Episodes

Sept. 26, 2020

#127 – Joe Rogan: Conversations, Ideas, Love, Freedom & The Joe Rogan…

Joe Rogan is a comedian, UFC commentator, and the host of the Joe Rogan Experience. Please check out our sponsors to get a discount and to support this podcast: - Neuro: https://www.getneuro.com and use code LEX - Eight Sleep: https://eightsleep.

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Sept. 24, 2020

#126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computi…

James Gosling is the founder and lead designer of the Java programming language. Please check out our sponsors to get a discount and to support this podcast: - Public Goods: https://publicgoods.com/lex and use code LEX

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Sept. 20, 2020

#125 – Ryan Hall: Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Violence, Power,…

Ryan Hall is a jiu jitsu black belt, UFC fighter, and a philosopher of the martial arts. - Please check out our sponsors to get a discount and to support this podcast: - PowerDot, use code LEX: https://powerdot.com/lex - Babbel: https://babbel.

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Sept. 15, 2020

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

Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist. This is our second conversation on the podcast. - Please check out our sponsors to get a discount and to support this podcast: - SimpliSafe: https://simplisafe.

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Sept. 12, 2020

#123 – Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and …

Manolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group. - Please check out our sponsors to get a discount and to support this podcast: - Public Goods: https://publicgoods.com/lex and use code LEX

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Sept. 8, 2020

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

David Fravor is a navy pilot of 18 years and a primary witness in one of the most credible UFO sightings in history, video of which has been released by the Pentagon and reported on by the NY Times. - Please check out our sponsors to get a discount an...

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Sept. 7, 2020

Lex Solo #3 – In Memory of My Grandmother

My attempt to find the words to honor my grandmother, an amazing woman who is responsible for much of who I am, who taught me how to be a man, taught me about strength, about wisdom, about compassion, about love. -

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Sept. 5, 2020

#121 – Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion

Eugenia Kuyda co-founder of Replika, an AI companion. Please check out our sponsors to get a discount and to support this podcast: - Dollar Shave Club: https://dollarshaveclub.com/lex - DoorDash: download app & use code LEX

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Sept. 1, 2020

Lex Solo #2 – The Future of Neuralink

My thoughts on 8 possible long-term futures of Neuralink after attending the August 2020 progress update. This is a solo episode #2 of the podcast. Hopefully it's interesting to some folks. The aim is for these episodes to be focused on a particular to...

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Aug. 30, 2020

#120 – François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence

François Chollet is an AI researcher at Google and creator of Keras. - Support this podcast by supporting our sponsors (and get discount): - Babbel: https://babbel.com and use code LEX - MasterClass: https://masterclass.com/lex

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Aug. 26, 2020

#119 – David Eagleman: Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain

David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford. - Support this podcast by supporting our sponsors: - Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.com/lex - BetterHelp: https://betterhelp.com/lex – Cash App: download app & use code "LexPodcast" -

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Aug. 24, 2020

New Name: Lex Fridman Podcast

New podcast name. New Russian hitman thumbnail. Everything else stays the same. AI is still my passion, but this gives me a bit more freedom to talk to interesting folks from all over. Thanks for the support & the love. -

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Aug. 23, 2020

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

Grant Sanderson is a math educator and creator of 3Blue1Brown. - Support this podcast by supporting our sponsors: - Dollar Shave Club: https://dollarshaveclub.com/lex - DoorDash: download app & use code LEX

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Aug. 20, 2020

#117 – Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning

Sheldon Solomon is a social psychologist, a philosopher, co-developer of Terror Management Theory, co-author of The Worm at the Core. - Please support this channel by supporting our sponsors: - Blinkist: https://blinkist.com/lex

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Aug. 16, 2020

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

Sara Seager is a planetary scientist at MIT, known for her work on the search for exoplanets. - Support this podcast by supporting our sponsors. Click links, get discount: - Public Goods at https://publicgoods.com/lex and use code LEX

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Aug. 14, 2020

#115 – Dileep George: Brain-Inspired AI

Dileep George is a researcher at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence, co-founder of Vicarious, formerly co-founder of Numenta. From the early work on Hierarchical temporal memory to Recursive Cortical...

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Aug. 9, 2020

#114 – Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and To…

Russ Tedrake is a roboticist and professor at MIT and vice president of robotics research at TRI. He works on control of robots in interesting, complicated, underactuated, stochastic, difficult to model situations. -

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July 31, 2020

#113 – Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics

Manolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group. He is interested in understanding the human genome from a computational, evolutionary, biological, and other cross-disciplinary perspectives. -

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July 29, 2020

#112 – Ian Hutchinson: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion

Ian Hutchinson is a nuclear engineer and plasma physicist at MIT. He has made a number of important contributions in plasma physics including the magnetic confinement of plasmas seeking to enable fusion reactions, which is th...

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July 26, 2020

#111 – Richard Karp: Algorithms and Computational Complexity

Richard Karp is a professor at Berkeley and one of the most important figures in the history of theoretical computer science. In 1985, he received the Turing Award for his research in the theory of algorithms, including the d...

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July 21, 2020

#110 – Jitendra Malik: Computer Vision

Jitendra Malik is a professor at Berkeley and one of the seminal figures in the field of computer vision, the kind before the deep learning revolution, and the kind after. He has been cited over 180,000 times and has mentored many world-class researche...

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July 18, 2020

#109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming

Brian Kernighan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. He co-authored the C Programming Language with Dennis Ritchie (creator of C) and has written a lot of books on programming, computers, and life inclu...

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July 14, 2020

#108 – Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning

Sergey Levine is a professor at Berkeley and a world-class researcher in deep learning, reinforcement learning, robotics, and computer vision, including the development of algorithms for end-to-end training of neural network policies that combine perce...

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July 8, 2020

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

Peter Singer is a professor of bioethics at Princeton, best known for his 1975 book Animal Liberation, that makes an ethical case against eating meat. He has written brilliantly from an ethical perspective on extreme poverty,...

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