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Lisa Feldman Barrett is a neuroscientist, psychologist, and author. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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OUTLINE:

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00:00 – Introduction

06:35 – Are we alone in the universe?

08:03 – Life on Earth

12:55 – Collective intelligence of human brains

21:43 – Triune brain

27:52 – The predicting brain

35:48 – How the brain evolved

41:47 – Free will

50:40 – Is anything real?

1:03:13 – Dreams

1:09:00 – Emotions are human-constructed concepts

1:34:29 – Are women more emotional than men?

1:43:05 – Empathy

2:14:46 – Love

2:18:40 – Mortality

2:20:16 – Meaning of life

Michael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, and author. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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Michael’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5tj5QCpJKIl-KIa4Gib5Xw

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Your Welcome podcast: https://bit.ly/30q8oz1

The New Right (book): https://amzn.to/34gxLo3

Dear Reader (book): https://amzn.to/2HPPlHS

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Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast

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OUTLINE:

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00:00 – Introduction

04:15 – Sponsors

07:58 – Putin and the Russian soul

15:01 – Love and trolling

25:31 – Problem with government

31:03 – Anarchism

53:07 – Politics

54:59 – Are most people capable of thinking deeply?

1:02:08 – Willy Wonka and Albert Camus view of life

1:08:08 – Trolling

1:12:26 – Conspiracy theories

1:29:43 – Donald Trump and the Election

1:36:58 – Trump Biden presidential debates

1:41:15 – Journalism is broken

1:47:56 – Communism

1:54:02 – Presidential candidates

2:04:34 – Libertarian party

2:14:56 – Objectivism

2:24:17 – Trolling

2:35:21 – The New Right

2:43:29 – Cancel culture

3:13:17 – Book recommendations

3:18:08 – Fear of mortality

3:21:08 – Meaning of life

Joe Rogan is a comedian, UFC commentator, and the host of the Joe Rogan Experience. Please check out our sponsors to get a discount and to support this podcast:

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OUTLINE:

00:00 – Introduction

05:17 – Fear of mortality

06:48 – Chaos of 2020 and beyond

10:32 – Are we going to be okay?

19:30 – Violence, competition, and Sober October

26:45 – Mike Tyson

27:49 – Managing obsession

30:13 – Jiu jitsu game

35:55 – Best martial art for self defense

39:30 – Guns

43:59 – Memorable JRE moments

49:31 – Ideas breed in brains of humans

56:08 – Advice for Lex

1:06:09 – Long-form conversation

1:12:28 – Meaning of life

James Gosling is the founder and lead designer of the Java programming language. Please check out our sponsors to get a discount and to support this podcast:

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0:00 – Introduction

4:45 – Irrational numbers

8:04 – Math and programming

10:36 – Coding style

14:41 – First computer

23:54 – Lisp

27:22 – Write an Emacs implementation in C

35:15 – Early days of the Internet

45:57 – Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos

56:13 – Work hard and smart

58:48 – Open source

1:10:25 – Java

1:28:31 – Java virtual machine

1:44:05 – Android

1:47:04 – Advice

Ryan Hall is a jiu jitsu black belt, UFC fighter, and a philosopher of the martial arts.

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OUTLINE:

0:00 – Introduction

7:22 – Greatest warrior in history

11:48 – Genghis Khan

17:32 – Nature is metal

21:49 – Cancel culture

36:11 – Sci-fi books and movies

44:50 – Essence of jiu jitsu

51:17 – Jiu jitsu is a language

1:01:12 – How to get started in jiu jitsu

1:14:01 – The value of a good coach

1:25:42 – Lex training with Ryan

1:31:06 – Toxicity on the internet

1:34:41 – Joe Rogan

1:42:25 – Alex Jones

2:07:02 – Donald Trump

2:09:45 – The American ideal

2:17:33 – What does it take to be a jiu jitsu black belt

2:49:06 – Elon Musk

2:57:39 – Fighting BJ Penn

3:04:13 – Conor McGregor

3:12:08 – How to beat Khabib Nurmagomedov

3:16:00 – Top MMA fighters of all time

3:24:41 – Mike Tyson

3:41:13 – Fear of death

Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist. This is our second conversation on the podcast.

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OUTLINE:

00:00 – Introduction

07:14 – Key moments in history of physics

12:43 – Philosophy of science

14:37 – Science and computational reducibility

22:08 – Predicting the pandemic

38:58 – Sunburn moment with Wolfram Alpha

39:46 – Computational irreducibility

46:45 – Theory of everything

52:41 – General relativity

1:01:16 – Quantum mechanics

1:06:46 – Unifying the laws of physics

1:12:01 – Wolfram Physics Project

1:29:53 – Emergence of time

1:34:11 – Causal invariance

1:53:03 – Deriving physics from simple rules on hypergraphs

2:07:24 – Einstein equations

2:13:04 – Simulating the physics of the universe

2:17:28 – Hardware specs of the simulation

2:24:37 – Quantum mechanics in Wolfram physics model

2:42:46 – Double-slit experiment

2:45:13 – Quantum computers

2:53:21 – Getting started with Wolfram physics project

3:14:46 – The rules that created our universe

3:24:22 – Alien intelligences

3:32:29 – Meta-mathematics

3:37:58 – Why is math hard?

3:52:55 – Sabine Hossenfelder and how beauty leads physics astray

4:01:07 – Eric Weinstein and Geometric Unity

4:06:17 – Travel faster than speed of light

4:16:59 – Why does the universe exist at all

Manolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group.

