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Matthew Berman· May 10, 2025From a Simulated Worm to the Simulation HypothesisMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman uses a model of C. elegans to introduce a speculative question about reality.
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Lex Fridman· Apr 11, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersRichard 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.
12:52ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersRoger 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.
11:34ENLex 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.
11:23ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersScience 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.