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Lex Fridman· Nov 1, 2024PodcastGSP would rather street-fight Ngannou than Bas RuttenHost Lex FridmanAfter their podcast, Georges St-Pierre walks Lex Fridman through a short clinic on surprise, dirty targets, knives, and why a UFC title is worthless against a blade.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 1, 2024PodcastIf 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.
9:59ENLex FridmanPodcastIs Language or Vision Harder? Ilya Sutskever on the Unity of Machine LearningHost Lex FridmanIn a short clip from his 2020 conversation with Lex Fridman, Ilya Sutskever explains why vision, language and reinforcement learning share the same few principles, and why asking which problem is harder is the wrong question.
13:55ENLex FridmanPodcastResistance Is the Ego's Voice: Steven Pressfield on Fear, the Self and the Next IdeaHost Lex FridmanSteven Pressfield explains where the force he calls Resistance comes from and why the real fight happens at the most mundane level.
11:51ENLex FridmanPodcastBuilding a Brain: Paola Arlotta on the Choreography of Human Brain DevelopmentHost Lex FridmanA Harvard stem cell biologist walks through how the embryo builds the cerebral cortex, why order and environment matter, and why development continues into our twenties.
14:49ENLex FridmanPodcastElon Musk Rates Memes and Ends Up Defending Nuclear Power, the British Museum and the CheeseburgerHost Lex FridmanIn a lighthearted excerpt from his conversation with Lex Fridman, Elon Musk scores a stack of printed memes on a one-to-eleven scale and gives serious answers whenever a joke touches a real topic.
10:17ENLex FridmanPodcastWhy Great Robots Fail as Businesses, and What iRobot Got RightHost Lex FridmaniRobot co-founder Colin Angle explains why so many robotics companies collapse and how cost, vision and a clear user need shaped the Roomba.
12:16ENLex FridmanPodcastRule 30 and Richard Feynman: Stephen Wolfram on Intuition Versus Computational ExperimentHost Lex FridmanWolfram recalls working with Feynman at Thinking Machines, why Feynman hid his calculations, and how building a computer language changed his approach to science.
13:30ENLex FridmanPodcastDistance, Jabs and Three Rules: Georges St-Pierre Teaches Lex Fridman Wrestling and Ground DefenseHost Lex FridmanA training session in which the former champion explains how takedowns and ground fighting differ between MMA and jiu-jitsu.
13:58ENLex FridmanPodcastDeep Reinforcement Learning, Explained by the Researcher Behind AlphaGoHost Lex FridmanDavid Silver of DeepMind walks through what reinforcement learning is, how its building blocks fit together, and why deep neural networks keep surprising even the experts.
14:38ENLex FridmanPodcastPlay Badly, Have Fun: Lex Fridman and RZA Trade Trash Talk Over a Casual Chess GameHost Lex FridmanAn impromptu post-podcast chess match between Lex Fridman and RZA, framed by Lex's case for playing chess for the joy of it.
10:39ENLex FridmanPodcastStatistics as Decision-Making: Michael I. Jordan on Bayesians, Frequentists and the Ideas Between ThemHost Lex FridmanBerkeley's Michael I. Jordan explains where statistics came from, why it is really about decisions, and how empirical Bayes and false discovery rate bridge two rival philosophies.
11:29ENLex FridmanPodcastWhy Tesla AI Day Was the Most Impressive Real-World AI Effort Lex Fridman Has SeenHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman walks through the neural network, data annotation, Dojo and Tesla Bot announcements and what they say about solving real-world robotics.
11:26ENLex FridmanPodcastThe Cookie Your Brain Bakes: Joscha Bach on Happiness, Cells and the Meaning of GodHost Lex FridmanIn a short clip, Joscha Bach moves from why happiness is not the point to the cell as a cosmic probe and a naturalistic reading of God as civilization.
13:33ENLex FridmanPodcastRating Jiu-Jitsu Memes With Ryan Hall: Talent, Terminology and Getting HumbledHost Lex FridmanAfter their main podcast conversation, Lex Fridman has Ryan Hall score a printed stack of Reddit jiu-jitsu memes on a scale of 1 to 12.
10:17ENLex FridmanPodcastNeither Saints Nor Sinners: Ben Goertzel on the Selfish and Altruistic Human MixHost Lex FridmanAI researcher Ben Goertzel explains why humans are a blend of selfishness and altruism, and how much culture can shift that balance.
12:04ENLex FridmanPodcastZuckerberg and Fridman Roll: Why Two Busy Leaders Are Training Jiu-JitsuHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman shares footage of a training session with Mark Zuckerberg and explains why martial arts matter for people who run big companies.
11:34ENLex FridmanPodcastNeither Discovered Nor Invented: Grant Sanderson on the Cycle Between Math and the WorldHost Lex Fridman3Blue1Brown's Grant Sanderson tells Lex Fridman that mathematics feeds on a loop of discovery and invention, and wonders why the universe's laws are so compressible.