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OUTLINE:

00:00 – Introduction

06:20 – Epigenome

10:28 – Evolution

15:26 – Neanderthals

27:15 – Origin of life on Earth

43:44 – Life is a fight against physics

49:56 – Life as a set of transformations

51:35 – Time scales

1:00:31 – Transformations of ideas in human civilization

1:05:19 – Life is more than a rat race

1:13:18 – Life sucks sometimes and that’s okay

1:30:16 – Getting older

1:36:21 – The best of MIT

1:49:01 – Poem 1: The Snow

2:01:52 – Love

2:06:16 – Poem 2: The Tide Waters

David Fravor is a navy pilot of 18 years and a primary witness in one of the most credible UFO sightings in history, video of which has been released by the Pentagon and reported on by the NY Times.

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OUTLINE:

00:00 – Introduction

07:13 – Top Gun

12:06 – Navy pilot career

24:14 – AI is the third brain of a jet fighter

40:37 – Sully

47:34 – Landing a jet fighter on a carrier

53:18 – What’s it like to fly a jet fighter?

1:05:22 – Greatest plane ever made

1:11:04 – The Tic Tac UFO story

1:49:16 – Intelligent extraterrestrial life

1:53:30 – Why aren’t UFOs investigated more seriously

1:59:52 – Tic Tac UFO details

2:07:55 – What do you think the Tic Tac was?

2:16:23 – SpaceX

2:30:01 – Response to Mick West Debunking

2:48:24 – Was the Tic Tac a secret military test?

3:00:07 – Is the government in possession of alien spacecraft?

3:25:28 – Interesting UFO sightings in history

3:39:55 – Advice for Young People

3:47:47 – Meaning of life

My attempt to find the words to honor my grandmother, an amazing woman who is responsible for much of who I am, who taught me how to be a man, taught me about strength, about wisdom, about compassion, about love.

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OUTLINE:

00:00 – In memory of my grandmother

02:00 – Lesson 1: Mental Toughness

04:31 – Lesson 2: Strength

07:25 – Lesson 3: Wisdom

08:46 – Lesson 4: Believe in Yourself

12:13 – Lesson 5: Love

15:37 – Poem

Eugenia Kuyda co-founder of Replika, an AI companion. Please check out our sponsors to get a discount and to support this podcast:

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OUTLINE:

00:00 – Introduction

06:18 – Loneliness

13:54 – Can AI alleviate loneliness?

18:13 – Love

20:49 – Russia in the 1990’s

31:47 – Chernobyl

41:35 – Communism

49:21 – Losing a friend

57:55 – Mortality

1:10:41 – Replika origin story

1:59:37 – Bringing people back to life with AI

2:05:37 – Relationship with Replika

2:18:27 – Can you form a connection with text alone?

2:27:45 – Does an AI companion need a body?

2:30:20 – Her

2:37:24 – GPT-3 for conversation

2:43:48 – We should be nice to AI

2:46:52 – Book recommendations

2:53:45 – Russian language

2:58:41 – Meaning of life

My thoughts on 8 possible long-term futures of Neuralink after attending the August 2020 progress update. This is a solo episode #2 of the podcast. Hopefully it’s interesting to some folks. The aim is for these episodes to be focused on a particular topic, at times challenging, at times personal, at times exciting to me on a technical and philosophical level like the episode today.

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OUTLINE:

00:00 – Introduction

04:42 – 1. Alleviating Suffering

07:25 – 2. Consciousness and Intelligence

11:39 – 3. Augmented Body, Mind, and Reality

13:42 – 4. Gaming & Virtual Reality

16:25 – 5. Merging Tech & Biology

19:40 – 6. Telepathy

22:58 – 7. Memories & Immortality

28:04 – 8. Merging with AI

François Chollet is an AI researcher at Google and creator of Keras.

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Francois’s Website: https://fchollet.com/

On the Measure of Intelligence (paper): https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547

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00:00 – Introduction

05:04 – Early influence

06:23 – Language

12:50 – Thinking with mind maps

23:42 – Definition of intelligence

42:24 – GPT-3

53:07 – Semantic web

57:22 – Autonomous driving

1:09:30 – Tests of intelligence

1:13:59 – Tests of human intelligence

1:27:18 – IQ tests

1:35:59 – ARC Challenge

1:59:11 – Generalization

2:09:50 – Turing Test

2:20:44 – Hutter prize

2:27:44 – Meaning of life

David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford.

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OUTLINE:

00:00 – Introduction

05:05 – Livewired

16:39 – Hardware vs software

25:53 – Brain-computer interfaces

35:12 – 2020 is a challenge for neuroplasticity

46:08 – Free will

50:43 – Nature of evil

58:55 – Psychiatry

1:06:28 – GPT-3

1:13:31 – Intelligence in the brain

1:21:51 – Neosensory

1:31:27 – Book recommendations

1:34:07 – Meaning of life

1:36:53 – Advice for young people

Grant Sanderson is a math educator and creator of 3Blue1Brown.

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OUTLINE:

00:00 – Introduction

05:13 – Richard Feynman

09:41 – Learning deeply vs broadly

13:56 – Telling a story with visualizations

18:43 – Topology

23:52 – Intuition about exponential growth

32:28 – Elon Musk’s exponential view of the world

40:09 – SpaceX and space exploration

45:28 – Origins of the Internet

49:50 – Does teaching on YouTube get lonely?

54:31 – Daily routine

1:00:20 – Social media

1:10:38 – Online education in a time of COVID

1:27:03 – Joe Rogan moving to Spotify

1:32:09 – Neural networks

1:38:30 – GPT-3

1:46:52 – Manim

1:51:01 – Python

1:56:21 – Theory of everything

2:03:53 – Meaning of life