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Lex Fridman· Sep 20, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersJay McClelland on How Thought Emerges From Neural NetworksGuest Jay McClelland · Host Lex FridmanThe Stanford cognitive scientist talks with Lex Fridman about connectionism, backpropagation, David Rumelhart, and why intuition discovers what logic later proves.
2:52:56ENLex Fridman· Sep 15, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersDouglas Lenat's 37-Year Bet That Common Sense Can Be Written DownGuest Douglas Lenat · Host Lex FridmanSince 1984, Cyc has been encoding the unstated rules of the world so machines can reason instead of merely pattern-match.
2:44:08ENLex Fridman· Sep 11, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersForty Feet Behind: A New York Firefighter's 9/11Guest Niels Jorgensen · Host Lex FridmanNiels Jorgensen, an FDNY veteran at Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, tells Lex Fridman who did not come home, what the dust did to the living, and why September 12 still matters.
2:21:27ENLex Fridman· Sep 9, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe IBM Manual Was So Bad He Became a Computer ScientistGuest Donald Knuth · Host Lex FridmanDonald Knuth talks with Lex Fridman about first programs on an IBM 650, literate programming, the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm, and the hardest theorem he ever proved.
1:52:29ENLex Fridman· Sep 6, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Most Valuable Moment in VR Is Taking Off the HeadsetGuest Jaron Lanier · Host Lex FridmanJaron Lanier on why virtual reality's gift is a refreshed real world, why he refuses to call algorithms creatures, and how data dignity could replace the lizard-brain economy of social media.
2:24:52ENLex 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.
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Jane Street· Sep 1, 2021James Somers on Technical Writing, Software and RevisionYaron Minsky, James Somers · Jane StreetJane Street’s writer-in-residence discusses documentation as shared knowledge, the tools that keep it useful, and the craft of writing for real readers.
3:28:40ENLex Fridman· Sep 1, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThere Are More Viruses in a Liter of Seawater Than People on EarthGuest Vincent Racaniello · Host Lex FridmanColumbia virologist Vincent Racaniello talks Lex Fridman through ocean-scale particle counts, mRNA vaccines, and why speaking with false certainty does more damage than a virus.
2:51:33ENLex Fridman· Aug 29, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Self Is a GPT Prompt: Wojciech Zaremba on Consciousness, Codex, and Fermi's SilenceGuest Wojciech Zaremba · Host Lex FridmanOpenAI co-founder Wojciech Zaremba tells Lex Fridman he thinks we might be alone in the universe — and that GPT-3, Codex, and a one-handed robot already hint at how intelligence is built.
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All-In Podcast· Aug 28, 2021Podcast · 4 speakersAfghanistan, Gig Work and Robots: An All-In Debate From 2021Host Jason Calacanis, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks, David FriedbergThe hosts debate the US withdrawal, Chinese technology policy, California gig work and early robotics plans in their August 2021 context.
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.
2:22:55ENLex Fridman· Aug 23, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersLIGO measures a thousandth of a proton — then a thousand physicists stayed quiet for a monthGuest Barry Barish · Host Lex FridmanNobel laureate Barry Barish tells Lex Fridman how gravitational waves were predicted, doubted, and finally heard with the most precise machine ever built.
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.
2:48:18ENLex Fridman· Aug 11, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersHumans are the only species that skip sleep on purposeGuest Matt Walker · Host Lex FridmanBerkeley sleep scientist Matt Walker talks with Lex Fridman about why we sleep, what caffeine and dreams actually do, and whether passion can justify the health cost of staying up.
2:54:52ENLex Fridman· Aug 8, 2021PodcastThe Marvelous Proof Still Lives in the MarginHost Lex FridmanLuís and João Batalha, the brothers behind Fermat's Library, talk with Lex Fridman about hidden backstories, a publishing system that buys its own work twice, and how to sit with a paper until it finally clicks.
2:18:29ENLex Fridman· Aug 8, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersYour Cortex Is 150,000 Brains Voting on a Coffee CupGuest Jeff Hawkins · Host Lex FridmanJeff Hawkins tells Lex Fridman that intelligence is learning a model of the world, the neocortex is tens of thousands of independent maps that vote, and the fastest path to machine intelligence is reverse-engineering that sheet.
2:42:57ENLex Fridman· Aug 3, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Thousand-Pound Day Was Easy. The Years Before It Were Not.Guest Chris Duffin · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with strength athlete and engineer Chris Duffin about squatting and deadlifting 1,000 pounds for reps, stacking the torso like a pressure vessel, and a childhood spent handling live rattlesnakes.
2:30:30ENLex Fridman· Jul 31, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Fallacy of the Successful First StepGuest Ishan Misra · Host Lex FridmanBerkeley's Jitendra Malik explains why computer vision still looks easy, why fully autonomous driving is not near, and what children know that today's networks do not.
3:01:47ENLex Fridman· Jul 28, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersA hundred miles is a lifetime compressed into one dayGuest Zach Bitter · Host Lex FridmanZach Bitter talks with Lex Fridman about the 100-mile mind, quitting, aerobic training, fat-adapted fueling, and a run across America.
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.
1:44:54ENLex Fridman· Jul 23, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersIf the meat needs a sauce, start over with the animalGuest Anya Fernald · Host Lex FridmanBelcampo co-founder Anya Fernald tells Lex Fridman why cooking is service, why "grass-fed" is an unregulated word, and why regenerative grazing cannot scale without human attention.
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.
2:39:53ENLex Fridman· Jul 19, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThere's Something at the Edge of the Solar SystemGuest Konstantin Batygin · Host Lex FridmanCaltech planetary astrophysicist Konstantin Batygin tells Lex Fridman how a hypothesized five-Earth-mass world shepherds the distant Kuiper Belt — and why a photograph would end the argument.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,482