By Lex Fridman
Conversations about science, technology, history, philosophy and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power. Lex is an AI researcher at MIT and beyond.
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=> 2025-01-26 #458 – Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & Future of America | 2025-01-19 #457 – Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom | 2025-01-06 #456 – Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom | 2024-12-22 #455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life | 2024-12-08 #454 – Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics | 2024-11-20 #453 – Javier Milei: President of Argentina – Freedom, Economics, and Corruption | 2024-11-11 #452 – Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity | 2024-10-30 #451 – Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies | 2024-10-23 #450 – Bernie Sanders Interview | 2024-10-16 #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History | 2024-10-11 #448 – Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning | 2024-10-06 #447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI | 2024-09-30 #446 – Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America | 2024-09-25 #445 – Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War | 2024-09-20 #444 – Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler | 2024-09-12 #443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome | 2024-09-03 #442 – Donald Trump Interview | 2024-08-30 #441 – Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism | 2024-08-20 #440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | 2024-08-14 #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling | 2024-08-02 #438 – Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity | 2024-07-21 #437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6 | 2024-07-02 #436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life | 2024-06-28 #435 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Controversy, Politics, and Relationships | 2024-06-19 #434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet | 2024-06-13 #433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens | 2024-06-05 #432 – Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life | 2024-06-02 #431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI | 2024-05-25 #430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories | 2024-05-15 #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God | 2024-04-22 #428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens | 2024-04-20 #427 – Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset | 2024-04-17 #426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs | 2024-04-13 #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones | 2024-04-05 #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame | 2024-04-02 #423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex | 2024-03-29 #422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs | 2024-03-25 #421 – Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck | 2024-03-22 #420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy | 2024-03-18 #419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI | 2024-03-14 #418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris | 2024-03-10 #417 – Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family | 2024-03-07 #416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI | 2024-03-04 #415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War | 2024-02-27 #414 – Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom | 2024-02-20 #413 – Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech | 2024-02-16 #412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics | 2024-02-02 #411 – Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam | 2024-01-23 #410 – Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism | 2024-01-17 #409 – Matthew Cox: FBI Most Wanted Con Man – $55 Million in Bank Fraud | 2024-01-09 #408 – Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen | 2023-12-29 #407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI | 2023-12-24 #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness | 2023-12-14 #405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin | 2023-12-09 #404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe | 2023-12-03 #403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events | 2023-11-25 #402 – Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special | 2023-11-18 #401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3 | 2023-11-09 #400 – Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity | 2023-10-11 #399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East | 2023-09-28 #398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | 2023-09-25 #397 – Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech | 2023-09-18 #396 – James Sexton: Divorce Lawyer on Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Lies & Love | 2023-09-10 #395 – Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin | 2023-09-01 #394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature | 2023-08-17 #393 – Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, Sex, and Love | 2023-08-01 #392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans | 2023-07-24 #391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine | 2023-07-17 #390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies | 2023-07-12 #389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace | 2023-07-06 #388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning | 2023-06-30 #387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | 2023-06-22 #386 – Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI | 2023-06-18 #385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia | 2023-06-13 #384 – Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love | 2023-06-08 #383 – Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp | 2023-06-05 #382 – Bert Kreischer: Comedy, Drinking, Rogan, Segura, Churchill & Kim Jong Un | 2023-06-02 #381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI | 2023-05-28 #380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication | 2023-05-24 #379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power | 2023-05-18 #378 – Anna Frebel: Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Galaxies, and Stars | 2023-05-16 #377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech | 2023-05-09 #376 – Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation | 2023-05-06 #375 – David Pakman: Politics of Trump, Biden, Bernie, AOC, Socialism & Wokeism | 2023-04-28 #374 – Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics | 2023-04-21 #373 – Manolis Kellis: Evolution of Human Civilization and Superintelligent AI | 2023-04-16 #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design | 2023-04-13 #371 – Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development | 2023-04-10 #370 – Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox – Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love | 2023-04-04 #369 – Paul Rosolie: Amazon Jungle, Uncontacted Tribes, Anacondas, and Ayahuasca | 2023-03-30 #368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization | 2023-03-25 #367 – Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI | 2023-03-21 #366 – Shannon Curry: Johnny Depp & Amber Heard Trial, Marriage, Dating & Love | 2023-03-14 #365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs | 2023-03-10 #364 – Chris Voss: FBI Hostage Negotiator | 2023-03-06 #363 – B-Team Jiu Jitsu: Craig Jones, Nicky Rod, and Nicky Ryan | 2023-03-02 #362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity | 2023-02-25 #361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology | 2023-02-20 #360 – Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics | 2023-02-15 #359 – Andrew Strominger: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and Theoretical Physics | 2023-02-10 #358 – Aella: Sex Work, OnlyFans, Porn, Escorting, Dating, and Human Sexuality | 2023-02-07 #357 – Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil | 2023-02-02 #356 – Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel | 2023-01-28 #355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds | 2023-01-25 #354 – Jeremi Suri: American Civil War | 2023-01-21 #353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy | 2023-01-17 #352 – Omar Suleiman: Islam | 2023-01-11 #351 – MrBeast: Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram | 2022-12-29 #350 – Betül Kaçar: Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens | 2022-12-22 #349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism | 2022-12-19 #348 – Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life | 2022-12-15 #347 – Michael Malice: Christmas Special | 2022-12-12 #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels | 2022-12-09 #345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power | 2022-12-06 #344 – Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation | 2022-12-03 #343 – Roger Gracie: Greatest Jiu Jitsu Competitor of All Time | 2022-11-29 #342 – Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield | 2022-11-26 #341 – Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming | 2022-11-22 #340 – Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road | 2022-11-18 #339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin | 2022-11-15 #338 – Chamath Palihapitiya: Money, Success, Startups, Energy, Poker & Happiness | 2022-11-11 #337 – Destiny: Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, War, and Relationships | 2022-11-07 #336 – Ben Shapiro: Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler, Extremism, and War | 2022-11-04 #335 – Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump | 2022-11-02 #334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons | 2022-10-29 #333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI | 2022-10-24 #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview | 2022-10-20 #331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA | 2022-10-17 #330 – Hikaru Nakamura: Chess, Magnus, Kasparov, and the Psychology of Greatness | 2022-10-15 #329 – Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT | 2022-10-10 #328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives | 2022-10-07 #327 – GothamChess: Hans Niemann, Magnus Carlsen, Cheating Scandal & Chess Bots | 2022-10-05 #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality | 2022-10-01 #325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots | 2022-09-27 #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker | 2022-09-24 #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling | 2022-09-21 #322 – Rana el Kaliouby: Emotion AI, Social Robots, and Self-Driving Cars | 2022-09-17 #321 – Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality | 2022-09-14 #320 – Christopher Capozzola: World War I, Ideology, Propaganda, and Politics | 2022-09-09 #319 – Botez Sisters: Chess, Streaming, and Fame | 2022-09-07 #318 – Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness | 2022-09-04 #317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom | 2022-08-31 #316 – Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War | 2022-08-27 #315 – Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time | 2022-08-24 #314 – Liv Boeree: Poker, Game Theory, AI, Simulation, Aliens & Existential Risk | 2022-08-19 #313 – Jordan Peterson: Life, Death, Power, Fame, and Meaning | 2022-08-16 #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man | 2022-08-13 #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity | 2022-08-08 #310 – Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy | 2022-08-04 #309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets | 2022-08-01 #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens | 2022-07-29 #307 – Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation | 2022-07-26 #306 – Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence | 2022-07-23 #305 – Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang | 2022-07-20 #304 – Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church | 2022-07-17 #303 – Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics | 2022-07-14 #302 – Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences | 2022-07-09 #301 – Jack