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Lex Fridman· Sep 16, 2026PodcastPsychiatry Has Never Found Its PenicillinHost Lex FridmanHistorian Andrew Scull tells Lex Fridman why the field can ease symptoms, has never cured a major mental illness, and keeps paying for overconfidence with patients' lives.
2:03:23ENLex Fridman· Apr 9, 2026PodcastWe Have No King: How Viking Raiders Remade Medieval EuropeHost Lex FridmanHistorian Lars Brownworth walks Lex Fridman from Lindisfarne to Vinland, arguing that three centuries of raids were a lesson in speed, pragmatism, and creative destruction.
4:25:13ENLex Fridman· Jan 31, 2026PodcastThe Architecture Barely Changed. Data, Cost, and Open Weights Did.Host Lex FridmanNathan Lambert and Sebastian Raschka walk Lex Fridman through a year in which training methods and datasets moved more than model design, and 2026 looks like a fight over inference cost, agents, and who owns truly open models.
3:52:17ENLex Fridman· Dec 31, 2025PodcastSome Infinities Are Larger Than OthersHost Lex FridmanJoel David Hamkins walks Lex Fridman from Hilbert's Hotel through Gödel, the continuum hypothesis, and a set-theoretic multiverse where truth is not the same as proof.
4:05:15ENLex Fridman· Jun 26, 2025PodcastThey could not agree whether Iran was building a bomb. They still wanted the same next move.Host Lex FridmanAfter the Iran-Israel ceasefire, Scott Horton and Mark Dubowitz spend four hours on Lex Fridman arguing over enrichment math, a stolen archive, and whether bombing Fordo makes a weapon more likely or less.
3:15:17ENLex Fridman· Mar 26, 2025PodcastDemocrats still think politics runs on money. It runs on attention.Host Lex FridmanEzra Klein and Derek Thompson tell Lex Fridman why the left keeps authorizing billions it cannot build, and why DOGE is a fight over control rather than efficiency.
5:06:18ENLex Fridman· Feb 2, 2025PodcastDeepSeek's $5 million training claim and the five-year bet on computeHost Lex FridmanDylan Patel and Nathan Lambert walk Lex Fridman through DeepSeek-V3 and R1, export controls, TSMC, megaclusters, and who actually makes money in the AI race.
57:45ENLex Fridman· Nov 1, 2024PodcastThe last thing a totalitarian state can take is love — a reread of Orwell’s 1984Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman walks back through Oceania’s machinery of Newspeak, Doublethink, and Room 101, and argues that hate-fueled rebellion is not a way out.
6:17ENLex Fridman· Nov 1, 2024PodcastGSP would rather street-fight Ngannou than Bas RuttenHost Lex FridmanAfter their podcast, Georges St-Pierre walks Lex Fridman through a short clinic on surprise, dirty targets, knives, and why a UFC title is worthless against a blade.
1:02:32ENLex Fridman· Oct 23, 2024PodcastThe More Important the Issue, the Less Anyone Discusses ItHost Lex FridmanBernie Sanders tells Lex Fridman why drug lobbyists, campaign cash, and a healthcare system built for profit keep the biggest American problems off the table.
1:04:17ENLex Fridman· Sep 3, 2024PodcastTrump Tells Lex Fridman the Stick Usually WinsHost Lex FridmanDays before debating Kamala Harris, the former president talked winning, Ukraine, the 2020 election, and the border chart he still carries.
4:57:15ENLex Fridman· Mar 14, 2024PodcastThe Same Archive, Four Meanings: Finkelstein, Morris, Rabbani and Destiny Debate Israel and PalestineHost Lex FridmanA nearly five-hour Lex Fridman debate in which four opposed voices argue over 1948, October 7, Gaza, and whether any peace is still possible.
2:20:04ENLex Fridman· Jan 23, 2024PodcastShapiro vs Destiny: Two Questions That Never MeetHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman sits Ben Shapiro and Destiny down for a long-delayed debate on liberalism, Trump, Gaza, Ukraine, January 6, and whether history is allowed to go backward.
4:11:06ENLex Fridman· Nov 18, 2022PodcastThe climate problem is real. The 12-year asteroid story is not.Host Lex FridmanBjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin tell Lex Fridman why vulnerability, cheaper tons of carbon, and energy innovation matter more than apocalyptic deadlines.
2:26:29ENLex Fridman· Oct 24, 2022PodcastYe said schools should teach only engineering. Then he spent an hour rewriting history.Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman’s podcast in October 2022, the artist formerly known as Kanye West talked design, family, and a theory about Jewish control that the host would not let stand.
4:05:22ENLex Fridman· Apr 24, 2022PodcastIf We Cannot Say What Life Is, We Cannot Recognize AliensHost Lex FridmanAstrobiologist Sara Walker and chemist Lee Cronin argue that the hunt for alien life is really a hunt for a physics of memory, objects, and time.
2:59:02ENLex Fridman· Jan 30, 2022PodcastWhen the Answers Are Already Known, Look Where Everyone Stopped LookingHost Lex FridmanGeorges St-Pierre, John Danaher, and Gordon Ryan sit with Lex Fridman to unpack success, confidence, training, and why the greatest of all time may not even be born yet.
2:58:05ENLex Fridman· Jan 15, 2022PodcastThe Declaration of 1776 and the Constitution of 1787 Pull in Opposite DirectionsHost Lex FridmanYaron Brook and Yoram Hazony spend three hours arguing whether a free society is built on the individual or on the sticky, hierarchical groups that individuals cannot live without.
2:54:52ENLex Fridman· Aug 8, 2021PodcastThe Marvelous Proof Still Lives in the MarginHost Lex FridmanLuís and João Batalha, the brothers behind Fermat's Library, talk with Lex Fridman about hidden backstories, a publishing system that buys its own work twice, and how to sit with a paper until it finally clicks.
4:25:18ENLex Fridman· Apr 24, 2021PodcastAn Anarchist and an Objectivist on a Desert IslandHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman sits Michael Malice and Yaron Brook down together for the first time to argue about Ayn Rand, human nature, Bitcoin, and whether liberty can exist without a state.
1:18:35ENLex Fridman· Jan 27, 2021PodcastAn AI That Walks Among Us May Have to Know DepressionHost Lex FridmanIn a January 2021 AMA, Lex Fridman answers listeners on suffering machines, immigration, aliens, career pivots, and why happiness is a signal rather than a goal.
2:02:45ENLex Fridman· Dec 26, 2020PodcastSteal the Code: You Get Zero Points for Making the Algorithm RunHost Lex FridmanCharles Isbell and Michael Littman tell Lex Fridman why machine learning is not just statistics, why struggle has to stay hopeful, and what a $6,600 online master's actually sells.
45:31ENLex Fridman· Jul 1, 2020PodcastYou Are Your Own Existence Proof: Karl Friston on Free Energy, Life, and Self-AwarenessHost Lex FridmanKarl Friston explains how the free energy principle reframes existence, life, planning, and self-awareness as inference problems.
17:19ENLex Fridman· Mar 17, 2020PodcastMoney Is a Game of Points: Vitalik Buterin on Coordination, Public Goods, and Quadratic FundingHost Lex FridmanVitalik Buterin explains money as a social point system, why value can survive without physical backing, and how quadratic funding tries to fix public-good underfunding.Load moreShowing 24 of 113