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Lex Fridman· Sep 3, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersJudge a robot by the environment it forces to change, not by the demoGuest Rodney Brooks · Host Lex FridmanRodney Brooks tells Lex Fridman why faces are promises, why computation is an overworked metaphor, and why robot companies die on price, expectation, and habit.
1:52:17ENLex Fridman· Aug 27, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersOld Theories Rarely Die of Contradiction. They Stop Making New Things.Guest Jed Buchwald · Host Lex FridmanCaltech historian Jed Buchwald talks with Lex Fridman about Kuhn, Newton, and why scientific change is a victory of productivity more than of proof.
3:12:21ENLex Fridman· Aug 21, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Ape's Brain Runs a Dream: Joscha Bach on Consciousness, Freedom, and MeaningGuest Joscha Bach · Host Lex FridmanA long conversation about the self as a control model, the dream world generated by the brain, free will, language models, evil, love, and how to live without a fixed self.
1:52:28ENLex Fridman· Aug 14, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersIf You Die Before You Die: Brian Muraresku's Secret History of PsychedelicsGuest Brian Muraresku · Host Lex FridmanThe author of The Immortality Key tells Lex Fridman why ancient wine was a drug, why Eleusis mattered more than democracy, and why mystics keep running toward death.
2:13:21ENLex Fridman· Jul 25, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Fourth Deduction Often Turns Out to Be the First PrincipleGuest Cumrun Vafa · Host Lex FridmanHarvard string theorist Cumrun Vafa on why physicists distrust deduction, how a graviton fell out of a formula nobody wrote for gravity, and what extra dimensions are actually for.
2:36:06ENLex Fridman· Jul 20, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Experience Is Not in the Pill. Rick Doblin Spent Decades Proving the Context Is.Guest Rick Doblin · Host Lex FridmanThe MAPS founder walks Lex Fridman from Huxley's reducing valve to a Phase 3 MDMA trial for PTSD, arguing that legality, safety, and culture matter more than new molecules.
2:37:21ENLex Fridman· Jul 15, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersEmma Goldman Told Lenin the Revolution Was Already WrongGuest Michael Malice · Host Lex FridmanMichael Malice talks with Lex Fridman about totalitarianism, quiet heroism, and why anarchism is a relationship rather than a place.
1:57:38ENLex Fridman· Jul 4, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Best Leadership Uses the Least ForceGuest Jocko Willink · Host Lex FridmanRetired Navy SEAL Jocko Willink talks with Lex Fridman about just war, ego, Musk and Jobs, 4 a.m. discipline, and what jiu jitsu taught him about command.
4:15:19ENLex 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2:43:09ENLex 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.
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.
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.
1:53:41ENLex Fridman· Mar 15, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersSilvio Micali: Money Is a Shared Belief, and a Blockchain Makes It Common KnowledgeGuest Silvio Micali · Host Lex FridmanThe Turing Award cryptographer and Algorand founder tells Lex Fridman why ledgers, lotteries, and one-way functions matter more than mining.Load moreShowing 24 of 233