Lex Fridman Podcast

#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

Sun, 06 Oct 2024

Aman Sanger, Arvid Lunnemark, Michael Truell, and Sualeh Asif are creators of Cursor, a popular code...

#446 – Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America

Mon, 30 Sep 2024

Ed Barnhart is an archaeologist and explorer specializing in ancient civilizations of the Americas. ...

#445 – Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

Wed, 25 Sep 2024

Vivek Ramaswamy is a conservative politician, entrepreneur, and author of many books on politics, in...

#444 – Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

Fri, 20 Sep 2024

Vejas Liulevicius is a historian specializing in Germany and Eastern Europe, who has lectured extens...

#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome

Thu, 12 Sep 2024

Gregory Aldrete is a historian specializing in ancient Rome and military history. Thank you for lis...

#442 – Donald Trump Interview

Tue, 03 Sep 2024

Donald Trump is the 45th President of the United States and the Republican candidate in the 2024 US ...

#441 – Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism

Fri, 30 Aug 2024

Cenk Uygur is a progressive political commentator and host of The Young Turks. Thank you for listen...

#440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

Tue, 20 Aug 2024

Pieter Levels (aka levelsio on X) is a self-taught developer and entrepreneur who has designed, prog...

#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling

Wed, 14 Aug 2024

Craig Jones is a legendary jiu jitsu personality, competitor, co-founder of B-Team, and organizer of...

#438 – Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity

Fri, 02 Aug 2024

Elon Musk is CEO of Neuralink, SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, and CTO of X. DJ Seo is COO & President of Neural...

#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

Sun, 21 Jul 2024

Jordan Jonas is a wilderness survival expert, explorer, hunter, guide, and winner of Alone Season 6,...

#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life

Tue, 02 Jul 2024

Ivanka Trump is a businesswoman, real estate developer, and former senior advisor to the President o...

#435 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Controversy, Politics, and Relationships

Fri, 28 Jun 2024

Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist at Stanford and host of the Huberman Lab Podcast. Please support...

#434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

Wed, 19 Jun 2024

Arvind Srinivas is CEO of Perplexity, a company that aims to revolutionize how we humans find answer...

#433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

Thu, 13 Jun 2024

Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist. She is the author of a new book titled "...

#432 – Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

Wed, 05 Jun 2024

Kevin Spacey is a two-time Oscar-winning actor, who starred in Se7en, the Usual Suspects, American B...

#431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI

Sun, 02 Jun 2024

Roman Yampolskiy is an AI safety researcher and author of a new book titled AI: Unexplainable, Unpre...

#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

Sat, 25 May 2024

Charan Ranganath is a psychologist and neuroscientist at UC Davis, specializing in human memory. He ...

#429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God

Wed, 15 May 2024

Paul Rosolie is a naturalist, explorer, author, and founder of Junglekeepers, dedicating his life to...

#428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens

Mon, 22 Apr 2024

Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist, author, and host of Mindscape podcast. Please support this ...

#427 – Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

Sat, 20 Apr 2024

Neil Adams is a judo world champion, 2-time Olympic silver medalist, 5-time European champion, and o...

#426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs

Wed, 17 Apr 2024

Edward Gibson is a psycholinguistics professor at MIT and heads the MIT Language Lab. Please support...

#425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

Sat, 13 Apr 2024

Andrew Callaghan is the host of Channel 5 on YouTube, where he does street interviews with fascinati...

#424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

Fri, 05 Apr 2024

Bassem Youssef is an Egyptian-American comedian & satirist, referred to as the Jon Stewart of the Ar...

#423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex

Tue, 02 Apr 2024

Tulsi Gabbard is a politician, veteran, and author of For Love of Country. Please support this podca...

#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

Fri, 29 Mar 2024

Mark Cuban is a businessman, investor, star of TV series Shark Tank, long-time principal owner of Da...

#421 – Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

Mon, 25 Mar 2024

Dana White is the CEO and president of the UFC. Please support this podcast by checking out our spon...

#420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy

Fri, 22 Mar 2024

Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and author of "Nuclear War: A Scenario" and many other...

#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

Mon, 18 Mar 2024

Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, Sora, and many other state-of-th...

#418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

Thu, 14 Mar 2024

Norman Finkelstein and Benny Morris are historians. Mouin Rabbani is a Middle East analyst. Steven B...

#417 – Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family

Sun, 10 Mar 2024

Kimbal Musk is a chef, entrepreneur, and author of The Kitchen Cookbook: Cooking for Your Community....

#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

Thu, 07 Mar 2024

Yann LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, professor at NYU, Turing Award winner, and one of the ...

#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

Mon, 04 Mar 2024

Serhii Plokhy is a Ukrainian historian at Harvard University, director of the Ukrainian Research Ins...

#414 – Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom

Tue, 27 Feb 2024

Tucker Carlson is a highly-influential political commentator. You can watch and listen to him on the...

#413 – Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

Tue, 20 Feb 2024

Bill Ackman is an investor who has led some of the biggest and controversial financial trades in his...

#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

Fri, 16 Feb 2024

Marc Raibert is founder and former long-time CEO of Boston Dynamics, and recently Executive Director...

#411 – Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam

Fri, 02 Feb 2024

Omar Suleiman is a Palestinian-American Muslim scholar, civil rights leader, and President of the Ya...

#410 – Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism

Tue, 23 Jan 2024

Ben Shapiro is a conservative political commentator, host of The Ben Shapiro Show, co-founder of The...

#409 – Matthew Cox: FBI Most Wanted Con Man – $55 Million in Bank Fraud

Wed, 17 Jan 2024

Matthew Cox is a former con man who served 13 years in federal prison for bank fraud, mortgage fraud...

#408 – Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

Tue, 09 Jan 2024

Tal Wilkenfeld is a singer-songwriter, bassist, and guitarist. She has performed with legendary arti...

#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

Fri, 29 Dec 2023

Guillaume Verdon (aka Beff Jezos on Twitter) is a physicist, quantum computing researcher, and found...

#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

Sun, 24 Dec 2023

Teddy Atlas is boxing trainer to 18 world champions, ESPN boxing commentator, and host of podcast TH...

#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin

Thu, 14 Dec 2023

Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin. Thank you for listening ❤ Please support t...

