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Lex Fridman Podcast

Lex Fridman Podcast

Technology

by Lex Fridman

Conversations about the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power. Lex is an AI researcher at MIT and beyond.

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Episodes (493)

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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, 20263h 14m
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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, 20252h 54m
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#483 – Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex

Oct 14, 20252h 48m
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#482 – Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature

Oct 1, 20254h 42m
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#481 – Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA

Sep 19, 20254h 31m
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#480 – Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park

Sep 4, 20253h 41m
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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, 202510h 35m
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#477 – Keyu Jin: China’s Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism

Aug 13, 20251h 57m
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#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

Aug 1, 20254h 39m
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#475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games

Jul 23, 20252h 34m
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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, 20254h 11m
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#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

Jun 15, 20253h 23m
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#471 – Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet

Jun 5, 20252h 17m
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#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

May 24, 20253h 30m
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#469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain

May 20, 20252h 27m
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#468 – Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions

May 5, 20253h 7m
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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, 20253h 14m
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#465 – Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

Apr 17, 20253h 35m
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#464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism

Apr 9, 20253h 26m
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#463 – Douglas Murray: Putin, Zelenskyy, Trump, Israel, Netanyahu, Hamas & Gaza

Mar 30, 20253h 16m
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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, 20255h 30m
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#460 – Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India – Power, Democracy, War & Peace

Mar 16, 20253h 25m
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#459 – DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters

Feb 3, 20255h 16m
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#458 – Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & Future of America

Jan 26, 20253h 57m
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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, 20253h 13m
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#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Dec 22, 20243h 39m
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#454 – Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics

Dec 8, 20243h 39m
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#453 – Javier Milei: President of Argentina – Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

Nov 20, 20242h 8m
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#452 – Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity

Nov 11, 20245h 22m
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#451 – Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

Oct 30, 20243h 36m
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#450 – Bernie Sanders Interview

Oct 23, 20241h 9m
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#449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History

Oct 16, 20242h 41m
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#448 – Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning

Oct 11, 20242h 30m
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#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

Oct 6, 20242h 37m
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#446 – Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America

Sep 30, 20243h 36m
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#445 – Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

Sep 25, 20242h 51m
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#444 – Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

Sep 20, 20243h 37m
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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, 20241h 12m
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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, 20242h 21m
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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, 20242h 56m
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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, 20241h 57m
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#434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

Jun 19, 20243h 11m
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#433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

Jun 13, 20243h 1m
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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, 20244h 12m
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#428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens

Apr 22, 20242h 44m
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#427 – Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

Apr 20, 20242h 35m
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#426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs

Apr 17, 20243h 0m
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#425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

Apr 13, 20242h 59m
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#424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

Apr 5, 20242h 48m
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#423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex

Apr 2, 20241h 56m
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#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

Mar 29, 20242h 23m
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#421 – Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

Mar 25, 20241h 36m
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#420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy

Mar 22, 20243h 12m
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#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

Mar 18, 20242h 2m
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#418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

Mar 14, 20245h 4m
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#417 – Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family

Mar 10, 20241h 53m
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#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

Mar 7, 20242h 54m
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#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

Mar 4, 20243h 27m
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#414 – Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom

Feb 27, 20243h 12m
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#413 – Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

Feb 20, 20243h 41m
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#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

Feb 16, 20241h 52m
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#411 – Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam

Feb 2, 20242h 31m
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#410 – Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism

Jan 23, 20242h 25m
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#409 – Matthew Cox: FBI Most Wanted Con Man – $55 Million in Bank Fraud

Jan 17, 20246h 7m
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#408 – Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

Jan 9, 20241h 55m
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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, 20232h 15m
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#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin

Dec 14, 20232h 20m
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#404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

Dec 9, 20233h 27m
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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, 20231h 47m
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#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

Nov 18, 20233h 35m
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#400 – Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity

Nov 9, 20232h 27m
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#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

Oct 11, 20233h 54m
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#398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse

Sep 28, 20231h 12m
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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, 20233h 51m
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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, 20232h 25m
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#393 – Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, Sex, and Love

Aug 17, 20232h 20m
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#392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans

Aug 1, 20232h 59m
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#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

Jul 24, 20232h 23m
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#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

Jul 17, 20232h 52m
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

Jul 12, 20231h 17m
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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, 20233h 15m
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#386 – Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI

