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11:26ENRichard Dawkins on Memes, the Internet and Why Wrong Ideas SpreadGuest Richard Dawkins · Host Lex FridmanThe man who coined the word explains to Lex Fridman what makes a meme more than a metaphor, why the internet is a step change for ideas, and why an idea, like a peacock's tail, doesn't need to be true or useful to spread.
12:52ENRoger Penrose on a Universe That Restarts: When the Far Future Becomes the Next Big BangGuest Roger Penrose · Host Lex FridmanPenrose explains conformal cyclic cosmology, in which the remote future of one cosmic eon is mathematically the same as the Big Bang of the next.
11:23ENScience Is a Self-Improving System That Isn't Exploding: Chollet on the Limits of an Intelligence ExplosionGuest François Chollet · Host Lex FridmanFrançois Chollet uses the history of science to argue that recursive self-improvement meets exponential friction and yields linear, not explosive, progress.