#404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

Sat, 09 Dec 2023

Lee Cronin is a chemist at University of Glasgow. Please support this podcast by checking out our sp...

#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

Sun, 03 Dec 2023

Lisa Randall is a theoretical physicist at Harvard. Please support this podcast by checking out our ...

#402 – Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special

Sat, 25 Nov 2023

Michael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, author, and anarchist. Please support this podcast...

#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

Sat, 18 Nov 2023

John Mearsheimer is an international relations scholar at University of Chicago. He is one of the mo...

#400 – Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity

Thu, 09 Nov 2023

Elon Musk is CEO of X, xAI, SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and The Boring Company. Thank you for liste...

#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

Wed, 11 Oct 2023

Jared Kushner is a former Senior Advisor to President Donald Trump and author of Breaking History. P...

#398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse

Thu, 28 Sep 2023

Mark Zuckerberg is CEO of Meta. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - LMNT: h...

#397 – Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech

Mon, 25 Sep 2023

Greg Lukianoff is a free speech advocate, first-amendment attorney, president of FIRE - Foundation f...

#396 – James Sexton: Divorce Lawyer on Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Lies & Love

Mon, 18 Sep 2023

James Sexton is a divorce attorney and author. Please support this podcast by checking out our spons...

#395 – Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin

Sun, 10 Sep 2023

Walter Isaacson is an author of biographies on Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, L...

#394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature

Fri, 01 Sep 2023

Neri Oxman is a designer, engineer, scientist, and artist working on computational design, synthetic...

#393 – Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, Sex, and Love

Thu, 17 Aug 2023

Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist at Stanford and host of the Huberman Lab Podcast. Please support...

#392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans

Tue, 01 Aug 2023

Joscha Bach is a cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and philosopher. Please support this podcast by...

#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

Mon, 24 Jul 2023

Mohammed El-Kurd is a Palestinian writer and poet. Please support this podcast by checking out our s...

#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

Mon, 17 Jul 2023

Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the ...

#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

Wed, 12 Jul 2023

Benjamin Netanyahu is the Prime Minister of Israel. Please support this podcast by checking out our ...

#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

Thu, 06 Jul 2023

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an activist, lawyer, author, and candidate for the President of the Unites ...

#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God

Fri, 30 Jun 2023

George Hotz is a programmer, hacker, and the founder of comma-ai and tiny corp. Please support this ...

#386 – Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI

Thu, 22 Jun 2023

Marc Andreessen is the co-creator of Mosaic, co-founder of Netscape, and co-founder of the venture c...

#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

Sun, 18 Jun 2023

Jimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors...

#384 – Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love

Tue, 13 Jun 2023

Matthew McConaughey is an Oscar-winning actor and author of Greenlights. Please support this podcast...

#383 – Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp

Thu, 08 Jun 2023

Mark Zuckerberg is CEO of Meta. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Numerai...

#382 – Bert Kreischer: Comedy, Drinking, Rogan, Segura, Churchill & Kim Jong Un

Mon, 05 Jun 2023

Bert Kreischer is a comedian, actor, and podcaster. Check him out on Bertcast, 2 Bears 1 Cave, Somet...

#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI

Fri, 02 Jun 2023

Chris Lattner is a legendary software and hardware engineer, leading projects at Apple, Tesla, Googl...

#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication

Sun, 28 May 2023

Neil Gershenfeld is the director of the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms. Please support this podcast b...

#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power

Wed, 24 May 2023

Randall Kennedy is a law professor at Harvard and author of many seminal books on race, law, history...

#378 – Anna Frebel: Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Galaxies, and Stars

Thu, 18 May 2023

Anna Frebel is an astronomer and astrophysicist at MIT. Please support this podcast by checking out ...

#377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

Tue, 16 May 2023

Harvey Silverglate is a free speech advocate, co-founder of FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Righ...

#376 – Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation

Tue, 09 May 2023

Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, theoretical physicist, and the founder of Wo...

#375 – David Pakman: Politics of Trump, Biden, Bernie, AOC, Socialism & Wokeism

Sat, 06 May 2023

David Pakman is a left-wing progressive political commentator and host of The David Pakman Show. Ple...

#374 – Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

Fri, 28 Apr 2023

Robert Playter is CEO of Boston Dynamics, a legendary robotics company that over 30 years has create...

#373 – Manolis Kellis: Evolution of Human Civilization and Superintelligent AI

Fri, 21 Apr 2023

Manolis Kellis is a computational biologist at MIT. Please support this podcast by checking out our ...

#372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design

Sun, 16 Apr 2023

Simone Giertz is an inventor, designer, engineer, and roboticist famous for a combination of humor a...

#371 – Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development

Thu, 13 Apr 2023

Max Tegmark is a physicist and AI researcher at MIT, co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, and...

#370 – Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox – Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love

Mon, 10 Apr 2023

Edward Frenkel is a mathematician at UC Berkeley working on the interface of mathematics and quantum...

#369 – Paul Rosolie: Amazon Jungle, Uncontacted Tribes, Anacondas, and Ayahuasca

Tue, 04 Apr 2023

Paul Rosolie is a conservationist, explorer, author, filmmaker, real life Tarzan, and founder of Jun...

#368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

Thu, 30 Mar 2023

Eliezer Yudkowsky is a researcher, writer, and philosopher on the topic of superintelligent AI. Plea...

#367 – Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI

Sat, 25 Mar 2023

Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, DALL-E, Codex, and many other st...

#366 – Shannon Curry: Johnny Depp & Amber Heard Trial, Marriage, Dating & Love

Tue, 21 Mar 2023

Dr. Shannon Curry is a clinical and forensic psychologist who conducts research, therapy, and clinic...

#365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs

Tue, 14 Mar 2023

Sam Harris is an author, podcaster, and philosopher. Please support this podcast by checking out our...

#364 – Chris Voss: FBI Hostage Negotiator

Fri, 10 Mar 2023

Chris Voss is a former FBI hostage and crisis negotiator and author of Never Split the Difference: N...

#363 – B-Team Jiu Jitsu: Craig Jones, Nicky Rod, and Nicky Ryan

Mon, 06 Mar 2023

Craig Jones, Nicky Rod and Nicky Ryan, together with Ethan Crelinsten are founders of the B-Team, a ...