Jun 22, 20233h 15m
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#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

Jun 18, 20233h 19m
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#384 – Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love

Jun 13, 20232h 24m
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#383 – Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp

Jun 8, 20232h 47m
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#382 – Bert Kreischer: Comedy, Drinking, Rogan, Segura, Churchill & Kim Jong Un

Jun 5, 20232h 11m
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#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI

Jun 2, 20233h 38m
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#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication

May 28, 20232h 11m
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#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power

May 24, 20233h 14m
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#378 – Anna Frebel: Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Galaxies, and Stars

May 18, 20232h 23m
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#377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

May 16, 20231h 55m
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#376 – Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation

May 9, 20234h 19m
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#375 – David Pakman: Politics of Trump, Biden, Bernie, AOC, Socialism & Wokeism

May 6, 20233h 36m
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#374 – Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

Apr 28, 20232h 32m
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#373 – Manolis Kellis: Evolution of Human Civilization and Superintelligent AI

Apr 21, 20232h 35m
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#372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design

Apr 16, 20232h 4m
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#371 – Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development

Apr 13, 20232h 53m
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#370 – Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox – Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love

Apr 10, 20233h 51m
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#369 – Paul Rosolie: Amazon Jungle, Uncontacted Tribes, Anacondas, and Ayahuasca

Apr 4, 20233h 38m
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#368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

Mar 30, 20233h 22m
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#367 – Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI

Mar 25, 20232h 28m
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#366 – Shannon Curry: Johnny Depp & Amber Heard Trial, Marriage, Dating & Love

Mar 21, 20231h 50m
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#365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs

Mar 14, 20234h 33m
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#364 – Chris Voss: FBI Hostage Negotiator

Mar 10, 20232h 15m
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#363 – B-Team Jiu Jitsu: Craig Jones, Nicky Rod, and Nicky Ryan

Mar 6, 20232h 54m
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#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

Mar 2, 20231h 56m
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#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Feb 25, 20232h 17m
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#360 – Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics

Feb 20, 20233h 10m
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#359 – Andrew Strominger: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and Theoretical Physics

Feb 15, 20232h 25m
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#358 – Aella: Sex Work, OnlyFans, Porn, Escorting, Dating, and Human Sexuality

Feb 10, 20234h 2m
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#357 – Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil

Feb 7, 20233h 22m
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#356 – Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

Feb 2, 20235h 21m
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#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds

Jan 28, 20233h 50m
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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, 20233h 13m
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#352 – Omar Suleiman: Islam

Jan 17, 20233h 7m
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#351 – MrBeast: Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram

Jan 11, 20232h 24m
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#350 – Betül Kaçar: Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens

Dec 29, 20222h 47m
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#349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism

Dec 22, 20223h 52m
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#348 – Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

Dec 19, 20222h 12m
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#347 – Michael Malice: Christmas Special

Dec 15, 20223h 47m
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#346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels

Dec 12, 20224h 11m
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#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

Dec 9, 20223h 51m
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#344 – Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation

Dec 6, 20222h 33m
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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, 20222h 49m
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#341 – Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming

Nov 26, 20223h 22m
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#340 – Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

Nov 22, 20223h 2m
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#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

Nov 18, 20224h 16m
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#338 – Chamath Palihapitiya: Money, Success, Startups, Energy, Poker & Happiness

Nov 15, 20223h 4m
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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, 20222h 36m
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#335 – Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump

Nov 4, 20223h 24m
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#334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

Nov 2, 20223h 11m
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#333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI

Oct 29, 20223h 33m
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#332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview

Oct 24, 20222h 33m
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#331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA

Oct 20, 20227h 53m
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#330 – Hikaru Nakamura: Chess, Magnus, Kasparov, and the Psychology of Greatness

Oct 17, 20222h 54m
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#329 – Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT

Oct 15, 20223h 9m
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#328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives

Oct 10, 20224h 55m
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#327 – GothamChess: Hans Niemann, Magnus Carlsen, Cheating Scandal & Chess Bots

Oct 7, 20223h 38m
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#326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

Oct 5, 20222h 46m
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#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots

Oct 1, 20223h 5m
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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, 20222h 28m
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#322 – Rana el Kaliouby: Emotion AI, Social Robots, and Self-Driving Cars

Sep 21, 20222h 42m
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#321 – Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality

