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Lex Fridman· May 28, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Ribosome Already Solved Digital ManufacturingGuest Neil Gershenfeld · Host Lex FridmanNeil Gershenfeld tells Lex Fridman why Turing separated the head from the tape, how fab labs are the personal-computer moment for making things, and what it would take to grow a civilization from about twenty parts.
1:51:12ENLex Fridman· May 15, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersHarvey Silverglate Would Fire 95 Percent of Harvard's AdministratorsGuest Harvey Silverglate · Host Lex FridmanThe FIRE co-founder, running as a write-in for Harvard's Board of Overseers, tells Lex Fridman why hate speech is more useful than love speech and why discomfort is the price of a free campus.
4:14:33ENLex Fridman· May 9, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Next Token Is Not a Proof: Stephen Wolfram on ChatGPT and Computational TruthGuest Stephen Wolfram · Host Lex FridmanIn his fourth conversation with Lex Fridman, Stephen Wolfram contrasts large language models with Wolfram|Alpha, then follows computational irreducibility from ChatGPT through observers, thermodynamics, and the three great theories of twentieth-century physics.
2:30:28ENLex Fridman· Apr 21, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersAI Only Has a Neocortex: Manolis Kellis on Evolutionary Baggage and Superintelligent PartnersGuest Manolis Kellis · Host Lex FridmanOn his fifth Lex Fridman podcast, the MIT computational biologist argues that layered evolutionary history is what makes humans irreplaceable — and that alignment with AI has to run both ways.
2:48:12ENLex Fridman· Apr 13, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Asteroid We Are Building OurselvesGuest Max Tegmark · Host Lex FridmanPhysicist Max Tegmark tells Lex Fridman why a six-month pause on models larger than GPT-4 is not a ban on AI, but a chance to stop a suicide race.
3:46:39ENLex Fridman· Apr 9, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersHe Hated School Math Until a Professor Opened the Book to QuarksGuest Edward Frenkel · Host Lex FridmanEdward Frenkel talks with Lex Fridman about Soviet childhood, the Langlands program, Gödel, AI, and why every hard objective theory still ends with an observer.
3:34:58ENLex Fridman· Apr 4, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersAn 18-year-old bought a one-way ticket to the AmazonGuest Paul Rosolie · Host Lex FridmanPaul Rosolie had no degree, no funding, and no expedition. Seventeen years later he is still there, protecting a library of life we have not finished reading.
4:27:46ENLex Fridman· Mar 14, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersHalf a Million Girls in Wells, and We Still Change the ChannelGuest Sam Harris · Host Lex FridmanSam Harris tells Lex Fridman why emotional contagion is a bad moral compass, why Trump broke norms more than laws, and why Twitter, COVID, and AGI all look like failures of seriousness.
2:50:03ENLex Fridman· Mar 6, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersAll I see is silverGuest B-Team Jiu Jitsu · Host Lex FridmanCraig Jones, Nicky Rod, and Nicky Ryan on winning, the Death Squad split, and why a brown belt still will not take a black belt.
2:13:07ENLex Fridman· Feb 25, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersHe Worked Scientology Full-Time and Never Learned What It Believed at the TopGuest Aaron Smith-Levin · Host Lex FridmanFormer Sea Org member Aaron Smith-Levin walks Lex Fridman from thetans and Dianetics to billion-year contracts, OT levels, and the family-destruction policy he uses to call it a cult.
3:07:18ENLex Fridman· Feb 20, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersIf Human History Were a Thousand-Page Book, Nearly All of It Would Be BlankGuest Tim Urban · Host Lex FridmanTim Urban walks Lex Fridman through a self-help book for societies, from a gratitude dial in every head to the movements that hijack liberal institutions.
3:57:49ENLex Fridman· Feb 10, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersAella's 500,000-person survey, and why she still fears looking stupidGuest Aella · Host Lex FridmanThe independent sex researcher and sex worker tells Lex Fridman why anyone can run a study, why childhood fetish stories feel true, and why she would not press a button that ends wanting.
