Lex Fridman Podcast
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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#497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln
May 29, 2026
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#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet
May 6, 2026
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#495 – Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age
Apr 9, 2026
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#494 – Jensen Huang: NVIDIA – The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution
Mar 23, 2026
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#493 – Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming
Mar 11, 2026
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#492 – Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music
Mar 1, 2026
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#491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger
Feb 12, 2026
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#490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI
Feb 1, 2026
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#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle
Jan 13, 2026
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#488 – Infinity, Paradoxes that Broke Mathematics, Gödel Incompleteness & the Multiverse – Joel David Hamkins
Dec 31, 2025
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#487 – Irving Finkel: Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations & Flood Myths
Dec 12, 2025
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#486 – Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
Nov 30, 2025
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#485 – David Kirtley: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy
Nov 17, 2025
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#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
Oct 31, 2025
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#483 – Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex
Oct 14, 2025
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#482 – Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature
Oct 1, 2025
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#481 – Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
Sep 19, 2025
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#480 – Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park
Sep 4, 2025
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#479 – Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories
Aug 29, 2025
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#478 – Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex
Aug 24, 2025
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#477 – Keyu Jin: China’s Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism
Aug 13, 2025
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#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire
Aug 1, 2025
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#475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games
Jul 23, 2025
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#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting
Jul 12, 2025
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#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Jun 26, 2025
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#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI
Jun 15, 2025
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#471 – Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet
Jun 5, 2025
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#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles
May 24, 2025
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#469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain
May 20, 2025
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#468 – Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions
May 5, 2025
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#467 – Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming
Apr 30, 2025
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#466 – Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China, Xi Jinping, Trade War, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mao
Apr 24, 2025
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#465 – Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking
Apr 17, 2025
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#464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism
Apr 9, 2025
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#463 – Douglas Murray: Putin, Zelenskyy, Trump, Israel, Netanyahu, Hamas & Gaza
Mar 30, 2025
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#462 – Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson: Politics, Trump, AOC, Elon & DOGE
Mar 26, 2025
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#461 – ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God
Mar 22, 2025
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#460 – Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India – Power, Democracy, War & Peace
Mar 16, 2025
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#459 – DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters
Feb 3, 2025
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#458 – Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & Future of America
Jan 26, 2025
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#457 – Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom
Jan 19, 2025
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#456 – Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom
Jan 6, 2025
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#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Dec 22, 2024
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#454 – Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics
Dec 8, 2024
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#453 – Javier Milei: President of Argentina – Freedom, Economics, and Corruption
Nov 20, 2024
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#452 – Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity
Nov 11, 2024
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#451 – Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies
Oct 30, 2024
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#450 – Bernie Sanders Interview
Oct 23, 2024
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#449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History
Oct 16, 2024
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#448 – Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning
Oct 11, 2024
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#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI
Oct 6, 2024
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#446 – Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America
Sep 30, 2024
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#445 – Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War
Sep 25, 2024
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#444 – Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler
Sep 20, 2024
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#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome
Sep 12, 2024
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#442 – Donald Trump Interview
Sep 3, 2024
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#441 – Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism
Aug 30, 2024
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#440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life
Aug 20, 2024
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#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling
Aug 14, 2024
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#438 – Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity
Aug 2, 2024
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#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6
Jul 21, 2024
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#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life
Jul 2, 2024
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#435 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Controversy, Politics, and Relationships
Jun 28, 2024
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#434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet
Jun 19, 2024
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#433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens
Jun 13, 2024
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#432 – Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life
Jun 5, 2024
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#431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI
Jun 2, 2024
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#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories
May 25, 2024
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#429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God
May 15, 2024
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#428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens
Apr 22, 2024
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#427 – Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset
Apr 20, 2024
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#426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs
Apr 17, 2024
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#425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones
Apr 13, 2024
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#424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame
Apr 5, 2024
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#423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex
Apr 2, 2024
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#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs
Mar 29, 2024
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#421 – Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck
Mar 25, 2024
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#420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy
Mar 22, 2024
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#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI
Mar 18, 2024
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#418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris
Mar 14, 2024
