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2:00:48ENNorth Korea Banned the Word for Famine. Yeonmi Park Still Says It.Guest Yeonmi Park · Host Lex FridmanA North Korean defector tells Lex Fridman how a regime hides hunger, how Animal Farm explained her country, and why she hears echoes of that silence in American life.
1:58:12ENThe Universe Doesn't Sacrifice. That's Why Phosphine Might Mean Life.Guest Clara Sousa-Silva · Host Lex FridmanQuantum astrochemist Clara Sousa-Silva on the contested Venus detection, a molecule nobody could spell, and why she treats cosmic meaninglessness as a relief.
3:17:09ENWhat Science Is Left When Institutions Decide What Cannot Be SaidGuest Bret Weinstein · Host Lex FridmanEvolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein talks with Lex Fridman about lab-leak evidence, ivermectin, captured public-health agencies, and why the 1% at the fringe is the key to progress.
1:19:49ENAll-In E37: New York’s Primary, Pandemic Origins and App Store PowerHost Jason Calacanis, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks, David FriedbergA 2021 discussion of election messaging, uncertain pandemic evidence and competing views on antitrust.
2:59:12ENNature Never Dealt This CardGuest Rob Reid · Host Lex FridmanIn 2011 two labs independently engineered H5N1 so it could travel through the air between mammals — work Rob Reid tells Lex Fridman should never have been done, and still has not been stopped.
4:57:51ENCharles Hoskinson Entered Crypto Expecting PrisonGuest Charles Hoskinson · Host Lex FridmanThe Cardano founder talks with Lex Fridman about proof of stake, formal methods, and why a blockchain should behave like a law of physics.
4:15:19ENExponential 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.
2:41:47ENGeometry 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.
1:41:34ENAging 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.
3:02:00ENVitalik 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.
2:22:20ENThe 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.
2:31:30ENThe 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.
3:17:20ENThe 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.
1:56:54ENKatherine 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.
2:20:15ENThe 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.
3:37:54ENYou 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.
21:34ENFive Ways Test-Driven Development Can Go WrongDave FarleyDave Farley uses testing anti-patterns as signals for improving software design.
2:59:57ENThe 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.
2:08:47ENLincoln 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.
2:43:09ENGeorges 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.
4:25:18ENAn 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.
1:56:17ENIf 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.
4:03:49ENMoney 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.
1:50:49ENYannis 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.
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