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Lex Fridman· Jun 14, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersExponential tools, Stone Age game theoryGuest Daniel Schmachtenberger · Host Lex FridmanDaniel Schmachtenberger tells Lex Fridman why every leap in physical technology breaks the last social operating system — and why Bretton Woods cannot bind what comes next.
2:41:47ENLex Fridman· Jun 12, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersGeometry Is the Cilantro of MathGuest Jordan Ellenberg · Host Lex FridmanJordan Ellenberg tells Lex Fridman that the last 150 years of mathematics have been about one question: when two things count as the same.
1:41:34ENLex Fridman· Jun 6, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersAging Is a Scratched Disc. David Sinclair Thinks the Body Kept a BackupGuest David Sinclair · Host Lex FridmanThe Harvard geneticist tells Lex Fridman why aging is information loss, how three genes gave a blind mouse its sight back, and why skipping meals may beat the perfect diet.
3:02:00ENLex Fridman· Jun 3, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersVitalik Buterin Walked Away From Billions of Dog Coins — Then Mapped Ethereum's Next DecadeGuest Vitalik Buterin · Host Lex FridmanIn a three-hour conversation with Lex Fridman, the Ethereum co-founder explains the Shiba Inu dump, proof of stake, rollups, and why he thinks most evil comes from fear.
2:22:20ENLex Fridman· May 29, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe closer quarks get, the weaker they pullGuest Frank Wilczek · Host Lex FridmanNobel physicist Frank Wilczek talks with Lex Fridman about asymptotic freedom, beauty, dark matter, consciousness, and whether a theory of everything would even help.
2:31:30ENLex Fridman· May 24, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Brain Is the Last Unengineered System in SocietyGuest Bryan Johnson · Host Lex FridmanBryan Johnson demos Kernel Flow on Lex Fridman, then argues that cognition is society's largest unmeasured input and that numbers, not vibes, should run mental health, diet, and the next wave of brain interfaces.
3:17:20ENLex Fridman· May 20, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe illusion of free will is itself an illusionGuest Sam Harris · Host Lex FridmanSam Harris talks with Lex Fridman about consciousness, psychedelics, AI, UFOs, jiu-jitsu, and why meaning appears only when attention stops looking elsewhere.
1:56:54ENLex Fridman· May 17, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersKatherine de Kleer still calls moons planetsGuest Katherine de Kleer · Host Lex FridmanThe Caltech planetary scientist talks with Lex Fridman about Pluto’s demotion, tidal heating on Io, hidden oceans, and the ice that may explain Oumuamua.
2:20:15ENLex Fridman· May 14, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe virus is not meters away. It is hops away.Guest Po-Shen Loh · Host Lex FridmanPo-Shen Loh talks with Lex Fridman about teaching invention, combinatorics, and a contact-tracing app that warns you before you get sick.
3:37:54ENLex Fridman· May 9, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersYou Die Twice: John Danaher on Mastery, Heuristics, and the Five-Year RebuildGuest John Danaher · Host Lex FridmanThe jiu jitsu coach talks death, leglocks, Georges St-Pierre, and why confidence is the missing half of technique.
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GOTO Conferences· May 7, 2021Five Ways Test-Driven Development Can Go WrongDave FarleyDave Farley uses testing anti-patterns as signals for improving software design.
2:59:57ENLex Fridman· May 1, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Farmer With a $50 Phone: Sergey Nazarov on Oracles, Trust, and Hybrid Smart ContractsGuest Sergey Nazarov · Host Lex FridmanThe Chainlink co-founder tells Lex Fridman how definitive truth, oracle networks, and cryptographically guaranteed contracts could leapfrog banks, insurers, and marble-column confidence.
2:08:47ENLex Fridman· Apr 29, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersLincoln Made Politics an Art. The Modern Presidency Made It a Superpower.Guest Jeremi Suri · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Jeremi Suri talks with Lex Fridman about Lincoln, Roosevelt, Kissinger, and why power in a republic is meant to be held only in trust.
2:43:09ENLex Fridman· Apr 25, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersGeorges St-Pierre Never Liked FightingGuest Georges St-Pierre · Host Lex FridmanThe two-division UFC champion tells Lex Fridman how he scripted confidence, tested fasting like a lab experiment, and why a single night cannot settle who is best.
4:25:18ENLex Fridman· Apr 24, 2021PodcastAn Anarchist and an Objectivist on a Desert IslandHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman sits Michael Malice and Yaron Brook down together for the first time to argue about Ayn Rand, human nature, Bitcoin, and whether liberty can exist without a state.
1:56:17ENLex Fridman· Apr 19, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersIf You Reran Earth a Million Times, Would Anything Like Us Appear?Guest Risto Miikkulainen · Host Lex FridmanRisto Miikkulainen on neuroevolution, hyena raids, basil that never sleeps, and why variation-plus-selection still finds solutions backpropagation cannot see.
4:03:49ENLex Fridman· Apr 17, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersMoney Is an Extension of the Mind: Robert Breedlove on Bitcoin from First PrinciplesGuest Robert Breedlove · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman and Robert Breedlove start from sovereignty and property, then follow money, inflation, and Bitcoin down to first principles of human action.
1:50:49ENLex Fridman· Apr 12, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersYannis Pappas on Power, Death, and Why Love Is an ActionGuest Yannis Pappas · Host Lex FridmanThe comedian and History Hyenas co-host talks with Lex Fridman about mortality, con men, the Battle of Crete, and the hard currency of being stubbornly yourself.
2:09:58ENLex Fridman· Apr 10, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersA 700-year clock and a trembling hand: Tyler Cowen’s war on mediocrityGuest Tyler Cowen · Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman’s podcast, the George Mason economist treats nuclear war as a Poisson process, then spends two hours arguing that growth is back, weirdos built America, and rank-20 universities are the real police of conformity.
2:31:59ENLex Fridman· Mar 31, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersBitcoin Is an Island of Sturdiness: Nic Carter on Money That Cannot Be TunedGuest Nic Carter · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Castle Island Ventures partner Nic Carter about Bitcoin’s embedded values, the block size war, layered scaling, and why Satoshi’s exit still matters.
2:31:14ENLex Fridman· Mar 30, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersAnonymity Is a Tool: How a Yale Freshman Built a Campus Where Students Could SpeakGuest Ryan Schiller · Host Lex FridmanRyan Schiller tells Lex Fridman how a silenced seminar, a Gallup number, and a Mac bought off YouTube advice became Librex, an anonymous discussion feed for verified college communities.
3:02:16ENLex Fridman· Mar 25, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersBitcoin Holders Don't Want the Price to RiseGuest Anthony Pompliano · Host Lex FridmanAnthony Pompliano talks with Lex Fridman about war, sound money, and why more than 95 percent of his net worth sits in Bitcoin.
1:50:31ENLex Fridman· Mar 22, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersHarvard Would Not Renew Him. Ronald Sullivan Would Not Resign.Guest Ronald Sullivan · Host Lex FridmanThe Harvard Law professor on why he took Harvey Weinstein’s case, what universities owe students, and why even the most hated defendant still gets a lawyer.
3:00:11ENLex Fridman· Mar 20, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersAsk the Right Questions and Every Path Ends on the Middle FingerGuest Ryan Hall · Host Lex FridmanRyan Hall walks Lex Fridman through a finger game that always lands on the middle finger, then treats jiu-jitsu as a problem of systems, beliefs, and first principles.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,483