198 episodes

Philosophy & Stoicism

Every episode that dug into philosophy & stoicism — distilled to the reveals and facts, each linked to the exact moment.

Ex-Google Officer: You Only Have 3 Years Left Before It Hits! - Mo Gawdat

Diary of a CEO · Ex-Google AI exec Mo Gawdat warns of a coming decade of dystopia from AI-driven job loss

Master Self Control & Overcome Procrastination | Dr. Kentaro Fujita

Andrew Huberman · A self-control scientist dismantles willpower myths and reframes discipline as a learnab

Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain!

Diary of a CEO · A viral geopolitics YouTuber argues the Iran war has already triggered World War III and

Ivanka Trump: Most People Can’t Tell Signal From Noise

Diary of a CEO · Ivanka Trump on growing up in the spotlight, finding signal in the noise, walking away f

Pierre Poilievre: Why America Is Quietly Abandoning Its Allies (& What Comes Next)

Diary of a CEO · Canada's opposition leader Pierre Poilievre argues America is alienating allies and

AI Whistleblower: We Are Being Gaslit By AI Companies, They’re Hiding The Truth! - Karen Hao

Diary of a CEO · AI journalist Karen Hao argues the major AI companies operate like exploitative empires,

Joe Rogan Experience #2444 - Andrew Wilson

Joe Rogan · Joe Rogan and debater Andrew Wilson rant about immigration, ICE riots, communism, Christ

Infinity, Paradoxes, Gödel Incompleteness & the Mathematical Multiverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #488

Lex Fridman · Set theorist Joel David Hamkins explores infinity, Gödel's incompleteness, the cont

Arthur Brooks — Finding The Meaning of Your Life

Tim Ferriss · Arthur Brooks and Tim Ferriss on the meaning of life, mood management, transcendence, su

Godfather of AI: We Have 2 Years Before Everything Changes!

Diary of a CEO · AI godfather Yoshua Bengio warns we may have only a few years before AI grows beyond our

Joe Rogan Experience #2423 - John Cena

Joe Rogan · John Cena tells Joe Rogan how a string of happy accidents and relentless gratitude built

The Return of The Lion Tracker — Boyd Varty on The Wild Man Within and Nature’s Hidden Wisdom

Tim Ferriss · Lion tracker Boyd Varty tells Tim Ferriss wild African stories and explains how nature&#

Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482

Lex Fridman · Telegram founder Pavel Durov on freedom, censorship, his French arrest, lean engineering

How to Expand Your Consciousness | Dr. Christof Koch

Andrew Huberman · Neuroscientist Christof Koch explains what consciousness actually is, how to expand your

Joe Rogan Experience #2345 - Roman Yampolskiy

Joe Rogan · AI safety researcher Roman Yampolskiy argues superintelligence is fundamentally uncontro

Godfather of AI: They Keep Silencing Me But I’m Trying to Warn Them!

Diary of a CEO · AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton lays out why superintelligence could end humanity, why he lef

How to Spend Your Miles & Credit Card Points — Deal Master Chris Hutchins Explains

Tim Ferriss · Points expert Chris Hutchins helps Tim Ferriss decide what to do with 15.5 million accum

Three Life Commandments, AI, Stoicism, & More

Tim Ferriss · Tim Ferriss fields community Q&A on his three life commandments, AI, stoicism, writi

Behaviors That Alter Your Genes to Improve Your Health & Performance | Dr. Melissa Ilardo

Andrew Huberman · Geneticist Melissa Ilardo explains how behaviors like breath-hold diving reshape human p

Shaolin Warrior Master: Hidden Epidemic Nobody Talks About! This Modern Habit Is Killing Millions!

Diary of a CEO · Shaolin master Shi Heng Yi on letting go, breaking patterns, the five hindrances, and fi

From Stocking Groceries to Reading Philosophy for a Living — Stephen West of Philosophize This!

