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Lex Fridman Podcast — 497 episodes

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#497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln

2

#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

3

#495 – Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age

4

#494 – Jensen Huang: NVIDIA – The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution

5

#493 – Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming

6

#492 – Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music

7

#491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger

8

#490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI

9

#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

10

#488 – Infinity, Paradoxes that Broke Mathematics, Gödel Incompleteness & the Multiverse – Joel David Hamkins

11

#487 – Irving Finkel: Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations & Flood Myths

12

#486 – Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life

13

#485 – David Kirtley: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy

14

#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

15

#483 – Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex

16

#482 – Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature

17

#481 – Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA

18

#480 – Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park

19

#479 – Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories

20

#478 – Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex

21

#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

22

#475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games

23

#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

24

#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East

25

#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

26

#471 – Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet

27

#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

28

#469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain

29

#468 – Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions

30

#467 – Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming

31

#466 – Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China, Xi Jinping, Trade War, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mao

32

#465 – Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

33

#464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism

34

#463 – Douglas Murray: Putin, Zelenskyy, Trump, Israel, Netanyahu, Hamas & Gaza

35

#462 – Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson: Politics, Trump, AOC, Elon & DOGE

36

#461 – ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God

37

#460 – Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India – Power, Democracy, War & Peace

38

#459 – DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters

39

#458 – Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & Future of America

40

#457 – Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

41

#456 – Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom

42

#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

43

#454 – Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics

44

#453 – Javier Milei: President of Argentina – Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

45

#452 – Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity

46

#451 – Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

47

#450 – Bernie Sanders Interview

48

#449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History

49

#448 – Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning

50

#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

51

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

52

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

53

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

54

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

55

#442 – Donald Trump Interview

56

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

57

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

58

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

59

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

60

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

61

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

62

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

63

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

64

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

65

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

66

#431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI

67

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

68

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

69

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

70

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

71

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

72

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

73

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

74

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

75

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

76

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

77

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

78

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

79

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

80

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

81

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

82

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

83

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

84

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

85

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

86

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

87

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

88

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

89

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

90

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

91

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

92

#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin

93

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

94

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

95

#402 – Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special

96

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

97

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

98

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

99

#398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse

100

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

101

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

102

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

103

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

104

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

105

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

106

#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

107

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

108

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

109

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

110

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

111

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

112

#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

113

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

114

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

115

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

116

#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI

117

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

118

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

119

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

120

#377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

121

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

122

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

123

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

124

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

125

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

126

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

127

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

128

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

129

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

130

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

131

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

132

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

133

#364 – Chris Voss: FBI Hostage Negotiator

134

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

135

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

136

#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

137

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

138

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

139

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

140

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

141

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

142

#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds

143

#354 – Jeremi Suri: American Civil War

144

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

145

#352 – Omar Suleiman: Islam

146

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

147

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

148

#349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism

149

#348 – Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

150

#347 – Michael Malice: Christmas Special

151

#346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels

152

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

153

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

154

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

155

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

156

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

157

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

158

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

159

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

160

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

161

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

162

#335 – Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump

163

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

164

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

165

#332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview

166

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

167

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

168

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

169

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

170

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

171

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

172

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

173

#324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker

174

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

175

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

176

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

177

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

178

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

179

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

180

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

181

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

182

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

183

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

184

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

185

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

186

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

187

#310 – Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy

188

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

189

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

190

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

191

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

192

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

193

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

194

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

195

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

196

#301 – Jack Barsky: KGB Spy

197

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

198

#299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind

199

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

200

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

201

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

202

#295 – Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism

203

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

204

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

205

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

206

#291 – Jonathan Haidt: The Case Against Social Media

207

#290 – Dan Reynolds: Imagine Dragons

208

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

209

#288 – Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan

210

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

211

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

212

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

213

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

214

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

215

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

216

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

217

#280 – Cristiano Amon: Qualcomm CEO

218

#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin

219

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

220

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

221

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

222

#275 – Rick Rubin: Legendary Music Producer

223

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

224

#273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence

225

#272 – Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal

226

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

227

#270 – David Wolpe: Judaism

228

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

229

#268 – Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology

230

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

231

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

232

#265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling

233

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

234

#263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma

235

#262 – Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens

236

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

237

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

238

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

239

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

240

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

241

#256 – Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony

242

#255 – Mark Normand: Comedy!

243

#254 – Jay Bhattacharya: The Case Against Lockdowns

244

#253 – Michael Malice: New Year’s Special

245

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

246

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

247

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

248

#249 – Albert Bourla: Pfizer CEO

249

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

250

#247 – Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory

251

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

252

#245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling

253

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

254

#243 – Kevin Systrom: Instagram

255

#242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA

256

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

257

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

258

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

259

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

260

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

261

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

262

#235 – Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing

263

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

264

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

265

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

266

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

267

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

268

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

269

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

270

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

271

#226 – Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math

272

#225 – Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence

273

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

274

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

275

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

276

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

277

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

278

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

279

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

280

#217 – Rodney Brooks: Robotics

281

#216 – Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines

282

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

283

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

284

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

285

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

286

#211 – Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics

287

#210 – Matt Walker: Sleep

288

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

289

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

290

#207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength

291

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

292

#205 – Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running

293

#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory

294

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

295

#202 – Rick Doblin: Psychedelics

296

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

297

#200 – Michael Malice: Totalitarianism and Anarchy

298

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

299

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

300

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

301

#196 – Yeonmi Park: North Korea

302

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

303

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

304

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

305

#192 – Charles Hoskinson: Cardano

306

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

307

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

308

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

309

#188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0

310

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

311

#186 – Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces

312

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

313

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

314

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

315

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

316

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

317

#180 – Jeremi Suri: History of American Power

318

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

319

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

320

#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation

321

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

322

#175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy

323

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

324

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

325

#172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses

326

#171 – Anthony Pompliano: Bitcoin

327

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

328

#169 – Ryan Hall: Solving Martial Arts from First Principles

329

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

330

#167 – Saagar Enjeti: Politics, History, and Power

331

#166 – Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media

332

#165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts

333

#164 – Andrew Huberman: Sleep, Dreams, Creativity & the Limits of the Human Mind

334

#163 – Eric Weinstein: Difficult Conversations, Freedom of Speech, and Physics

335

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

336

#161 – Jason Calacanis: Startups, Angel Investing, Capitalism, and Friendship

337

#160 – Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave

338

#159 – Richard Craib: WallStreetBets, Numerai, and the Future of Stock Trading

339

#158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds

340

#157 – Natalya Bailey: Rocket Engines and Electric Spacecraft Propulsion

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