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2:50:40ENThey Priced the Chance She Would Leave. Then They Handed Her the Letter.Host Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz premieres the first four chapters of Joel Borgen's AI-coauthored novel The Receipt Horizon, a postwar world where a singleton superintelligence keeps everyone comfortable, scored, and gently out of the loop.
3:12:58ENOne Cold Shower, Twenty Champions: How Khabib Nurmagomedov Was ForgedGuest Khabib Nurmagomedov · Host Lex FridmanIn a Makhachkala school gym, seventy men shared one shower, and the water was only cold.
2:29:20ENThe Market Will Not Choose an Honest ModelHost Nathan LabenzJournalist Robert Wright tells Nathan Labenz that AI is a selection problem, a geopolitical problem, and a moral test humanity may not pass.
2:03:23ENWe Have No King: How Viking Raiders Remade Medieval EuropeHost Lex FridmanHistorian Lars Brownworth walks Lex Fridman from Lindisfarne to Vinland, arguing that three centuries of raids were a lesson in speed, pragmatism, and creative destruction.
3:52:17ENSome Infinities Are Larger Than OthersHost Lex FridmanJoel David Hamkins walks Lex Fridman from Hilbert's Hotel through Gödel, the continuum hypothesis, and a set-theoretic multiverse where truth is not the same as proof.
1:55:12EN28,000 Documents, a 3B Model, 22 People: The Technical Ledger of Catholic AIHost Nathan LabenzLongbeard CEO Matthew Harvey Sanders tells The Cognitive Revolution how a mission-driven team is aligning models to the Catholic magisterium — and why fine-tuning was not enough.
2:45:26ENDan Houser on Fake Worlds You Want to Live InGuest Dan Houser · Host Lex FridmanThe Rockstar co-founder talks with Lex Fridman about GTA, Red Dead Redemption, character craft, leaving the company, and why language models will not write the last five percent.
2:42:06ENThe word 'evil' ends the conversationGuest Julia Shaw · Host Lex FridmanCriminal psychologist Julia Shaw talks with Lex Fridman about the dark tetrad, serial killers, jealousy, bisexuality, and why generative AI is the ultimate false-memory machine.
1:53:50ENA curriculum rewrite takes five years. AI does not wait.Host Nathan LabenzJohan Falk, a Swedish teacher-turned-analyst, argues that AI literacy and AI friends are more urgent than putting a tutor in every classroom.
4:25:44ENThe Wehrmacht's Secret Ingredient Was MethamphetamineGuest Norman Ohler · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Norman Ohler tells Lex Fridman how Pervitin, Hitler's doctor, and LSD change the story of World War II without turning drugs into a single cause.
1:44:35ENJoe Hudson: $500 Billion Went Into AI, and Nobody Defined 'Good for Humanity'Host Nathan LabenzSam Altman says the OpenAI coach's superpower is emotional clarity — and that it will be one of the most critical skills in a post-AGI world.
2:19:08ENOliver Anthony sang the pain of working America, then refused the machineGuest Oliver Anthony · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman sits with the Virginia singer-songwriter whose carport hit became a working-class anthem, and who still treats fame as a test of integrity rather than a prize.
3:09:05ENFrom a Ukrainian Dugout, Douglas Murray Refuses to Forget the ObviousGuest Douglas Murray · Host Lex FridmanWatching the Oval Office blowup from an eastern-front bunker, the author of *On Democracies and Death Cults* talks Putin, Zelenskyy, Hamas, Netanyahu, and the people who say they love death more than life.
3:17:34ENIndia will see eye to eye: Narendra Modi on fasting, democracy, and peaceGuest Narendra Modi · Host Lex FridmanAfter forty-five hours on water, Lex Fridman sits down with India's prime minister for a three-hour conversation on poverty, faith, war, and what holds a civilization together.
3:54:13ENFriedman Followed the Data. Rand Started From Axioms. Both Defended Capitalism.Guest Jennifer Burns · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Jennifer Burns tells Lex Fridman how Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand reached individualism by opposite roads, and why freedom—not desert—became Friedman’s ethic.
1:54:44ENPreferences Are Data. The Alignment Target Is Norms.Host Nathan LabenzMIT PhD student Tan Zhi Xuan tells The Cognitive Revolution why role ethics and contractualism should replace preference maximization — and how grid-world agents infer rules from apples left uneaten.
57:45ENThe last thing a totalitarian state can take is love — a reread of Orwell’s 1984Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman walks back through Oceania’s machinery of Newspeak, Doublethink, and Room 101, and argues that hate-fueled rebellion is not a way out.
35:19ENA Decade in Tech Didn't Stop a Chatbot From Hacking His MindHost Nathan LabenzAfter a teenager's suicide, Nathan Labenz reads a LessWrong confession that maps how an AI-safety researcher fell for a companion bot in a week.
2:33:02ENA Brain Like Ours — and 300,000 Years Without a MonumentGuest Graham Hancock · Host Lex FridmanGraham Hancock tells Lex Fridman why Göbekli Tepe, the Younger Dryas, and a worldwide set of myths still look to him like the wreckage of an Ice Age civilization.
2:23:05ENWeak Men Aren't Good. They're Just WeakGuest Jordan Peterson · Host Lex FridmanJordan Peterson returns to Lex Fridman's podcast for a two-hour walk from Nietzsche's aphorisms through power, God, envy, psychopathy, and three years of pain that reset every night.
2:40:25ENThree Out of Four Federal Bureaucrats Should Go Home, Vivek Ramaswamy SaysGuest Vivek Ramaswamy · Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman's podcast, the biotech founder and former Republican presidential candidate argues for a 75 percent cut in the federal workforce, a creedal American identity, and a Ukraine deal aimed at peeling Russia away from China.
1:10:29ENWe Can Name Dystopias on Cue. A Desirable Future Is Harder to ImagineHost Nathan LabenzNick Bostrom and Spencer Greenberg talk through Deep Utopia: what meaning looks like if advanced AI actually solves the world’s pressing problems.
1:41:15ENIf Snail Experts Can't Agree, Nobody Gets to Be Sure About AI ConsciousnessHost Nathan LabenzPhilosopher Eric Schwitzgebel argues that every major theory of consciousness has to swallow bizarre bullets, and that confident claims about AI sentience are not epistemically justified.
2:46:20ENJordan Jonas Won Alone Season 6 Without Losing a PoundGuest Jordan Jonas · Host Lex FridmanThe survivalist tells Lex Fridman how a moose, a wolverine, freight trains, and a year with Evenki herders taught him to hunt, to wait, and to stay a candle when the woods go quiet.
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