Barsky: KGB Spy | 2022-07-04 #300 – Joe Rogan: Comedy, Controversy, Aliens, UFOs, Putin, CIA, and Freedom | 2022-07-01 #299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind | 2022-06-28 #298 – Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts and Loneliness | 2022-06-25 #297 – Jonathan Reisman: The Human Body – From Sex & Sperm to Hands & Heart | 2022-06-21 #296 – Douglas Murray: Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West | 2022-06-17 #295 – Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism | 2022-06-15 #294 – Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, and Nest | 2022-06-12 #293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth | 2022-06-09 #292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity | 2022-06-04 #291 – Jonathan Haidt: The Case Against Social Media | 2022-05-30 #290 – Dan Reynolds: Imagine Dragons | 2022-05-25 #289 – Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine | 2022-05-23 #288 – Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan | 2022-05-20 #287 – Bobby Lee: Comedy, Skyrim, Sex Robots, Love, Fame, and Power | 2022-05-17 #286 – Oliver Stone: Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine | 2022-05-14 #285 – Glenn Loury: Race, Racism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture | 2022-05-11 #284 – Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics | 2022-05-08 #283 – Chris Mason: Space Travel, Colonization, and Long-Term Survival in Space | 2022-05-04 #282 – David Buss: Sex, Dating, Relationships, and Sex Differences | 2022-04-29 #281 – Grimes: Music, AI, and the Future of Humanity | 2022-04-27 #280 – Cristiano Amon: Qualcomm CEO | 2022-04-24 #279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin | 2022-04-20 #278 – Skye Fitzgerald: Hunger, War, and Human Suffering | 2022-04-17 #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship | 2022-04-14 #276 – Michael Saylor: Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money | 2022-04-10 #275 – Rick Rubin: Legendary Music Producer | 2022-04-07 #274 – Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry | 2022-04-03 #273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence | 2022-03-27 #272 – Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal | 2022-03-23 #271 – Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures | 2022-03-16 #270 – David Wolpe: Judaism | 2022-03-11 #269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness | 2022-03-05 #268 – Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology | 2022-02-26 #267 – Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse | 2022-02-20 #266 – Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar | 2022-02-16 #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling | 2022-02-13 #264 – Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity | 2022-02-11 #263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma | 2022-02-06 #262 – Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens | 2022-02-03 #261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind | 2022-01-30 #260 – Georges St-Pierre, John Danaher & Gordon Ryan: The Greatest of All Time | 2022-01-26 #259 – Thomas Tull: From Batman Dark Knight Trilogy to AI and the Rolling Stones | 2022-01-22 #258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning | 2022-01-18 #257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize | 2022-01-15 #256 – Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony | 2022-01-08 #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! | 2022-01-04 #254 – Jay Bhattacharya: The Case Against Lockdowns | 2021-12-31 #253 – Michael Malice: New Year’s Special | 2021-12-28 #252 – Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI | 2021-12-25 #251 – Ray Dalio: Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires | 2021-12-23 #250 – Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality | 2021-12-18 #249 – Albert Bourla: Pfizer CEO | 2021-12-13 #248 – Norman Naimark: Genocide, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Absolute Power | 2021-12-08 #247 – Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory | 2021-12-03 #246 – Peter Woit: Theories of Everything and Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong | 2021-11-30 #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling | 2021-11-28 #244 – Robert Crews: Afghanistan, Taliban, Bin Laden, and War in the Middle East | 2021-11-23 #243 – Kevin Systrom: Instagram | 2021-11-20 #242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA | 2021-11-16 #241 – Boris Sofman: Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Robotics | 2021-11-11 #240 – Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity | 2021-11-08 #239 – Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth | 2021-11-05 #238 – Francis Collins: National Institutes of Health (NIH) | 2021-11-03 #237 – Steve Viscelli: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream | 2021-10-31 #236 – Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions | 2021-10-29 #235 – Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing | 2021-10-27 #234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality | 2021-10-23 #233 – Carl Hart: Heroin, Cocaine, MDMA, Alcohol & the Role of Drugs in Society | 2021-10-20 #232 – Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, Big Bang, Aliens, Life, Death, and Meaning | 2021-10-16 #231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights | 2021-10-14 #230 – Kelsi Sheren: War, Artillery, PTSD, and Love | 2021-10-10 #229 – Richard Wrangham: Role of Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution | 2021-10-05 #228 – RZA: Wu-Tang Clan, Kung Fu, Chess, God, Life, and Death | 2021-09-30 #227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning | 2021-09-27 #226 – Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math | 2021-09-26 #225 – Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence | 2021-09-23 #224 – Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming | 2021-09-21 #223 – Travis Stevens: Judo, Olympics, and Mental Toughness | 2021-09-20 #222 – Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition | 2021-09-15 #221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI | 2021-09-11 #220 – Niels Jorgensen: New York Firefighters and the Heroes of 9/11 | 2021-09-09 #219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life | 2021-09-06 #218 – Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media & the Future of Humans and AI | 2021-09-03 #217 – Rodney Brooks: Robotics | 2021-09-01 #216 – Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines | 2021-08-29 #215 – Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI | 2021-08-27 #214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science | 2021-08-23 #213 – Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built | 2021-08-21 #212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness | 2021-08-15 #211 – Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics | 2021-08-11 #210 – Matt Walker: Sleep | 2021-08-09 #209 – Luís and João Batalha: Fermat’s Library and the Art of Studying Papers | 2021-08-08 #208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence | 2021-08-03 #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength | 2021-07-31 #206 – Ishan Misra: Self-Supervised Deep Learning in Computer Vision | 2021-07-29 #205 – Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running | 2021-07-26 #204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory | 2021-07-23 #203 – Anya Fernald: Regenerative Farming and the Art of Cooking Meat | 2021-07-21 #202 – Rick Doblin: Psychedelics | 2021-07-19 #201 – Konstantin Batygin: Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System | 2021-07-15 #200 – Michael Malice: Totalitarianism and Anarchy | 2021-07-11 #199 – Roger Reaves: Smuggling Drugs for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel | 2021-07-09 #198 – Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds | 2021-07-05 #197 – Jocko Willink: War, Leadership, and Discipline | 2021-07-01 #196 – Yeonmi Park: North Korea | 2021-06-28 #195 – Clara Sousa-Silva: Searching for Signs of Life on Venus and Other Planets | 2021-06-25 #194 – Bret Weinstein: Truth, Science, and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic | 2021-06-21 #193 – Rob Reid: The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses and Lab Leaks | 2021-06-16 #192 – Charles Hoskinson: Cardano | 2021-06-14 #191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction | 2021-06-13 #190 – Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries | 2021-06-07 #189 – David Sinclair: Extending the Human Lifespan Beyond 100 Years | 2021-06-03 #188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0 | 2021-05-29 #187 – Frank Wilczek: Physics of Quarks, Dark Matter, Complexity, Life & Aliens | 2021-05-24 #186 – Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces | 2021-05-20 #185 – Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning | 2021-05-17 #184 – Katherine de Kleer: Planets, Moons, and Asteroids in Our Solar System | 2021-05-14 #183 – Po-Shen Loh: Mathematics, Math Olympiad, Combinatorics & Contact Tracing | 2021-05-09 #182 – John Danaher: The Path to Mastery in Jiu Jitsu, Grappling, Judo, and MMA | 2021-05-01 #181 – Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks | 2021-04-30 #180 – Jeremi Suri: History of American Power | 2021-04-26 #179 – Georges St-Pierre: The Science of Fighting | 2021-04-24 #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy | 2021-04-19 #177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation | 2021-04-17 #176 – Robert Breedlove: Philosophy of Bitcoin from First Principles | 2021-04-12 #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy | 2021-04-10 #174 – Tyler Cowen: Economic Growth and the Fight Against Conformity and Mediocrity | 2021-04-01 #173 – Nic Carter: Bitcoin Core Values, Layered Scaling, and Blocksize Debates | 2021-03-30 #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses | 2021-03-25 #171 – Anthony Pompliano: Bitcoin | 2021-03-22 #170 – Ronald Sullivan: The Ideal of Justice in the Face of Controversy and Evil | 2021-03-20 #169 – Ryan Hall: Solving Martial Arts from First Principles | 2021-03-15 #168 – Silvio Micali: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Algorand, Bitcoin, and Ethereum | 2021-03-14 #167 – Saagar Enjeti: Politics, History, and Power | 2021-03-05 #166 – Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media | 2021-03-01 #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts | 2021-02-28 #164 – Andrew Huberman: Sleep, Dreams, Creativity & the Limits of the Human Mind | 2021-02-23 #163 – Eric Weinstein: Difficult Conversations, Freedom of Speech, and Physics | 2021-02-18 #162 – Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness | 2021-02-15 #161 – Jason Calacanis: Startups, Angel Investing, Capitalism, and Friendship | 2021-02-12 #160 – Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave | 2021-02-07 #159 – Richard Craib: WallStreetBets, Numerai, and the Future of Stock Trading | 2021-02-05 #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds | 2021-02-01 #157 – Natalya Bailey: Rocket Engines and Electric Spacecraft Propulsion | 2021-01-29 #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom | 2021-01-27 Lex Fridman: Ask Me Anything – AMA January 2021 | 2021-01-18 #155 – Max Tegmark: AI and Physics | 2021-01-14 #154 – Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua | 2021-01-11 #153 – Dmitry Korkin: Evolution of Proteins, Viruses, Life, and AI | 2021-01-09 #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions | 2021-01-04 #151 – Dan Kokotov: Speech Recognition with AI and Humans | 2020-12-31 #150 – Michael Malice: The White Pill, Freedom, Hope, and Happiness Amidst Chaos | 2020-12-28 #149 – Diana Walsh Pasulka: Aliens, Technology, Religion, and the Nature of Belief | 2020-12-26 #148 – Charles Isbell and Michael Littman: Machine Learning and Education | 2020-12-20 #147 – Dmitri Dolgov: Waymo and the Future of Self-Driving Cars | 2020-12-19 #146 – Michael Mina: Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset | 2020-12-14 #145 – Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics | 2020-12-13 #144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement 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