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Elon Musk: Treat All Input as Error | AI Podcast Clips
2019-09-11T17:23:10
So the magic of deep learning is that it gets better with data, you said there's a huge inflow of data, but the thing about driving, the really valuable data to learn from is the edge cases. So how do you, I mean I've heard you talk somewhere about autopilot disengagement being an important moment of time to use. Is t...
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Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #308
2022-08-01T16:06:40
How are these interacting with our fighters if they are? How are they interacting with the weather and their environment? How are they interacting with each other? So can we look at these and how they're acting perhaps as a swarm, especially off the East Coast where this is happening all the time with multiple objects...
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Impostor Syndrome - Pave Your Own Path | AMA #4 - Ask Me Anything with Lex Fridman
2020-03-02T18:25:50
A couple of related questions on imposter syndrome, self-doubt in general. Mike asks, I'd love it if you could talk about imposter syndrome. Grateful for all you're doing. And a fist, like a fist bump emoji. Thanks Mike. That could be one of my favorite emojis. I didn't know that existed. I love it. Okay. Iwegzi asks,...
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Christopher Capozzola: World War I, Ideology, Propaganda, and Politics | Lex Fridman Podcast #320
2022-09-14T18:15:51
The lesson I would want everyone to take from the story of the First World War is that human life is not cheap. That all of the warring powers thought that just by throwing more men and more material at the front, they would solve their political problems with military force. And at the end of the day in 1918, one sid...
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Elon Musk: What's Outside the Simulation? | AI Podcast Clips
2019-08-16T13:38:03
So when maybe you or somebody else creates an AGI system and you get to ask her one question, what would that question be? What's outside the simulation? And then this impression occurred.
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Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences | Lex Fridman Podcast #302
2022-07-14T16:05:12
Let me ask you to this question, whether it's bell curve or any research on race differences, can that be used to increase the amount of racism in the world? Can that be used to increase the amount of hate in the world? My sense is there is such enormous reservoirs of hate and racism that have nothing to do with scien...
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Demis Hassabis: DeepMind - AI, Superintelligence & the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #299
2022-07-01T10:15:45
The following is a conversation with Demis Hassabis, CEO and co-founder of DeepMind, a company that has published and built some of the most incredible artificial intelligence systems in the history of computing, including AlphaZero that learned all by itself to play the game of Go better than any human in the world a...
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Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War | Lex Fridman Podcast #316
2022-08-31T20:39:41
Will there be a war between US and China in the 21st century? If there is, we're finished. A war between the US and China would destroy the possibilities of organized life on Earth. The following is a conversation with Noam Chomsky, his second time on the podcast. This episode is focused on the war in Ukraine. And it ...
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Sean Carroll: Experimental Validation of Quantum Mechanics Interpretations and Emergent Spacetime
2019-12-10T14:29:48
Even outside of quantum computers, some of the theories that we've been talking about, what's your hope, what's most promising to test these theories? What are kind of experiments we can conduct, whether in simulation or in the physical world, that would validate or disprove or expand these theories? Well, I think the...
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I'm Most Proud of Trying - Eric Weinstein | AI Podcast Clips
2020-04-15T14:00:41
Do you think about your own mortality? Death? Sure. Are you afraid of death? Well, I released a theory during something that can kill older people, sure. Oh, is there a little bit of a parallel there? Of course, of course. I don't want it to die with me. What do you hope your legacy is? Oh, I hope my legacy is accurat...
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Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry | Lex Fridman Podcast #274
2022-04-07T16:51:38
Where are the darkest places you've ever gone in your life? The following is a conversation with Carl Deisseroth, professor of bioengineering, psychiatry, and behavioral sciences at Stanford University. He's one of the greatest living psychiatrists and neuroscientists in the world. He's also just a fascinating human b...
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Jack Barsky: KGB Spy | Lex Fridman Podcast #301
2022-07-09T16:02:12
something happened where they forced my hand. And this is the only time that a Soviet agent was anywhere near me on the territory of the United States. So I'm waiting for the A train on a dark morning still in Queens and there's this man in a black trench coat comes up to me from my right and he whispers into my ears,...
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Deep Learning: Advice on Getting Started with fast.ai - Jeremy Howard | AI Podcast Clips
2019-08-28T18:24:35
So what advice do you have for someone who wants to get started in deep learning? Train lots of models. That's how you learn it. So like, so I would, you know, I think, it's not just me, I think our course is very good, but also lots of people independently. It's very good, it recently won the COGX award for AI course...