#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

Thu, 02 Mar 2023

Ginni Rometty is a former long-time CEO, president, and chairman of IBM. Please support this podcast...

#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Sat, 25 Feb 2023

Aaron Smith-Levin is a former Scientologist, Vice President of the Aftermath Foundation, and host of...

#360 – Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics

Mon, 20 Feb 2023

Tim Urban is the author of the blog Wait But Why and a new book What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Boo...

#359 – Andrew Strominger: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and Theoretical Physics

Wed, 15 Feb 2023

Andrew Strominger is a theoretical physicist at Harvard. Please support this podcast by checking out...

#358 – Aella: Sex Work, OnlyFans, Porn, Escorting, Dating, and Human Sexuality

Fri, 10 Feb 2023

Aella is a sex researcher, writer, and sex worker. Please support this podcast by checking out our s...

#357 – Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil

Tue, 07 Feb 2023

Paul Conti is a psychiatrist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - NetSuite:...

#356 – Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

Thu, 02 Feb 2023

Tim Dodd is host of the Everyday Astronaut YouTube channel, where he teaches about rocket engines an...

#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds

Sat, 28 Jan 2023

David Kipping is an astronomer at Columbia University, director of the Cool Worlds Lab, and host of ...

#354 – Jeremi Suri: American Civil War

Wed, 25 Jan 2023

Jeremi Suri is a historian at UT Austin. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: ...

#353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy

Sat, 21 Jan 2023

Dennis Whyte is a nuclear scientist at MIT and the director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Cen...

#352 – Omar Suleiman: Islam

Tue, 17 Jan 2023

Imam Omar Suleiman is the Founder and President of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research and a p...

#351 – MrBeast: Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram

Wed, 11 Jan 2023

MrBeast is a legendary YouTube creator. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: -...

#350 – Betül Kaçar: Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens

Thu, 29 Dec 2022

Betül Kaçar is an astrobiologist at University of Wisconsin. Please support this podcast by checki...

#349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism

Thu, 22 Dec 2022

Bhaskar Sunkara is a democratic socialist, political writer, founding editor of Jacobin, president o...

#348 – Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

Mon, 19 Dec 2022

Nathalie Cabrol is an astrobiologist at the SETI Institute, directing the Carl Sagan Center for the ...

#347 – Michael Malice: Christmas Special

Thu, 15 Dec 2022

Michael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, author, and anarchist. Please support this podcast...

#346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels

Mon, 12 Dec 2022

Ed Calderon is a security specialist who worked on counter-narcotics and organized crime investigati...

#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

Fri, 09 Dec 2022

Coffeezilla is a journalist and investigator on YouTube who exposes financial frauds, scams, and fak...

#344 – Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation

Tue, 06 Dec 2022

Noam Brown is a research scientist at FAIR, Meta AI, co-creator of AI that achieved superhuman level...

#343 – Roger Gracie: Greatest Jiu Jitsu Competitor of All Time

Sat, 03 Dec 2022

Roger Gracie is a legendary jiu jitsu competitor and MMA fighter. Please support this podcast by che...

#342 – Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

Tue, 29 Nov 2022

Todd Howard is a legendary video game designer at Bethesda Game Studios. He led the development of t...

#341 – Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming

Sat, 26 Nov 2022

Guido van Rossum is the creator of Python programming language. Please support this podcast by check...

#340 – Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

Tue, 22 Nov 2022

Chris Tarbell is a former FBI special agent and cybercrime investigation specialist who brought down...

#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

Fri, 18 Nov 2022

Bjørn Lomborg is author of "False Alarm". Andrew Revkin is a climate journalist (21 years at NY Tim...

#338 – Chamath Palihapitiya: Money, Success, Startups, Energy, Poker & Happiness

Tue, 15 Nov 2022

Chamath Palihapitiya is a venture capitalist, engineer, CEO of Social Capital, and co-host of the Al...

#337 – Destiny: Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, War, and Relationships

Fri, 11 Nov 2022

Steven Bonnell, aka Destiny, is a progressive political commentator and a live streamer on YouTube. ...

#336 – Ben Shapiro: Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler, Extremism, and War

Mon, 07 Nov 2022

Ben Shapiro is a conservative political commentator, host of The Ben Shapiro Show, co-founder of The...

#335 – Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump

Fri, 04 Nov 2022

Fiona Hill is a presidential advisor and foreign policy expert specializing in Russia. Please suppor...

#334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

Wed, 02 Nov 2022

Abbas Amanat is a historian at Yale specializing in the modern history of Iran. Please support this ...

#333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI

Sat, 29 Oct 2022

Andrej Karpathy is a legendary AI researcher, engineer, and educator. He's the former director of AI...

#332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview

Mon, 24 Oct 2022

Ye is a legendary artist, producer, and designer. Please support this podcast by checking out our sp...

#331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA

Thu, 20 Oct 2022

Balaji Srinivasan is an angel investor, tech founder, philosopher, and author of The Network State: ...

#330 – Hikaru Nakamura: Chess, Magnus, Kasparov, and the Psychology of Greatness

Mon, 17 Oct 2022

Hikaru Nakamura is a chess super grandmaster and is currently the #1 ranked blitz chess player in th...

#329 – Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT

Sat, 15 Oct 2022

Kate Darling is a researcher at MIT Media Lab interested in human robot interaction and robot ethics...

#328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives

Mon, 10 Oct 2022

John Danaher is one of the greatest coaches and minds in martial arts history. Please support this p...

#327 – GothamChess: Hans Niemann, Magnus Carlsen, Cheating Scandal & Chess Bots

Fri, 07 Oct 2022

Levy Rozman, also known as GothamChess, is a professional chess player, streamer, and educator. Plea...

#326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

Wed, 05 Oct 2022

Annaka Harris is the author of Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind. Plea...

#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots

Sat, 01 Oct 2022

Michael Levin is a biologist at Tufts University working on novel ways to understand and control com...

#324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker

Tue, 27 Sep 2022

Daniel Negreanu is one of the greatest poker players of all time. Please support this podcast by che...

#323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling

Sat, 24 Sep 2022

Will Sasso is a comedian, actor, and co-host of the Dudesy podcast. Please support this podcast by c...

