Lex Fridman Podcast

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Conversations about science, technology, history, philosophy and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power. Lex is an AI researcher at MIT and beyond.
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33
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8/29/2025
8 days ago
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Medium
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Recent episodes

TitleRelease DateInsights
#479 – Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories8/29/20253
#478 – Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex8/24/20250
#477 – Keyu Jin: China’s Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism8/13/20253
#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire8/1/20250
#475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games7/23/20259
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting7/12/20250
#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East6/26/20255
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI6/15/20255
#471 – Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet6/5/20259
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles5/24/20252
#469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain5/20/20259
#468 – Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions5/5/20252
#467 – Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming4/30/20250
#466 – Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China, Xi Jinping, Trade War, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mao4/24/20255
#465 – Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking4/17/20250
#464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism4/9/20255
#463 – Douglas Murray: Putin, Zelenskyy, Trump, Israel, Netanyahu, Hamas & Gaza3/30/20253
#462 – Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson: Politics, Trump, AOC, Elon & DOGE3/26/20259
#461 – ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God3/22/20252
#460 – Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India – Power, Democracy, War & Peace3/16/20254
#459 – DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters2/3/20250
#458 – Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & Future of America1/26/20250
#457 – Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom1/19/20253
#456 – Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom1/6/20257
#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life12/22/20244
#454 – Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics12/8/20249
#453 – Javier Milei: President of Argentina – Freedom, Economics, and Corruption11/20/20246
#452 – Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity11/11/20245
#451 – Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies10/30/20244
#450 – Bernie Sanders Interview10/23/20245
#449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History10/16/20242
#448 – Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning10/11/20243
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI10/6/20244
#446 – Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America9/30/20243
#445 – Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War9/25/20248
#444 – Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler9/20/20242
#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome9/12/20241
#442 – Donald Trump Interview9/3/20244
#441 – Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism8/30/20247
#438 – Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity8/2/20246
#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 67/21/20240
#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life7/2/20240
#435 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Controversy, Politics, and Relationships6/28/20240
#434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet6/19/20240
#433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens6/13/20240
#432 – Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life6/5/20240
#431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI6/2/20240
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories5/25/20240
#429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God5/15/20240
#428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens4/22/20240
#427 – Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset4/20/20240
#426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs4/17/20240
#425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones4/13/20240
#424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame4/5/20240
#423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex4/2/20240
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs3/29/20240
#421 – Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck3/25/20240
#420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy3/22/20240
#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI3/18/20240
#418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris3/14/20240
#417 – Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family3/10/20240
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI3/7/20240
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War3/4/20240
#414 – Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom2/27/20240
#413 – Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech2/20/20240
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics2/16/20240
#411 – Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam2/2/20240
#410 – Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism1/23/20240
#409 – Matthew Cox: FBI Most Wanted Con Man – $55 Million in Bank Fraud1/17/20240
#408 – Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen1/9/20240
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI12/29/20230
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness12/24/20230
#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin12/14/20230
#404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe12/9/20230
#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events12/3/20230
#402 – Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special11/25/20230
#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW311/18/20230
#400 – Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity11/9/20230
#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East10/11/20230
#398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse9/28/20230
#397 – Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech9/25/20230
#396 – James Sexton: Divorce Lawyer on Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Lies & Love9/18/20230
#395 – Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin9/10/20230
#394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature9/1/20230
#393 – Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, Sex, and Love8/17/20230
#392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans8/1/20230
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine7/24/20230
#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies7/17/20230
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace7/12/20230
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning7/6/20230
#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God6/30/20230
#386 – Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI6/22/20230
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia6/18/20230
#384 – Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love6/13/20230
#383 – Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp6/8/20230
#382 – Bert Kreischer: Comedy, Drinking, Rogan, Segura, Churchill & Kim Jong Un6/5/20230
