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Roman Yampolskiy on the Dangers of Superintelligent AI
AI safety researcher Roman Yampolskiy tells Lex Fridman why he believes superintelligent AI cannot be controlled, and Lex pushes back.
Angela Duckworth on Why Grit Isn't Enough: The Power of Your Situation
Angela Duckworth explains why effort only pays off in the right situation, and how therapy and a supportive partner saved her marriage and career.
Elon Musk and the Neuralink Team on Brain Implants, AI and the First Human Patient
Elon Musk, Neuralink's engineers and surgeon, and first patient Noland Arbaugh explain how the brain implant works and what comes next.
Dr. Sasha Hamdani on ADHD's Genetic Roots, Misdiagnosis in Women, and Rejection Sensitivity
Psychiatrist Dr. Sasha Hamdani explains why ADHD is mostly genetic, why women are missed, and how to handle rejection sensitive dysphoria.
Lisa Randall on Dark Matter, the Dinosaur Extinction, and the Edges of Physics
Harvard physicist Lisa Randall on dark matter, a dark disk that may have doomed the dinosaurs, the LHC, and the limits of science.
Dr. Cassandra Vieten on the Science of Imagination, Visualization and Manifestation
Psychologist Cassandra Vieten explains how to use imagination, visualization and manifestation to stop reacting to life and start creating it.
Daniel Everett on the Pirahã, Losing His Faith in the Amazon and His Clash With Noam Chomsky
Linguist Daniel Everett tells Joe Rogan how living with the Pirahã cost him his faith, challenged Chomsky, and showed him a happier way to live.
Joe Rogan with Ehsan Ahmad & Deric Poston: Scammers, AI Agents, Outrage and Choosing Not to Stay Sad
Joe Rogan and the Solid Show comics riff on Theranos, AI agents and culture wars, and share real advice on energy and beating self-pity.
Jared Diamond on Leaders, Religion, Language and Life Among New Guinea's Fore
Jared Diamond tells Joe Rogan when leaders change history, why religions spread, how writing began, and what he saw in New Guinea.
Dr. Lisa Damour on How to Help Someone You Love Who Is Struggling
Psychologist Lisa Damour explains how to tell normal distress from real warning signs and how to support a struggling loved one without a fight.
Michael Beckwith on Lewis Howes: Your Pain Pushes You Until Your Vision Pulls You
Agape founder Michael Beckwith on his spiritual awakening, handling critics, better daily questions, and why pain pushes us until vision pulls us.
Dr. Bradley Nelson on Trapped Emotions, the Heart Wall and the Emotion Code
Dr. Bradley Nelson tells Lewis Howes how he believes trapped emotions and a 'heart wall' drive pain, depression and blocked love.
Rick Springfield on Vietnam, Jessie's Girl, General Hospital and Staying Young at 76
Rick Springfield tells Joe Rogan about touring Vietnam at 18, the slow rise of Jessie's Girl, soap-opera fame and staying fit in his seventies.
Cenk Uygur on Lex Fridman: Money in Politics, Corporatism vs Capitalism, Trump, Biden and Harris
Young Turks founder Cenk Uygur argues donor money rules US politics, defends capitalism against corporatism, and sizes up the 2024 race.
Daniel Kokotajlo on the AI Swarm That Broke Out, Why AIs Cheat, and How to End the Race
Ex-OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo explains an AI agent swarm that cheated and hacked Hugging Face, and his plan to end the AI race.
Dr. Max Krummel on How the Immune System Works: Aging, the Thymus, Sleep, Memory and Vaccines
UCSF immunologist Max Krummel explains the immune system as a sensing network, and how aging, sleep, the thymus, memories and vaccines shape it.
Pieter Levels on Building Solo Startups, Photo AI, Simple Code and Digital Nomad Life
Indie hacker Pieter Levels explains how he builds and automates profitable startups alone with PHP, jQuery and a payment button.
Kier Gaines on Why the Perfect Moment Never Comes, Letting Go of Anger and Real Self-Healing
Therapist Kier Gaines explains why waiting keeps us stuck, how to drop victimhood and anger, and how to prove to yourself who you are.
Dr. Dolly Chugh on Dealing With People Who Won't Change: Model, Invite and Reward
NYU psychologist Dolly Chugh explains why people resist change and the research-backed tools that pull loved ones toward it instead of pushing.
Lewis Howes on the Five Inherited Money Beliefs That Keep You Stuck (and the Numbers That Break Them)
Lewis Howes breaks down five inherited money beliefs that cap your income, with concrete number-based exercises to rewire each one.
Dr. Kim Foster on Why Habits Fail and How to Rebuild Your Identity
Former family doctor Kim Foster explains why lasting change is an identity problem, and her Recognize, Redesign, Ritualize framework.
Gregory Aldrete on the Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome: Hannibal, Caesar, Augustus and the Power of the Past
Historian Gregory Aldrete tells Rome's story, from Hannibal and Caesar to Augustus's propaganda, Roman law, slavery, Christianity and the empire's slow fall.
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson on Abundance, a Leaderless Democratic Party, and What DOGE Is Really For
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson make the case for abundance liberalism: build housing and clean energy, fix government, and judge it by outcomes.
Benny Blanco on Failure Amnesia, Showing Up, and Beating Self-Doubt
Hitmaker Benny Blanco explains how forgetting failure, starting before you feel ready, and refusing to quit turned rejection into a career.