#322 – Rana el Kaliouby: Emotion AI, Social Robots, and Self-Driving Cars

Wed, 21 Sep 2022

Rana el Kaliouby is a pioneer in the field of emotion recognition and human-centric AI. She is the f...

#321 – Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality

Sat, 17 Sep 2022

Ray Kurzweil is an author, inventor, and futurist. Please support this podcast by checking out our s...

#320 – Christopher Capozzola: World War I, Ideology, Propaganda, and Politics

Wed, 14 Sep 2022

Christopher Capozzola is a professor of history at MIT. Please support this podcast by checking out ...

#319 – Botez Sisters: Chess, Streaming, and Fame

Fri, 09 Sep 2022

Alexandra and Andrea Botez are chess players, commentators, educators, entertainers, and streamers. ...

#318 – Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness

Wed, 07 Sep 2022

Nick Lane is a biochemist at UCL and author of Transformer, The Vital Question, and many other amazi...

#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom

Sun, 04 Sep 2022

John Vervaeke is a psychologist and cognitive scientist at University of Toronto. Please support thi...

#316 – Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War

Wed, 31 Aug 2022

Noam Chomsky is a linguist, philosopher, and political activist. Please support this podcast by chec...

#315 – Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time

Sat, 27 Aug 2022

Magnus Carlsen is the highest-rated chess player in history and widely considered to be the greatest...

#314 – Liv Boeree: Poker, Game Theory, AI, Simulation, Aliens & Existential Risk

Wed, 24 Aug 2022

Liv Boeree is a poker champion and science educator on topics of game theory, physics, complexity, a...

#313 – Jordan Peterson: Life, Death, Power, Fame, and Meaning

Fri, 19 Aug 2022

Jordan Peterson is a psychologist, lecturer, podcast host, and author. Please support this podcast b...

#312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man

Tue, 16 Aug 2022

Duncan Trussell is a comedian, host of The Duncan Trussell Family Hour podcast, and co-creator of Th...

#311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity

Sat, 13 Aug 2022

Magatte Wade is an entrepreneur with a passion for creating positive change in Africa through econom...

#310 – Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy

Mon, 08 Aug 2022

Andrew Bustamante is a former CIA covert intelligence officer. Check out his work and podcast at htt...

#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets

Thu, 04 Aug 2022

John Carmack is a legendary programmer, co-founder of id Software, and lead programmer of many revol...

#308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens

Mon, 01 Aug 2022

Lt. Ryan Graves is a former Navy fighter pilot, who has worked on advanced research and development ...

#307 – Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation

Fri, 29 Jul 2022

Brian Armstrong is the CEO of Coinbase. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: -...

#306 – Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence

Tue, 26 Jul 2022

Oriol Vinyals is the Research Director and Deep Learning Lead at DeepMind. Please support this podca...

#305 – Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang

Sat, 23 Jul 2022

Lord Martin Rees is a cosmologist and astrophysicist at Cambridge University and co-founder of the C...

#304 – Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church

Wed, 20 Jul 2022

Robert Barron is a bishop and founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Please support this podca...

#303 – Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics

Sun, 17 Jul 2022

Steve Keen is a heterodox economist and author. Please support this podcast by checking out our spon...

#302 – Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences

Thu, 14 Jul 2022

Richard Haier is a psychologist specializing in the science of human intelligence. Please support th...

#301 – Jack Barsky: KGB Spy

Sat, 09 Jul 2022

Jack Barsky is a former KGB spy and author of "Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegianc...

#300 – Joe Rogan: Comedy, Controversy, Aliens, UFOs, Putin, CIA, and Freedom

Mon, 04 Jul 2022

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#299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind

Fri, 01 Jul 2022

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#298 – Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts and Loneliness

Tue, 28 Jun 2022

Susan Cain is the author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, and B...

#297 – Jonathan Reisman: The Human Body – From Sex & Sperm to Hands & Heart

Sat, 25 Jun 2022

Jonathan Reisman is a physician and author of The Unseen Body who has practiced medicine in some of ...

#296 – Douglas Murray: Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West

Tue, 21 Jun 2022

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#295 – Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism

Fri, 17 Jun 2022

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#294 – Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, and Nest

Wed, 15 Jun 2022

Tony Fadell is an engineer and designer, co-creator of the iPod, iPhone, Nest Thermostat, and author...

#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth

Sun, 12 Jun 2022

Donald Hoffman is a cognitive scientist at UC Irvine and author of The Case Against Reality. Please ...

#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity

Thu, 09 Jun 2022

Robin Hanson is a professor at George Mason University and researcher at Future of Humanity Institut...

#291 – Jonathan Haidt: The Case Against Social Media

Sat, 04 Jun 2022

Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at NYU and author of The Coddling of the American Mind, The ...

#290 – Dan Reynolds: Imagine Dragons

Mon, 30 May 2022

Dan Reynolds is the lead singer of Imagine Dragons, one of the most popular bands in the world. Plea...

#289 – Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine

Wed, 25 May 2022

Stephen Kotkin is a historian specializing in Stalin and Soviet history. Please support this podcast...

#288 – Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan

Mon, 23 May 2022

Sarma Melngailis is a chef and restauranteur who was the subject of the Netflix documentary Bad Vega...

#287 – Bobby Lee: Comedy, Skyrim, Sex Robots, Love, Fame, and Power

Fri, 20 May 2022

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#286 – Oliver Stone: Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine

Tue, 17 May 2022

Oliver Stone is a filmmaker with 3 Oscar wins and 11 Oscar nominations. His films include Platoon, W...

#285 – Glenn Loury: Race, Racism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture

Sat, 14 May 2022

Glenn Loury is a professor of economics and social sciences at Brown University, and a prominent pod...

#284 – Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics

Wed, 11 May 2022

Saifedean Ammous is an Austrian economist and author of The Bitcoin Standard and The Fiat Standard. ...

#283 – Chris Mason: Space Travel, Colonization, and Long-Term Survival in Space

Sun, 08 May 2022

Chris Mason is a professor of genomics, physiology, and biophysics at Cornell, doing research on the...

#282 – David Buss: Sex, Dating, Relationships, and Sex Differences

Wed, 04 May 2022

David Buss is an evolutionary psychologist at UT Austin. He is one of the founders of the field of e...