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Rick Rubin: Legendary Music Producer | Lex Fridman Podcast #275
2022-04-10T16:49:08
There are no right answers for anything involved in art. We're all trying experiments to find a way. And even for the things that I work on, I don't have a set way that I do anything. Every, I come to every project blank. Maybe you're just a meat vehicle and you're channeling ideas from somewhere else. I believe we kn...
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Douglas Murray: Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West | Lex Fridman Podcast #296
2022-06-21T12:40:02
I think that some people are deliberately trying to completely clear the cultural landscape of our past in order to say there's nothing good, nothing you can hold on to, no one you should revere, you've got no heroes, the whole thing comes down, who's left standing? Oh, we've also got this idea from the 20th century s...
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Shannon Curry: Johnny Depp & Amber Heard Trial, Marriage, Dating & Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #366
2023-03-21T23:00:36
So contempt is criticism on steroids. This is what John Gottman calls sulfuric acid for love. Nothing will erode a relationship quicker than contempt. Contempt is when you are looking at your partner from a superior position. So you are eye-rolling, you are name-calling, there's a mockery, mocking, even physical mocke...
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Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, Nest, Steve Jobs, Design, and Engineering | Lex Fridman Podcast #294
2022-06-15T18:55:14
It wasn't just a one-on-one, it could be Steve against the team going, we need glass instead of plastic on the front face of the iPhone, and we're going to do this. And we're like, God, you know, and so we did it. And he pushed us because he didn't know all the details, but he could see in our minds that we're like, y...
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C Programming Language | Brian Kernighan and Lex Fridman
2020-07-19T13:15:00
So what's to you, so you wrote a book, C Programming Language, and C is probably one of the most important languages in the history of programming languages, if you kind of look at impact. What do you think is the most elegant or powerful part of C? Why did it survive? Why did it have such a long-lasting impact? I thi...
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GPT-3 vs Human Brain
2020-08-01T17:05:23
The human brain is at least 100 trillion synapses, and it could be as high as 1,000 trillion. And a synapse is a channel connected to neurons through which an electrical or chemical signal is transferred, and is the loose inspiration for the synapses, weights, parameters of an artificial neural network. GPT-3, the rec...
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Michael Malice: Christmas Special | Lex Fridman Podcast #347
2022-12-15T20:24:37
The following is a conversation with Michael Malice. This is a special holiday episode, and it is made extra special because it's announcing the release of Michael's new book called The White Pill, A Tale of Good and Evil. Michael and I disagree on a lot of ideas in politics and philosophy, and we have a lot of fun di...
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Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship | Lex Fridman Podcast #277
2022-04-17T17:58:11
If you get into the sauna the way I just described, not the two hours a day, but 30 minutes, twice a week or three times per week, you reduce the likelihood of dying of a cardiovascular event by 27%. If you do it four or more times per week, you reduce the probability of dying by 50%. Is there any scientific evidence ...
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Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road | Lex Fridman Podcast #340
2022-11-22T17:23:09
You could buy literally whatever else you wanted. You could host things, drugs. You could buy heroin right from Afghanistan, the good stuff. Hacking tools, you could hack for hire. You could buy murders for hire. The following is a conversation with Chris Tarbell, a former FBI special agent and cyber crime specialist ...
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Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons | Lex Fridman Podcast #334
2022-11-02T17:23:20
This is not a nice Islamic fatherly regime. Clear signs of fascism, clear signs of the state's control and pay any price to stay in power. So even violence. Extreme violence. The following is a conversation with Abbas Aminat, a historian at Yale University specializing in the modern history of Iran. My love and my hea...
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John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets | Lex Fridman Podcast #309
2022-08-04T17:02:16
I remember the reaction where he had drawn these characters and he was slowly moving around and like people had no experience with 3D navigation. It was all still keyboard. We didn't even have mice set up at that time, but slowly moving, going up, picked up a key, go to a wall, the wall disappears in a little animatio...
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Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power | Lex Fridman Podcast #345
2022-12-09T02:24:56
Do you think he is incompetent, insane, or evil? The following is a conversation with Coffee Zilla, an investigator and journalist exposing frauds, scams, and fake gurus. He's one of the most important journalistic voices we have working today, both in terms of his integrity and fearlessness in the pursuit of truth. P...
https://youtu.be/hi9Rf0oLdHk
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Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism | Lex Fridman Podcast #295
2022-06-17T16:26:15
Slaves produce a surplus which the master gets. Serfs produce a surplus which the Lord gets. Employees produce a surplus which the employer gets. It's very simple. These are exploitative class structures because one class produces a surplus appropriated, distributed by another group of people, not the ones who produce...