Tim Ferriss · Philosophize This! creator Stephen West tells Tim Ferriss how a homeless dropout warehou

Exploring Consciousness and Non-Ordinary Religion, Panpsychism, and Heretical Ideas — Philip Goff

Tim Ferriss · Philosopher Philip Goff makes the case for panpsychism, explores consciousness and quant

Joe Rogan Experience #2301 - Ben Lamm

Joe Rogan · Colossal Biosciences CEO Ben Lamm walks Joe Rogan through real de-extinction: dire wolve

Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India - Power, Democracy, War & Peace | Lex Fridman Podcast #460

Lex Fridman · Narendra Modi reflects on poverty, spirituality, fasting, peacemaking, democracy, AI, an

Whether or Not to Have Kids, Transformative Experiences, and More — L.A. Paul

Tim Ferriss · Philosopher L.A. Paul explains why life-changing decisions like having kids can't b

The Man That Makes Millionaires: Turn $0 to $10k With This Step By Step Formula! Alex Hormozi

Diary of a CEO · Alex Hormozi gives Steven Bartlett a step-by-step formula for going from $0 to $10M, cov

Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #455

Lex Fridman · Astrophysicist Adam Frank on the odds of alien civilizations, how to detect them, and wh

Brian Keating: I’m Spending $200 Million To Explore Existence! How God Fits Into Science Explained!

Diary of a CEO · Astrophysicist Brian Keating on his $200M experiment to probe the universe's origin

Ex Google CEO: AI Can Create Deadly Viruses! If We See This, We Must Turn Off AI! - Eric Schmidt

Diary of a CEO · Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt on why AI is a question of human survival, when to pull the p

Master Mentalist Derren Brown on Magic, Mind Reading, and More

Tim Ferriss · Mentalist Derren Brown unpacks hypnosis, cold reading, skepticism, and making peace with

Joe Rogan Experience #2217 - Brian Cox

Joe Rogan · Physicist Brian Cox and Joe Rogan explore black holes, the Fermi Paradox, what AI superi

Joe Rogan Experience #2203 - Eric Goode & Jeremy McBride

Joe Rogan · Documentary filmmakers behind Tiger King and Chimp Crazy dig into captive exotic animals

Joe Rogan Experience #2193 - Jack Symes

Joe Rogan · Philosopher Jack Symes and Joe Rogan debate God, the multiverse, animal ethics, consciou

The Professor Banned From Speaking Out: "We Need To Start Preparing” - Dr Bret Weinstein

Diary of a CEO · Evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein lays out the existential threats he believes human

Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling | Lex Fridman Podcast #439

Lex Fridman · Submission grappler Craig Jones on his rival CJI tournament, frontline trips to Ukraine,

Derek Sivers and Kevin Kelly — The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss · Tim Ferriss 10-year anniversary combo: Derek Sivers and Kevin Kelly on saying no, volunt

Joe Rogan Experience #2174 - Annie Jacobsen

Joe Rogan · Journalist Annie Jacobsen explains how a nuclear war would kill 5 billion people in 72 m

Joe Rogan Experience #1968 - Jason Everman

Joe Rogan · Nirvana and Soundgarden guitarist turned Army Ranger and Green Beret on combat, tribe, a

Joe Rogan Experience #2068 - Cameron Hanes

Joe Rogan · Bowhunter Cameron Hanes and Joe Rogan riff on peptides, extreme fitness, archery-gear ob

Joe Rogan Experience #1962 - Eddie Huang

Joe Rogan · Eddie Huang and Joe Rogan riff on AI taking over, Vice's chaos, weed, fighting, cur

Joe Rogan Experience #2076 - Tristan Harris & Aza Razkin

Joe Rogan · Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin warn that the race to scale AI is a dangerous 'second

Joe Rogan Experience #1960 - Andrew Schulz

Joe Rogan · Joe Rogan and Andrew Schulz riff on comedy craft, building the Austin club, cobalt-mine

Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #431

Lex Fridman · AI safety researcher Roman Yampolskiy argues superintelligent AI is fundamentally uncont

Jim Collins and Ed Zschau

Tim Ferriss · A 10-year anniversary super-combo where Jim Collins and Ed Zschau share lifelong systems

Naval Ravikant and Nick Kokonas — The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss · Tim Ferriss 10-year anniversary super combo: Naval Ravikant on honesty, habits, and happ

How to Sell Millions with Self-Publishing — Hugh Howey, Bestselling Author of Wool

Tim Ferriss · Hugh Howey tells Tim Ferriss how Wool became a self-publishing phenomenon and shares har

Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events | Lex Fridman Podcast #403

