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Lex Fridman· Jan 13, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersOumuamua Wasn't Supposed to Exist. Avi Loeb Wants a Photograph Next Time.Guest Avi Loeb · Host Lex FridmanHarvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb tells Lex Fridman why the first interstellar visitor looks more like a lightsail than a rock — and why that question is still treated as unscientific.
2:17:42ENLex Fridman· Jan 11, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe building block of life is a bead on a string, not the whole proteinGuest Dmitry Korkin · Host Lex FridmanDmitry Korkin tells Lex Fridman why protein domains, a triangular spike, and a conservative viral shell matter more than the AlphaFold headline, and why a Nobel laureate once answered a midnight forum post.
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All-In Podcast· Jan 11, 2021Podcast · 4 speakersAll-In Debates Trump’s Platform Bans and Online Free ExpressionHost Jason Calacanis, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks, David FriedbergDays after the January 6 attack, the hosts disagree about platform power, public safety and how political opponents can reconcile.
1:16:12ENLex Fridman· Jan 9, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersDan Gable Won the Olympics 57–0. He Still Talks About the Match He LostGuest Dan Gable · Host Lex FridmanThe Iowa wrestling legend on Russian technique, American toughness, the murder of his sister, and why he took the word choice out of his life.
1:28:46ENLex Fridman· Jan 4, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Speech Company That Gets Paid to Label Its Own Training DataGuest Dan Kokotov · Host Lex FridmanRev VP of engineering Dan Kokotov tells Lex Fridman why a $1.25-a-minute human transcript, a 14% machine word-error rate, and a two-sided freelancer market are the same flywheel.
3:08:23ENLex Fridman· Dec 31, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersTake One Red Pill, Not the Whole BottleGuest Michael Malice · Host Lex FridmanMichael Malice talks with Lex Fridman about humor as a filter, the White Pill, anarchism, and how to want happiness without swallowing cynicism.
3:01:27ENLex Fridman· Dec 27, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersA Belief Does Not Have to Be True to Remake the WorldGuest Diana Walsh Pasulka · Host Lex FridmanReligious-studies scholar Diana Walsh Pasulka tells Lex Fridman how Catholic limbo, Nietzsche, Silicon Valley “downloads,” and a desert monolith all describe the same machinery of belief and technology.
2:02:45ENLex Fridman· Dec 26, 2020PodcastSteal the Code: You Get Zero Points for Making the Algorithm RunHost Lex FridmanCharles Isbell and Michael Littman tell Lex Fridman why machine learning is not just statistics, why struggle has to stay hopeful, and what a $6,600 online master's actually sells.
2:23:10ENLex 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.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,483