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Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels | Lex Fridman Podcast #346
2022-12-12T17:09:39
When it's quiet, that's when it hits you. That's what I think that's what a lot of people experience when they come back from a conflict zone. You know, everything that was life and death, everything that mattered, all the noise, all the chaos, all the people that are around you that would die for you, kill for you, y...
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B-Team Jiu Jitsu: Craig Jones, Nicky Rod, and Nicky Ryan | Lex Fridman Podcast #363
2023-03-06T18:32:56
How would a kangaroo attack a human? Knock them down, and then they choke them. Do the kangaroos do? They choke each other, yeah. They don't choke each other. You don't believe me? You wanna watch a video? They choke each other out. I've seen this, yeah. I mean, probably the most annoying one was obviously the one whe...
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Roger Gracie: Greatest Jiu Jitsu Competitor of All Time | Lex Fridman Podcast #343
2022-12-03T17:09:30
In my mind, I have to tap everybody else. Winning is not enough. The following is a conversation with Hodger Gracie, widely considered to be the greatest jiu-jitsu competitor of all time. This is the Lex Friedman Podcast. To support it, please check out our sponsors in the description. And now, dear friends, here's Ho...
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Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil | Lex Fridman Podcast #357
2023-02-07T17:03:54
Narcissism is not arrogance. Narcissism is the opposite of arrogance. There is such a deep sense of inadequacy and incompetence in the self that the defensive structure around that becomes dominated by rocket-fueled envy. The following is a conversation with Paul Conti, a psychiatrist and a brilliant scholar of human ...
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Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics | Lex Fridman Podcast #303
2022-07-17T13:58:34
The real foundation of Marx's political philosophy was the economic argument that there would be a tendency for the rate of profit to fall. And that tendency for the rate of profit to fall would lead to capitalists battening down on workers harder, paying them less than the subsistence, a revolt by workers against thi...
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Leonard Susskind: Black Hole Image is Astonishing | AI Podcast Clips
2019-09-27T16:53:11
So what do you think of the recent first image of a black hole visualized from the Event Horizon Telescope? It's an incredible triumph of science. In itself, the fact that there are black holes which collide is not a surprise. And they seem to work exactly the way they're supposed to work. Will we learn a great deal f...
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Chamath Palihapitiya: Money, Success, Startups, Energy, Poker & Happiness | Lex Fridman Podcast #338
2022-11-15T16:56:46
In terms of your mistakes, society tells you don't make them, because we will judge you and we will look down on you. And I think the really successful people realize that actually, no, it's the cycle time of mistakes that gets you to success, because your error rate will diminish the more mistakes that you make. You ...
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Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #333
2022-10-29T16:37:23
I think it's possible that physics has exploits and we should be trying to find them. Arranging some kind of a crazy quantum mechanical system that somehow gives you buffer overflow, somehow gives you a rounding error in the floating point. Synthetic intelligences are kind of like the next stage of development. And I ...
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Joe Rogan gifts Lex Fridman his favorite watch
2022-02-10T02:41:18
Take this, that's yours now. That's an Omega. And that has a moon phase. See that moon on the bottom of it? That's yours. You see the moon on the bottom of it? You see that? This is a happy man right now. That's my watch. That's my favorite watch, by the way. You see the moon on the bottom of it? Yep. That is the actu...
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Gilbert Strang: Why People Like Math
2019-11-28T13:36:48
On YouTube, just consuming a bunch of videos and just watching what people connect with and what they really enjoy and are inspired by, math seems to come up again and again. I'm trying to understand why that is. Perhaps you can help give me clues. So it's not just the kinds of lectures that you give, but it's also ju...
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Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #341
2022-11-26T16:23:48
Can you imagine possible features that Python 4.0 might have that would necessitate the creation of the new 4.0? Given the amount of pain and joy, suffering and triumph that was involved in the move between version two and version three. The following is a conversation with Guido van Rossum, his second time on this po...
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Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump | Lex Fridman Podcast #335
2022-11-04T16:09:32
We've got to have strategic empathy about Putin as well. We've got to understand how the guy thinks and why he thinks like he does. You know, he has got his own context and his own frame and his own rationale. And he is rational. He is a rational actor in his own context. We've got to understand that. We've got to und...