#281 – Grimes: Music, AI, and the Future of Humanity

Fri, 29 Apr 2022

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#280 – Cristiano Amon: Qualcomm CEO

Wed, 27 Apr 2022

Cristiano Amon is the CEO of Qualcomm, world-leader in 5G wireless communication and computation sys...

#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin

Sun, 24 Apr 2022

Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist. Lee Cronin is a chemist. This is a conve...

#278 – Skye Fitzgerald: Hunger, War, and Human Suffering

Wed, 20 Apr 2022

Skye Fitzgerald is a two-time Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, his films include Hunger Ward, ...

#277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship

Sun, 17 Apr 2022

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#276 – Michael Saylor: Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money

Thu, 14 Apr 2022

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#275 – Rick Rubin: Legendary Music Producer

Sun, 10 Apr 2022

Rick Rubin is one of the greatest music producers of all time, working with many of the greats inclu...

#274 – Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry

Thu, 07 Apr 2022

Karl Deisseroth is a professor of bioengineering, psychiatry, and behavioral sciences at Stanford Un...

#273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence

Sun, 03 Apr 2022

Chris Blattman is a professor at the University of Chicago studying the causes and consequences of v...

#272 – Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal

Sun, 27 Mar 2022

Brett Johnson was a US Most Wanted cybercriminal, called the Original Internet Godfather by US Secre...

#271 – Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures

Wed, 23 Mar 2022

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#270 – David Wolpe: Judaism

Wed, 16 Mar 2022

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#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness

Fri, 11 Mar 2022

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#268 – Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology

Sat, 05 Mar 2022

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#267 – Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse

Sat, 26 Feb 2022

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#266 – Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar

Sun, 20 Feb 2022

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#265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling

Wed, 16 Feb 2022

Devon Larratt is a professional arm wrestler, widely considered to be one of the best of all time. P...

#264 – Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity

Sun, 13 Feb 2022

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#263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma

Fri, 11 Feb 2022

John Abramson is faculty at Harvard Medical School and a family physician for over two decades. He's...

#262 – Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens

Sun, 06 Feb 2022

Garry Nolan is a professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. His research is in microbiolog...

#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind

Thu, 03 Feb 2022

Philip Goff is a philosopher of mind and consciousness at Durham University and author of Galileo's ...

#260 – Georges St-Pierre, John Danaher & Gordon Ryan: The Greatest of All Time

Sun, 30 Jan 2022

Georges St-Pierre is an MMA fighter. John Danaher is a martial arts coach. Gordon Ryan is a submissi...

#259 – Thomas Tull: From Batman Dark Knight Trilogy to AI and the Rolling Stones

Wed, 26 Jan 2022

Thomas Tull is founder of Legendary Entertainment, Tulco, part-owner of Pittsburgh Steelers, and gui...

#258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning

Sat, 22 Jan 2022

Yann LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, professor at NYU, Turing Award winner, and one of the ...

#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize

Tue, 18 Jan 2022

Brian Keating is an experimental physicist at the UCSD, author of Losing the Nobel Prize, and host o...

#256 – Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony

Sat, 15 Jan 2022

Yaron Brook is an objectivist. Yoram Hazony is a national conservative. This is a conversation and d...

#255 – Mark Normand: Comedy!

Sat, 08 Jan 2022

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#254 – Jay Bhattacharya: The Case Against Lockdowns

Tue, 04 Jan 2022

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#253 – Michael Malice: New Year’s Special

Fri, 31 Dec 2021

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#252 – Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI

Tue, 28 Dec 2021

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

Sat, 25 Dec 2021

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

Thu, 23 Dec 2021

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#249 – Albert Bourla: Pfizer CEO

Sat, 18 Dec 2021

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

Mon, 13 Dec 2021

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#247 – Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory

Wed, 08 Dec 2021

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

Fri, 03 Dec 2021

Peter Woit is a theoretical physicist, mathematician, critic of string theory, and author of the pop...

#245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling

Tue, 30 Nov 2021

Tom Brands is an Olympic and World Champion in freestyle wrestling and the head wrestling coach at t...

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

Sun, 28 Nov 2021

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#243 – Kevin Systrom: Instagram

Tue, 23 Nov 2021

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#242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA

Sat, 20 Nov 2021

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

Tue, 16 Nov 2021

Boris Sofman is the Senior Director Of Engineering and Head of Trucking at Waymo, formerly the Googl...

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

Thu, 11 Nov 2021

Neal Stephenson is a sci-fi writer (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and new book Termination Shock), form...

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

Mon, 08 Nov 2021

Niall Ferguson is a historian at Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author of 16 boo...

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

Fri, 05 Nov 2021

Francis Collins is the director of the NIH and former head of the Human Genome Project. Please suppo...

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

Wed, 03 Nov 2021

Steve Viscelli is a former truck driver and now an economic sociologist at University of Pennsylvani...

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

Sun, 31 Oct 2021

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#235 – Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing

Fri, 29 Oct 2021

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

Wed, 27 Oct 2021

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

Sat, 23 Oct 2021

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

Wed, 20 Oct 2021

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

Sat, 16 Oct 2021

Alex Gladstein is the Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation and the Oslo Freedom For...

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

Thu, 14 Oct 2021

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

Sun, 10 Oct 2021

Richard Wrangham is a biological anthropologist at Harvard, specializing in the study of primates an...

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

Tue, 05 Oct 2021

RZA is a rapper, record producer, filmmaker, actor, writer, philosopher, and the mastermind of the l...

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

Thu, 30 Sep 2021

Sean Kelly is a philosopher at Harvard specializing in existentialism and the philosophy of mind. Pl...

#226 – Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math

Mon, 27 Sep 2021

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#225 – Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence

Sun, 26 Sep 2021

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

Thu, 23 Sep 2021

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

Tue, 21 Sep 2021

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

Mon, 20 Sep 2021

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

Wed, 15 Sep 2021

Douglas Lenat is the founder of Cyc, a 37 year project aiming to solve common-sense knowledge and re...

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

Sat, 11 Sep 2021

Niels Jorgensen is a former New York firefighter for over 21 years, who was there at Ground Zero on ...

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

Thu, 09 Sep 2021

Donald Knuth is a computer scientist, Turing Award winner, father of algorithm analysis, author of T...

