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Lex Fridman· Oct 10, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersJohn Danaher: A Broken Team, a Year of Grind, and Why Confidence Isn't MentalGuest John Danaher · Host Lex FridmanAfter ADCC 2022, the New Zealand coach walks through a rebuild that began with no gym and ended with the event's strongest team showing—then ranges into Gordon Ryan, animal combat, and the metaphor of the knife.
3:00:21ENLex Fridman· Oct 1, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersCut Off a Planarian's Head. The New Brain Still RemembersGuest Michael Levin · Host Lex FridmanMichael Levin argues that DNA only builds hardware, bioelectric networks store body plans, and frog skin cells can become robots that evolution never designed.
2:21:28ENLex Fridman· Sep 27, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Seventh-Best Player in the World Is Still the SuckerGuest Daniel Negreanu · Host Lex FridmanDaniel Negreanu talks with Lex Fridman about tells, solvers, variance, and why finding the right table beats being ranked seventh.
2:21:55ENLex Fridman· Sep 24, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWill Sasso Respects Stand-Up Too Much to Do ItGuest Will Sasso · Host Lex FridmanThe MADtv veteran tells Lex Fridman why he never became a stand-up, why impressions work from the outside in, and why he thinks AI is running the same illusion.
1:36:11ENLex Fridman· Sep 17, 2022Podcast · 2 speakers2029 Passes the Turing Test. 2045 Is Still the SingularityGuest Ray Kurzweil · Host Lex FridmanRay Kurzweil tells Lex Fridman why his dates have not moved, how to invent in the present tense, and why the replica of his father answered the meaning of life with one word: love.
2:35:37ENLex Fridman· Sep 9, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersYou Play Better Chess When You Stop Caring About the NumberGuest Botez Sisters · Host Lex FridmanAlexandra and Andrea Botez talk with Lex Fridman about ratings, streaming personas, depression, and why obsession with a board game can swallow a life.
3:11:01ENLex Fridman· Sep 4, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWhere Do You Go for Wisdom? John Vervaeke on the Meaning CrisisGuest John Vervaeke · Host Lex FridmanA University of Toronto cognitive scientist argues that meaning is a real relationship between self and world, and that modern life has lost the practices that used to repair it.
2:31:52ENLex Fridman· Aug 27, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersMagnus Carlsen would rather trust the numbers than the fairy taleGuest Magnus Carlsen · Host Lex FridmanThe highest-rated chess player in history tells Lex Fridman how he defines greatness, why he stopped defending the world title, and what a two-dimensional board in his head actually looks like.
3:35:40ENLex Fridman· Aug 24, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersLiv Boeree on Moloch, Useful Fictions, and Why Luck Keeps Poker AliveGuest Liv Boeree · Host Lex FridmanThe poker champion and science educator talks with Lex Fridman about game theory, attention, simulation, aliens, and the existential races that look like games nobody can quit.
3:03:33ENLex Fridman· Aug 19, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersBeauty Points Up: Jordan Peterson on God, Tyranny, and How to LiveGuest Jordan Peterson · Host Lex FridmanIn a long conversation with Lex Fridman, the psychologist follows Dostoevsky's claim that beauty will save the world into God, science, power, fame, and the small work of putting a life in order.
3:19:52ENLex Fridman· Aug 16, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersDuncan Trussell Would Live This Life Again, Dark Parts IncludedGuest Duncan Trussell · Host Lex FridmanA comedian and Lex Fridman talk through eternal recurrence, machine sentience, cancer, war, depression, and the love that makes the loop worth running.
2:10:08ENLex Fridman· Jul 26, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersGato Is Only the BeginningGuest Oriol Vinyals · Host Lex FridmanDeepMind's Oriol Vinyals talks with Lex Fridman about generalist agents, thrown-away weights, and whether human-level AGI arrives in his lifetime.
1:54:32ENLex Fridman· Jul 20, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersGod Is Not a Being on the Same Grid as the TeapotGuest Bishop Robert Barron · Host Lex FridmanBishop Robert Barron talks with Lex Fridman about Aquinas’s definition of God, pride as a black hole, the problem of evil, and why he thinks rights and equality do not survive the death of God.
3:31:02ENLex Fridman· Jul 17, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersA period of calm in capitalism is only a lull before the stormGuest Steve Keen · Host Lex FridmanHeterodox economist Steve Keen walks Lex Fridman from a footnote in Marx to climate models that omit rainfall, and argues that private debt — not inflation — is the failure that actually breaks the system.
1:41:21ENLex Fridman· Jul 4, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersDon't take in the opinion of the worldGuest Joe Rogan · Host Lex FridmanJoe Rogan talks with Lex Fridman about surviving a media pile-on, why Kill Tony exists, and why he wants UFOs to be real too badly to trust himself on them.
1:59:43ENLex Fridman· Jun 28, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersFavorite happy songs get 175 plays. The sad ones get 800.Guest Susan Cain · Host Lex FridmanSusan Cain talks with Lex Fridman about introvert energy, bittersweet creativity, and why the longing itself is the cure.
2:43:51ENLex Fridman· Jun 25, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersTwo Tubes, Millimeters Apart: Jonathan Reisman on the Honest Design of the Human BodyGuest Jonathan Reisman · Host Lex FridmanThe emergency physician and author of The Unseen Body walks Lex Fridman from the throat to the Arctic, arguing that anatomy is mostly brilliant, sometimes a near-miss, and always a story written in scars.
2:38:30ENLex Fridman· Jun 21, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersYou Will Not Have the Landscape ClearedGuest Douglas Murray · Host Lex FridmanDouglas Murray tells Lex Fridman that a campaign to empty the West of its heroes leaves only the 20th century’s unlearned idea still standing.
3:16:16ENLex Fridman· Jun 12, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersEvolution Never Designed You to See the TruthGuest Donald Hoffman · Host Lex FridmanCognitive scientist Donald Hoffman tells Lex Fridman why natural selection hides reality behind a user interface, and why spacetime itself may be just another icon on the desktop.
4:13:30ENLex Fridman· Jun 9, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersHumanity showed up 10^18 times too earlyGuest Robin Hanson · Host Lex FridmanRobin Hanson tells Lex Fridman why our date in cosmic history is data, and why an empty sky means the loud aliens are coming fast.
2:12:00ENLex Fridman· May 30, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWhen the Plane Went Down, Dan Reynolds Felt NothingGuest Dan Reynolds · Host Lex FridmanThe Imagine Dragons frontman talks with Lex Fridman about C#, ayahuasca, the trap of fame, and the pop prison he built thinking it was a mansion.
1:39:09ENLex Fridman· May 20, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersBobby Lee Was Not Invited to the WeddingGuest Bobby Lee · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with the comedian about a snub that still stings, twelve-hour Skyrim grinds, sex robots, Khalyla, relapse, and the chances he never asks for.
1:52:39ENLex Fridman· May 17, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersEmpathy Is Not Sympathy: Oliver Stone on Putin and the War in UkraineGuest Oliver Stone · Host Lex FridmanThe filmmaker argues that nuclear power is safer than its reputation, that the Ukraine war did not begin on February 24, and that understanding a leader is not the same as excusing him.
2:55:05ENLex Fridman· May 8, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersExtinction awareness is the human trait Mason wants to carry to the starsGuest Chris Mason · Host Lex FridmanCornell geneticist Chris Mason on why seeing our own end creates a duty to engineer life for other worlds — and what a 500-year plan would actually require.Load moreShowing 24 of 230