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Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel | Lex Fridman Podcast #356
2023-02-02T17:33:01
And the nozzle, so as you're saying, there's a bunch of different design options, but it's a critical part of this, how you do that conversion. Which is what the inverters- It's basically like how much can you convert, is really like the ultimate game. How much pressure and heat can we convert into thrust? Like that's...
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Jim Gates: What is Supersymmetry? | AI Podcast Clips
2019-12-26T16:00:15
Some of the fascinating work you've done is in the space of supersymmetry, symmetry in general. Can you describe first of all what is supersymmetry? Ah yes, so you remember the two buckets I told you about perhaps earlier, so there are two buckets in our universe. So now I want you to think about drawing a pie that ha...
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Grimes: Music, AI, and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #281
2022-04-29T18:21:58
we are becoming cyborgs. Like, our brains are fundamentally changed. Everyone who grew up with electronics, we are fundamentally different from previous, from homo sapiens. I call us homo techno. I think we have evolved into homo techno, which is like essentially a new species. Previous technologies, I mean, may have ...
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Gilbert Strang: Singular Value Decomposition
2019-11-28T13:36:48
So what concept or theorem in linear algebra or in math you find most beautiful that gives you pause that leaves you in awe? Well, I'll stick with linear algebra here. I hope the viewer knows that really mathematics is amazing, amazing subject and deep, deep connections between ideas that didn't look connected. They t...
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Ben Shapiro: Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler, Extremism, and War | Lex Fridman Podcast #336
2022-11-07T15:50:54
The great lie we tell ourselves is that people who are evil are not like us. They're a class apart. Everybody in history who has sinned is a person who's very different from me. Robert George, the philosopher over at Princeton, he's fond of doing a sort of thought experiment in his classes where he asks people to rais...
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Omar Suleiman: Islam | Lex Fridman Podcast #352
2023-01-17T17:33:56
So the BBC reached out and said, we want to interview you. And he said, we've got this idea. We want to take you to a park and have you meet one of the protesters who's been wielding his gun outside your mosque and talk to him. It was really interesting because they'd interviewed him before meeting me. And the things ...
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Skye Fitzgerald: Hunger, War, and Human Suffering | Lex Fridman Podcast #278
2022-04-20T22:25:18
we would come up to these rafts and these boats that were in really dire shape, and people would be pushed off, and people would jump off, and people would fall into the water, and some of them couldn't swim. And so we found ourselves in this moment where we had a choice. We could film someone drown in front of us, or...
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Jack Dorsey: Yang Gang Forever | AI Podcast Clips
2020-04-25T14:26:07
What are your thoughts, sticking on artificial intelligence a little bit, about the displacement of jobs? That's another perspective that candidates like Andrew Yang talk about. Yang Gang forever. Yang Gang. So he unfortunately, speaking of Yang Gang, has recently dropped out. I know, it was very disappointing and dep...
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Liv Boeree: Poker, Game Theory, AI, Simulation, Aliens & Existential Risk | Lex Fridman Podcast #314
2022-08-24T16:31:32
evolutionarily, if we see a lion running at us, we didn't have time to calculate the lion's kinetic energy and is it optimal to go this way or that way. You just reacted. Physically, our bodies are well attuned to actually make right decisions. But when you're playing a game like poker, this is not something that you ...
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Sean Carroll: Difference Between Math and Physics | AI Podcast Clips
2019-11-02T14:36:50
What's the difference between math and physics to you? To me, you know, very, very roughly, math is about the logical structure of all possible worlds and physics is about our actual world. And it just feels like our actual world is a gray area when you start talking about interpretations of quantum mechanics or no. I...
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Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #311
2022-08-13T15:31:11
You have to have the free markets in order to build prosperity. And prosperity means economic power. If you have economic power, no one messes with you. Or if they're gonna do it, they're gonna have to think twice. And when they do, they're gonna have to pay consequences. The following is a conversation with Magat Wad...
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John Danaher: Grappling, Jiu Jitsu, ADCC, and Animal Combat | Lex Fridman Podcast #328
2022-10-10T17:56:08
A male chimp is more than enough to kill any human on the planet, including Gordon Ryan. So Gordon Ryan fighting a chimp, a good-sized... Dead. No, a thousand times. How many times does he win? He loses a thousand times. It's not even competitive. It's not even remotely competitive. Do you think he will disagree? No. ...
