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Lex Fridman· Dec 20, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersBuilding a Driver, Not a Copilot: Waymo CTO Dmitri Dolgov on Fully Driverless CarsGuest Dmitri Dolgov · Host Lex FridmanFrom a 3 a.m. parking-lot planner at Stanford to a public robotaxi in Phoenix, Dolgov tells Lex Fridman why driver assist and a real driver are different products.
2:18:26ENLex Fridman· Dec 18, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Dollar Paper Strip That Could Have Turned Covid's CurveGuest Michael Mina · Host Lex FridmanHarvard immunologist Michael Mina tells Lex Fridman why twice-weekly antigen tests could have reversed the pandemic—and why regulation, not manufacturing, blocked them.
3:39:01ENLex Fridman· Dec 14, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersMatthew Johnson on loosening the priors that run a human lifeGuest Matthew Johnson · Host Lex FridmanThe Johns Hopkins psychiatrist walks Lex Fridman through receptors, addiction, DMT entities, a 15-person smoking trial, and why psychedelics have taught us almost nothing about the hard problem of consciousness.
2:01:07ENLex Fridman· Dec 12, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersMichael Littman isn’t waiting for a runaway god. He’s watching us.Guest Michael Littman · Host Lex FridmanThe Brown reinforcement-learning researcher tells Lex Fridman why accidental superintelligence feels like a 747 assembling itself — and why social media, rote language, and theory of mind worry him more.
2:59:53ENLex Fridman· Dec 6, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersFor Every Triumph, Many Souls Must Be TrampledGuest John Clarke · Host Lex FridmanJohn Clarke, Lex Fridman's jiu-jitsu coach, on why most people who train are not martial artists, and what excellence actually costs.
2:14:55ENLex Fridman· Nov 30, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersHis Wife Calls Him the RadioGuest Manolis Kellis · Host Lex FridmanMIT computational biologist Manolis Kellis spends the first forty minutes of his fourth Lex Fridman conversation on the songs that formed him, then turns to 42, dinosaurs, and why hunting for meaning matters more than finding it.
1:44:47ENLex Fridman· Nov 25, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersErik Brynjolfsson on the Exponential Mismatch Remaking Work and PoliticsGuest Erik Brynjolfsson · Host Lex FridmanThe Stanford economist tells Lex Fridman why COVID, AI, and social networks all punish linear intuition — and why shared prosperity is the only way the pie-growing story holds.
2:20:31ENLex Fridman· Nov 20, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Most Romantic Gift Lisa Feldman Barrett Ever Got Was a Six-Way PlugGuest Lisa Feldman Barrett · Host Lex FridmanOn her second Lex Fridman Podcast, the neuroscientist traces how she fell in love over a 1992 bulletin board, why brains evolved to hunt rather than to think, and how a body budget can change a mood.
2:35:30ENLex Fridman· Nov 16, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersOn a Perfectly Flat Floor, Heights Still WorkGuest Andrew Huberman · Host Lex FridmanStanford neuroscientist Andrew Huberman talks with Lex Fridman about fear circuits, matching inner arousal to outer demand, and why the first minutes after sleep should not belong to someone else's timeline.
2:53:14ENLex Fridman· Nov 13, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersYaron Brook on Ayn Rand: Reason, Selfishness, and a Fading EnlightenmentGuest Yaron Brook · Host Lex FridmanThe Ayn Rand Institute's chairman walks Lex Fridman through Objectivism, from metaphysics and egoism to capitalism, anarchism, and why so many people still roll their eyes at Rand.
2:40:00ENLex Fridman· Nov 7, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Light Never Broke the Speed Limit. Space Itself Stretched.Guest Alex Filippenko · Host Lex FridmanBerkeley astrophysicist Alex Filippenko talks dark energy, exploding stars, aliens, and how a 13.7-billion-year-old universe can be 45.7 billion light-years across.
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Jane Street· Nov 6, 2020Inside Jane Street’s Software Engineering InternshipYaron Minsky, Jeanne Van Briesen, Matt Else, Grace Zhang · Jane StreetThree former interns describe the real projects, mentorship and decisions that shaped their transition to full-time engineering.
3:26:04ENLex Fridman· Nov 2, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersIf Hitler Thought He Was Helping Germany, Was Alexander Worse?Guest Dan Carlin · Host Lex FridmanHardcore History host Dan Carlin talks with Lex Fridman about motives, force, strongmen, and why he would rather throw six weeks of tape away than ship something mediocre.
2:28:11ENLex Fridman· Nov 1, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersPeople Are Easy to Predict — and They Hate Being Told SoGuest Charles Isbell · Host Lex FridmanGeorgia Tech dean Charles Isbell talks with Lex Fridman about interactive AI, computing as a mindset, and race in America.
2:56:49ENLex Fridman· Oct 29, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersEric Weinstein: Genius Is Sitting in the Wrong ChairGuest Eric Weinstein · Host Lex FridmanOn his third Lex Fridman podcast, the mathematician moves from Eddie Van Halen and Leonard Cohen to Jeffrey Epstein, the Nobel committee, and why he paused The Portal.
2:39:45ENLex Fridman· Oct 25, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe obesity gene was never the obesity geneGuest Manolis Kellis · Host Lex FridmanManolis Kellis tells Lex Fridman how one nucleotide a million bases from FTO rewrote obesity biology, and why human genetics is now driving the study of disease.
3:12:55ENLex Fridman· Oct 21, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe IQ required to destroy the world drops by one point every yearGuest George Hotz · Host Lex FridmanGeorge Hotz on Fermi's paradox, hacking the simulation, and teaching cars to drive with neural nets.
2:46:57ENLex Fridman· Oct 18, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersProgramming Languages Are Bicycles for the MindGuest Chris Lattner · Host Lex FridmanChris Lattner talks with Lex Fridman about Swift, LLVM, RISC-V, and why the next leap in computing is as much a language problem as a silicon one.
44:34ENJane Street· Oct 14, 2020Chris Perl on Keeping Network Clocks in SyncYaron Minsky, Chris Perl · Jane StreetHow NTP, PTP and hardware timestamps work together to keep Jane Street’s clocks within a measurable error bound.
1:56:31ENLex Fridman· Oct 12, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersA 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.
59:33ENJane Street· Oct 7, 2020Laurent 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.
2:23:38ENLex Fridman· Oct 4, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe 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.
3:23:56ENLex Fridman· Oct 2, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThose 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.
1:10:27ENJane Street· Sep 30, 2020Greta 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.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,483