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45:08ENSam Altman on AI Discovery, Consciousness, Compute and a Human-Centered FutureMatthew Berman, Sam Altman · Forward FutureIn a conversation with Matthew Berman, Altman discusses scientific progress, personal assistants, recursive self-improvement and the importance of human agency.
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Lex Fridman· Dec 22, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe Pessimism Line: Why Earth Is Almost Certainly Not the First CivilizationGuest Adam Frank · Host Lex FridmanAstrophysicist Adam Frank talks with Lex Fridman about habitable worlds, the Fermi paradox, technosignatures, and why science cannot ignore experience.
2:33:02ENLex Fridman· Oct 16, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA 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.
2:35:24ENLex Fridman· Apr 22, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe Equation Was Smarter Than EinsteinGuest Sean Carroll · Host Lex FridmanSean Carroll tells Lex Fridman why general relativity is the most beautiful theory in physics, and why its equation predicted black holes, gravitational waves, and the Big Bang before anyone, including Einstein, understood them.
4:14:33ENLex Fridman· May 9, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Next Token Is Not a Proof: Stephen Wolfram on ChatGPT and Computational TruthGuest Stephen Wolfram · Host Lex FridmanIn his fourth conversation with Lex Fridman, Stephen Wolfram contrasts large language models with Wolfram|Alpha, then follows computational irreducibility from ChatGPT through observers, thermodynamics, and the three great theories of twentieth-century physics.
3:46:39ENLex Fridman· Apr 9, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersHe Hated School Math Until a Professor Opened the Book to QuarksGuest Edward Frenkel · Host Lex FridmanEdward Frenkel talks with Lex Fridman about Soviet childhood, the Langlands program, Gödel, AI, and why every hard objective theory still ends with an observer.
3:57:49ENLex Fridman· Feb 10, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersAella's 500,000-person survey, and why she still fears looking stupidGuest Aella · Host Lex FridmanThe independent sex researcher and sex worker tells Lex Fridman why anyone can run a study, why childhood fetish stories feel true, and why she would not press a button that ends wanting.
3:17:27ENLex Fridman· Feb 7, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersWe live in an eddy pool of counter-entropyGuest Paul Conti · Host Lex FridmanPsychiatrist Paul Conti tells Lex Fridman that creation is a rare reversal of the universe's drift toward nothing, and that most orchestrated evil is envy wearing a moral costume.
2:06:25ENLex Fridman· Dec 19, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersNathalie Cabrol Wants the Nature of Life, Not Just a Signal from MarsGuest Nathalie Cabrol · Host Lex FridmanThe SETI Institute astrobiologist tells Lex Fridman why crater lakes, panspermia, and a Mandelbrot view of language all point to the same question: what life actually is.
2:39:40ENLex Fridman· Oct 5, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Self That Swoops In to Decide Is Not ThereGuest Annaka Harris · Host Lex FridmanAnnaka Harris tells Lex Fridman why conscious will is an illusion, why a pea tendril is a better picture of choice than an inner agent, and why she now treats consciousness as a possible fundamental of physics.
2:21:55ENLex Fridman· Sep 24, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWill Sasso Respects Stand-Up Too Much to Do ItGuest Will Sasso · Host Lex FridmanThe MADtv veteran tells Lex Fridman why he never became a stand-up, why impressions work from the outside in, and why he thinks AI is running the same illusion.
3:43:01ENLex Fridman· Sep 7, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersPut Hydrogen and CO2 in a Tube. Thermodynamics Wants Cells. Nothing Happens.Guest Nick Lane · Host Lex FridmanBiochemist Nick Lane talks Lex Fridman through hydrothermal vents, mitochondria, sex, consciousness, and why bacteria should be common while civilizations are not.
3:11:01ENLex Fridman· Sep 4, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWhere Do You Go for Wisdom? John Vervaeke on the Meaning CrisisGuest John Vervaeke · Host Lex FridmanA University of Toronto cognitive scientist argues that meaning is a real relationship between self and world, and that modern life has lost the practices that used to repair it.
3:03:33ENLex Fridman· Aug 19, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersBeauty Points Up: Jordan Peterson on God, Tyranny, and How to LiveGuest Jordan Peterson · Host Lex FridmanIn a long conversation with Lex Fridman, the psychologist follows Dostoevsky's claim that beauty will save the world into God, science, power, fame, and the small work of putting a life in order.
3:19:52ENLex Fridman· Aug 16, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersDuncan Trussell Would Live This Life Again, Dark Parts IncludedGuest Duncan Trussell · Host Lex FridmanA comedian and Lex Fridman talk through eternal recurrence, machine sentience, cancer, war, depression, and the love that makes the loop worth running.
3:16:16ENLex Fridman· Jun 12, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersEvolution Never Designed You to See the TruthGuest Donald Hoffman · Host Lex FridmanCognitive scientist Donald Hoffman tells Lex Fridman why natural selection hides reality behind a user interface, and why spacetime itself may be just another icon on the desktop.
2:12:00ENLex Fridman· May 30, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWhen the Plane Went Down, Dan Reynolds Felt NothingGuest Dan Reynolds · Host Lex FridmanThe Imagine Dragons frontman talks with Lex Fridman about C#, ayahuasca, the trap of fame, and the pop prison he built thinking it was a mansion.
2:04:58ENLex Fridman· Apr 29, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWe're Not Homo Sapiens Anymore, Grimes Says. Call Us Homo TechnoGuest Grimes · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman rarely records after midnight. This episode is the exception: Grimes, eight hours late, on music, memes, motherhood, and why consciousness might be sacred even if humans are not.
3:21:29ENLex Fridman· Apr 7, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWhen something in the mind breaks, you see what it was forGuest Karl Deisseroth · Host Lex FridmanStanford psychiatrist Karl Deisseroth talks with Lex Fridman about depression, schizophrenia, optogenetics, and why you can treat one symptom without a theory of everything.
2:10:56ENLex Fridman· Mar 16, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersGod Cannot Be Expressed, Only AddressedGuest David Wolpe · Host Lex FridmanRabbi David Wolpe talks with Lex Fridman about Judaism’s many pictures of God, friendship with atheists, and why a living tradition can argue with its own book.
4:05:51ENLex Fridman· Mar 11, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersLife is the universe developing a memoryGuest Lee Cronin · Host Lex FridmanChemist Lee Cronin tells Lex Fridman why life looks inevitable, how assembly theory could detect it on any world, and why silicon may never hold enough states for consciousness.
2:46:31ENLex Fridman· Feb 3, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Official Scientific Worldview Is Incompatible With ConsciousnessGuest Philip Goff · Host Lex FridmanDurham philosopher Philip Goff tells Lex Fridman why panpsychism — the view that consciousness is fundamental and ubiquitous — is the least-bad theory of mind.
2:45:10ENLex Fridman· Jan 22, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersA Teenager Learns to Drive in Twenty Hours. A Car Still Cannot.Guest Yann Lecun · Host Lex FridmanYann LeCun tells Lex Fridman why self-supervised world models are the missing dark matter of intelligence, and why machines are not even at the level of a house cat.
3:38:43ENLex Fridman· Oct 26, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersConsciousness Is a Step Down From IntelligenceGuest Stephen Wolfram · Host Lex FridmanStephen Wolfram tells Lex Fridman how simple programs, a discrete fabric of space, and a computationally bounded observer together explain complexity, physics, and why the universe exists.Load moreShowing 24 of 58