All Episodes

#200 – Michael Malice: Totalitarianism and Anarchy

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

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

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

#196 – Yeonmi Park: North Korea

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

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

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

#192 – Charles Hoskinson: Cardano

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

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

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

#188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0

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

#186 – Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces

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

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

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

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

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

#180 – Jeremi Suri: History of American Power

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

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

#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation

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

#175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy

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

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

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

#171 – Anthony Pompliano: Bitcoin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom

Lex Fridman: Ask Me Anything – AMA January 2021

#155 – Max Tegmark: AI and Physics

#154 – Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua

#153 – Dmitry Korkin: Evolution of Proteins, Viruses, Life, and AI

#152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions

#151 – Dan Kokotov: Speech Recognition with AI and Humans

#150 – Michael Malice: The White Pill, Freedom, Hope, and Happiness Amidst Chaos

#149 – Diana Walsh Pasulka: Aliens, Technology, Religion, and the Nature of Belief

#148 – Charles Isbell and Michael Littman: Machine Learning and Education

#147 – Dmitri Dolgov: Waymo and the Future of Self-Driving Cars

#146 – Michael Mina: Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset

#145 – Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics

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

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

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

#141 – Erik Brynjolfsson: Economics of AI, Social Networks, and Technology

#140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain

#139 – Andrew Huberman: Neuroscience of Optimal Performance

#138 – Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Objectivism

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

#136 – Dan Carlin: Hardcore History

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

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

#133 – Manolis Kellis: Biology of Disease

#132 – George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets

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

#130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lex Solo #3 – In Memory of My Grandmother

#121 – Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion

Lex Solo #2 – The Future of Neuralink

#120 – François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence

#119 – David Eagleman: Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain

New Name: Lex Fridman Podcast

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

#117 – Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning

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

#115 – Dileep George: Brain-Inspired AI

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

#113 – Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics

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

#111 – Richard Karp: Algorithms and Computational Complexity

#110 – Jitendra Malik: Computer Vision

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

#108 – Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning

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

#106 – Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind

#105 – Robert Langer: Edison of Medicine