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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.Security & safetyExistential RiskSafety & governance+3
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Lex 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.Consciousness & IntelligencePhilosophy of MindFree Will+3
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Lex 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.Enterprise & strategyCryptocurrencyPhilosophy+3
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Lex Fridman· Jan 18, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersHumanity Cannot Survive on the Right Person Showing Up at the Right TimeGuest Max Tegmark · Host Lex FridmanMIT physicist Max Tegmark tells Lex Fridman why AI should be as well understood as rockets, why 2020 was a warning on weapons and news, and why luck is a terrible long-term plan.Security & safetySafety & governanceAI research+3
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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.Science CommunicationPhilosophy of ScienceAstrobiology+2
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Lex 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.Public HealthFirst PrinciplesScience Communication+2
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Lex 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.PhilosophyComputational BiologyConsciousness+3
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Lex 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.CosmologyExistential RiskAstrobiology+1
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Lex 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.Science CommunicationPhilosophyReligion+2
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Lex 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.PhilosophyPhilosophy of MindConsciousness & Intelligence+3
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Lex Fridman· Mar 25, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersBostrom Will Not Pick a Fork: The Simulation Argument Is a Disjunction, Not a BetGuest Nick Bostrom · Host Lex FridmanNick Bostrom walks Lex Fridman through the simulation argument, anthropic reasoning, and why superintelligence talk should be split into near-term and long-term conversations.Simulation HypothesisExistential RiskPhilosophy of Mind+3
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Lex Fridman· Mar 3, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersAva smiled when nobody was watchingGuest Alex Garland · Host Lex FridmanAlex Garland talks with Lex Fridman about Ex Machina, Annihilation, Devs, and how you tell whether anything is really in there.Consciousness & IntelligencePhilosophy of MindScience Communication+3
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Lex Fridman· Dec 5, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersFear of Robots Is a Champagne Problem, Says Whitney CummingsGuest Whitney Cummings · Host Lex FridmanThe comedian talks with Lex Fridman about Bear Claw, sex robots, factory farms, codependency, and terror management.RoboticsHuman-AI CollaborationSafety & governance+3
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Lex Fridman· Nov 12, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersSo You're Saying There's a Chance: Musk on Neuralink, AI, and a Pale Blue DotGuest Elon Musk · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman and Elon Musk move from consciousness and an AI referee to the engineering of a brain implant, Tesla Autopilot, and Carl Sagan's lonely speck.Security & safetySafety & governanceExistential Risk+3
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Lex Fridman· Oct 22, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersA Hundred Billion Galaxies, and We're Still a Type 0.7 CivilizationGuest Michio Kaku · Host Lex FridmanTheoretical physicist Michio Kaku talks with Lex Fridman about aliens, string theory, digital immortality, and why fusion and Mars are the next civilizational steps.AGI TimelinesConsciousness & IntelligenceNeuroscience & AI+3
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Lex Fridman· Aug 23, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersPamela McCorduck: AI Began With the Ancient Wish to Forge the GodsGuest Pamela McCorduck · Host Lex FridmanThe novelist who wrote the first popular history of artificial intelligence talks with Lex Fridman about Dartmouth, AI winters, and why existential panic looks like the male gaze.AI HistoryPhilosophyAI research+3
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Lex Fridman· Apr 3, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersThe Only Real Freedom Is How AGI Is BornGuest Greg Brockman · Host Lex FridmanGreg Brockman tells Lex Fridman why OpenAI’s job is to set the initial conditions of general intelligence, not to monopolize who builds it.Enterprise & strategyAGI TimelinesSafety & governance+3
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Lex Fridman· Mar 20, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersWe Keep Waiting for AGI. Eric Weinstein Says Artificial Life Is Already HereGuest Eric Weinstein · Host Lex FridmanOn the Lex Fridman Podcast, the mathematician and Thiel Capital managing director argues that selection without intelligence can already parasitize us, and that our bigger failure is wisdom that never caught up with the toys.Security & safetySafety & governanceExistential Risk+3
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Lex Fridman· Oct 17, 2018Podcast · 2 speakersSteven Pinker: Intelligence Is Not a Will to PowerGuest Steven Pinker · Host Lex FridmanThe Harvard psychologist tells Lex Fridman why nuke analogies, paperclip stories, and AI-takeover fears mix up problem-solving with domination.Security & safetySafety & governanceExistential Risk+3
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Lex Fridman· Aug 26, 2018Podcast · 2 speakersIf NASA finds nothing on Mars, Max Tegmark cheersGuest Max Tegmark · Host Lex FridmanThe MIT physicist behind Life 3.0 tells Lex Fridman why we may be the only advanced life in the observable universe, and why that makes AGI alignment a cosmic responsibility rather than a science-fiction subplot.Security & safetySafety & governanceAGI Timelines+3
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Lex FridmanPodcastFrom Simulated Majorities to "You Are Probably Simulated": Bostrom on the Missing Step in the Simulation ArgumentHost Lex FridmanNick Bostrom explains to Lex Fridman why the simulation argument rests on a much weaker assumption than the Doomsday argument, and where its physical limits might lie.Simulation HypothesisPhilosophyExistential Risk
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Lex FridmanPodcastSeven Levels of a Pandemic: Pain, Challenge and Hope From Biology to PhilosophyHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman maps the coronavirus onto seven levels of attack on society and proposes a response and a reason for hope at each one.Public HealthExistential RiskPhilosophy+2
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Lex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersTeaching Machines Humility: Stuart Russell on Escaping the King Midas ProblemGuest Stuart Russell · Host Lex FridmanIn a short clip from a 2018 conversation, Berkeley's Stuart Russell explains why fixed objectives make superintelligent AI dangerous and why uncertainty about our goals is the fix.Security & safetySafety & governanceExistential Risk+3
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Lex FridmanPodcastRunning the Drake Equation: Lex Fridman's Estimate of Alien Civilizations, From 0.7 in the Milky Way to Trillions in the UniverseHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman walks through each parameter of the Drake equation with optimistic, pessimistic and personal estimates, then argues the real lesson is how little we understand about intelligence and communication.AstrobiologyCosmologyScience Communication+1
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