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Michio Kaku: The Mind of Einstein's God | AI Podcast Clips
2019-10-25T14:43:03
What do you think is the mind of Einstein's God? Do you think there's a why that we could untangle from this universe of strings? Why are we here? What is the meaning of it all? Well, Steven Weinberg, winner of the Nobel Prize, once said that the more we learn about the universe, the more we learn that it's pointless....
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Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin | Lex Fridman Podcast #339
2022-11-18T16:55:57
people all around the world, their lives are basically dependent on fossil fuels. And so the idea that we're going to get people off by making it so expensive that it becomes impossible for them to live good lives is almost morally reprehensible. People who have the most basic science literacy, like who know the most ...
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Botez Sisters: Chess, Streaming, and Fame | Lex Fridman Podcast #319
2022-09-09T14:11:58
I mean, I've definitely experienced moments where I didn't want to do anything but chess. I'd also say that's pretty universal. I think if you want to be the best at anything you do or any sport, you have to be that level of obsessed. The following is a conversation with Alexandra and Andrea Botez. They're sisters, pr...
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Destiny: Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, War, and Relationships | Lex Fridman Podcast #337
2022-11-11T17:23:48
If you have a democratic style of governance, you are entrusting people with one of the most awesome and radical of responsibilities. And that's saying that you're going to pick the people that are going to make some of the hardest decisions in all of human history. If you're going to trust people to vote correctly, y...
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Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics | Lex Fridman Podcast #360
2023-02-20T20:17:54
A radical political movement, of which there will always be a lot in the country, has managed to do something that a radical movement is not supposed to be able to do in the US, which is they've managed to hijack institutions all across the country, and hijack medical journals, and universities, and the ACLU, all the ...
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Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan, Fraud, Prison, and Sociopathy | Lex Fridman Podcast #288
2022-05-23T17:37:59
He made me think that everything was going to be reversed and okay, and anybody that money was borrowed from, they would get it back maybe tenfold. It was this weird situation of having one foot in his reality, and potentially believing the things he was saying, or even over time, wanting to believe them more and more...
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Noam Chomsky: Deepest Property of Language
2019-11-30T18:59:12
What are the most beautiful or fascinating aspects of language or ideas in linguistics or cognitive science that you've seen in a lifetime of studying language and studying the human mind? Well, I think the deepest property of language and puzzling property that's been discovered is what is sometimes called structure ...
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Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA | Lex Fridman Podcast #331
2022-10-20T16:25:24
Donald Trump was probably the biggest person ever to be removed from social media. Do you understand why that was done? Can you still man the case for it and against it? Everybody who's watching this around the world basically saw, let's say, US establishment or Democrat aligned folks just decapitate, you know, the he...
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Forever oscillate between dissatisfaction and gratitude
2020-04-03T00:43:24
And the final piece of advice, I love that picture, okay, is to look up to the stars and appreciate every single moment you're alive at the mystery of this world, at the beauty of this world. Again, this is my perspective, take it with a grain of salt, but I advise to forever oscillate between deep profound doubt and ...
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Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, The Big Bang, Aliens, Death, and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #232
2021-10-20T18:05:38
The following is a conversation with Brian Green, theoretical physicist at Columbia and author of many amazing books on physics, including his latest, Until the End of Time, Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe. This is the Lex Friedman Podcast. To support it, please check out our sponsors ...
https://youtu.be/98HZanvAJ8Y
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Ray Dalio: Idea Meritocracy | AI Podcast Clips
2019-12-06T17:14:12
The reason my company has been successful in terms of this is because of an idea meritocratic decision making, a process by which you can get the best ideas. You know, what's an idea meritocracy? An idea meritocracy is to get the best ideas that are available out there and to work together with other people in the tea...
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Jeremi Suri: Civil War, Slavery, Freedom, and Democracy | Lex Fridman Podcast #354
2023-01-25T17:20:28
the war continues after the battles end. This is something that's hard for Americans to understand. Our system is built with the presumption when war is over, when we sign a piece of paper, everyone can go home. It's not what happens. The following is a conversation with Jeremy Suri, a historian at UT Austin. This is ...
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Lex Fridman plays Red Dead Redemption 2
2023-02-18T19:52:22
We're playing Red Dead Redemption 2, a game that my good friend Ng has recommended. We met in Austin, but she's now in Boston, Cambridge, working on exoskeletons. And robotic limbs. And robotic limbs, which in the future I guess would be cyborgs. We started playing it a little bit ago, and it's way better than I imagi...
