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2:33:37ENNumber Go Up Hides Freedom Go Up: Alex Gladstein on Bitcoin, Dictators, and Human RightsInvitado: Alex Gladstein · Presenta: 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.
4:06:06ENShe Picked Up a Perfectly Laced Boot and Said They Could Reuse ItInvitado: Kelsi Sheren · Presenta: Lex FridmanKelsi Sheren was a 19-year-old, 103-pound Canadian artillery gunner on an M777 howitzer in Afghanistan; she came home with the light switch off and spent a decade finding a way back.
26:05ENNewton’s Method and the Fractal Boundaries Between RootsAn everyday numerical algorithm produces unexpectedly intricate patterns when starting guesses are plotted in the complex plane.
2:35:22ENThe Goodness Paradox: How Humans Became Both Unusually Kind and Unusually LethalInvitado: Richard Wrangham · Presenta: Lex FridmanRichard Wrangham tells Lex Fridman how fire, a coup against alpha males, and a split between two kinds of aggression made Homo sapiens.
1:00:04ENTy Overby on Bonsai and Building Functional User InterfacesYaron Minsky, Ty Overby · Jane StreetWhy Jane Street built a composable OCaml UI framework, and what its design reveals about incremental computation, browsers, and visual programming.
1:26:20ENRZA: You Can Be Wisdom. You Cannot Raise the Dead.Invitado: RZA · Presenta: Lex FridmanThe Wu-Tang Clan architect talks with Lex Fridman about his mother's death, kung fu, chess, Allah, and why confusion is a gift.
2:52:58ENYou Are Not a Great Writer Until You Write the BookInvitado: Sean Kelly · Presenta: Lex FridmanHarvard philosopher Sean Kelly talks with Lex Fridman about existentialism, nihilism, and how to live when nothing outside us grounds the self.
1:30:40ENI'm Giving You This Feedback Because I Believe in YouInvitado: Jo Boaler · Presenta: Lex FridmanStanford mathematician Jo Boaler on visual math, why struggle only works if you think you can get there, and how a 90-minute class raised classroom engagement 68 percent.
2:56:42ENSilicon Does Not Emit LightInvitado: Jeffrey Shainline · Presenta: Lex FridmanNIST physicist Jeffrey Shainline on why a brain-like computer should calculate in superconducting electronics and talk with single photons.
3:05:24ENTravis Oliphant wrote NumPy in an empty semester — and still wants open source to payInvitado: Travis Oliphant · Presenta: Lex FridmanThe creator of NumPy, SciPy, and Anaconda tells Lex Fridman how array thinking, a priced book, and the packaging wars shaped scientific Python.
3:42:43ENHe Fought for Eight Minutes and Didn't Get a Single VoteInvitado: Travis Stevens · Presenta: Lex FridmanTravis Stevens on judo, Olympic heartbreak, weight cutting as engineering, and the silver medal that arrived after he stopped treating winning as a goal.
2:31:57ENJay McClelland on How Thought Emerges From Neural NetworksInvitado: Jay McClelland · Presenta: Lex FridmanThe Stanford cognitive scientist talks with Lex Fridman about connectionism, backpropagation, David Rumelhart, and why intuition discovers what logic later proves.
2:52:56ENDouglas Lenat's 37-Year Bet That Common Sense Can Be Written DownInvitado: Douglas Lenat · Presenta: Lex FridmanSince 1984, Cyc has been encoding the unstated rules of the world so machines can reason instead of merely pattern-match.
2:44:08ENForty Feet Behind: A New York Firefighter's 9/11Invitado: Niels Jorgensen · Presenta: Lex FridmanNiels Jorgensen, an FDNY veteran at Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, tells Lex Fridman who did not come home, what the dust did to the living, and why September 12 still matters.
2:21:27ENThe IBM Manual Was So Bad He Became a Computer ScientistInvitado: Donald Knuth · Presenta: Lex FridmanDonald Knuth talks with Lex Fridman about first programs on an IBM 650, literate programming, the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm, and the hardest theorem he ever proved.
1:52:29ENThe Most Valuable Moment in VR Is Taking Off the HeadsetInvitado: Jaron Lanier · Presenta: Lex FridmanJaron Lanier on why virtual reality's gift is a refreshed real world, why he refuses to call algorithms creatures, and how data dignity could replace the lizard-brain economy of social media.
2:24:52ENJudge a robot by the environment it forces to change, not by the demoInvitado: Rodney Brooks · Presenta: Lex FridmanRodney Brooks tells Lex Fridman why faces are promises, why computation is an overworked metaphor, and why robot companies die on price, expectation, and habit.
1:00:58ENJames Somers on Technical Writing, Software and RevisionYaron Minsky, James Somers · Jane StreetJane Street’s writer-in-residence discusses documentation as shared knowledge, the tools that keep it useful, and the craft of writing for real readers.
3:28:40ENThere Are More Viruses in a Liter of Seawater Than People on EarthInvitado: Vincent Racaniello · Presenta: Lex FridmanColumbia virologist Vincent Racaniello talks Lex Fridman through ocean-scale particle counts, mRNA vaccines, and why speaking with false certainty does more damage than a virus.
2:51:33ENThe Self Is a GPT Prompt: Wojciech Zaremba on Consciousness, Codex, and Fermi's SilenceInvitado: Wojciech Zaremba · Presenta: Lex FridmanOpenAI co-founder Wojciech Zaremba tells Lex Fridman he thinks we might be alone in the universe — and that GPT-3, Codex, and a one-handed robot already hint at how intelligence is built.
1:36:06ENAfghanistan, Gig Work and Robots: An All-In Debate From 2021Presenta: Jason Calacanis, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks, David FriedbergThe hosts debate the US withdrawal, Chinese technology policy, California gig work and early robotics plans in their August 2021 context.
1:52:17ENOld Theories Rarely Die of Contradiction. They Stop Making New Things.Invitado: Jed Buchwald · Presenta: Lex FridmanCaltech historian Jed Buchwald talks with Lex Fridman about Kuhn, Newton, and why scientific change is a victory of productivity more than of proof.
2:22:55ENLIGO measures a thousandth of a proton — then a thousand physicists stayed quiet for a monthInvitado: Barry Barish · Presenta: Lex FridmanNobel laureate Barry Barish tells Lex Fridman how gravitational waves were predicted, doubted, and finally heard with the most precise machine ever built.
3:12:21ENThe Ape's Brain Runs a Dream: Joscha Bach on Consciousness, Freedom, and MeaningInvitado: Joscha Bach · Presenta: Lex FridmanA long conversation about the self as a control model, the dream world generated by the brain, free will, language models, evil, love, and how to live without a fixed self.
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