Lex Fridman - Season 5 / Year 2021

Season 5 / Year 2021
Episodes

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

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

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

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

#155 – Max Tegmark: AI and Physics

Lex Fridman: Ask Me Anything – AMA January 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#171 – Anthony Pompliano: Bitcoin

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

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

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

#175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy

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

#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation

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

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

#180 – Jeremi Suri: History of American Power

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

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

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

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

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

#186 – Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces

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

#188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0

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

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

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

#192 – Charles Hoskinson: Cardano

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

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

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

#196 – Yeonmi Park: North Korea

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

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

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

#200 – Michael Malice: Totalitarianism and Anarchy

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

#202 – Rick Doblin: Psychedelics

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

#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory

#205 – Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running

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

#207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength

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

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

#210 – Matt Walker: Sleep

#211 – Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics

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

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

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

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

#216 – Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines

#217 – Rodney Brooks: Robotics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#225 – Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence

#226 – Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#235 – Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing

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

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

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

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

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

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

#242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA

#243 – Kevin Systrom: Instagram

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

#245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling

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

#247 – Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory

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

#249 – Albert Bourla: Pfizer CEO

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

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

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

#253 – Michael Malice: New Year's Special
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