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Gilbert Strang: Four Fundamental Subspaces of Linear Algebra
2019-11-27T01:20:00
So let's talk about linear algebra a little bit, because it is such a, it's both a powerful and a beautiful subfield of mathematics. So what's your favorite specific topic in linear algebra, or even math in general, to give a lecture on, to convey, to tell a story, to teach students? Okay, well, on the teaching side, ...
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Yann LeCun: Can Neural Networks Reason? | AI Podcast Clips
2019-09-01T14:59:59
Do you think neural networks can be made to reason? Yes, there is no question about that. Again, we have a good example, right? The question is how? So the question is how much prior structure do you have to put in the neural net so that something like human reasoning will emerge from it, from learning. Another questi...
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Bjarne Stroustrup: Deep Learning, Software 2.0, and Fuzzy Programming
2019-11-09T18:57:09
So a crazy question, but I work a lot with machine learning, with deep learning. I'm not sure if you touch that world much, but you could think of programming as a thing that takes some input. Programming is the task of creating a program, and a program takes some input and produces some output. So machine learning sy...
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Noam Chomsky: Language is the Basis of Reason and Creativity
2019-12-06T17:14:09
So how deep do the roots of language go in our brain? Our mind, is it yet another feature like vision or is it something more fundamental from which everything else springs in the human mind? Well, in a way it's like vision. There's something about our genetic endowment that determines that we have a mammalian rather ...
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Elon Musk: Physics View of Love | AI Podcast Clips
2019-09-07T19:09:33
Do you think we will ever create an AI system that we can love and loves us back in a deep meaningful way like in the movie Her? I think AI will be capable of convincing you to fall in love with it very well. And that's different than us humans? You know we start getting into a metaphysical question of like do emotion...
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Michael Kearns: Algorithmic Trading and the Role of AI in Investment at Different Time Scales
2019-11-21T14:53:40
You've worn many hats, one of which, the one that first caused me to become a big fan of your work many years ago is algorithmic trading. So I have to just ask a question about this because you have so much fascinating work there. In the 21st century, what role do you think algorithms have in the space of trading, inv...
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Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? (Vitalik Buterin) | AI Podcast Clips
2020-03-18T16:54:33
So before we talk about the fundamental ideas behind Ethereum and cryptocurrency, perhaps it'd be nice to talk about the origin story of Bitcoin and the mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto. You gave a talk that started with sort of asking the question, what did Satoshi Nakamoto actually invent? Maybe you could say who is Sato...
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Einstein Carried His Luggage (Eric Weinstein and Lee Smolin) | AI Podcast Clips
2020-03-11T11:18:13
There are things which are right there in front of us which we miss. And I'll quote my friend Eric Weinstein in saying, look, Einstein carried his luggage, Freud carried his luggage, Marx carried his luggage, Martha Graham carried her luggage, etc. Edison carried his luggage. All these geniuses carried their luggage. ...
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Ray Dalio: What Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, and Other Shapers Have in Common | AI Podcast Clips
2019-12-06T17:14:14
You mentioned shapers, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, what, who are the shapers that you find yourself thinking about when you're constructing these ideas? The ones that define the archetype of a shaper for you? Well, as I say, a shaper for me is somebody who comes up with a great visualization, usually a really unique visual...
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Noam Chomsky: Good and Evil in Human Nature
2019-12-08T14:29:56
You've said that evil in society arises from institutions, not inherently from our nature. Do you think most human beings are good, they have good intent, or do most have the capacity for intentional evil that depends on their upbringing, depends on their environment, on context? I wouldn't say that they don't arise f...
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Noam Chomsky: Neuralink and the Expansion of Cognitive Capacity
2019-11-30T18:59:12
So I just spent a day at a company called Neuralink, and what they do is try to design what's called the brain machine, brain computer interface. So they try to do thousands readings in the brain, be able to read what the neurons are firing and then stimulate back, so two way. Do you think their dream is to expand the...
