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Lex Fridman Podcast

Lex Fridman

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Conversations about science, technology, history, philosophy and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power. Lex is an AI researcher at MIT and beyond.

Episodes (501)

#251 – Ray Dalio: Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires

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Dec 25, 20211:40:20pending

#250 – Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality

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Dec 23, 20212:53:07pending

#249 – Albert Bourla: Pfizer CEO

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Dec 18, 20211:14:32pending

#248 – Norman Naimark: Genocide, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Absolute Power

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Dec 13, 20212:25:24pending

#247 – Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory

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Dec 8, 20215:01:37pending

#246 – Peter Woit: Theories of Everything and Why String Theory is Not Even Wron...

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Dec 3, 20212:23:05pending

#245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling

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Nov 30, 20211:03:16pending

#244 – Robert Crews: Afghanistan, Taliban, Bin Laden, and War in the Middle East

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Nov 28, 20212:49:20pending

#243 – Kevin Systrom: Instagram

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Nov 23, 20212:52:38pending

#242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA

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Nov 20, 20212:21:31pending

#241 – Boris Sofman: Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Robotics

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Nov 16, 20213:20:48pending

#240 – Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity

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Nov 11, 20212:47:54pending

#239 – Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth

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Nov 8, 20212:48:49pending

#238 – Francis Collins: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

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Nov 5, 20211:33:22pending

#237 – Steve Viscelli: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream

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Nov 3, 20213:19:01pending

#236 – Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions

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Oct 31, 20212:30:32pending

#235 – Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing

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Oct 29, 20211:53:50pending

#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality

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Oct 27, 20213:45:26pending

#233 – Carl Hart: Heroin, Cocaine, MDMA, Alcohol & the Role of Drugs in Society

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Oct 23, 20211:16:47pending

#232 – Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, Big Bang, Aliens, Life, Death, and Meaning

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Oct 20, 20211:52:11pending

#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights

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Oct 16, 20212:40:35pending

#230 – Kelsi Sheren: War, Artillery, PTSD, and Love

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Oct 14, 2021pending

#229 – Richard Wrangham: Role of Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution

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Oct 10, 2021pending

#228 – RZA: Wu-Tang Clan, Kung Fu, Chess, God, Life, and Death

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Oct 5, 2021pending

#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning

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Sep 30, 2021pending

#226 – Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math

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Sep 27, 2021pending

#225 – Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence

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Sep 26, 2021pending

#224 – Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming

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Sep 23, 2021pending

#223 – Travis Stevens: Judo, Olympics, and Mental Toughness

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Sep 21, 2021pending

#222 – Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition

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Sep 20, 2021pending

#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI

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Sep 15, 2021pending

#220 – Niels Jorgensen: New York Firefighters and the Heroes of 9/11

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Sep 11, 20212:49:44pending

#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life

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Sep 9, 20212:27:39pending

#218 – Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media & the Future of Humans and AI

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Sep 6, 20211:58:54pending

#217 – Rodney Brooks: Robotics

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Sep 3, 20212:30:51pending

#216 – Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines

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Sep 1, 20213:35:45pending

#215 – Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI

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Aug 29, 20212:58:07pending

#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science

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Aug 27, 20211:58:20pending

#213 – Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built

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Aug 23, 20212:30:12pending

#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness

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Aug 21, 20213:18:56pending

#211 – Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics

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Aug 15, 2021pending

#210 – Matt Walker: Sleep

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Aug 11, 2021pending

#209 – Luís and João Batalha: Fermat’s Library and the Art of Studying Papers

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Aug 9, 20213:02:43pending

#208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence

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Aug 8, 20212:25:58pending

#207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength

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Aug 3, 20212:48:34pending

#206 – Ishan Misra: Self-Supervised Deep Learning in Computer Vision

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Jul 31, 2021pending

#205 – Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running

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Jul 29, 20213:06:51pending

#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory

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Jul 26, 20212:18:36pending

#203 – Anya Fernald: Regenerative Farming and the Art of Cooking Meat

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Jul 23, 20211:50:44pending

#202 – Rick Doblin: Psychedelics

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Jul 21, 20212:42:17pending
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