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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 11, 2023PodcastThe Former Trader Who Writes 10,000 Words a Week Puts AI Doom at 60 PercentHost Nathan LabenzZvi Mowshowitz tells Nathan Labenz why today's language models are a gift, why the default future past human level is extinction or a worthless universe, and who actually moves the AI debate.
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Lex 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.
1:42:48ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 13, 2023PodcastThe Skype Co-Founder Who Wants a Six-Month Pause on Frontier AIHost Nathan LabenzJaan Tallinn argues that each 10× jump in training compute carries a 1 to 50 percent chance of ending everything, and that the labs still will not say when they will stop.
1:33:49ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 4, 2023PodcastSafe Only Because It's Weak: A GPT-4 Red-Teamer and Two Founders Debate the PauseHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz, who spent six months trying to make GPT-4 misbehave, wants labs to stop training anything bigger; Chroma's Anton Troynikov and Lindy's Flo Crivello argue a six-month freeze buys little and may select for the least careful labs.
3:17:51ENLex Fridman· Mar 30, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersWhoops is the sound of getting less wrong: Yudkowsky, two weeks after GPT-4Guest Eliezer Yudkowsky · Host Lex FridmanTwo weeks after GPT-4 launched, Eliezer Yudkowsky sat down with Lex Fridman and started by admitting the transformer stack had already gone further than he expected.
32:48ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 23, 2023PodcastA Hundred Million to Train, a Penny to InferHost Nathan LabenzIn a February 2023 roundtable, two founders argue on mic over whether AGI ends humanity — and who actually captures the value if it does not.
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.
1:26:57ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 10, 2023PodcastNine Moats, a Cloud-Shaped Market, and Why OpenAI Is Not Optional YetHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg pressure-test the leaked “no moats” memo and walk through where advantage actually lives in generative AI.
3:19:25ENLex Fridman· Nov 4, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersPutin Is Rational in His Own Context. Fiona Hill Spent a Lifetime Learning ItGuest Fiona Hill · Host Lex FridmanThe Durham miner's daughter who advised three U.S. presidents tells Lex Fridman how a collapsing coalfield, a Donbas scholarship, and the 2019 impeachment circus taught her to read Vladimir Putin — and why the West keeps missing him.
47:12ENLex Fridman· Aug 31, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersPutin’s invasion is a supreme crime, Chomsky says — and so was America’s in IraqGuest Noam Chomsky · Host Lex FridmanIn a short remote interview, Noam Chomsky applies one standard to NATO expansion, Western propaganda, and a US-China war he thinks organized human life would not survive.
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.
3:19:52ENLex 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.
2:13:16ENLex Fridman· Jul 23, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersEvery Atom in Your Body Was Forged in a Dead StarGuest Martin Rees · Host Lex FridmanMartin Rees talks Lex Fridman through dark matter, alien life, one-way Mars trips, and why this century is the first in which one species holds the planet.
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.
2:55:05ENLex 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.
2:48:27ENLex Fridman· Apr 3, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersMost Rivals Loathe Each Other in PeaceGuest Chris Blattman · Host Lex FridmanUniversity of Chicago economist Chris Blattman tells Lex Fridman why prolonged violence is rare, costly, and usually a bargaining failure — recorded in the fifth week of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
2:37:03ENLex 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.
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.
3:17:09ENLex Fridman· Jun 25, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersWhat Science Is Left When Institutions Decide What Cannot Be SaidGuest Bret Weinstein · Host Lex FridmanEvolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein talks with Lex Fridman about lab-leak evidence, ivermectin, captured public-health agencies, and why the 1% at the fringe is the key to progress.
2:59:12ENLex Fridman· Jun 20, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersNature Never Dealt This CardGuest Rob Reid · Host Lex FridmanIn 2011 two labs independently engineered H5N1 so it could travel through the air between mammals — work Rob Reid tells Lex Fridman should never have been done, and still has not been stopped.
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.
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.
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.
3:02:43ENLex Fridman· Jan 18, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersHumanity Cannot Survive on the Right Person Showing Up at the Right TimeGuest Max Tegmark · Host Lex FridmanMIT physicist Max Tegmark tells Lex Fridman why AI should be as well understood as rockets, why 2020 was a warning on weapons and news, and why luck is a terrible long-term plan.Load moreShowing 24 of 99