#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI6/2/20230
#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication5/28/20230
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power5/24/20230
#378 – Anna Frebel: Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Galaxies, and Stars5/18/20230
#377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech5/16/20230
#376 – Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation5/9/20230
#375 – David Pakman: Politics of Trump, Biden, Bernie, AOC, Socialism & Wokeism5/6/20230
#374 – Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics4/28/20230
#373 – Manolis Kellis: Evolution of Human Civilization and Superintelligent AI4/21/20230
#372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design4/16/20230
#371 – Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development4/13/20230
#370 – Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox – Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love4/10/20230
#369 – Paul Rosolie: Amazon Jungle, Uncontacted Tribes, Anacondas, and Ayahuasca4/4/20230
#368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization3/30/20230
#367 – Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI3/25/20230
#366 – Shannon Curry: Johnny Depp & Amber Heard Trial, Marriage, Dating & Love3/21/20230
#365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs3/14/20230
#364 – Chris Voss: FBI Hostage Negotiator3/10/20230
#363 – B-Team Jiu Jitsu: Craig Jones, Nicky Rod, and Nicky Ryan3/6/20230
#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity3/2/20230
#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology2/25/20230
#360 – Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics2/20/20230
#359 – Andrew Strominger: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and Theoretical Physics2/15/20230
#358 – Aella: Sex Work, OnlyFans, Porn, Escorting, Dating, and Human Sexuality2/10/20230
#357 – Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil2/7/20230
#356 – Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel2/2/20230
#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds1/28/20230
#354 – Jeremi Suri: American Civil War1/25/20230
#353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy1/21/20230
#352 – Omar Suleiman: Islam1/17/20230
#351 – MrBeast: Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram1/11/20230
#350 – Betül Kaçar: Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens12/29/20220
#349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism12/22/20220
#348 – Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life12/19/20220
#347 – Michael Malice: Christmas Special12/15/20220
#346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels12/12/20220
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power12/9/20220
#344 – Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation12/6/20220
#343 – Roger Gracie: Greatest Jiu Jitsu Competitor of All Time12/3/20220
#342 – Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield11/29/20220
#341 – Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming11/26/20220
#340 – Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road11/22/20220
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin11/18/20220
#338 – Chamath Palihapitiya: Money, Success, Startups, Energy, Poker & Happiness11/15/20220
#337 – Destiny: Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, War, and Relationships11/11/20220
#336 – Ben Shapiro: Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler, Extremism, and War11/7/20220
#335 – Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump11/4/20220
#334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons11/2/20220
#333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI10/29/20220
#332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview10/24/20220
#331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA10/20/20220
#330 – Hikaru Nakamura: Chess, Magnus, Kasparov, and the Psychology of Greatness10/17/20220
#329 – Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT10/15/20220
#328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives10/10/20220
#327 – GothamChess: Hans Niemann, Magnus Carlsen, Cheating Scandal & Chess Bots10/7/20220
#326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality10/5/20220
#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots10/1/20220
#324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker9/27/20220
#323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling9/24/20220
#322 – Rana el Kaliouby: Emotion AI, Social Robots, and Self-Driving Cars9/21/20220
#321 – Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality9/17/20220
#320 – Christopher Capozzola: World War I, Ideology, Propaganda, and Politics9/14/20220
#319 – Botez Sisters: Chess, Streaming, and Fame9/9/20220
#318 – Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness9/7/20220
#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom9/4/20220
#316 – Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War8/31/20220
#315 – Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time8/27/20220
#314 – Liv Boeree: Poker, Game Theory, AI, Simulation, Aliens & Existential Risk8/24/20220
#313 – Jordan Peterson: Life, Death, Power, Fame, and Meaning8/19/20220
#312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man8/16/20220
#311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity8/13/20220
#310 – Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy8/8/20220
#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets8/4/20220
#308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens8/1/20220
#307 – Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation7/29/20220
#306 – Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence7/26/20220
#305 – Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang7/23/20220
#304 – Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church7/20/20220
#303 – Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics7/17/20220
#302 – Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences7/14/20220
#301 – Jack Barsky: KGB Spy7/9/20220
#300 – Joe Rogan: Comedy, Controversy, Aliens, UFOs, Putin, CIA, and Freedom7/4/20220
#299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind7/1/20220
#298 – Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts and Loneliness6/28/20220
#297 – Jonathan Reisman: The Human Body – From Sex & Sperm to Hands & Heart6/25/20220
#296 – Douglas Murray: Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West6/21/20220
#295 – Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism6/17/20220
#294 – Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, and Nest6/15/20220
#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth6/12/20220
#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity6/9/20220
#291 – Jonathan Haidt: The Case Against Social Media6/4/20220
#290 – Dan Reynolds: Imagine Dragons5/30/20220
#289 – Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine5/25/20220
#288 – Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan5/23/20220
#287 – Bobby Lee: Comedy, Skyrim, Sex Robots, Love, Fame, and Power5/20/20220
#286 – Oliver Stone: Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine5/17/20220
#285 – Glenn Loury: Race, Racism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture5/14/20220
#284 – Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics5/11/20220
#283 – Chris Mason: Space Travel, Colonization, and Long-Term Survival in Space5/8/20220
#282 – David Buss: Sex, Dating, Relationships, and Sex Differences5/4/20220
#281 – Grimes: Music, AI, and the Future of Humanity4/29/20220
#280 – Cristiano Amon: Qualcomm CEO4/27/20220