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#417 – Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family
Mar 10, 2024
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#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI
Mar 7, 2024
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#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War
Mar 4, 2024
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#414 – Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom
Feb 27, 2024
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#413 – Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech
Feb 20, 2024
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#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics
Feb 16, 2024
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#411 – Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam
Feb 2, 2024
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#410 – Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism
Jan 23, 2024
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#409 – Matthew Cox: FBI Most Wanted Con Man – $55 Million in Bank Fraud
Jan 17, 2024
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#408 – Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen
Jan 9, 2024
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#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI
Dec 29, 2023
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#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness
Dec 24, 2023
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#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin
Dec 14, 2023
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#404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe
Dec 9, 2023
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#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events
Dec 3, 2023
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#402 – Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special
Nov 25, 2023
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#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3
Nov 18, 2023
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#400 – Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity
Nov 9, 2023
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#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
Oct 11, 2023
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#398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse
Sep 28, 2023
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#397 – Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
Sep 25, 2023
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#396 – James Sexton: Divorce Lawyer on Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Lies & Love
Sep 18, 2023
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#395 – Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin
Sep 10, 2023
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#394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
Sep 1, 2023
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#393 – Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, Sex, and Love
Aug 17, 2023
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#392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans
Aug 1, 2023
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#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine
Jul 24, 2023
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#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies
Jul 17, 2023
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Jul 12, 2023
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#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning
Jul 6, 2023
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#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God
Jun 30, 2023
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#386 – Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI
Jun 22, 2023
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#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia
Jun 18, 2023
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#384 – Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love
Jun 13, 2023
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#383 – Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
Jun 8, 2023
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#382 – Bert Kreischer: Comedy, Drinking, Rogan, Segura, Churchill & Kim Jong Un
Jun 5, 2023
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#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI
Jun 2, 2023
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#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication
May 28, 2023
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#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
May 24, 2023
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#378 – Anna Frebel: Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Galaxies, and Stars
May 18, 2023
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#377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech
May 16, 2023
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#376 – Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
May 9, 2023
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#375 – David Pakman: Politics of Trump, Biden, Bernie, AOC, Socialism & Wokeism
May 6, 2023
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#374 – Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics
Apr 28, 2023
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#373 – Manolis Kellis: Evolution of Human Civilization and Superintelligent AI
Apr 21, 2023
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#372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design
Apr 16, 2023
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#371 – Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development
Apr 13, 2023
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#370 – Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox – Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love
Apr 10, 2023
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#369 – Paul Rosolie: Amazon Jungle, Uncontacted Tribes, Anacondas, and Ayahuasca
Apr 4, 2023
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#368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization
Mar 30, 2023
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#367 – Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI
Mar 25, 2023
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#366 – Shannon Curry: Johnny Depp & Amber Heard Trial, Marriage, Dating & Love
Mar 21, 2023
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#365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
Mar 14, 2023
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#364 – Chris Voss: FBI Hostage Negotiator
Mar 10, 2023
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#363 – B-Team Jiu Jitsu: Craig Jones, Nicky Rod, and Nicky Ryan
Mar 6, 2023
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#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity
Mar 2, 2023
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#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology
Feb 25, 2023
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#360 – Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics
Feb 20, 2023
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#359 – Andrew Strominger: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and Theoretical Physics
Feb 15, 2023
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#358 – Aella: Sex Work, OnlyFans, Porn, Escorting, Dating, and Human Sexuality
Feb 10, 2023
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#357 – Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil
Feb 7, 2023
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#356 – Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel
Feb 2, 2023
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#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds
Jan 28, 2023
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#354 – Jeremi Suri: American Civil War
Jan 25, 2023
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#353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy
Jan 21, 2023
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#352 – Omar Suleiman: Islam
Jan 17, 2023
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#351 – MrBeast: Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram
Jan 11, 2023
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#350 – Betül Kaçar: Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens
Dec 29, 2022
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#349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism
Dec 22, 2022
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#348 – Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life
Dec 19, 2022
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#347 – Michael Malice: Christmas Special
Dec 15, 2022
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#346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels
Dec 12, 2022
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#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power
Dec 9, 2022
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#344 – Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation
Dec 6, 2022
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#343 – Roger Gracie: Greatest Jiu Jitsu Competitor of All Time
Dec 3, 2022
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#342 – Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield
Nov 29, 2022
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#341 – Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming
Nov 26, 2022
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#340 – Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road
Nov 22, 2022
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#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin
Nov 18, 2022
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#338 – Chamath Palihapitiya: Money, Success, Startups, Energy, Poker & Happiness
Nov 15, 2022
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#337 – Destiny: Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, War, and Relationships
Nov 11, 2022
