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Lex 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.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 4, 2025PodcastGoogle's AI Co-Scientist Solved a Phage Puzzle Humans Missed for YearsHost Nathan LabenzImperial College scientists José Penadés and Tiago Costa told the Podovirus podcast how a still-unreleased Google system recovered their unpublished answer: tailless capsids that pick up stray phage tails.
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Matthew Berman· May 10, 2025From a Simulated Worm to the Simulation HypothesisMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman uses a model of C. elegans to introduce a speculative question about reality.
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.
2:54:52ENLex Fridman· Aug 8, 2021PodcastThe Marvelous Proof Still Lives in the MarginHost Lex FridmanLuís and João Batalha, the brothers behind Fermat's Library, talk with Lex Fridman about hidden backstories, a publishing system that buys its own work twice, and how to sit with a paper until it finally clicks.
54:58ENLex FridmanPodcastEric Weinstein on Geometric Unity: One Canvas, Fourteen Dimensions and a Theory of EverythingHost Lex FridmanEric Weinstein talks with Lex Fridman about releasing his Oxford lecture, why academia resists his ideas, and how Geometric Unity tries to derive matter from the geometry of spacetime.
21:52ENLex FridmanPodcastThe Secret Seminar: Eric Weinstein on What Happens When Academia Meets Someone It Can't CategorizeHost Lex FridmanIn a clip from the Lex Fridman Podcast, mathematician Eric Weinstein recounts discovering a hidden seminar at Harvard and explains why he thinks institutions fail on novel cases.
1:19:21ENLex FridmanPodcastVapnik's Case for Learning by Predicates, Not Just by More DataHost Lex FridmanIn an MIT lecture, Vladimir Vapnik argues that complete statistical learning needs two mechanisms, data and invariants, and that choosing smart predicates is where intelligence lives.
22:17ENLex FridmanPodcastWhat Is Real? Lee Smolin on Realism, Science and StorytellingHost Lex FridmanThe theoretical physicist explains why he believes in a world independent of our perception, why he doubts there is a single scientific method, and where realism meets quantum mechanics.
26:23ENLex FridmanPodcastTime Is Real, Space Is Emergent: Lee Smolin on Finishing Einstein's RevolutionHost Lex FridmanTheoretical physicist Lee Smolin explains why quantum theory and general relativity remain unreconciled, and why he thinks causality is fundamental and locality is not.
11:34ENLex FridmanPodcastNeither Discovered Nor Invented: Grant Sanderson on the Cycle Between Math and the WorldHost Lex Fridman3Blue1Brown's Grant Sanderson tells Lex Fridman that mathematics feeds on a loop of discovery and invention, and wonders why the universe's laws are so compressible.