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2:25ENMichael Stevens on Perception, Reality and Everyday EthicsGuest Michael Stevens · Host Lex FridmanA Vsauce conversation explores what can be known and how people act.
58:33ENScience cannot prove that the Earth is not flatGuest Michael Stevens · Host Lex FridmanVsauce creator Michael Stevens tells Lex Fridman why unfalsifiable ghosts, time-capsule states, and a YouTube recommendation mirror all belong in the same argument about curiosity.
1:45:58ENNine of ten colleagues said far-field speech was impossibleGuest Rohit Prasad · Host Lex FridmanRohit Prasad, Amazon’s vice president and head scientist for Alexa, talks with Lex Fridman about conversational AI, the Alexa Prize, trust, and why a 20-minute chat is still years away.
5:14ENJudea Pearl on Human-Level AI and a Test of Free WillGuest Judea Pearl · Host Lex FridmanA 2019 thought experiment about causal reasoning, communication and self-models.
2:11ENJudea Pearl’s Advice to Students: Ask and Think IndependentlyGuest Judea Pearl · Host Lex FridmanPearl discusses curiosity, criticism and finding one’s own way.
1:23:01ENYou Cannot Ask a Question You Have No Words ForGuest Judea Pearl · Host Lex FridmanA teenager spent three days in bed with a fever after learning that geometry could be done in algebra — then spent a career giving cause and effect a mathematics.
49:48ENMichael Sikorski on Reverse Engineering RansomwareMichael Sikorski · FireEyeA malware analyst traces the tools and decisions behind ransomware investigations, from encrypted files to the WannaCry and NotPetya outbreaks.
8:29ENRay Dalio on Work, Relationships and the Arc of LifeGuest Ray Dalio · Host Lex FridmanA 2019 conversation about purpose and changing responsibilities.
1:16:58ENFear of Robots Is a Champagne Problem, Says Whitney CummingsGuest Whitney Cummings · Host Lex FridmanThe comedian talks with Lex Fridman about Bear Claw, sex robots, factory farms, codependency, and terror management.
1:30:20ENThe 1982 Crash Was the Best Thing That Happened to Ray DalioGuest Ray Dalio · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with the Bridgewater founder about truth, shapers, credit, AI, and why pain plus reflection equals progress.
35:46ENYou never hear structure: Noam Chomsky on language, cognition, and deep learningGuest Noam Chomsky · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman asks the linguist whether we could talk to aliens, how far language goes in the brain, and whether neural networks tell us anything about the mind.
49:53ENGilbert Strang still teaches with thick chalk and four subspacesGuest Gilbert Strang · Host Lex FridmanThe MIT linear-algebra legend talks with Lex Fridman about OpenCourseWare, singular values, neural nets as a million folds, and why calculus hogged the undergraduate timetable.
3:51ENDava Newman on AI for Space Missions and EarthGuest Dava Newman · Host Lex FridmanAn aerospace engineer discusses autonomy, testing and climate data.
1:58ENDava Newman on Reusable RocketsGuest Dava Newman · Host Lex FridmanA 2019 conversation about spacecraft reuse and precision landing.
19:06ENGrant Sanderson on Mathematical Curiosity and LearningGrant SandersonA 2019 Q&A about playful discovery, math anxiety, educational resources and more.
39:33ENMars is not Plan B: Dava Newman on spacesuits, autonomy, and Spaceship EarthGuest Dava Newman · Host Lex FridmanThe MIT Apollo professor and former NASA deputy administrator on Magellan’s crew, mechanical counterpressure, and why the next decade belongs to Earth.
7:23ENMichael Kearns on Game Theory and Machine LearningGuest Michael Kearns · Host Lex FridmanWhy individually optimized choices can produce a less desirable collective outcome.
1:48:55ENThree Fairness Rules That Cannot All Be TrueGuest Michael Kearns · Host Lex FridmanMichael Kearns tells Lex Fridman why algorithmic fairness is messier than privacy, and why a Pareto curve belongs in front of the people who actually have to choose.
2:15ENElon Musk on Neuralink and Understanding the BrainGuest Elon Musk · Host Lex FridmanA 2019 interview about proposed brain measurements.
4:01ENElon Musk on AI Safety and RegulationGuest Elon Musk · Host Lex FridmanA 2019 conversation about oversight and uncertain technological outcomes.
4:43ENElon Musk on Brain-Machine Interfaces and Digital IntelligenceGuest Elon Musk · Host Lex FridmanA 2019 discussion of brain analogies and a speculative digital layer.
36:10ENSo You're Saying There's a Chance: Musk on Neuralink, AI, and a Pale Blue DotGuest Elon Musk · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman and Elon Musk move from consciousness and an AI referee to the engineering of a brain implant, Tesla Autopilot, and Carl Sagan's lonely speck.
6:56ENBjarne Stroustrup on Learning More Than One Programming LanguageGuest Bjarne Stroustrup · Host Lex FridmanThe C++ creator discusses perspectives, machine architecture and abstraction.
1:47:13ENWhen You Hit the Brakes, a Computer Is in the WayGuest Bjarne Stroustrup · Host Lex FridmanBjarne Stroustrup on why C++ still sits between the pedal and the pads, and why an abstraction that costs extra has no place in the language.
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