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1:47:18ENA Cannabis Clip Sat Quiet for a Year. Then It Hit X.Guest Andrew Huberman · Host Lex FridmanAndrew Huberman talks with Lex Fridman about online pile-ons, still minds, sharks, ayahuasca, and the slow work of picking who you eat with.
2:51:58ENSara Walker: Life Is Huge in Time, Not in SpaceGuest Sara Walker · Host Lex FridmanThe astrobiologist tells Lex Fridman why textbook definitions of life fail, how assembly theory measures complexity, and why aliens might disappear into their own causal structure.
2:19:08ENHe Asked to Vanish from the Poster. The Second Time, Hollywood Did It for HimGuest Kevin Spacey · Host Lex FridmanKevin Spacey talks with Lex Fridman about Se7en, American Beauty, House of Cards, the 2017 allegations, and a father whose study held a Nazi flag.
4:01:52ENPaul Rosolie: The Amazon Is a Machine of Death, and Every Heartbeat in It Is Worth SavingGuest Paul Rosolie · Host Lex FridmanDeep in the Peruvian rainforest, the naturalist talks snakes, anacondas, uncontacted tribes, ayahuasca, and why he would rather protect this forest than look for aliens.
2:27:51ENNeil Adams Still Wakes in a Sweat From an Olympic Final He Cannot ReachGuest Neil Adams · Host Lex FridmanThe judo world champion and two-time Olympic silver medalist talks with Lex Fridman about Moscow, Los Angeles, the luxury of danger, and why a real champion is the one who does the right thing when they lose.
2:43:13ENThirty-Three Minutes He Cannot RememberGuest Bassem Youssef · Host Lex FridmanComedian Bassem Youssef tells Lex Fridman why he walked into a Piers Morgan interview he expected to lose, and what Gaza, satire, and power look like from there.
4:56ENIf the Mind Is a Tool, AI Looks Less Like a ThreatHost Nathan LabenzYohei Nakajima and Nathan Labenz pause a TED AI talk to connect agent-building habits with East–West ideas of identity.
2:20:04ENShapiro vs Destiny: Two Questions That Never MeetHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman sits Ben Shapiro and Destiny down for a long-delayed debate on liberalism, Trump, Gaza, Ukraine, January 6, and whether history is allowed to go backward.
1:50:08ENJeff Beck gave his signature solo to a 21-year-old bassistGuest Tal Wilkenfeld · Host Lex FridmanTal Wilkenfeld talks with Lex Fridman about Crossroads, Prince, Leonard Cohen, and why she would rather stand on the edge of a cliff than play it safe.
2:53:09ENFear is the civilization killer: Guillaume Verdon on e/acc, thermodynamics, and being unmaskedGuest Guillaume Verdon · Host Lex FridmanThe physicist behind BasedBeffJezos tells Lex Fridman why out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics, anonymity, and a meme movement are his answer to AI deceleration.
2:09:09ENA Fight Is Not a Fight Until There Is Something to OvercomeGuest Teddy Atlas · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman came to talk boxing with Teddy Atlas and stayed for a story about loyalty, fear, and the night Cus D'Amato chose Mike Tyson.
1:39:02ENMost Things Suck. The Good Ones Change Your Life.Guest Michael Malice · Host Lex FridmanOn a Thanksgiving pirate special, Michael Malice and Lex Fridman range from mantis shrimp and roast funerals to 67 shaving soaps and why cynicism is a form of giving up.
2:16:46ENPhysics is the law. Everything else is a recommendationGuest Elon Musk · Host Lex FridmanOn his fourth Lex Fridman podcast, Elon Musk runs first-principles math on Gaza, Ukraine, Grok, aliens, and the coming shortage of useful compute per watt.
2:31:58ENCancel culture has already outpaced the Red Scare, Greg Lukianoff arguesGuest Greg Lukianoff · Host Lex FridmanThe FIRE president tells Lex Fridman why Harvard scored below zero on campus free speech, how left and right built rhetorical fortresses, and why “hate speech” remains censorship’s most successful brand.
3:44:36ENDisconnection Happens Slowly, Then All at OnceGuest James Sexton · Host Lex FridmanDivorce attorney James Sexton tells Lex Fridman why marriages fail, how small kindnesses and hidden selves undo them, and why people keep betting on love anyway.
2:18:25ENGrow Everything: Neri Oxman on Giving Nature a VoteGuest Neri Oxman · Host Lex FridmanThe designer-scientist who left MIT to build OXMAN talks silkworm pavilions, bees in space, and why the end of human agency might be the start of nature's.
2:44:47ENThe Next Machines Will Steal Intimacy, Not Just AttentionGuest Yuval Noah Harari · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Yuval Noah Harari tells Lex Fridman how stories built civilization, why fascism looks beautiful in the mirror, and why AI is the first tool that takes power away from humans.
2:28:37ENThe Marshals Came for an Underground City. RFK Jr. Still Wants a President Who Can Say NoGuest Robert F. Kennedy Jr · Host Lex FridmanOn Independence Day 2023, Lex Fridman sat with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for two and a half hours on Cuba, Ukraine, the CIA, pharma, and why the shopping cart still has to go back.
3:15:07ENWikipedia Worked Once Writing Stopped Feeling Like Grad SchoolGuest Jimmy Wales · Host Lex FridmanJimmy Wales tells Lex Fridman how Nupedia's seven-stage review died, why Wikipedia still refuses ads and governments, and what large language models should actually do with an encyclopedia.
2:19:00ENLess Impressed, More Involved: Matthew McConaughey on Messy Love and a Live LifeGuest Matthew McConaughey · Host Lex FridmanThe Oscar-winning actor talks with Lex Fridman about his parents' violent romance, the death of his father, green lights, and why some wounds should be kicked off the curb.
2:07:04ENThe 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.
1:51:12ENHarvey 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.
4:14:33ENThe 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.
2:30:28ENAI 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.
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