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Lex Fridman· Mar 28, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Experience Machine: What Our Refusal to Plug In Says About What We ValueGuest Nick Bostrom · Host Lex FridmanNick Bostrom unpacks Robert Nozick's experience machine, the status quo effect behind our answers, and whether a simulation convincing enough to feel real would have to contain real minds.
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.
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.
11:11ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersFilling the Empty Quadrants: Jim Gates on Supersymmetry and the Beauty of Broken SymmetryGuest Jim Gates · Host Lex FridmanTheoretical physicist Jim Gates explains supersymmetry with a four-slice pie, recalls how he chose it for his thesis in the 1970s, and connects it to the way physics moves from mathematics to experiment.
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.