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

Mon, 06 Sep 2021

Jaron Lanier is a computer scientist, composer, artist, author, and founder of the field of virtual ...

#217 – Rodney Brooks: Robotics

Fri, 03 Sep 2021

Rodney Brooks is a roboticist, former head of CSAIL at MIT, and co-founder of iRobot, Rethink Roboti...

#216 – Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines

Wed, 01 Sep 2021

Vincent Racaniello is a virologist, immunologist, and microbiologist at Columbia. He is a co-author ...

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

Sun, 29 Aug 2021

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

Fri, 27 Aug 2021

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

Mon, 23 Aug 2021

Barry Barish is a theoretical physicist at Caltech and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. Ple...

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

Sat, 21 Aug 2021

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#211 – Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics

Sun, 15 Aug 2021

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#210 – Matt Walker: Sleep

Wed, 11 Aug 2021

Matt Walker is a sleep scientist at Berkeley, author of Why We Sleep, and the host of a new podcast ...

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

Mon, 09 Aug 2021

Luis and Joao Batalha are co-founders of Fermat's Library. Please support this podcast by checking o...

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

Sun, 08 Aug 2021

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#207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength

Tue, 03 Aug 2021

Chris Duffin is a strength athlete, coach, and engineer, setting multiple strength world records inc...

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

Sat, 31 Jul 2021

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#205 – Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running

Thu, 29 Jul 2021

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#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory

Mon, 26 Jul 2021

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

Fri, 23 Jul 2021

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#202 – Rick Doblin: Psychedelics

Wed, 21 Jul 2021

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#201 – Konstantin Batygin: Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System

Mon, 19 Jul 2021

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#200 – Michael Malice: Totalitarianism and Anarchy

Thu, 15 Jul 2021

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#199 – Roger Reaves: Smuggling Drugs for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel

Sun, 11 Jul 2021

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#198 – Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds

Fri, 09 Jul 2021

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#197 – Jocko Willink: War, Leadership, and Discipline

Mon, 05 Jul 2021

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#196 – Yeonmi Park: North Korea

Thu, 01 Jul 2021

Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector, human rights activist, and author of the book In Order to Li...

#195 – Clara Sousa-Silva: Searching for Signs of Life on Venus and Other Planets

Mon, 28 Jun 2021

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#194 – Bret Weinstein: Truth, Science, and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic

Fri, 25 Jun 2021

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#193 – Rob Reid: The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses and Lab Leaks

Mon, 21 Jun 2021

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#192 – Charles Hoskinson: Cardano

Wed, 16 Jun 2021

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#191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction

Mon, 14 Jun 2021

Daniel Schmachtenberger is a philosopher interested understanding the rise and fall of societies and...

#190 – Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries

Sun, 13 Jun 2021

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#189 – David Sinclair: Extending the Human Lifespan Beyond 100 Years

Mon, 07 Jun 2021

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#188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0

Thu, 03 Jun 2021

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#187 – Frank Wilczek: Physics of Quarks, Dark Matter, Complexity, Life & Aliens

Sat, 29 May 2021

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#186 – Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces

Mon, 24 May 2021

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#185 – Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning

Thu, 20 May 2021

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#184 – Katherine de Kleer: Planets, Moons, and Asteroids in Our Solar System

Mon, 17 May 2021

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#183 – Po-Shen Loh: Mathematics, Math Olympiad, Combinatorics & Contact Tracing

Fri, 14 May 2021

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#182 – John Danaher: The Path to Mastery in Jiu Jitsu, Grappling, Judo, and MMA

Sun, 09 May 2021

John Danaher is a coach, scholar, and educator of jiu jitsu, submission grappling, judo, MMA, and th...

#181 – Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks

Sat, 01 May 2021

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#180 – Jeremi Suri: History of American Power

Fri, 30 Apr 2021

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#179 – Georges St-Pierre: The Science of Fighting

Mon, 26 Apr 2021

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#178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy

Sat, 24 Apr 2021

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#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation

Mon, 19 Apr 2021

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#176 – Robert Breedlove: Philosophy of Bitcoin from First Principles

Sat, 17 Apr 2021

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#175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy

Mon, 12 Apr 2021

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#174 – Tyler Cowen: Economic Growth and the Fight Against Conformity and Mediocrity

Sat, 10 Apr 2021

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#173 – Nic Carter: Bitcoin Core Values, Layered Scaling, and Blocksize Debates

Thu, 01 Apr 2021

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Tue, 30 Mar 2021

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#171 – Anthony Pompliano: Bitcoin

Thu, 25 Mar 2021

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#170 – Ronald Sullivan: The Ideal of Justice in the Face of Controversy and Evil

Mon, 22 Mar 2021

Ronald Sullivan is a law professor at Harvard and previously a lawyer for Harvey Weinstein and Aaron...

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Sat, 20 Mar 2021

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#168 – Silvio Micali: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Algorand, Bitcoin, and Ethereum

Mon, 15 Mar 2021

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Sun, 14 Mar 2021

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Fri, 05 Mar 2021

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Mon, 01 Mar 2021

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Sun, 28 Feb 2021

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Tue, 23 Feb 2021

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#162 – Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness

Thu, 18 Feb 2021

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Mon, 15 Feb 2021

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Fri, 12 Feb 2021

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Fri, 29 Jan 2021

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Wed, 27 Jan 2021

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Mon, 18 Jan 2021

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Mon, 11 Jan 2021

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Thu, 31 Dec 2020

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Mon, 28 Dec 2020

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Sat, 26 Dec 2020

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#145 – Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics

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#144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI

Sun, 13 Dec 2020

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#143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence

Sun, 06 Dec 2020

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#142 – Manolis Kellis: Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything

Mon, 30 Nov 2020

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Wed, 25 Nov 2020

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Fri, 20 Nov 2020

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#139 – Andrew Huberman: Neuroscience of Optimal Performance

Mon, 16 Nov 2020

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Fri, 13 Nov 2020

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#137 – Alex Filippenko: Supernovae, Dark Energy, Aliens & the Expanding Universe

Sun, 08 Nov 2020

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#136 – Dan Carlin: Hardcore History

Tue, 03 Nov 2020

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#135 – Charles Isbell: Computing, Interactive AI, and Race in America

Mon, 02 Nov 2020

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#134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness

Fri, 30 Oct 2020

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Sun, 25 Oct 2020

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Thu, 22 Oct 2020

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#131 – Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages

Mon, 19 Oct 2020

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#130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness

Mon, 12 Oct 2020

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#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works

Sun, 04 Oct 2020

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Fri, 02 Oct 2020

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Sat, 26 Sep 2020

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Thu, 24 Sep 2020

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Sun, 20 Sep 2020

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#124 – Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe

Tue, 15 Sep 2020

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Sat, 12 Sep 2020

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#122 – David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering

Tue, 08 Sep 2020

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Mon, 07 Sep 2020

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Sat, 05 Sep 2020

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Tue, 01 Sep 2020

My thoughts on 8 possible long-term futures of Neuralink after attending the August 2020 progress up...

