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5:15:51ENDHH Did Not Write a Line of Omarchy QuattroGuest DHH · Host Lex FridmanThirteen months after a skeptical conversation with Lex Fridman, the Rails creator describes how Opus 4.5, a swarm of coding agents, and a one-minute Linux installer ended his era of hand-chiseled Ruby.
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.
3:46:18ENIf You Take Slavery Out of the Picture, There Is No Civil WarGuest Gary Gallagher · Host Lex FridmanIn 1860, enslaved people were worth more than every railroad and factory in the United States combined.
3:51:47ENForty-Six Percent of Emperors Were Overthrown. The Empire Lasted AnywayGuest Anthony Kaldellis · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Anthony Kaldellis walks Lex Fridman through 2,200 years of Roman history and argues that what we call Byzantium was Rome itself.
2:53:42ENThe Moon Is Falling. It Just Keeps Missing.Guest Biggest Mysteries in Physics · Host Lex FridmanFermilab physicist Don Lincoln tells Lex Fridman that the history of physics is a history of unification, and that antimatter, dark energy, and a theory of everything still sit far beyond the experiments we can run.
4:18:22ENEvery Cycle Matters: The Volunteers Who Decode Almost All Internet VideoGuest FFmpeg · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Kieran Kunhya about FFmpeg, VLC, handwritten assembly, and the unpaid crew behind YouTube, Netflix, and a rover on Mars.
2:25:58ENAGI Is Already Here. Building NVIDIA Is Not.Guest Jensen Huang · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman sits down with Jensen Huang for two and a half hours on extreme co-design, CUDA, four scaling laws, and why a $1 billion AI company is easier than a durable one.
5:10:12ENYou Don't Need a CFO to Make World of WarcraftGuest Jeff Kaplan · Host Lex FridmanJeff Kaplan traces the line from 6,000 hours of EverQuest to Overwatch's six-week origin, Titan's collapse, and a 34-person studio that refuses to hand the golden goose over.
2:33:48ENThe First Guitar Solo Rick Beato Learned Was "Hey Joe"Guest Rick Beato · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with music educator Rick Beato about the guitarists who shaped him, how ears are trained, and whether AI can make a song worth hearing.
3:15:52ENThe Voice Note His Bot Couldn't Handle — and the Agent That Built Itself AnywayGuest OpenClaw · Host Lex FridmanPeter Steinberger tells Lex Fridman how a one-hour WhatsApp toy became GitHub's fastest-growing project, and what it cost him to keep it open.
3:06:19ENThey Call Themselves Brothers: First Contact in the AmazonGuest Paul Rosolie · Host Lex FridmanPaul Rosolie tells Lex Fridman about a historic encounter with an uncontacted Amazon clan, a narco war on his river, and the race to buy the last wild corridor.
2:05:13ENThe Ark Was Round: Irving Finkel on Cuneiform, Floods, and a Seal From 9000 BCGuest Irving Finkel · Host Lex FridmanA British Museum curator argues that writing is older than the textbooks say, that Noah inherited a Mesopotamian story, and that the oldest ark was a giant coracle.
3:18:09ENA Thing Is Alive When Its Goals Outrun Its PartsGuest Michael Levin · Host Lex FridmanTufts biologist Michael Levin tells Lex Fridman that intelligence is a spectrum of persuadability, that even a bubble sort hosts unexpected goals, and that the brain is a thin client to a space physics does not own.
2:36:55ENOne Second of Fuel: David Kirtley on Fusion Power by 2028Guest David Kirtley · Host Lex FridmanThe Helion Energy CEO walks Lex Fridman from 1958 theta pinches to a Microsoft contract that wants first electrons on the grid in 2028.
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.
4:34:10ENPavel Durov Built Telegram for a Billion People. He Still Won't Carry a Phone.Guest Pavel Durov · Host Lex FridmanIn a four-and-a-half-hour conversation with Lex Fridman, the Telegram founder traces freedom from a childhood move out of the Soviet Union to a French jail cell, a poisoning, and a 40-person engineering team.
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.
3:36:25ENT. rex Was an Orca on Land. Almost Nothing Else Matches the Movies.Guest Dave Hone · Host Lex FridmanPaleontologist Dave Hone walks Lex Fridman through T. rex size, bone-crushing anatomy, hunting, extinction, and what Jurassic Park still gets wrong.
1:50:28ENThe 87-Kilobyte Program Two Billion People Open Every MonthGuest Dave Plummer · Host Lex FridmanDave Plummer talks Lex Fridman through Task Manager, old-school Microsoft, and how an autistic mind actually works.
10:26:31ENThe War on Terror's Only Gift Was Better Luke Skywalker HandsGuest Scott Horton · Host Lex FridmanScott Horton walks Lex Fridman through fifty years of U.S. wars, from Vietnam Syndrome to Ukraine, and argues the machinery never stops because it is not supposed to.
1:49:29ENChina Is Not Run by One Person. It Is a Mayor EconomyGuest Keyu Jin · Host Lex FridmanEconomist Keyu Jin on local GDP races, DeepSeek, tariffs, Jack Ma, and why Western collapse forecasts keep missing the country they describe.
4:30:02ENGenghis Khan Never Fought a Battle He Thought He Could LoseGuest Jack Weatherford · Host Lex FridmanAnthropologist Jack Weatherford tells Lex Fridman how an abandoned boy on the Mongolian steppe built the largest contiguous empire in history—and why conquest is only part of the story.
2:28:14ENNature Has Structure: Demis Hassabis on Learnable Reality and AGIGuest Demis Hassabis · Host Lex FridmanThe Google DeepMind CEO argues that evolution-shaped systems can be modeled by classical learning, and that interactive world models sit on the path to AGI.
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