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Lex 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.
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.
1:09:12ENLex 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.
1:33:42ENLex Fridman· Feb 17, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersAsk One Question of Every Quantum Headline: Is It Faster Than Classical?Guest Scott Aaronson · Host Lex FridmanScott Aaronson walks Lex Fridman from Turing's method of replacing unanswerable riddles with workable ones to Google's quantum supremacy experiment, and explains why useful chemistry simulation is closer than breaking RSA.
1:02:45ENLex Fridman· Jan 7, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersAliens Would Count. They Probably Wouldn't Write e^x.Guest Grant Sanderson · Host Lex FridmanGrant Sanderson of 3Blue1Brown talks with Lex Fridman about notation, infinity, and why a visualization has to pick a single arrow.
1:35:00ENLex Fridman· Dec 25, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersNASA Once Spent 5 Percent of the Economy to Go 250,000 Miles. Mars Is a Hundred Times Farther.Guest Jim Gates · Host Lex FridmanTheorist S. James Gates Jr. talks with Lex Fridman about Mars budgets, supersymmetry, error-correcting codes hiding in equations, and why string theory is not yet a theory.
58:33ENLex Fridman· Dec 17, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersScience 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.
35:46ENLex Fridman· Nov 29, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersYou 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.
49:53ENLex Fridman· Nov 25, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersGilbert 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.
1:29:58ENLex Fridman· Nov 1, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersBelieve the Schrödinger Equation. The Cost Is Extra WorldsGuest Sean Carroll · Host Lex FridmanSean Carroll talks with Lex Fridman about why many-worlds is the barest form of quantum mechanics, why spacetime may only be an approximation, and why measurement should not be a primitive in the laws of physics.
1:00:06ENLex Fridman· Aug 23, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersPamela McCorduck: AI Began With the Ancient Wish to Forge the GodsGuest Pamela McCorduck · Host Lex FridmanThe novelist who wrote the first popular history of artificial intelligence talks with Lex Fridman about Dartmouth, AI winters, and why existential panic looks like the male gaze.
54:58ENLex FridmanPodcastEric Weinstein on Geometric Unity: One Canvas, Fourteen Dimensions and a Theory of EverythingHost Lex FridmanEric Weinstein talks with Lex Fridman about releasing his Oxford lecture, why academia resists his ideas, and how Geometric Unity tries to derive matter from the geometry of spacetime.