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Lex Fridman· Apr 24, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersTrust, Then Verify: How Square Let 99 Percent of Merchants InGuest Jack Dorsey · Host Lex FridmanJack Dorsey tells Lex Fridman why Square is an access company, why the internet needs a native currency, and why self-awareness is being outsourced to algorithms.
2:09:02ENLex Fridman· Apr 22, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersA Hundred-Nanometer Machine That Is Not Quite AliveGuest Dmitry Korkin · Host Lex FridmanDmitry Korkin walks through the structural genomics of SARS-CoV-2, from spike-ACE2 docking to drug-binding sites, vaccines, and cruise-ship simulations, recorded in the first spring of the pandemic.
3:11:09ENLex Fridman· Apr 18, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersIn the computational universe, the animals are always smarter than youGuest Stephen Wolfram · Host Lex FridmanStephen Wolfram talks with Lex Fridman about Rule 30, computational irreducibility, a hypergraph model of physics, and why Wolfram Language is a notation for talking about the world.
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Jane Street· Apr 15, 2020Raph Levien: GPU Compute, Functional Design, and a 2D RendererRaph LevienA tour of GPU execution and memory explains why parallel rendering needs more than simply assigning one thread to every pixel.
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GOTO Conferences· Apr 14, 2020The Five Pillars of Collaborative Product OwnershipJohn Le DrewJohn Le Drew argues that teams can share product knowledge and test decisions together.
2:46:36ENLex Fridman· Apr 13, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Great Nap Is OverGuest Eric Weinstein · Host Lex FridmanMathematician Eric Weinstein tells Lex Fridman that seventy-five quiet years selected the wrong leaders, then walks through Geometric Unity, the theory he kept in a drawer for decades.
11:26ENLex Fridman· Apr 11, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersRichard Dawkins on Memes, the Internet and Why Wrong Ideas SpreadGuest Richard Dawkins · Host Lex FridmanThe man who coined the word explains to Lex Fridman what makes a meme more than a metaphor, why the internet is a step change for ideas, and why an idea, like a peacock's tail, doesn't need to be true or useful to spread.
1:07:21ENLex Fridman· Apr 9, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersComplex Things Have to GrowGuest Richard Dawkins · Host Lex FridmanRichard Dawkins talks with Lex Fridman about alien minds, memes, morality, and why even a simulated world would still need Darwin.
1:48:01ENLex Fridman· Apr 3, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersDavid Silver: AlphaGo Won by Taking Human Knowledge OutGuest David Silver · Host Lex FridmanThe DeepMind researcher behind AlphaGo and AlphaZero tells Lex Fridman how an unclaimed million-dollar Go prize, a BBC Micro at age seven, and a honeymoon insight led to superhuman self-play.
1:41ENLex Fridman· Apr 2, 2020PodcastA Talk on Measuring Passion Rather Than ProgressA speaker offers a personal perspective on goals and outside advice.
1:27:57ENLex Fridman· Mar 31, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Brain's Best Computer Has No Inner LifeGuest Roger Penrose · Host Lex FridmanRoger Penrose tells Lex Fridman why HAL raises a moral problem the field will not name, why the cerebellum wrecks the computational theory of mind, and why gravity, Gödel, and an infinite cosmos all hang on the same kind of understanding.
12:42ENLex Fridman· Mar 28, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Experience Machine: What Our Refusal to Plug In Says About What We ValueGuest Nick Bostrom · Host Lex FridmanNick Bostrom unpacks Robert Nozick's experience machine, the status quo effect behind our answers, and whether a simulation convincing enough to feel real would have to contain real minds.
1:56:38ENLex Fridman· Mar 25, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersBostrom Will Not Pick a Fork: The Simulation Argument Is a Disjunction, Not a BetGuest Nick Bostrom · Host Lex FridmanNick Bostrom walks Lex Fridman through the simulation argument, anthropic reasoning, and why superintelligence talk should be split into near-term and long-term conversations.
37:49ENLex Fridman· Mar 21, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersYou cannot finish first in a game that has no finish lineGuest Simon Sinek · Host Lex FridmanSimon Sinek on finite versus infinite games, the legacy a career leaves, and why passion cannot be demanded.
1:38:33ENLex Fridman· Mar 19, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersMaybe people are rational under different assumptionsGuest Anca Dragan · Host Lex FridmanAnca Dragan talks with Lex Fridman about inverse reinforcement learning, autonomous driving, and why a written reward is evidence rather than law.
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.
1:35:04ENLex Fridman· Mar 16, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersSatoshi Vanished. Vitalik Stayed Behind to Finish the Other Half.Guest Vitalik Buterin · Host Lex FridmanVitalik Buterin tells Lex Fridman what money actually is, what Satoshi invented, and why Ethereum is trying to become more than a points game.
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3Blue1Brown· Mar 15, 2020Binomial Distributions and the Problem of Seller RatingsHow review counts, independent trials and uncertainty about an unknown success rate fit together.
1:09:52ENLex Fridman· Mar 7, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersLee Smolin Does Not Believe in the Scientific MethodGuest Lee Smolin · Host Lex FridmanThe theoretical physicist talks with Lex Fridman about realism, the measurement problem, and why finishing Einstein’s revolution means treating time as fundamental and locality as optional.
4:51ENLex Fridman· Mar 6, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersAlex Garland on Technology and Space ExplorationGuest Alex Garland · Host Lex FridmanThe filmmaker discusses real-world inspiration for fiction.
1:09:12ENLex Fridman· Mar 5, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersAnn Druyan on Voyager, Carl Sagan, and Love Without IllusionGuest Ann Druyan · Host Lex FridmanThe creative director of the Voyager Golden Record argues that science is an error-correcting way of seeing the universe — and of seeing another person.
1:11:09ENLex Fridman· Mar 3, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersAva smiled when nobody was watchingGuest Alex Garland · Host Lex FridmanAlex Garland talks with Lex Fridman about Ex Machina, Annihilation, Devs, and how you tell whether anything is really in there.
1:12:48ENLex Fridman· Feb 29, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersJohn Hopfield's Physics of Mind: Glitches Become FeaturesGuest John Hopfield · Host Lex FridmanThe Princeton physicist walks Lex Fridman from a wobbly London bridge to Hopfield networks, consciousness-as-story, and why his famous model still does not explain learning.
1:39:56ENLex Fridman· Feb 26, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersWhy Marcus Hutter Treats Compression as Intelligence ItselfGuest Marcus Hutter · Host Lex FridmanThe DeepMind researcher behind AIXI tells Lex Fridman why a Wikipedia compression contest, Solomonoff induction, and an incomputable formula belong in the same conversation.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,484