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Lex Fridman· Feb 13, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersNo One Knows How to Make a PencilGuest Tim Urban · Host Lex FridmanWait But Why's Tim Urban spent five years on a book about why society is tearing itself apart, then sat down with Lex Fridman to talk aliens, Musk, Neuralink, and the war inside a procrastinator's head.
2:17:29ENLex Fridman· Feb 11, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe knowledge doctors trust is built to sell drugsGuest John Abramson · Host Lex FridmanHarvard physician John Abramson tells Lex Fridman how pharmaceutical companies captured medical knowledge, and why American healthcare spends more while delivering less.
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20VC with Harry Stebbings· Feb 8, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersMark Cuban on Cost Plus Drugs, Hiring and Healthcare PricingGuest Mark Cuban · Host Harry StebbingsIn a 2022 interview, Cuban describes the pharmacy’s early pricing model, his self-funded venture and his views on the US healthcare system.
1:42:58ENLex Fridman· Feb 6, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersDon't Talk Conclusions. Talk Data.Guest Garry Nolan · Host Lex FridmanA Stanford immunologist sat through the brain scans of people who said they had met UFOs—and treats the rest of the subject the same way.
42:35EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Feb 5, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersMac Conwell on Building RareBreed and Supporting Overlooked FoundersGuest McKeever Conwell II · Host Harry StebbingsThe investor describes his path into venture, fundraising through relationships on Twitter and his proposed changes to the industry.
2:46:31ENLex Fridman· Feb 3, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Official Scientific Worldview Is Incompatible With ConsciousnessGuest Philip Goff · Host Lex FridmanDurham philosopher Philip Goff tells Lex Fridman why panpsychism — the view that consciousness is fundamental and ubiquitous — is the least-bad theory of mind.
2:59:02ENLex Fridman· Jan 30, 2022PodcastWhen the Answers Are Already Known, Look Where Everyone Stopped LookingHost Lex FridmanGeorges St-Pierre, John Danaher, and Gordon Ryan sit with Lex Fridman to unpack success, confidence, training, and why the greatest of all time may not even be born yet.
2:16:40ENLex Fridman· Jan 26, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersEach Blockbuster Is a Startup. The Chocolate River Kills It.Guest Thomas Tull · Host Lex FridmanThomas Tull tells Lex Fridman how a novice raised institutional capital for Hollywood, then applied the same judgment to AI, mammoths, the Steelers, and a Rolling Stones tour.
45:16EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jan 25, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersFrank Slootman on Focus, Performance and Leading a BoardGuest Frank Slootman · Host Harry StebbingsSnowflake’s then-CEO discusses diagnosing problems, creating urgency, evaluating performance and giving capable teams room to act.
2:45:10ENLex Fridman· Jan 22, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersA Teenager Learns to Drive in Twenty Hours. A Car Still Cannot.Guest Yann Lecun · Host Lex FridmanYann LeCun tells Lex Fridman why self-supervised world models are the missing dark matter of intelligence, and why machines are not even at the level of a house cat.
1:24:16EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jan 20, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersChris Sacca on Venture Investing, Climate and the Responsibilities of WealthGuest Chris Sacca · Host Harry StebbingsThe investor reflects on early losses, founder relationships and Lowercarbon’s climate thesis, and explains his criticism of Facebook and SoftBank.
3:59:41ENLex Fridman· Jan 18, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersDust Covered the Origin of the UniverseGuest Brian Keating · Host Lex FridmanExperimental cosmologist Brian Keating on telescopes as time machines, the BICEP2 false alarm, and what it actually means to lose a Nobel Prize.
2:58:05ENLex Fridman· Jan 15, 2022PodcastThe Declaration of 1776 and the Constitution of 1787 Pull in Opposite DirectionsHost Lex FridmanYaron Brook and Yoram Hazony spend three hours arguing whether a free society is built on the individual or on the sticky, hierarchical groups that individuals cannot live without.
1:50:07ENLex Fridman· Jan 8, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersBombing Is Data: Mark Normand on Love, Comedy, and Eating Shit EarlyGuest Mark Normand · Host Lex FridmanStand-up comedian Mark Normand talks with Lex Fridman about keeping love in shape, growing up the odd kid in New Orleans, why open-mic hell is comedy’s first level, and when a joke is finally done.
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Jane Street· Jan 5, 2022Stephen Dolan on Memory Management, Garbage Collection, and OCamlYaron Minsky, Stephen Dolan · Jane StreetFrom tracing and reference counting to prefetching, local allocation and unboxed types, Dolan explains the tradeoffs behind safe, efficient memory management.
2:21:49ENLex Fridman· Jan 4, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersFocused Protection, Not Lockdowns: Jay Bhattacharya on What Public Health Got WrongGuest Jay Bhattacharya · Host Lex FridmanThe Stanford physician and co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration tells Lex Fridman why age-stratified risk, seroprevalence data, and the ignored costs of isolation pointed to a different COVID strategy.
3:23:42ENLex Fridman· Dec 31, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersBeauty will save the world — Michael Malice's New Year's case for hopeGuest Michael Malice · Host Lex FridmanOn New Year's Eve 2021, Lex Fridman and Michael Malice talk through Dostoevsky, evil, Austin, anarchism, and why a cheap GoBot on a Brooklyn shelf still counts as proof.
2:31:48ENLex Fridman· Dec 28, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersA Car That Cannot Drive Itself Will Be About as Useful as a HorseGuest Elon Musk · Host Lex FridmanIn a Lex Fridman conversation built around Tesla Autopilot, Elon Musk argues that every driver input is an error, that today’s hardware is already enough for full self-driving, and that watching the human will soon matter less than making the system safer than a person.
1:32:38ENLex Fridman· Dec 25, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersRay Dalio’s Big Cycle: Empires Fall When They Get Rich, Indebted, and at War With ThemselvesGuest Ray Dalio · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio about the 500-year rise and fall of reserve-currency empires, the U.S.–China contest, and the personal recipes that outlast any cycle.
2:46:40ENLex Fridman· Dec 23, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Tools That Fit in a Head Were Built by People Who Fit in a VanGuest Peter Wang · Host Lex FridmanAnaconda's Peter Wang talks with Lex Fridman about Python, cybernetic systems, and why sharing software creates value that scarcity economics still cannot price.
1:08:04ENLex Fridman· Dec 18, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersBreakthroughs Run on Speed. Trust Runs on Patience.Guest Albert Bourla · Host Lex FridmanPfizer CEO Albert Bourla talks with Lex Fridman about the November 2020 unblinding, a $2.3 billion all-in bet, and why a historic vaccine still divided the public.
2:18:40ENLex Fridman· Dec 13, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersIt Was Not a Slippery Slope. It Was a Leap.Guest Norman Naimark · Host Lex FridmanStanford historian Norman Naimark on Stalin, Mao, the Holodomor, and why the flame of human kindness is so easy to put out.
4:55:09ENLex Fridman· Dec 8, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersJamie Metzl Puts the Lab-Leak Odds at 85 PercentGuest Jamie Metzl · Host Lex FridmanThe genetic-engineering author walks Lex Fridman through the circumstantial case for a Wuhan accident, the cover-up he says is no longer debatable, and why the next pandemic will be decided by transparency, not blame.
2:15:56ENLex Fridman· Dec 3, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersA Theory That Fits Anything Is Not Even WrongGuest Peter Woit · Host Lex FridmanColumbia physicist Peter Woit tells Lex Fridman why string theory's original idea emptied out, why four dimensions are enough, and what twistor theory still offers.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,482