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Dan Kokotov: Speech Recognition with AI and Humans | Lex Fridman Podcast #151
2021-01-04T09:26:21
The following is a conversation with Dan Kokorov, VP of Engineering at Rev.ai, which is, by many metrics, the best speech-to-text AI engine in the world. Rev, in general, is a company that does captioning and transcription of audio by humans and by AI. I've been using their services for a couple years now and am plann...
https://youtu.be/yTWa-Z1UQwU
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Aella: Sex Work, OnlyFans, Porn, Escorting, Dating, and Human Sexuality | Lex Fridman Podcast #358
2023-02-10T18:55:57
It was really shocking to me that nobody else was doing anything creative with sex work. Like for me, it was like breathing. Like you're just doing sex and you're bored. I'm like, what do you do? I don't know, let's try something funny. Like it's just the natural progression. And it felt to me like there was almost no...
https://youtu.be/cFSrxSBrgSc
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The most controversial Python feature | Walrus operator
2020-07-27T22:16:02
This is the walrus operator, and this is the assignment expression that it enables. It's been added as a feature to Python 3.8 after a whole lot of drama. Majority of Python core developers, as far as I can tell, were against it, and the drama and toxicity over it drove Guido van Rossum, creator of Python, to step dow...
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The Ego is the Source of Fear - Steven Pressfield | AI Podcast Clips
2020-06-21T18:48:45
In your book, The War of Art, you talk about resistance, with a capital R, as the invisible force in this universe of ours that finds a way to prevent you from starting or doing the work. Where do you think resistance comes from? Why is there a force in our mind that's constantly trying to jeopardize our efforts, with...
https://youtu.be/vlea7PtVXJ0
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Ray Dalio: Meaning of Life | AI Podcast Clips
2019-12-10T14:29:48
When you meditate, we're all human, we're all mortal. When you meditate on your own mortality, having achieved a lot of success on whatever dimension, what do you think is the meaning of it all? The meaning of our short existence on earth as human beings? I think that evolution is the greatest force of the universe an...
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George Hotz: Elon is the iOS | AI Podcast Clips
2019-09-21T18:00:18
Elon's the iOS. By the way, he paved the way for all of us. I would not be doing comma AI today if it was not for those conversations with Elon and if it were not for him saying like, I think he said like, well, obviously we're not going to use LIDAR. We use cameras. Humans use cameras. So what do you think about that...
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Vsauce: Consciousness | AI Podcast Clip with Michael Stevens
2019-12-19T16:00:14
There's ideas of panpsychism where people believe that whatever consciousness is is a fundamental part of reality. It's almost like a physics law. Do you think, what's your views on consciousness? Do you think it has this deep part of reality or is it something that's deeply human and constructed by us humans? Start n...
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Gilbert Strang: MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
2019-11-27T19:47:18
The fact that there is thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of people that watch that video, I think that's really powerful. So how do you think the idea of putting lectures online, what really MIT OpenCourseWare has innovated? That was a wonderful idea. I think the story that I've heard is the committee was app...
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Jeremy Howard: Deep Learning Frameworks - TensorFlow, PyTorch, fast.ai | AI Podcast Clips
2019-10-06T14:11:18
From the perspective of deep learning frameworks, you work with fast AI, particularly this framework, and PyTorch and TensorFlow. What are the strengths of each platform, from your perspective? So in terms of what we've done our research on and taught in our course, we started with Theano and Keras, and then we switch...
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Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs | Lex Fridman Podcast #365
2023-03-14T17:16:43
The following is a conversation with Sam Harris, his second time on the podcast. As I said two years ago when I first met and spoke with Sam, he's one of the most influential, pioneering thinkers of our time, as the host of the Making Sense podcast, creator of the Waking Up app, and the author of many seminal books on...
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Bhaskar Sunkara: Socialism and Communism | Lex Fridman Podcast #349
2022-12-22T19:39:59
The following is a conversation with Bhaskar Sankara. He's a democratic socialist, a political writer, founding editor of Jacobin, president of the nation, former vice chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, and the author of the Socialist Manifesto, the case for radical politics in an era of extreme inequality...
https://youtu.be/pNlfHgHJweQ
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Elon Musk Makes Sense to Me (Eric Weinstein) | AI Podcast Clips
2020-04-16T14:00:35
Let me ask a silly question, but. We'll say it with a straight face. Impossible. So let me mention Elon Musk. What are your thoughts about, he's more, you're more on the physics theory side of things. He's more on the physics engineering side of things in terms of SpaceX efforts. What do you think of his efforts to ge...
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Devon Larratt vs Lex Fridman: How to arm wrestle
2022-02-18T18:42:21
Devin Larratt, you son of a bitch. That's Rueben. What's the matter? MIT got you pushing too many pencils? Alright, you got me. No. Now, if I wanted to beat you, what would I do here? It starts before we even arm wrestle. It's all postural, really. So, if I can make you come to me. Come to me. This is the first step. ...
