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Lex Fridman· Feb 5, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Philosopher’s Risk: Zev Weinstein on Stagnation, Truth, and the Courage to Change Your MindGuest Zev Weinstein · Host Lex FridmanZev Weinstein talks with Lex Fridman about why radical thought is both dangerous and necessary, and how truth, language, media, mathematics and mortality shape a meaningful life.
1:18:35ENLex Fridman· Jan 27, 2021PodcastAn AI That Walks Among Us May Have to Know DepressionHost Lex FridmanIn a January 2021 AMA, Lex Fridman answers listeners on suffering machines, immigration, aliens, career pivots, and why happiness is a signal rather than a goal.
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.
2:59:53ENLex 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.
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.
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.
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.
1:19:11ENLex Fridman· Sep 26, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersJoe 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.
3:48:14ENLex Fridman· Sep 20, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersIf 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.
2:10:53ENLex Fridman· Sep 12, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersAll 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.
2:34:20ENLex Fridman· Aug 30, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersIntelligence 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.
2:56:24ENLex Fridman· Aug 20, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersIt 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.
2:48:46ENLex Fridman· Aug 9, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersLet 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.
2:29:24ENLex Fridman· Jul 31, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersWe 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.
2:01:15ENLex Fridman· Jul 29, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersNobody Died from the Fukushima ReactorsGuest Ian Hutchinson · Host Lex FridmanMIT plasma physicist Ian Hutchinson on fusion, a hundredfold carbon cut, scientism, and why faith is more than believing unproven claims.
1:09:14ENLex Fridman· Jul 8, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersSuffering Is a State You'd Rather Not Be In — Peter Singer on Animals, Robots, and UsGuest Peter Singer · Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman's podcast, the Princeton bioethicist defines suffering, extends it from factory farms to possible machine minds, and still puts extreme poverty first.
45:31ENLex Fridman· Jul 1, 2020PodcastYou Are Your Own Existence Proof: Karl Friston on Free Energy, Life, and Self-AwarenessHost Lex FridmanKarl Friston explains how the free energy principle reframes existence, life, planning, and self-awareness as inference problems.
1:27:29ENLex Fridman· Jun 20, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersResistance Is How You Know the Work MattersGuest Steven Pressfield · Host Lex FridmanSteven Pressfield tells Lex Fridman why he writes about Spartans and Alexander — and why the battle that counts is the one against his own ego.
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.Load moreShowing 24 of 233