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#336 – Ben Shapiro: Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler, Extremism, and War
Nov 7, 2022
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#335 – Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump
Nov 4, 2022
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#334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons
Nov 2, 2022
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#333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI
Oct 29, 2022
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#332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview
Oct 24, 2022
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#331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA
Oct 20, 2022
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#330 – Hikaru Nakamura: Chess, Magnus, Kasparov, and the Psychology of Greatness
Oct 17, 2022
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#329 – Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT
Oct 15, 2022
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#328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives
Oct 10, 2022
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#327 – GothamChess: Hans Niemann, Magnus Carlsen, Cheating Scandal & Chess Bots
Oct 7, 2022
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#326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality
Oct 5, 2022
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#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots
Oct 1, 2022
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#324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker
Sep 27, 2022
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#323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling
Sep 24, 2022
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#322 – Rana el Kaliouby: Emotion AI, Social Robots, and Self-Driving Cars
Sep 21, 2022
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#321 – Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality
Sep 17, 2022
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#320 – Christopher Capozzola: World War I, Ideology, Propaganda, and Politics
Sep 14, 2022
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#319 – Botez Sisters: Chess, Streaming, and Fame
Sep 9, 2022
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#318 – Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness
Sep 7, 2022
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#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom
Sep 4, 2022
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#316 – Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War
Aug 31, 2022
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#315 – Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time
Aug 27, 2022
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#314 – Liv Boeree: Poker, Game Theory, AI, Simulation, Aliens & Existential Risk
Aug 24, 2022
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#313 – Jordan Peterson: Life, Death, Power, Fame, and Meaning
Aug 19, 2022
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#312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man
Aug 16, 2022
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#311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity
Aug 13, 2022
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#310 – Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy
Aug 8, 2022
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#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets
Aug 4, 2022
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#308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens
Aug 1, 2022
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#307 – Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation
Jul 29, 2022
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#306 – Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence
Jul 26, 2022
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#305 – Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang
Jul 23, 2022
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#304 – Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church
Jul 20, 2022
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#303 – Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics
Jul 17, 2022
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#302 – Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences
Jul 14, 2022
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#301 – Jack Barsky: KGB Spy
Jul 9, 2022
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#300 – Joe Rogan: Comedy, Controversy, Aliens, UFOs, Putin, CIA, and Freedom
Jul 4, 2022
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#299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind
Jul 1, 2022
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#298 – Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts and Loneliness
Jun 28, 2022
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#297 – Jonathan Reisman: The Human Body – From Sex & Sperm to Hands & Heart
Jun 25, 2022
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#296 – Douglas Murray: Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West
Jun 21, 2022
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#295 – Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism
Jun 17, 2022
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#294 – Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, and Nest
Jun 15, 2022
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#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth
Jun 12, 2022
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#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity
Jun 9, 2022
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#291 – Jonathan Haidt: The Case Against Social Media
Jun 4, 2022
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#290 – Dan Reynolds: Imagine Dragons
May 30, 2022
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#289 – Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine
May 25, 2022
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#288 – Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan
May 23, 2022
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#287 – Bobby Lee: Comedy, Skyrim, Sex Robots, Love, Fame, and Power
May 20, 2022
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#286 – Oliver Stone: Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine
May 17, 2022
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#285 – Glenn Loury: Race, Racism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture
May 14, 2022
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#284 – Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics
May 11, 2022
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#283 – Chris Mason: Space Travel, Colonization, and Long-Term Survival in Space
May 8, 2022
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#282 – David Buss: Sex, Dating, Relationships, and Sex Differences
May 4, 2022
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#281 – Grimes: Music, AI, and the Future of Humanity
Apr 29, 2022
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#280 – Cristiano Amon: Qualcomm CEO
Apr 27, 2022
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#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin
Apr 24, 2022
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#278 – Skye Fitzgerald: Hunger, War, and Human Suffering
Apr 20, 2022
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#277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship
Apr 17, 2022
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#276 – Michael Saylor: Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money
Apr 14, 2022
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#275 – Rick Rubin: Legendary Music Producer
Apr 10, 2022
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#274 – Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry
Apr 7, 2022
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#273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence
Apr 3, 2022
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#272 – Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal
Mar 27, 2022
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#271 – Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures
Mar 23, 2022
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#270 – David Wolpe: Judaism
Mar 16, 2022
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#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness
Mar 11, 2022
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#268 – Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology
Mar 5, 2022
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#267 – Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse
Feb 26, 2022
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#266 – Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar
Feb 20, 2022
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#265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling
Feb 16, 2022
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#264 – Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity
Feb 13, 2022
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#263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma
Feb 11, 2022
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#262 – Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens
Feb 6, 2022
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#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind
Feb 3, 2022
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#260 – Georges St-Pierre, John Danaher & Gordon Ryan: The Greatest of All Time
Jan 30, 2022
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#259 – Thomas Tull: From Batman Dark Knight Trilogy to AI and the Rolling Stones
Jan 26, 2022
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#258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning
Jan 22, 2022
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#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize
Jan 18, 2022
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#256 – Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony
Jan 15, 2022
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#255 – Mark Normand: Comedy!
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