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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 26, 2026PodcastThey 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.
2:29:20ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 23, 2026PodcastThe 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.
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Lex Fridman· Apr 9, 2026PodcastWe 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.
3:52:17ENLex Fridman· Dec 31, 2025PodcastSome 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.
1:55:12ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Nov 8, 2025Podcast28,000 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.
1:53:50ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 8, 2025PodcastA 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.
1:44:35ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 11, 2025PodcastJoe 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.
1:54:44ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Nov 30, 2024PodcastPreferences 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.
57:45ENLex 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.
35:19ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 26, 2024PodcastA 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.
1:10:29ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 11, 2024PodcastWe 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.
1:41:15ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 10, 2024PodcastIf 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.
4:56ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 1, 2024PodcastIf the Mind Is a Tool, AI Looks Less Like a ThreatHost Nathan LabenzYohei Nakajima and Nathan Labenz pause a TED AI talk to connect agent-building habits with East–West ideas of identity.
2:20:04ENLex Fridman· Jan 23, 2024PodcastShapiro vs Destiny: Two Questions That Never MeetHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman sits Ben Shapiro and Destiny down for a long-delayed debate on liberalism, Trump, Gaza, Ukraine, January 6, and whether history is allowed to go backward.
2:26:29ENLex Fridman· Oct 24, 2022PodcastYe said schools should teach only engineering. Then he spent an hour rewriting history.Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman’s podcast in October 2022, the artist formerly known as Kanye West talked design, family, and a theory about Jewish control that the host would not let stand.
4:05:22ENLex Fridman· Apr 24, 2022PodcastIf We Cannot Say What Life Is, We Cannot Recognize AliensHost Lex FridmanAstrobiologist Sara Walker and chemist Lee Cronin argue that the hunt for alien life is really a hunt for a physics of memory, objects, and time.
2:58:05ENLex Fridman· Jan 15, 2022PodcastThe Declaration of 1776 and the Constitution of 1787 Pull in Opposite DirectionsHost Lex FridmanYaron Brook and Yoram Hazony spend three hours arguing whether a free society is built on the individual or on the sticky, hierarchical groups that individuals cannot live without.
4:25:18ENLex Fridman· Apr 24, 2021PodcastAn Anarchist and an Objectivist on a Desert IslandHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman sits Michael Malice and Yaron Brook down together for the first time to argue about Ayn Rand, human nature, Bitcoin, and whether liberty can exist without a state.
1:18:35ENLex Fridman· Jan 27, 2021PodcastAn AI That Walks Among Us May Have to Know DepressionHost Lex FridmanIn a January 2021 AMA, Lex Fridman answers listeners on suffering machines, immigration, aliens, career pivots, and why happiness is a signal rather than a goal.
2:02:45ENLex Fridman· Dec 26, 2020PodcastSteal the Code: You Get Zero Points for Making the Algorithm RunHost Lex FridmanCharles Isbell and Michael Littman tell Lex Fridman why machine learning is not just statistics, why struggle has to stay hopeful, and what a $6,600 online master's actually sells.
45:31ENLex Fridman· Jul 1, 2020PodcastYou Are Your Own Existence Proof: Karl Friston on Free Energy, Life, and Self-AwarenessHost Lex FridmanKarl Friston explains how the free energy principle reframes existence, life, planning, and self-awareness as inference problems.
17:19ENLex Fridman· Mar 17, 2020PodcastMoney Is a Game of Points: Vitalik Buterin on Coordination, Public Goods, and Quadratic FundingHost Lex FridmanVitalik Buterin explains money as a social point system, why value can survive without physical backing, and how quadratic funding tries to fix public-good underfunding.
21:41ENLex FridmanPodcastFrom Simulated Majorities to "You Are Probably Simulated": Bostrom on the Missing Step in the Simulation ArgumentHost Lex FridmanNick Bostrom explains to Lex Fridman why the simulation argument rests on a much weaker assumption than the Doomsday argument, and where its physical limits might lie.
13:55ENLex FridmanPodcastResistance Is the Ego's Voice: Steven Pressfield on Fear, the Self and the Next IdeaHost Lex FridmanSteven Pressfield explains where the force he calls Resistance comes from and why the real fight happens at the most mundane level.Load moreShowing 24 of 47