#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin4/24/20220
#278 – Skye Fitzgerald: Hunger, War, and Human Suffering4/20/20220
#277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship4/17/20220
#276 – Michael Saylor: Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money4/14/20220
#275 – Rick Rubin: Legendary Music Producer4/10/20220
#274 – Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry4/7/20220
#273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence4/3/20220
#272 – Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal3/27/20220
#271 – Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures3/23/20220
#270 – David Wolpe: Judaism3/16/20220
#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness3/11/20220
#268 – Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology3/5/20220
#267 – Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse2/26/20220
#266 – Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar2/20/20220
#265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling2/16/20220
#264 – Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity2/13/20220
#263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma2/11/20220
#262 – Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens2/6/20220
#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind2/3/20220
#260 – Georges St-Pierre, John Danaher & Gordon Ryan: The Greatest of All Time1/30/20220
#259 – Thomas Tull: From Batman Dark Knight Trilogy to AI and the Rolling Stones1/26/20220
#258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning1/22/20220
#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize1/18/20220
#256 – Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony1/15/20220
#255 – Mark Normand: Comedy!1/8/20220
#254 – Jay Bhattacharya: The Case Against Lockdowns1/4/20220
#253 – Michael Malice: New Year’s Special12/31/20210
#252 – Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI12/28/20210
#251 – Ray Dalio: Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires12/25/20210
#250 – Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality12/23/20210
#249 – Albert Bourla: Pfizer CEO12/18/20210
#248 – Norman Naimark: Genocide, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Absolute Power12/13/20210
#247 – Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory12/8/20210
#246 – Peter Woit: Theories of Everything and Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong12/3/20210
#245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling11/30/20210
#244 – Robert Crews: Afghanistan, Taliban, Bin Laden, and War in the Middle East11/28/20210
#243 – Kevin Systrom: Instagram11/23/20210
#242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA11/20/20210
#241 – Boris Sofman: Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Robotics11/16/20210
#240 – Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity11/11/20210
#239 – Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth11/8/20210
#238 – Francis Collins: National Institutes of Health (NIH)11/5/20210
#237 – Steve Viscelli: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream11/3/20210
#236 – Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions10/31/20210
#235 – Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing10/29/20210
#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality10/27/20210
#233 – Carl Hart: Heroin, Cocaine, MDMA, Alcohol & the Role of Drugs in Society10/23/20210
#232 – Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, Big Bang, Aliens, Life, Death, and Meaning10/20/20210
#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights10/16/20210
#230 – Kelsi Sheren: War, Artillery, PTSD, and Love10/14/20210
#229 – Richard Wrangham: Role of Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution10/10/20210
#228 – RZA: Wu-Tang Clan, Kung Fu, Chess, God, Life, and Death10/5/20210
#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning9/30/20210
#226 – Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math9/27/20210
#225 – Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence9/26/20210
#224 – Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming9/23/20210
#223 – Travis Stevens: Judo, Olympics, and Mental Toughness9/21/20210
#222 – Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition9/20/20210
#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI9/15/20210
#220 – Niels Jorgensen: New York Firefighters and the Heroes of 9/119/11/20210
#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life9/9/20210
#218 – Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media & the Future of Humans and AI9/6/20210
#217 – Rodney Brooks: Robotics9/3/20210
#216 – Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines9/1/20210
#215 – Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI8/29/20210
#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science8/27/20210
#213 – Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built8/23/20210
#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness8/21/20210
#211 – Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics8/15/20210
#210 – Matt Walker: Sleep8/11/20210
#209 – Luís and João Batalha: Fermat’s Library and the Art of Studying Papers8/9/20210
#208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence8/8/20210
#207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength8/3/20210
#206 – Ishan Misra: Self-Supervised Deep Learning in Computer Vision7/31/20210
#205 – Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running7/29/20210
#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory7/26/20210
#203 – Anya Fernald: Regenerative Farming and the Art of Cooking Meat7/23/20210
#202 – Rick Doblin: Psychedelics7/21/20210
#201 – Konstantin Batygin: Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System7/19/20210
#200 – Michael Malice: Totalitarianism and Anarchy7/15/20210
#199 – Roger Reaves: Smuggling Drugs for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel7/11/20210
#198 – Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds7/9/20210
#197 – Jocko Willink: War, Leadership, and Discipline7/5/20210
#196 – Yeonmi Park: North Korea7/1/20210
#195 – Clara Sousa-Silva: Searching for Signs of Life on Venus and Other Planets6/28/20210
#194 – Bret Weinstein: Truth, Science, and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic6/25/20210
#193 – Rob Reid: The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses and Lab Leaks6/21/20210
#192 – Charles Hoskinson: Cardano6/16/20210
#191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction6/14/20210
#190 – Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries6/13/20210
#189 – David Sinclair: Extending the Human Lifespan Beyond 100 Years6/7/20210
#188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.06/3/20210
#187 – Frank Wilczek: Physics of Quarks, Dark Matter, Complexity, Life & Aliens5/29/20210
#186 – Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces5/24/20210
#185 – Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning5/20/20210
#184 – Katherine de Kleer: Planets, Moons, and Asteroids in Our Solar System5/17/20210
#183 – Po-Shen Loh: Mathematics, Math Olympiad, Combinatorics & Contact Tracing5/14/20210
#182 – John Danaher: The Path to Mastery in Jiu Jitsu, Grappling, Judo, and MMA5/9/20210
#181 – Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks5/1/20210
#180 – Jeremi Suri: History of American Power4/30/20210
#179 – Georges St-Pierre: The Science of Fighting4/26/20210
#178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy4/24/20210
#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation4/19/20210
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