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1:56:31ENA Blank Wall Is Not More Conscious Than a PersonGuest Scott Aaronson · Host Lex FridmanScott Aaronson walks Lex Fridman through integrated information theory, Penrose’s uncomputable mind, GPT-3, P versus NP, and why silent support for open discourse has to get louder.
59:33ENLaurent Mazare on Python, OCaml and Machine LearningYaron Minsky, Laurent Mazare · Jane StreetA researcher compares exploratory notebooks with robust production systems, and explains how language interoperability and resource management connect the two.
2:23:38ENThe Brain That Never Touches the WorldGuest Lisa Feldman Barrett · Host Lex FridmanNeuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett tells Lex Fridman why your skull is a dark box, why emotions are constructed like money, and why empathy is a metabolic bill.
3:23:56ENThose Who Need Leaders Are Not Qualified to Choose ThemGuest Michael Malice · Host Lex FridmanAnarchist writer Michael Malice tells Lex Fridman how he defines love, why mockery is Batman’s job, and why anarchism is a relationship rather than a utopia.
1:10:27ENGreta Yorsh on Compiler Optimization and FeedbackYaron Minsky, Greta Yorsh · Jane StreetFrom formal verification and superoptimization to profile-guided code layout, a compiler engineer explains how performance work meets real users.
1:19:11ENJoe Rogan Spent Seven Hours on an EllipticalGuest Joe Rogan · Host Lex FridmanIn a 2020 conversation with Lex Fridman, he talks through death, a country already at an eight, and the lock he built around a competitive demon that never left.
1:51:01ENJames Gosling Built Java to Make Pointer Bugs Impossible. Chrome Still Has Them.Guest James Gosling · Host Lex FridmanIn a 2020 conversation with Lex Fridman, Java’s designer traces a line from a neglected PDP-8 to Emacs, the JVM, and a thirty-year war on memory errors.
1:02:18ENBrian Nigito on Multicast and the Architecture of MarketsYaron Minsky, Brian Nigito · Jane StreetWhy exchanges use ordered event streams, multicast and specialized networking to distribute market data quickly and fairly.
3:48:14ENIf You Cannot Cause Harm, You Are Forever Subject to Those Who CanGuest Ryan Hall · Host Lex FridmanUFC fighter and jiu-jitsu black belt Ryan Hall talks with Lex Fridman about warriors, grace, coaching, and the thin social contract that keeps violence in check.
59:26ENAndy Ray on FPGAs, Hardware Design and HardcamlYaron Minsky, Andy Ray · Jane StreetJane Street’s hardware design lead explains why programmable circuits can improve performance and how software tooling makes them easier to build and test.
4:23:39ENThe Universe's Rule Might Fit on a PostcardGuest Stephen Wolfram · Host Lex FridmanStephen Wolfram tells Lex Fridman how a short computational rule on a hypergraph could generate space, time, relativity, and quantum mechanics.
2:10:53ENAll Your DNA Would Reach Jupiter a Hundred Times OverGuest Manolis Kellis · Host Lex FridmanManolis Kellis talks Lex Fridman through the epigenome, Neanderthals, Europa, midlife, and why "are you happy?" is the wrong question.
1:16:15ENAll-In E7: California, Gig Work and the SPAC BoomHost Jason Calacanis, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks, David FriedbergFour investors debate California policy, police reform, markets and the 2020 election.
3:56:24ENThe Tic-Tac Knew We Were ThereGuest David Fravor · Host Lex FridmanNavy commander David Fravor tells Lex Fridman what four Super Hornet aircrew saw off the USS Nimitz in 2004, why he does not buy a secret human aircraft, and how an unexplained object never made anyone's to-do list.
3:01:07ENLoneliness Has No Clinic. Eugenia Kuyda Built an AI Friend AnywayGuest Eugenia Kuyda · Host Lex FridmanThe Replika co-founder talks with Lex Fridman about grief, conversation, and why memory—not a clever reply—is the real limit of AI companionship.
2:34:20ENIntelligence Is How Efficiently You Acquire Skills You Were Not Prepared ForGuest François Chollet · Host Lex FridmanFrançois Chollet tells Lex Fridman why skill is not intelligence, why GPT-3 is still pattern matching, and why a grid puzzle called ARC still separates children from machines.
1:41:24ENA child can lose half a brain. The rest will rewire around the jobGuest David Eagleman · Host Lex FridmanNeuroscientist David Eagleman tells Lex Fridman why the human brain is not hardware running software, but a livewired system that never stops physically reshaping itself.
2:08:26ENSatisfying Lectures Don't Stick: Grant Sanderson on Feynman, Fear, and Hitting PublishGuest Grant Sanderson · Host Lex FridmanThe 3Blue1Brown creator talks with Lex Fridman about why the nicest explanations can fail, why he envies Bell Labs, and why the experts most qualified to teach are the ones least willing to post.
2:56:24ENIt Is Knowing We Will Die That Makes Us HumanGuest Sheldon Solomon · Host Lex FridmanSheldon Solomon tells Lex Fridman how death anxiety, from an eight-year-old's stamp collection to 28-millisecond lab primes, quietly runs politics, religion, and everyday life.
1:41:35ENThe Smallest Lights: Sara Seager on Finding Life Beyond the SunGuest Sara Seager · Host Lex FridmanThe MIT planetary scientist talks with Lex Fridman about exoplanets, biosignature gases, a flower-shaped starshade, and the grief that sent her looking for another Earth.
2:10:06ENYou Might Have to Understand the World to Understand the Letter AGuest Dileep George · Host Lex FridmanDileep George on recursive cortical networks, why a five-year-old can read any new CAPTCHA, and what the Wright brothers actually learned from birds.
2:48:46ENLet Physics Walk: Russ Tedrake on Underactuated Robots, Contact, and Barefoot CommutesGuest Russ Tedrake · Host Lex FridmanMIT’s Russ Tedrake talks with Lex Fridman about gravity-powered walkers, a dead trout that swims upstream, why contact still breaks classical control, and what the DARPA Robotics Challenge taught him about testing.
2:29:24ENWe Are the Descendants of the First Digital ComputerGuest Manolis Kellis · Host Lex FridmanMIT computational biologist Manolis Kellis tells Lex Fridman why life is digital, why any two humans are 99.9 percent identical, and what evolutionary signatures reveal inside SARS-CoV-2.
1:34:10ENAll-In E6: Antitrust, Startup Acquisitions and Platform SpeechHost Jason Calacanis, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks, David FriedbergA July 2020 debate on Big Tech hearings, marketplace power and the presidential election.
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