Episodes

#134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness
Oct. 29, 2020

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

Eric Weinstein is a mathematical physicist, podcaster, and intellectual. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Grammarly: https://grammarly.com/lex to get 20% off premium - Sun Basket: https://sunbasket.

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#133 – Manolis Kellis: Biology of Disease
Oct. 25, 2020

#133 – Manolis Kellis: Biology of Disease

Manolis Kellis is a computational biologist at MIT. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - SEMrush: https://www.semrush.com/partner/lex/ to get a free month of Guru - Pessimists Archive: https://pessimists.co/

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#132 – George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets
Oct. 21, 2020

#132 – George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with N…

George Hotz (geohot) is a programmer, hacker, and the founder of Comma.ai. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Four Sigmatic: https://foursigmatic.com/lex and use code LexPod to get up to 40% & free shipping

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#131 – Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages
Oct. 18, 2020

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

Chris Lattner is a world-class software & hardware engineer, leading projects at Apple, Tesla, Google, and SiFive. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Blinkist: https://blinkist.com/lex and use code LEX to get a free week of pr...

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#130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness
Oct. 11, 2020

#130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness

Scott Aaronson is a quantum computer scientist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - SimpliSafe: https://simplisafe.com/lex and use code LEX to get a free security camera - Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.

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#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works
Oct. 4, 2020

#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Bra…

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a neuroscientist, psychologist, and author. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.com/lex and use code LEX to get free vitamin D3/K2

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#128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling
Oct. 2, 2020

#128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and …

Michael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, and author. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - SEMrush: https://www.semrush.com/partner/lex/ to get a free month of Guru - DoorDash: https://doordash.

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#127 – Joe Rogan: Conversations, Ideas, Love, Freedom & The Joe Rogan Experience
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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#126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing
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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#125 – Ryan Hall: Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Violence, Power, and Grace
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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#124 – Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe
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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#123 – Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness
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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#122 – David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering
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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Lex Solo #3 – In Memory of My Grandmother
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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#121 – Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion
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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Lex Solo #2 – The Future of Neuralink
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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#120 – François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence
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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#119 – David Eagleman: Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain
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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New Name: Lex Fridman Podcast
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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#118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown
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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#117 – Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning
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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#116 – Sara Seager: Search for Planets and Life Outside Our Solar System
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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#115 – Dileep George: Brain-Inspired AI
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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#114 – Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch
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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