Lex Fridman · Theoretical physicist Lisa Randall explains dark matter, the standard model, and her spe

Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special | Lex Fridman Podcast #402

Lex Fridman · Michael Malice and Lex Fridman riff on humor, gratitude, art, anti-Semitism, anarchism,

Q&A with Tim Ferriss — AI Companions, Longevity Levers, Writer's Block, Low-Back Pain, & Much More

Tim Ferriss · Tim Ferriss answers fan questions on AI companions, weight training for longevity, write

Simon Coronel, World Champion of Magic, Quitting the Day Job and More! | The Tim Ferriss Podcast

Tim Ferriss · World-champion magician Simon Coronel on winning magic's Olympics, neurodivergence,

Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #386

Lex Fridman · Marc Andreessen makes the optimistic case for AI, argues against AI doom as a quasi-reli

Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #384

Lex Fridman · Matthew McConaughey and Lex Fridman roam across love, death, fatherhood, denial, acting,

Ex-Google Officer Speaks Out On The Dangers Of AI! - Mo Gawdat | E252

Diary of a CEO · Former Google X exec Mo Gawdat warns AI's existential dangers are imminent and argu

Anna Frebel: Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Galaxies, and Stars | Lex Fridman Podcast #378

Lex Fridman · MIT astrophysicist Anna Frebel explains how the universe's oldest surviving stars p

Neuralink & Technologies to Enhance Human Brains | Dr. Matthew MacDougall

Andrew Huberman · Neuralink's head neurosurgeon explains brain implants, restoring movement to the pa

Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization | Lex Fridman Podcast #368

Lex Fridman · AI-risk theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that superintelligent AGI will likely kill eve

Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs | Lex Fridman Podcast #365

Lex Fridman · Sam Harris and Lex Fridman wrestle over Trump, COVID, Twitter, lost friendships with Elo

B-Team Jiu Jitsu: Craig Jones, Nicky Rod, and Nicky Ryan | Lex Fridman Podcast #363

Lex Fridman · The B-Team's Craig Jones, Nicky Rod and Nicky Ryan riff on the DDS split, the Gordo

Michael Mauboussin — How Great Investors Make Decisions | The Tim Ferriss Podcast

Tim Ferriss · Michael Mauboussin breaks down how great investors decide: base rates, wisdom of crowds,

Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity | Lex Fridman Podcast #362

Lex Fridman · Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty on leading through reinvention, the power of doing hard thi

CEO Coach Matt Mochary — Coaching Tim, Why Fear and Anger Give Bad Advice, and More

Tim Ferriss · CEO coach Matt Mochary live-coaches Tim Ferriss through fear, anger, hiring, firing, ene

John Vervaeke — How to Build a Life of Wisdom, Flow, and Contemplation | The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss · Cognitive scientist John Vervaeke unpacks four ways of knowing, flow, wisdom, and how an

Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics | Lex Fridman Podcast #360

Lex Fridman · Tim Urban joins Lex Fridman to map tribalism, wokeness, and Marxism onto a 'vertica

Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil | Lex Fridman Podcast #357

Lex Fridman · Psychiatrist Paul Conti unpacks how envy fuels narcissism, sociopathy, and evil, and how

Jay Shetty: 8 Rules For Perfect Love & Amazing Sex! | E217

Diary of a CEO · Jay Shetty unpacks his 8 Rules of Love: purpose before partnership, intimacy over sex, a

Derren Brown: UNLOCK The Secret Power Of Your Mind! | E212

Diary of a CEO · Illusionist Derren Brown on why the stories we tell ourselves cause our suffering, the l

Betül Kaçar: Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #350

Lex Fridman · Astrobiologist Betul Kacar walks Lex Fridman through the origin of life, ancient DNA res

The Coddling of the American Mind and How to Become Intellectually Antifragile — Jonathan Haidt

Tim Ferriss · Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt on antifragility, moral pluralism, why universities a

Ben Shapiro: Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler, Extremism, and War | Lex Fridman Podcast #336

Lex Fridman · Ben Shapiro joins Lex Fridman for a wide-ranging talk on antisemitism, evil, free speech

Kanye 'Ye' West Interview | Lex Fridman Podcast #332

Lex Fridman · Kanye 'Ye' West joins Lex Fridman for a raw, combative two-hour conversation d

Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT | Lex Fridman Podcast #329

Lex Fridman · MIT roboticist Kate Darling argues we should think of robots like animals, not humans, a

Insights from Tara Brach, Ryan Holiday, Maria Popova, and Cal Newport | The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss · A curated podcast buffet where four friends of Tim Ferriss share favorite clips on prese

John Danaher: Grappling, Jiu Jitsu, ADCC, and Animal Combat | Lex Fridman Podcast #328

Lex Fridman · Legendary grappling coach John Danaher breaks down his team's ADCC comeback, the sc

John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom | Lex Fridman Podcast #317

Lex Fridman · Cognitive scientist John Vervaeke maps the modern meaning crisis and argues wisdom, not

Investing with the Best, Founder-Problem Fit, Pre-Mortems and Pre-Parades, and More — Roelof Botha

Tim Ferriss · Sequoia's Roelof Botha on goal-setting rituals, founder problem fit, pre-mortems, p

Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time | Lex Fridman Podcast #315

Lex Fridman · Magnus Carlsen breaks down his chess mind, why he walked away from the World Championshi

Liv Boeree: Poker, Game Theory, AI, Simulation, Aliens & Existential Risk | Lex Fridman Podcast #314

Lex Fridman · Poker pro turned philanthropist Liv Boeree and Lex Fridman use game theory and 'Mol

Russ Roberts — The Decisions that Define Us

Tim Ferriss · Economist Russ Roberts on why life's biggest decisions can't be solved with co

Will MacAskill of Effective Altruism Fame — The Value of Longtermism, AI, and How to Save the World

Tim Ferriss · Philosopher Will MacAskill explains longtermism, existential risks from AI, pandemics an

Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang | Lex Fridman Podcast #305

Lex Fridman · Cosmologist Martin Rees explores black holes, alien life, dark matter, the Big Bang, and

Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church | Lex Fridman Podcast #304

Lex Fridman · Bishop Robert Barron makes the case for Catholic Christianity's beauty, explaining

Jonathan Reisman: The Human Body - From Sex & Sperm to Hands & Heart | Lex Fridman Podcast #297

Lex Fridman · A physician-writer takes Lex on a wondrous, gross, and humbling tour of the human body,

Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion - How Evolution Hid the Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #293

Lex Fridman · Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues evolution shaped us to see a survival-optimize

Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan, Fraud, Prison, and Sociopathy | Lex Fridman Podcast #288

Lex Fridman · Sarma Melngailis tells Lex Fridman her side of the Bad Vegan story, framing the fraud an

Simon Sinek: The Number One Reason Why You’re Not Succeeding | E145

Diary of a CEO · Simon Sinek explains why purpose comes from serving others, and why fulfillment, leaders

Bobby Lee: Comedy, Skyrim, Sex Robots, Love, Fame, and Power | Lex Fridman Podcast #287

Lex Fridman · Comedian Bobby Lee opens up to Lex Fridman about addiction, a recent near-death rock bot

Chris Mason: Space Travel, Colonization, and Long-Term Survival in Space | Lex Fridman Podcast #283

Lex Fridman · A Cornell geneticist makes the case that humanity has a duty to engineer life itself to

Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin | Lex Fridman Podcast #279

Lex Fridman · Astrobiologist Sara Walker and chemist Lee Cronin debate what alien life is, how to dete

Skye Fitzgerald: Hunger, War, and Human Suffering | Lex Fridman Podcast #278

Lex Fridman · Oscar-nominated documentarian Skye Fitzgerald on famine as a weapon of war, the ethics o

David Wolpe: Judaism | Lex Fridman Podcast #270

Lex Fridman · Rabbi David Wolpe and Lex Fridman explore God, faith, free will, the Holocaust, mortalit

How To Finally Stop Procrastinating: Oliver Burkeman | E125

Diary of a CEO · Oliver Burkeman explains why embracing our finitude and limits is the antidote to procra

Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #269

Lex Fridman · Chemist Lee Cronin argues life is an inevitable, measurable consequence of selection, an

Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology | Lex Fridman Podcast #268

Lex Fridman · Stanford historian Robert Proctor on how science became a full collaborator in Nazi geno

Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #267

Lex Fridman · Zuckerberg defends Meta on speech, polarization, and teen well-being while sketching his

Boyd Varty — The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life | The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss · Lion tracker and author Boyd Varty on using wilderness tracking as a model for trauma he

Joe Rogan's Censorship Battle - Coleman Hughes

Joe Rogan · Coleman Hughes defends Joe Rogan against censorship campaigns and argues free speech, co

Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind | Lex Fridman Podcast #261

Lex Fridman · Philosopher Philip Goff makes the case that consciousness is the fundamental nature of a

Georges St-Pierre, John Danaher & Gordon Ryan: The Greatest of All Time | Lex Fridman Podcast #260

Lex Fridman · Three GOATs of combat sports break down success, mindset, diet myths, strength vs skill,

Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #258

Lex Fridman · Yann LeCun argues self-supervised learning is the missing dark matter of intelligence an

Michael Schur — Lessons from "The Office" and SNL, Moral Philosophy, Storytelling, and More

Tim Ferriss · Michael Schur on the Harvard Lampoon, SNL's brutal lessons, learning to write from

Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony | Lex Fridman Podcast #256

Lex Fridman · Objectivist Yaron Brook and national conservative Yoram Hazony debate whether the indivi

Performance Psychologist Michael Gervais — Fear< with Tim Ferriss

Tim Ferriss · Performance psychologist Michael Gervais on extinguishing fear, building a philosophy, m

Michael Malice: New Year's Special | Lex Fridman Podcast #253

Lex Fridman · Malice and Fridman ring in 2022 with a warm, sprawling riff on beauty, evil, optimism, w

Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #252

Lex Fridman · Elon Musk walks Lex Fridman through Raptor engines, the Mars timeline, how Tesla's

Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #250

Lex Fridman · Python pioneer Peter Wang takes Lex Fridman from package management to the meaning of li

TOMS Founder Blake Mycoskie — Fear< with Tim Ferriss

Tim Ferriss · TOMS founder Blake Mycoskie tells Tim Ferriss how a serial entrepreneur turned an Argent

Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling | Lex Fridman Podcast #245

Lex Fridman · Olympic champion Tom Brands on the hatred of losing, relentless repetition, and the indo

Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA | Lex Fridman Podcast #242

Lex Fridman · Ben Askren breaks down wrestling mastery, his MMA dominance, the Jake Paul loss, and why

Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #227

Lex Fridman · Harvard philosopher Sean Kelly traces existentialism and nihilism and argues meaning com

Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #221

Lex Fridman · Cyc creator Doug Lenat on his 37-year quest to give computers common sense through milli

Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #215

Lex Fridman · OpenAI's Wojciech Zaremba explains GPT-3, Codex and Copilot while weaving in consci

Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science | Lex Fridman Podcast #214

Lex Fridman · Caltech historian Jed Buchwald takes Lex Fridman through Isaac Newton's genius, the

Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #212

Lex Fridman · Joscha Bach argues we are software running on an ape brain, living inside a dream world

Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #208

Lex Fridman · Neuroscientist Jeff Hawkins explains his Thousand Brains Theory and why super-intelligen

Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running | Lex Fridman Podcast #205

Lex Fridman · Ultramarathon world-record holder Zach Bitter on running 100 miles, fasting and meat-bas

Cumrun Vafa: String Theory | Lex Fridman Podcast #204

Lex Fridman · Harvard string theorist Cumrun Vafa explains string theory, extra dimensions, and why ma

Michael Pollan — This Is Your Mind on Plants | The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss · Michael Pollan explores caffeine, opium, and mescaline, the history and politics of the

Clara Sousa-Silva: Searching for Signs of Life on Venus and Other Planets | Lex Fridman Podcast #195

Lex Fridman · A Harvard quantum astrochemist explains the contested phosphine-on-Venus discovery and w

Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction | Lex Fridman Podcast #191

Lex Fridman · Daniel Schmachtenberger maps why every powerful civilization self-terminates and how lov

David Sinclair: Extending the Human Lifespan Beyond 100 Years | Lex Fridman Podcast #189

Lex Fridman · Harvard geneticist David Sinclair explains how aging is a loss of biological information

Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #185

Lex Fridman · Sam Harris and Lex Fridman explore consciousness, the illusion of free will, psychedelic