3:17:27ENLex Fridman· Feb 7, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersWe live in an eddy pool of counter-entropyGuest Paul Conti · Host Lex FridmanPsychiatrist Paul Conti tells Lex Fridman that creation is a rare reversal of the universe's drift toward nothing, and that most orchestrated evil is envy wearing a moral costume.
3:02:52ENLex Fridman· Jan 17, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersI Wanted to Ask God About Hunger and War. I Was Afraid He’d Ask Me the Same QuestionGuest Omar Suleiman · Host Lex FridmanImam Omar Suleiman talks with Lex Fridman about God, his mother’s long illness, why Islam treats suffering as a pixel on a larger canvas, and why seeking truth is worthless if you will not live by it.
3:42:34ENLex Fridman· Dec 22, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersBhaskar Sunkara Will Not Call Forced Collectivization Anything but a DisasterGuest Bhaskar Sunkara · Host Lex FridmanThe Jacobin founder and Nation president tells Lex Fridman that democratic socialism starts by refusing the No True Scotsman defense of the twentieth century.
2:06:25ENLex Fridman· Dec 19, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersNathalie Cabrol Wants the Nature of Life, Not Just a Signal from MarsGuest Nathalie Cabrol · Host Lex FridmanThe SETI Institute astrobiologist tells Lex Fridman why crater lakes, panspermia, and a Mandelbrot view of language all point to the same question: what life actually is.
3:40:53ENLex Fridman· Dec 15, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe White Pill: See How Bad It Got, Then Keep Going AnywayGuest Michael Malice · Host Lex FridmanOn a Lex Fridman Christmas special, Michael Malice talks through The White Pill — why 19th-century socialism looked scientific and humane, why violence sings its own song, and why cynics who call themselves realists are lying.
2:59:33ENLex Fridman· Dec 3, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersRoger Gracie Cleared His Mind, Conserved Every Move, and Refused to Be Number TwoGuest Roger Gracie · Host Lex FridmanThe ten-time world champion walks Lex Fridman through the Buchecha rematch, why tapping is intelligence, and how a late-starting chubby kid decided to become the best in the world.
2:57:24ENLex Fridman· Nov 15, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Skill a Child Learns Under a Tree Is How to Calibrate ViolenceGuest Chamath Palihapitiya · Host Lex FridmanChamath Palihapitiya talks with Lex Fridman about a violent childhood, money, poker, energy, startups, and why happiness is not behind the velvet rope.
4:15:34ENLex Fridman· Nov 11, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersHe defended Bush in the school paper. Then they called him the Ben Shapiro of the leftGuest Destiny · Host Lex FridmanSteven Bonnell, the live-stream debater known as Destiny, tells Lex Fridman how he thinks, how he researches, and why a carpet-cleaning job flipped his politics.
2:31:25ENLex Fridman· Nov 7, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Best Protection Against Evil Is Recognizing It in YourselfGuest Ben Shapiro · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Ben Shapiro about antisemitism, the collapse of democracies, Twitter, Trump and Biden, Ukraine, faith, and why being good is harder than being great.
3:28:47ENLex Fridman· Oct 29, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersKarpathy Calls Trained Neural Nets Complicated Alien ArtifactsGuest Andrej Karpathy · Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman's podcast, Andrej Karpathy refuses the brain analogy, walks the Fermi paradox through Nick Lane's chemistry, and treats the Transformer as a general-purpose differentiable computer.
2:26:29ENLex Fridman· Oct 24, 2022PodcastYe said schools should teach only engineering. Then he spent an hour rewriting history.Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman’s podcast in October 2022, the artist formerly known as Kanye West talked design, family, and a theory about Jewish control that the host would not let stand.
7:47:52ENLex Fridman· Oct 20, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersYou Cannot Peacefully Start a New Government. Balaji Thinks That Is the Bug.Guest Balaji Srinivasan · Host Lex FridmanIn a seven-hour conversation with Lex Fridman, Balaji Srinivasan traces a single thread from the prime-number maze to network states, Wikipedia, the FDA, and crypto property rights.Load moreShowing 24 of 230