#120 – François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence

Mon, 31 Aug 2020

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#119 – David Eagleman: Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain

Wed, 26 Aug 2020

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Mon, 24 Aug 2020

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#118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown

Sun, 23 Aug 2020

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#117 – Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning

Thu, 20 Aug 2020

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#116 – Sara Seager: Search for Planets and Life Outside Our Solar System

Sun, 16 Aug 2020

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Fri, 14 Aug 2020

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Sun, 09 Aug 2020

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Fri, 31 Jul 2020

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Wed, 29 Jul 2020

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Sun, 26 Jul 2020

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#110 – Jitendra Malik: Computer Vision

Tue, 21 Jul 2020

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Sat, 18 Jul 2020

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#108 – Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning

Tue, 14 Jul 2020

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#107 – Peter Singer: Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI

Wed, 08 Jul 2020

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Fri, 03 Jul 2020

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#105 – Robert Langer: Edison of Medicine

Tue, 30 Jun 2020

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Sat, 27 Jun 2020

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#103 – Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence

Mon, 22 Jun 2020

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#102 – Steven Pressfield: The War of Art

Sat, 20 Jun 2020

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#101 – Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality

Sat, 13 Jun 2020

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Thu, 28 May 2020

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Wed, 20 May 2020

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Fri, 15 May 2020

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#95 – Dawn Song: Adversarial Machine Learning and Computer Security

Tue, 12 May 2020

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Fri, 08 May 2020

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#93 – Daphne Koller: Biomedicine and Machine Learning

Tue, 05 May 2020

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#92 – Harry Cliff: Particle Physics and the Large Hadron Collider

Wed, 29 Apr 2020

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Fri, 24 Apr 2020

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#90 – Dmitry Korkin: Computational Biology of Coronavirus

Wed, 22 Apr 2020

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#89 – Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics

Sat, 18 Apr 2020

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#88 – Eric Weinstein: Geometric Unity and the Call for New Ideas, Leaders & Institutions

Mon, 13 Apr 2020

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#87 – Richard Dawkins: Evolution, Intelligence, Simulation, and Memes

Thu, 09 Apr 2020

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Fri, 03 Apr 2020

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#85 – Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe

Tue, 31 Mar 2020

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#83 – Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence

Thu, 26 Mar 2020

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#82 – Simon Sinek: Leadership, Hard Work, Optimism and the Infinite Game

Sat, 21 Mar 2020

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Thu, 19 Mar 2020

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#80 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money

Mon, 16 Mar 2020

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#79 – Lee Smolin: Quantum Gravity and Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution

Sat, 07 Mar 2020

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Thu, 05 Mar 2020

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Tue, 03 Mar 2020

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Sat, 29 Feb 2020

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#75 – Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI

Wed, 26 Feb 2020

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#74 – Michael I. Jordan: Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, and the Future of AI

Mon, 24 Feb 2020

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#73 – Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI

Thu, 20 Feb 2020

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#72 – Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing

Mon, 17 Feb 2020

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Vladimir Vapnik: Predicates, Invariants, and the Essence of Intelligence

Fri, 14 Feb 2020

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Jim Keller: Moore’s Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles

Wed, 05 Feb 2020

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David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness

Wed, 29 Jan 2020

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Cristos Goodrow: YouTube Algorithm

Sat, 25 Jan 2020

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Paul Krugman: Economics of Innovation, Automation, Safety Nets & Universal Basic Income

Tue, 21 Jan 2020

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Ayanna Howard: Human-Robot Interaction and Ethics of Safety-Critical Systems

Fri, 17 Jan 2020

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Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI

Tue, 14 Jan 2020

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Grant Sanderson: 3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics

Tue, 07 Jan 2020

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Stephen Kotkin: Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power

Fri, 03 Jan 2020

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Donald Knuth: Algorithms, TeX, Life, and The Art of Computer Programming

Mon, 30 Dec 2019

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Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI

Sat, 28 Dec 2019

Melanie Mitchell is a professor of computer science at Portland State University and an external pro...

Jim Gates: Supersymmetry, String Theory and Proving Einstein Right

Wed, 25 Dec 2019

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Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education

Sat, 21 Dec 2019

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Michael Stevens: Vsauce

Tue, 17 Dec 2019

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Rohit Prasad: Amazon Alexa and Conversational AI

Sat, 14 Dec 2019

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Judea Pearl: Causal Reasoning, Counterfactuals, Bayesian Networks, and the Path to AGI

Wed, 11 Dec 2019

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Whitney Cummings: Comedy, Robotics, Neurology, and Love

Thu, 05 Dec 2019

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Ray Dalio: Principles, the Economic Machine, Artificial Intelligence & the Arc of Life

Mon, 02 Dec 2019

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Noam Chomsky: Language, Cognition, and Deep Learning

Fri, 29 Nov 2019

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Gilbert Strang: Linear Algebra, Deep Learning, Teaching, and MIT OpenCourseWare

Mon, 25 Nov 2019

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Dava Newman: Space Exploration, Space Suits, and Life on Mars

Fri, 22 Nov 2019

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Michael Kearns: Algorithmic Fairness, Bias, Privacy, and Ethics in Machine Learning

Tue, 19 Nov 2019

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Elon Musk: Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot

Tue, 12 Nov 2019

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Bjarne Stroustrup: C++

Thu, 07 Nov 2019

Bjarne Stroustrup is the creator of C++, a programming language that after 40 years is still one of ...