Sep 17, 20221h 42m
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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, 20222h 42m
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#318 – Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness

Sep 7, 20223h 47m
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#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom

Sep 4, 20223h 17m
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#316 – Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War

Aug 31, 202252m
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#315 – Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time

Aug 27, 20222h 39m
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#314 – Liv Boeree: Poker, Game Theory, AI, Simulation, Aliens & Existential Risk

Aug 24, 20223h 41m
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#313 – Jordan Peterson: Life, Death, Power, Fame, and Meaning

Aug 19, 20223h 10m
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#312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man

Aug 16, 20223h 25m
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#311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity

Aug 13, 20223h 38m
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#310 – Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy

Aug 8, 20223h 59m
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#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets

Aug 4, 20225h 22m
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#308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens

Aug 1, 20222h 37m
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#307 – Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation

Jul 29, 20222h 36m
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#306 – Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence

Jul 26, 20222h 15m
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#305 – Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang

Jul 23, 20222h 19m
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#304 – Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church

Jul 20, 20222h 0m
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#303 – Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics

Jul 17, 20223h 36m
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#302 – Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences

Jul 14, 20222h 51m
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#301 – Jack Barsky: KGB Spy

Jul 9, 20223h 43m
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#300 – Joe Rogan: Comedy, Controversy, Aliens, UFOs, Putin, CIA, and Freedom

Jul 4, 20221h 49m
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#299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind

Jul 1, 20222h 17m
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#298 – Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts and Loneliness

Jun 28, 20222h 5m
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#297 – Jonathan Reisman: The Human Body – From Sex & Sperm to Hands & Heart

Jun 25, 20222h 49m
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#296 – Douglas Murray: Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West

Jun 21, 20222h 44m
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#295 – Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism

Jun 17, 20222h 59m
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#294 – Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, and Nest

Jun 15, 20222h 52m
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#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth

Jun 12, 20223h 23m
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#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity

Jun 9, 20224h 18m
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#291 – Jonathan Haidt: The Case Against Social Media

Jun 4, 20221h 48m
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#290 – Dan Reynolds: Imagine Dragons

May 30, 20222h 18m
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#289 – Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine

May 25, 20222h 49m
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#288 – Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan

May 23, 20224h 21m
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#287 – Bobby Lee: Comedy, Skyrim, Sex Robots, Love, Fame, and Power

May 20, 20221h 45m
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#286 – Oliver Stone: Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine

May 17, 20221h 59m
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#285 – Glenn Loury: Race, Racism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture

May 14, 20223h 38m
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#284 – Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics

May 11, 20224h 21m
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#283 – Chris Mason: Space Travel, Colonization, and Long-Term Survival in Space

May 8, 20223h 1m
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#282 – David Buss: Sex, Dating, Relationships, and Sex Differences

May 4, 20223h 38m
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#281 – Grimes: Music, AI, and the Future of Humanity

Apr 29, 20222h 11m
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#280 – Cristiano Amon: Qualcomm CEO

Apr 27, 20221h 14m
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#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin

Apr 24, 20224h 11m
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#278 – Skye Fitzgerald: Hunger, War, and Human Suffering

Apr 20, 20222h 34m
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#277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship

Apr 17, 20223h 31m
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#276 – Michael Saylor: Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money

Apr 14, 20224h 2m
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#275 – Rick Rubin: Legendary Music Producer

Apr 10, 20223h 27m
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#274 – Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry

Apr 7, 20223h 27m
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#273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence

Apr 3, 20222h 54m
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#272 – Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal

Mar 27, 20223h 53m
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#271 – Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures

Mar 23, 20221h 52m
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#270 – David Wolpe: Judaism

Mar 16, 20222h 17m
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#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness

Mar 11, 20224h 12m
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#268 – Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology

Mar 5, 20222h 55m
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#267 – Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse

Feb 26, 20222h 5m
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#266 – Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar

Feb 20, 20222h 7m
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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, 20222h 43m
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#263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma

Feb 11, 20222h 24m
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#262 – Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens

Feb 6, 20221h 50m
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#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind

Feb 3, 20222h 53m
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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, 20222h 23m
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#258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning

Jan 22, 20222h 51m
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#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize

Jan 18, 20224h 6m
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#256 – Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony

Jan 15, 20223h 4m
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#255 – Mark Normand: Comedy!

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