John Danaher: The Path to Mastery in Jiu Jitsu, Grappling, Judo, and MMA | Lex Fridman Podcast #182

Lex Fridman · Legendary grappling coach John Danaher dissects mastery, fear, escapes, leg locks, and w

Jeremi Suri: History of American Power | Lex Fridman Podcast #180

Lex Fridman · Historian Jeremi Suri unpacks how American presidential power evolved from Lincoln to to

Robert Breedlove: Philosophy of Bitcoin from First Principles | Lex Fridman Podcast #176

Lex Fridman · Robert Breedlove builds a sweeping first-principles case that money is speech, energy, a

Ronald Sullivan: The Ideal of Justice in the Face of Controversy and Evil | Lex Fridman Podcast #170

Lex Fridman · Harvard Law's Ronald Sullivan defends everyone's right to counsel, even Harvey

A Billionaire’s Guide To Healing Your Mind And Extending Your Life: Christian Angermayer | E72

Diary of a CEO · Billionaire investor Christian Angermayer on psychedelics, life extension, relentless op

Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts | Lex Fridman #165

Lex Fridman · Catch-wrestling champion Josh Barnett and Lex Fridman trade Nietzsche, the philosophy of

Extremely Honest Q&A | The Diary Of A CEO | E70

Diary of a CEO · Stephen Bartlett answers fan-submitted questions with brutally honest takes on meaning,

Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds | Lex Fridman Podcast #158

Lex Fridman · A teenage Zev Weinstein argues that radical philosophy is humanity's only escape fr

Natalya Bailey: Rocket Engines and Electric Spacecraft Propulsion | Lex Fridman Podcast #157

Lex Fridman · Rocket scientist Natalya Bailey breaks down in-space electric propulsion, nanoscale coll

Max Tegmark: AI and Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #155

Lex Fridman · Max Tegmark on making AI intelligible, aligning powerful systems, the threat of autonomo

Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua | Lex Fridman Podcast #154

Lex Fridman · Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb argues Oumuamua may be alien technology and that science

Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions | Lex Fridman Podcast #152

Lex Fridman · Wrestling legend Dan Gable on mental toughness, the science of art versus raw American g

Lex Fridman plays The Stanley Parable

Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman plays The Stanley Parable, turning a quirky video game into a running medita

Diana Walsh Pasulka: Aliens, Technology, Religion & the Nature of Belief | Lex Fridman Podcast #149

Lex Fridman · A religion scholar argues UFOs are becoming a new religion, and that belief itself, in t

Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #144

Lex Fridman · Brown professor Michael Littman on reinforcement learning, why he is unmoved by AI doom,

John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence | Lex Fridman Podcast #143

Lex Fridman · MMA coach John Clarke and Lex Fridman dig into violence, excellence, loyalty, love, and

Manolis Kellis: Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything | Lex Fridman Podcast #142

Lex Fridman · MIT computational biologist Manolis Kellis riffs on music, evolution, AI, and the meanin

Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Objectivism | Lex Fridman Podcast #138

Lex Fridman · Objectivist philosopher Yaron Brook makes the full case for Ayn Rand's reason, rati

Alex Filippenko: Supernovae, Dark Energy, Aliens & the Expanding Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #137

Lex Fridman · Nobel-honored astrophysicist Alex Filippenko on dark energy, exploding stars, why we may

Yuval Noah Harari on The Story of Sapiens, The Power of Awareness, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss · Yuval Noah Harari on meditation, the fictional stories that bind humanity, suffering as

Matthew McConaughey on Success Playbooks, Philosophy of Greenlights, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss · Matthew McConaughey unpacks the philosophy behind Greenlights: family lessons, journalin

Naval Ravikant on Happiness, Anxiety, and More

Tim Ferriss · Naval Ravikant returns to discuss happiness, anxiety, meditation, true science, building

Joe Rogan: Fear, Love, Chaos, and the Joe Rogan Experience | Lex Fridman Podcast #127

Joe Rogan · Joe Rogan opens up to Lex Fridman about mortality, his inner violence, the chaos of 2020

Ryan Hall: Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Violence, Power, and Grace | Lex Fridman Podcast #125

Lex Fridman · Ryan Hall and Lex Fridman explore violence, power, grace, and jiu jitsu mastery, and the

Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness | Lex Fridman Podcast #123

Lex Fridman · MIT computational biologist Manolis Kellis on the origin of life, the epigenome, alien b

The Psychedelic News Hour - New Breakthroughs, Treatment of Trauma, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss · Tim Ferriss is interviewed by two psychedelic-medicine physicians about MDMA trials, tre

Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #117

Lex Fridman · Social psychologist Sheldon Solomon argues the fear of death secretly drives nearly ever

Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics | Lex Fridman Podcast #113

Lex Fridman · MIT computational biologist Manolis Kellis on the beauty of the human genome, how evolut

Ian Hutchinson: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion | Lex Fridman Podcast #112

Lex Fridman · MIT plasma physicist Ian Hutchinson explains nuclear fusion and argues why science canno

Peter Singer: Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #107

Lex Fridman · Peter Singer and Lex Fridman explore the nature of suffering across humans, animals, and

You Are Your Own Existence Proof (Karl Friston) | AI Podcast Clips with Lex Fridman

Lex Fridman · Karl Friston explains the free energy principle: anything that exists is an inference ma

Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #101

Lex Fridman · Cognitive scientist Joscha Bach argues consciousness is a simulation the brain runs on i

Coach George Raveling on This Unique Moment in Time and More | The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss · 82-year-old coaching legend George Raveling reflects on race, leadership, and hope amid

Karl Friston: Neuroscience and the Free Energy Principle | Lex Fridman Podcast #99

Lex Fridman · Neuroscientist Karl Friston unpacks the free energy principle, arguing existence itself

Kate Darling: Social Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #98

Lex Fridman · MIT researcher Kate Darling explains why we treat robots like living things and what tha

Stephen Schwarzman: Going Big in Business, Investing, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #96

Lex Fridman · Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman on going big, reading people, philanthropy, China,

Turing Test: Can Machines Think?

Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman dissects Turing's 1950 paper, its nine objections, and rival benchmarks

Jack Dorsey: Square, Cryptocurrency, and Artificial Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #91

Lex Fridman · Jack Dorsey on building Square at scale, why Bitcoin should be the internet's nativ

Rana el Kaliouby — AI, Emotional Intelligence, and The Journey of Finding Oneself

Tim Ferriss · Emotion AI pioneer Rana el Kaliouby on teaching machines emotional intelligence, her jou

What is Wolfram Language? (Stephen Wolfram) | AI Podcast Clips

Lex Fridman · Stephen Wolfram explains how Wolfram Language tries to encode the world's knowledge

How to Use Stoicism to Choose Alive Time Over Dead Time — Daily Stoic Author Ryan Holiday

Tim Ferriss · Ryan Holiday and Tim Ferriss apply Stoic philosophy to the COVID-19 crisis, choosing ali

David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #86

Lex Fridman · DeepMind's David Silver explains how AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and MuZero used self-play

Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #85

Lex Fridman · Roger Penrose argues consciousness is non-computational, rooted in quantum gravity in br

Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #83

Lex Fridman · Philosopher Nick Bostrom unpacks the simulation argument and the promise and peril of su

Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering | Lex Fridman Podcast #81

Lex Fridman · Berkeley roboticist Anca Dragan on why robots must model messy humans, learn hidden rewa

David Goggins 48 Hour Challenge - 4 Miles Every 4 Hours | Lex Fridman

Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman attempts a David Goggins 48-mile challenge solo, running four miles every fo

Lee Smolin: Quantum Gravity and Einstein's Unfinished Revolution | Lex Fridman Podcast #79

Lex Fridman · Theoretical physicist Lee Smolin argues time is fundamental, space is emergent, and Eins

Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science | Lex Fridman Podcast #77

Lex Fridman · Filmmaker Alex Garland and Lex Fridman explore AI, consciousness, free will, and the poe

Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #73

Lex Fridman · Andrew Ng on how he democratized AI education, why scale beats clever architecture, and

Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing | Lex Fridman Podcast #72

Lex Fridman · Scott Aaronson demystifies quantum computing, separating its genuine revolutionary core

Vladimir Vapnik: Predicates, Invariants, and the Essence of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #71

Lex Fridman · Vladimir Vapnik argues true intelligence is finding a few universal 'predicates

