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Lex Fridman· Nov 1, 2024PodcastThe 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.
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.
1:51:12ENLex Fridman· May 15, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersHarvey Silverglate Would Fire 95 Percent of Harvard's AdministratorsGuest Harvey Silverglate · Host Lex FridmanThe FIRE co-founder, running as a write-in for Harvard's Board of Overseers, tells Lex Fridman why hate speech is more useful than love speech and why discomfort is the price of a free campus.
2:56:02ENLex Fridman· Nov 22, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe FBI Never Cracked a Password the Day They Took Silk RoadGuest Chris Tarbell · Host Lex FridmanFormer agent Chris Tarbell tells Lex Fridman how a timezone setting, a Gmail address, and an undercover admin brought down Ross Ulbricht — and why the best hackers are still out there.
3:03:33ENLex Fridman· Oct 15, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersA Robot Is Whatever Still Has MagicGuest Kate Darling · Host Lex FridmanKate Darling tells Lex Fridman why grocery-store Marty is a real-life Clippy, why animal history is a better guide than humanoid fantasy, and what the Epstein scandal revealed about MIT.
3:53:09ENLex Fridman· Aug 8, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe CIA Serves One Customer, and That Customer Is the PresidentGuest Andrew Bustamante · Host Lex FridmanFormer covert officer Andrew Bustamante walks Lex Fridman through how American intelligence actually works — from the President's Daily Brief to Ukraine, Snowden, and a bar wall in Alabama.
2:29:24ENLex Fridman· Jul 29, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersA Hundred Users Signed Up and Never Came BackGuest Brian Armstrong · Host Lex FridmanCoinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on the buy button that found product-market fit, why he wants customers to leave his platform, and a company that refuses to be a political square.
3:47:25ENLex Fridman· Mar 27, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Original Internet Godfather Built Trust Among CybercriminalsGuest Brett Johnson · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Brett Johnson about ShadowCrew, social engineering, prison, and why most attacks still use holes everyone already knows about.
2:01:35ENLex Fridman· Feb 20, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersA no-click iPhone exploit sold for $2.5 million. Silence was the only condition.Guest Nicole Perlroth · Host Lex FridmanNicole Perlroth tells Lex Fridman how zero-days, ransomware, and a privately owned power grid turned curiosity into everyday cyberwar.
1:46:47ENLex Fridman· Oct 29, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersA Perfect Rapid Test Would Fail the FDA. Michael Mina Explains Why That Is the PointGuest Michael Mina · Host Lex FridmanThe Harvard immunologist tells Lex Fridman that paper-strip antigen tests answer the only public-health question that matters—are you infectious right now—and that one presidential sentence could unlock them.
2:33:37ENLex Fridman· Oct 16, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersNumber Go Up Hides Freedom Go Up: Alex Gladstein on Bitcoin, Dictators, and Human RightsGuest Alex Gladstein · Host Lex FridmanThe Human Rights Foundation’s chief strategist argues that money was missing from the human-rights conversation, and that Bitcoin is a Trojan horse that turns greed into a tool for individual sovereignty.
2:31:30ENLex Fridman· May 24, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Brain Is the Last Unengineered System in SocietyGuest Bryan Johnson · Host Lex FridmanBryan Johnson demos Kernel Flow on Lex Fridman, then argues that cognition is society's largest unmeasured input and that numbers, not vibes, should run mental health, diet, and the next wave of brain interfaces.
2:59:57ENLex Fridman· May 1, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Farmer With a $50 Phone: Sergey Nazarov on Oracles, Trust, and Hybrid Smart ContractsGuest Sergey Nazarov · Host Lex FridmanThe Chainlink co-founder tells Lex Fridman how definitive truth, oracle networks, and cryptographically guaranteed contracts could leapfrog banks, insurers, and marble-column confidence.
2:31:14ENLex Fridman· Mar 30, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersAnonymity Is a Tool: How a Yale Freshman Built a Campus Where Students Could SpeakGuest Ryan Schiller · Host Lex FridmanRyan Schiller tells Lex Fridman how a silenced seminar, a Gallup number, and a Mac bought off YouTube advice became Librex, an anonymous discussion feed for verified college communities.
1:53:41ENLex Fridman· Mar 15, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersSilvio Micali: Money Is a Shared Belief, and a Blockchain Makes It Common KnowledgeGuest Silvio Micali · Host Lex FridmanThe Turing Award cryptographer and Algorand founder tells Lex Fridman why ledgers, lotteries, and one-way functions matter more than mining.
3:03:38ENLex Fridman· Feb 12, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersA Ten-Day Language That Still Runs the WebGuest Brendan Eich · Host Lex FridmanBrendan Eich tells Lex Fridman how JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave were built from rushed bets, open-source escape pods, and accidental tracking.
2:18:26ENLex Fridman· Dec 18, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Dollar Paper Strip That Could Have Turned Covid's CurveGuest Michael Mina · Host Lex FridmanHarvard immunologist Michael Mina tells Lex Fridman why twice-weekly antigen tests could have reversed the pandemic—and why regulation, not manufacturing, blocked them.
2:12:36ENLex Fridman· May 12, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersAttacks Climb the Stack Until They Land on PeopleGuest Dawn Song · Host Lex FridmanDawn Song tells Lex Fridman why the next security crisis is human, how a sticker can rewrite a stop sign, and why data still has no property right.
1:13:51ENLex Fridman· Jan 19, 2020PodcastAnswering Questions Without Seeing the Data: Andrew Trask on the Privacy-Preserving AI StackHost Lex FridmanA tour of remote execution, differential privacy, secure multiparty computation, and the societal consequences of making private data usable.
1:16:58ENLex Fridman· Dec 5, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersFear of Robots Is a Champagne Problem, Says Whitney CummingsGuest Whitney Cummings · Host Lex FridmanThe comedian talks with Lex Fridman about Bear Claw, sex robots, factory farms, codependency, and terror management.
1:48:55ENLex Fridman· Nov 19, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersThree Fairness Rules That Cannot All Be TrueGuest Michael Kearns · Host Lex FridmanMichael Kearns tells Lex Fridman why algorithmic fairness is messier than privacy, and why a Pareto curve belongs in front of the people who actually have to choose.
1:00:11ENLex Fridman· Jun 17, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersRosalind Picard: Clippy Never Saw You Frown, and That's the Whole ProblemGuest Rosalind Picard · Host Lex FridmanThe MIT professor who named affective computing on emotion recognition, privacy, seizure-detecting wearables, and why a device you can take off is safer than a camera you cannot see.