Sean Carroll: Quantum Mechanics and the Many-Worlds Interpretation

Fri, 01 Nov 2019

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Garry Kasparov: Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin

Sun, 27 Oct 2019

Garry Kasparov is considered by many to be the greatest chess player of all time. From 1986 until hi...

Michio Kaku: Future of Humans, Aliens, Space Travel & Physics

Tue, 22 Oct 2019

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David Ferrucci: IBM Watson, Jeopardy & Deep Conversations with AI

Fri, 11 Oct 2019

David Ferrucci led the team that built Watson, the IBM question-answering system that beat the top h...

Gary Marcus: Toward a Hybrid of Deep Learning and Symbolic AI

Thu, 03 Oct 2019

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Peter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

Mon, 30 Sep 2019

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Leonard Susskind: Quantum Mechanics, String Theory, and Black Holes

Thu, 26 Sep 2019

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Regina Barzilay: Deep Learning for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

Mon, 23 Sep 2019

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Colin Angle: iRobot

Thu, 19 Sep 2019

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François Chollet: Keras, Deep Learning, and the Progress of AI

Sat, 14 Sep 2019

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Vijay Kumar: Flying Robots

Sun, 08 Sep 2019

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Yann LeCun: Deep Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks, and Self-Supervised Learning

Sat, 31 Aug 2019

Yann LeCun is one of the fathers of deep learning, the recent revolution in AI that has captivated t...

Jeremy Howard: fast.ai Deep Learning Courses and Research

Tue, 27 Aug 2019

Jeremy Howard is the founder of fast.ai, a research institute dedicated to make deep learning more a...

Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think and the Early Days of AI

Fri, 23 Aug 2019

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Keoki Jackson: Lockheed Martin

Mon, 19 Aug 2019

Keoki Jackson is the CTO of Lockheed Martin, a company that through its long history has created som...

Paola Arlotta: Brain Development from Stem Cell to Organoid

Mon, 12 Aug 2019

Paola Arlotta is a professor of stem cell and regenerative biology at Harvard University. She is int...

George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles

Mon, 05 Aug 2019

George Hotz is the founder of Comma.ai, a machine learning based vehicle automation company. He is a...

Kevin Scott: Microsoft CTO

Thu, 01 Aug 2019

Kevin Scott is the CTO of Microsoft. Before that, he was the Senior Vice President of Engineering an...

Gustav Soderstrom: Spotify

Mon, 29 Jul 2019

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Chris Urmson: Self-Driving Cars at Aurora, Google, CMU, and DARPA

Mon, 22 Jul 2019

Chris Urmson was the CTO of the Google Self-Driving Car team, a key engineer and leader behind the C...

Kai-Fu Lee: AI Superpowers – China and Silicon Valley

Mon, 15 Jul 2019

Kai-Fu Lee is the Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures that manages a 2 billion dollar dual curre...

Sean Carroll: The Nature of the Universe, Life, and Intelligence

Wed, 10 Jul 2019

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Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence

Mon, 01 Jul 2019

Jeff Hawkins is the founder of Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience in 2002 and Numenta in 20...

Rosalind Picard: Affective Computing, Emotion, Privacy, and Health

Mon, 17 Jun 2019

Rosalind Picard is a professor at MIT, director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT...

Gavin Miller: Adobe Research

Mon, 10 Jun 2019

Gavin Miller is the Head of Adobe Research. Adobe have empowered artists, designers, and creative mi...

Rajat Monga: TensorFlow

Mon, 03 Jun 2019

Rajat Monga is an Engineering Director at Google, leading the TensorFlow team. If you would like to...

Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators

Mon, 13 May 2019

Chris Lattner is a senior director at Google working on several projects including CPU, GPU, TPU acc...

Oriol Vinyals: DeepMind AlphaStar, StarCraft, Language, and Sequences

Mon, 29 Apr 2019

Oriol Vinyals is a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind. Before that he was at Google Brain ...

Ian Goodfellow: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)

Thu, 18 Apr 2019

Ian Goodfellow is the author of the popular textbook on deep learning (simply titled "Deep Learning"...

Elon Musk: Tesla Autopilot

Fri, 12 Apr 2019

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Greg Brockman: OpenAI and AGI

Wed, 03 Apr 2019

Greg Brockman is the Co-Founder and CTO of OpenAI, a research organization developing ideas in AI th...

Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society

Wed, 20 Mar 2019

Eric Weinstein is a mathematician, economist, physicist, and managing director of Thiel Capital. He ...

Leslie Kaelbling: Reinforcement Learning, Planning, and Robotics

Tue, 12 Mar 2019

Leslie Kaelbling is a roboticist and professor at MIT. She is recognized for her work in reinforceme...

Kyle Vogt: Cruise Automation

Thu, 07 Feb 2019

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Tomaso Poggio: Brains, Minds, and Machines

Sat, 19 Jan 2019

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Tuomas Sandholm: Poker and Game Theory

Fri, 28 Dec 2018

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Juergen Schmidhuber: Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs

Sun, 23 Dec 2018

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Pieter Abbeel: Deep Reinforcement Learning

Sun, 16 Dec 2018

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Stuart Russell: Long-Term Future of AI

Sun, 09 Dec 2018

Stuart Russell is a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley and a co-author of the book that in...

Eric Schmidt: Google

Tue, 04 Dec 2018

Eric Schmidt was the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, and its executive chairman from 2011 to 2017, ...

Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror

Thu, 29 Nov 2018

Jeff Atwood is a co-founder of Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, websites that are visited by milli...

Guido van Rossum: Python

Thu, 22 Nov 2018

Guido van Rossum is the creator of Python, one of the most popular and impactful programming languag...

Vladimir Vapnik: Statistical Learning

Fri, 16 Nov 2018

Vladimir Vapnik is the co-inventor of support vector machines, support vector clustering, VC theory,...

Yoshua Bengio: Deep Learning

Sat, 20 Oct 2018

Yoshua Bengio, along with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann Lecun, is considered one of the three people most...

Steven Pinker: AI in the Age of Reason

Wed, 17 Oct 2018

Steven Pinker is a professor at Harvard and before that was a professor at MIT. He is the author of ...

Christof Koch: Consciousness

Sun, 02 Sep 2018

A conversation with Christof Koch as part of MIT course on Artificial General Intelligence. Video ve...

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