David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #69

Lex Fridman · Philosopher David Chalmers explores the hard problem of consciousness, panpsychism, simu

Ayanna Howard: Human-Robot Interaction & Ethics of Safety-Critical Systems | Lex Fridman Podcast #66

Lex Fridman · Roboticist Ayanna Howard on why we don't want perfect robots, the ethics of safety-

Deep Learning State of the Art (2020)

Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman's whirlwind 2020 tour of deep learning's biggest breakthroughs, de

Michael Stevens: Vsauce | Lex Fridman Podcast #58

Lex Fridman · Vsauce's Michael Stevens and Lex Fridman explore consciousness, simulation, flat-ea

Judea Pearl: Causal Reasoning, Counterfactuals, and the Path to AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #56

Lex Fridman · Turing Award winner Judea Pearl argues that causal reasoning, not deep learning's c

Noam Chomsky: Language, Cognition, and Deep Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #53

Lex Fridman · Noam Chomsky argues language is an internal system for thought, science has limits, and

Michael Kearns: Algorithmic Fairness, Privacy & Ethics | Lex Fridman Podcast #50

Lex Fridman · Michael Kearns explains how fairness, privacy, and ethics can be encoded into algorithms

Elon Musk: Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot | Lex Fridman Podcast #49

Lex Fridman · Elon Musk and Lex Fridman explore Neuralink, consciousness, AI existential risk, Tesla a

François Chollet: Keras, Deep Learning, and the Progress of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #38

Lex Fridman · Keras creator Francois Chollet on why intelligence explosion is a myth, the limits of de

Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think and the Early Days of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #34

Lex Fridman · AI historian Pamela McCorduck recalls the founding fathers of AI, the field's mythi

Kevin Scott: Microsoft CTO | Lex Fridman Podcast #30

Lex Fridman · Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on AI as a democratizing platform, data dignity, deepfakes, co

Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #25

Lex Fridman · Neuroscientist Jeff Hawkins explains his Thousand Brains Theory of intelligence and why

Rosalind Picard: Affective Computing, Emotion, Privacy, and Health | Lex Fridman Podcast #24

Lex Fridman · MIT's Rosalind Picard on affective computing, the ethics of emotion-reading AI, wea

Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16

Lex Fridman · Eric Weinstein on artificial life, the dangers of self-replicating software, the collaps

Tomaso Poggio: Brains, Minds, and Machines | Lex Fridman Podcast #13

Lex Fridman · MIT's Tomaso Poggio explores the nature of intelligence, how brains and deep networ

Stuart Russell: Long-Term Future of Artificial Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #9

Lex Fridman · AI pioneer Stuart Russell on why we must build machines that are uncertain about human o

Vladimir Vapnik: Statistical Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #5

Lex Fridman · Statistical learning pioneer Vladimir Vapnik argues true learning needs invariants and p

Yoshua Bengio: Deep Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #4

Lex Fridman · Deep learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio on the limits of neural nets, causal reasoning, AI s

Steven Pinker: AI in the Age of Reason | Lex Fridman Podcast #3

Lex Fridman · Steven Pinker argues AI existential-threat fears are magical thinking, and that reason a

Christof Koch: Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #2

Lex Fridman · Neuroscientist Christof Koch explains why intelligence and consciousness are different,

Emilio Frazzoli, CTO, nuTonomy - MIT Self-Driving Cars

Lex Fridman · nuTonomy CTO Emilio Frazzoli argues self-driving's real value is shared mobility, a

Stephen Wolfram: Computational Universe | MIT 6.S099: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

Lex Fridman · Stephen Wolfram on mining the computational universe, why simple programs create complex

Ray Kurzweil: Future of Intelligence | MIT 6.S099: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

Lex Fridman · Ray Kurzweil traces the neocortex, deep learning's rise, and his case for merging w

MIT Self-Driving Cars (2018)

Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman's MIT lecture argues human-centered semi-autonomy beats full self-drivi

MIT Sloan: Intro to Machine Learning (in 360/VR)

Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman's non-technical MIT Sloan guest lecture on what machine learning can an

Chris Gerdes (Stanford) on Technology, Policy and Vehicle Safety - MIT Self-Driving Cars

Lex Fridman · Stanford's Chris Gerdes on building autonomous race cars and shaping the first US f