI, Abandon Generative ModelsGuest Yann Lecun · Host Lex FridmanYann LeCun tells Lex Fridman why autoregressive LLMs cannot plan, remember, or understand the physical world — and why open source is the only democratic answer.
3:20:00ENLex Fridman· Mar 4, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe last empire is still falling: Serhii Plokhy on Ukraine, Russia, and 1991Guest Serhii Plokhy · Host Lex FridmanHarvard historian Serhii Plokhy tells Lex Fridman why the war in Ukraine is the unfinished collapse of the Russian Empire — not a sudden break with history.
3:04:22ENLex Fridman· Feb 27, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA Ten-Page Memo Told Tucker Carlson Not to Interview PutinGuest Tucker Carlson · Host Lex FridmanAfter eight days in Moscow, Carlson tells Lex Fridman why he let Vladimir Putin talk, what Navalny’s death does and does not prove, and why he thinks Washington is blocking a settlement in Ukraine.
3:32:44ENLex Fridman· Feb 20, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersWhen a Company Fails, Blame the Board: Bill Ackman on Value, Harvard, and a Journalist With a PenGuest Bill Ackman · Host Lex FridmanThe Pershing Square founder walks Lex Fridman from Benjamin Graham's Mr. Market through activist battles, campus ideology, and a looming fight with Business Insider.
1:43:47ENLex Fridman· Feb 16, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersYou Have to Run Before You Can Walk: Marc Raibert on Making Metal Look AliveGuest Marc Raibert · Host Lex FridmanThe Boston Dynamics founder tells Lex Fridman why aggressive hopping beat cautious walking, how 109 Atlas falls became a method, and why robots still need a second kind of intelligence.
2:22:18ENLex Fridman· Feb 1, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersOur Palestinian Casualties Are Always Your FootnotesGuest Omar Suleiman · Host Lex FridmanImam Omar Suleiman tells Lex Fridman that October 7 was a predictable explosion of occupation, and that justice means ending apartheid rather than managing it with kindness.
6:00:54ENLex Fridman· Jan 17, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe First Crime Was a Bottle of Wite-OutGuest Matthew Cox · Host Lex FridmanMatthew Cox walks Lex Fridman through how a 29-year-old broker's tiny lie became synthetic identities, fake banks, a three-year FBI manhunt, and 13 years in federal prison.
1:50:08ENLex Fridman· Jan 9, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersJeff Beck gave his signature solo to a 21-year-old bassistGuest Tal Wilkenfeld · Host Lex FridmanTal Wilkenfeld talks with Lex Fridman about Crossroads, Prince, Leonard Cohen, and why she would rather stand on the edge of a cliff than play it safe.
2:53:09ENLex Fridman· Dec 29, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersFear is the civilization killer: Guillaume Verdon on e/acc, thermodynamics, and being unmaskedGuest Guillaume Verdon · Host Lex FridmanThe physicist behind BasedBeffJezos tells Lex Fridman why out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics, anonymity, and a meme movement are his answer to AI deceleration.
2:09:09ENLex Fridman· Dec 24, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersA 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.
2:11:32ENLex Fridman· Dec 14, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThere Are a Thousand Ways to Be Smart: Jeff Bezos on Amazon and the Road to SpaceGuest Jeff Bezos · Host Lex FridmanIn a two-hour conversation with Lex Fridman, the Amazon founder talks through ranch self-reliance, New Glenn, Day One culture, and why he treats large language models as discoveries.
3:19:21ENLex Fridman· Dec 9, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersComplexity without copies is just randomness: Lee Cronin on assembly theoryGuest Lee Cronin · Host Lex FridmanThe Glasgow chemist walks Lex Fridman through his controversial Nature paper, a proposed life meter for other worlds, and the claim that the universe is too big to contain its own future.
59:24ENLex Fridman· Dec 3, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersIf You Only Trust What You Can See, You Miss Most of the UniverseGuest Lisa Randall · Host Lex FridmanHarvard physicist Lisa Randall talks with Lex Fridman about dark matter, dinosaur extinctions, the LHC, and why a theory is only as good as the measurement that can kill it.
1:39:02ENLex Fridman· Nov 25, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersMost 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.
3:26:41ENLex Fridman· Nov 18, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThere Is No 911 in International PoliticsGuest John Mearsheimer · Host Lex FridmanJohn Mearsheimer applies offensive realism to Ukraine, Gaza, Taiwan, and the American century still ahead.
2:16:46ENLex Fridman· Nov 9, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersPhysics 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.
3:48:39ENLex Fridman· Oct 11, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersTwo million hostages, and a peace process that paid both sides to failGuest Jared Kushner · Host Lex FridmanTwo days after a long talk on Middle East peace, Lex Fridman sat down with Jared Kushner again to face Hamas’s October 7 attack.
1:04:38ENLex Fridman· Sep 28, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersHundreds of Miles Apart, Zuckerberg and Fridman Sat Close Enough to See the WrinklesGuest Mark Zuckerberg · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman sat in a dark room in Austin wearing a Quest headset; Mark Zuckerberg sat in another conference room, also wearing one, and it did not feel like a video call.
2:31:58ENLex Fridman· Sep 24, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersCancel 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.
3:44:36ENLex Fridman· Sep 17, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersDisconnection 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.Load moreShowing 24 of 527