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The biggest chess game ever
2021-12-12T01:02:03
This is a game of chess, played by two AI engines, each far better at chess than any human on earth. The question I had is what happens when you let these machines battle it out on an infinite chess board with infinite pieces. Each move calculated and performed on an 8x8 subset that in isolation is a totally legal pos...
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Best feature of Python | List Comprehensions
2020-08-07T15:54:46
This is a list comprehension that allows you to define one list in terms of another list and is reminiscent of set notation from mathematics. The elegance, simplicity and power of this notation makes it, in my opinion, the best feature of Python. Now what does it mean to be a best feature of a programming language? To...
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Kai-Fu Lee: Question for AGI - What is the Difference Between Me and You? | AI Podcast Clips
2019-09-12T18:29:39
So I know you believe, as many do, that we're far from creating an artificial general intelligence system. But say, once we do, and you get to ask her one question, what would that question be? What is it that differentiates you and me?
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Jim Keller: Abstraction Layers from the Atom to the Data Center | AI Podcast Clips
2020-02-16T13:48:57
So let's get into the basics before we zoom back out. How do you build a computer from scratch? What is a microprocessor? What is a microarchitecture? What's an instruction set architecture? Maybe even as far back as what is a transistor? So the special charm of computer engineering is there's a relatively good unders...
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Roomba vs Autonomous Vehicles: Vision not Lidar is the Future for Robotics - iRobot CEO | AI Clip
2019-09-22T18:35:16
Another industry in which, I would say the only other industry in which there is automation actually touching people's lives today is autonomous vehicles. What the vision you just described of using computer vision and using cheap camera sensors, there's a debate on that of LIDAR versus computer vision. And sort of, E...
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Sean Carroll: Arrow of Time
2019-11-06T16:16:29
We talked a little bit about error of time last time, but in many worlds that there is a kind of implied error of time, right? So you've talked about the error of time that has to do with the second law of thermodynamics, that's the error of time that's emergent or fundamental, we don't know, I guess. No, it's emergen...
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Leonard Susskind: Is Ego Powerful or Dangerous in Science? | AI Podcast Clips
2019-09-27T16:53:36
♪♪ Jumping back to Feynman just for a second, he had a little bit of an ego. Yes. Do you think ego is powerful or dangerous in science? I think both. Both. I think you have to have both arrogance and humility. You have to have the arrogance to say, I can do this. Nature is difficult. Nature is very, very hard. I'm sma...
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Self-replicating Python code | Quine
2020-07-11T12:05:43
This Python code shown above, when executed, generates itself, shown below. This is what's called a quine. It is the kind of self-replicating system which is fascinating both philosophically and technically. The term quine was introduced by Douglas Hofstadter in his book, Geidel, Escher, Bach. The idea of quines has e...
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The Big Nap: Coronavirus and World War II - Eric Weinstein and Lex Fridman | AI Podcast Clips
2020-05-04T19:57:28
Do you see a connection between World War II and the crisis we're living through right now? Sure. The need for collective action, reminding ourselves of the fact that all of these abstractions, like everyone should just do exactly what he or she wants to do for himself and leave everyone else alone, none of these abst...
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Why is the Simulation Interesting to Elon Musk? (Nick Bostrom) | AI Podcast Clips
2020-03-26T14:00:12
Let me ask, one of the popularizers, you said there's many through this, when you look at sort of the last few years of the simulation hypothesis, just like you said, it comes up every once in a while, some new community discovers it and so on. But I would say one of the biggest popularizers of this idea is Elon Musk....
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Charlie Munger: Investing in AI
2018-04-11T12:07:26
You made some comments a few months ago that you're not quite sure what to think about that IBM investment. Well, I'm not sure how it's going to come out, but of course I like the fact they're doing it. And any kind of artificial intelligence is very much in the vote. It may well work. It's just I have no way of predi...
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Stuart Russell: AI Winter
2018-03-23T13:42:59
So what happens in these things is that technology comes out and it's happening now with deep learning. Everyone says, if I don't get hold of this technology and build up a group within my company that knows how to do it, then I'm going to be left behind. So they start investing in the technology without any evidence ...
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Language or Vision - What's Harder? (Ilya Sutskever) | AI Podcast Clips
2020-05-10T14:00:59
So, incredibly, you've contributed some of the biggest recent ideas in AI, in computer vision, language, natural language processing, reinforcement learning, sort of everything in between. Maybe not GANs. There may not be a topic you haven't touched, and of course, the fundamental science of deep learning. What is the...
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