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Lex Fridman· Jun 26, 2025PodcastThey could not agree whether Iran was building a bomb. They still wanted the same next move.Host Lex FridmanAfter the Iran-Israel ceasefire, Scott Horton and Mark Dubowitz spend four hours on Lex Fridman arguing over enrichment math, a stolen archive, and whether bombing Fordo makes a weapon more likely or less.
2:15:39ENLex Fridman· Jun 2, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersRoman Yampolskiy Puts Superintelligent Ruin at 99.99 PercentGuest Roman Yampolskiy · Host Lex FridmanThe AI safety researcher tells Lex Fridman that controlling AGI is as impossible as a perpetual motion machine, and that tests, open source, and regulation cannot close the gap.
3:07:27ENLex Fridman· Mar 22, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersFive Billion Dead, and One Person Has Six MinutesGuest Annie Jacobsen · Host Lex FridmanAnnie Jacobsen walks Lex Fridman from a second-by-second nuclear exchange to CIA secrecy, Area 51, and why she still wants the word “could” kept in the sentence.
3:04:22ENLex Fridman· Feb 27, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA Ten-Page Memo Told Tucker Carlson Not to Interview PutinGuest Tucker Carlson · Host Lex FridmanAfter eight days in Moscow, Carlson tells Lex Fridman why he let Vladimir Putin talk, what Navalny’s death does and does not prove, and why he thinks Washington is blocking a settlement in Ukraine.
2:53:09ENLex Fridman· Dec 29, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersFear is the civilization killer: Guillaume Verdon on e/acc, thermodynamics, and being unmaskedGuest Guillaume Verdon · Host Lex FridmanThe physicist behind BasedBeffJezos tells Lex Fridman why out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics, anonymity, and a meme movement are his answer to AI deceleration.
59:24ENLex Fridman· Dec 3, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersIf You Only Trust What You Can See, You Miss Most of the UniverseGuest Lisa Randall · Host Lex FridmanHarvard physicist Lisa Randall talks with Lex Fridman about dark matter, dinosaur extinctions, the LHC, and why a theory is only as good as the measurement that can kill it.
2:16:46ENLex Fridman· Nov 9, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersPhysics is the law. Everything else is a recommendationGuest Elon Musk · Host Lex FridmanOn his fourth Lex Fridman podcast, Elon Musk runs first-principles math on Gaza, Ukraine, Grok, aliens, and the coming shortage of useful compute per watt.
2:44:47ENLex Fridman· Jul 17, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Next Machines Will Steal Intimacy, Not Just AttentionGuest Yuval Noah Harari · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Yuval Noah Harari tells Lex Fridman how stories built civilization, why fascism looks beautiful in the mirror, and why AI is the first tool that takes power away from humans.
1:11:11ENLex Fridman· Jul 12, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersOne of the Most Hated Men in the World Disagrees With the PremiseGuest Benjamin Netanyahu · Host Lex FridmanIn a compressed hour with Lex Fridman, Benjamin Netanyahu recasts hate, judicial reform, AI, and Israeli–Palestinian peace as problems of timing, balance, and sequence.
2:48:12ENLex Fridman· Apr 13, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Asteroid We Are Building OurselvesGuest Max Tegmark · Host Lex FridmanPhysicist Max Tegmark tells Lex Fridman why a six-month pause on models larger than GPT-4 is not a ban on AI, but a chance to stop a suicide race.
3:17:51ENLex Fridman· Mar 30, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersWhoops is the sound of getting less wrong: Yudkowsky, two weeks after GPT-4Guest Eliezer Yudkowsky · Host Lex FridmanTwo weeks after GPT-4 launched, Eliezer Yudkowsky sat down with Lex Fridman and started by admitting the transformer stack had already gone further than he expected.
3:07:18ENLex Fridman· Feb 20, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersIf Human History Were a Thousand-Page Book, Nearly All of It Would Be BlankGuest Tim Urban · Host Lex FridmanTim Urban walks Lex Fridman through a self-help book for societies, from a gratitude dial in every head to the movements that hijack liberal institutions.
3:19:25ENLex Fridman· Nov 4, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersPutin Is Rational in His Own Context. Fiona Hill Spent a Lifetime Learning ItGuest Fiona Hill · Host Lex FridmanThe Durham miner's daughter who advised three U.S. presidents tells Lex Fridman how a collapsing coalfield, a Donbas scholarship, and the 2019 impeachment circus taught her to read Vladimir Putin — and why the West keeps missing him.
47:12ENLex Fridman· Aug 31, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersPutin’s invasion is a supreme crime, Chomsky says — and so was America’s in IraqGuest Noam Chomsky · Host Lex FridmanIn a short remote interview, Noam Chomsky applies one standard to NATO expansion, Western propaganda, and a US-China war he thinks organized human life would not survive.
3:35:40ENLex Fridman· Aug 24, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersLiv Boeree on Moloch, Useful Fictions, and Why Luck Keeps Poker AliveGuest Liv Boeree · Host Lex FridmanThe poker champion and science educator talks with Lex Fridman about game theory, attention, simulation, aliens, and the existential races that look like games nobody can quit.
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.
2:13:16ENLex Fridman· Jul 23, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersEvery Atom in Your Body Was Forged in a Dead StarGuest Martin Rees · Host Lex FridmanMartin Rees talks Lex Fridman through dark matter, alien life, one-way Mars trips, and why this century is the first in which one species holds the planet.
4:13:30ENLex Fridman· Jun 9, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersHumanity showed up 10^18 times too earlyGuest Robin Hanson · Host Lex FridmanRobin Hanson tells Lex Fridman why our date in cosmic history is data, and why an empty sky means the loud aliens are coming fast.
2:55:05ENLex Fridman· May 8, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersExtinction awareness is the human trait Mason wants to carry to the starsGuest Chris Mason · Host Lex FridmanCornell geneticist Chris Mason on why seeing our own end creates a duty to engineer life for other worlds — and what a 500-year plan would actually require.
2:48:27ENLex Fridman· Apr 3, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersMost Rivals Loathe Each Other in PeaceGuest Chris Blattman · Host Lex FridmanUniversity of Chicago economist Chris Blattman tells Lex Fridman why prolonged violence is rare, costly, and usually a bargaining failure — recorded in the fifth week of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
2:37:03ENLex Fridman· Feb 13, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersNo One Knows How to Make a PencilGuest Tim Urban · Host Lex FridmanWait But Why's Tim Urban spent five years on a book about why society is tearing itself apart, then sat down with Lex Fridman to talk aliens, Musk, Neuralink, and the war inside a procrastinator's head.
4:55:09ENLex Fridman· Dec 8, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersJamie Metzl Puts the Lab-Leak Odds at 85 PercentGuest Jamie Metzl · Host Lex FridmanThe genetic-engineering author walks Lex Fridman through the circumstantial case for a Wuhan accident, the cover-up he says is no longer debatable, and why the next pandemic will be decided by transparency, not blame.
3:17:09ENLex Fridman· Jun 25, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersWhat Science Is Left When Institutions Decide What Cannot Be SaidGuest Bret Weinstein · Host Lex FridmanEvolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein talks with Lex Fridman about lab-leak evidence, ivermectin, captured public-health agencies, and why the 1% at the fringe is the key to progress.
2:59:12ENLex Fridman· Jun 20, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersNature Never Dealt This CardGuest Rob Reid · Host Lex FridmanIn 2011 two labs independently engineered H5N1 so it could travel through the air between mammals — work Rob Reid tells Lex Fridman should never have been done, and still has not been stopped.Load moreShowing 24 of 49