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Numerai founder Richard Craib explains the GameStop squeeze, evil vs chill shorting, and his crowdsourced AI hedge fund built on staking.
Economist Tyler Cowen on growth, capitalism, crypto, UFOs, art, food and why America works best as a nation of weirdos.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin explains the Shiba Inu donation, proof of stake, sharding, rollups and the merge, then turns to longevity and meaning.
Mathematician Jordan Ellenberg and Lex Fridman explore symmetry, topology, Poincaré, primes, Conway's Game of Life and how to love math.
Stanford neuroscientist Andrew Huberman and Lex Fridman cover sleep, naps, fasting, REM dreams, psychedelics, neuroplasticity and pushing mental limits.
Eric Weinstein and Lex Fridman tackle free speech online, friendship amid cancel culture, Epstein, growth, gauge-theory economics and Geometric Unity.
Harvard geneticist David Sinclair explains his information theory of aging, a reset switch in mice, one meal a day, and a future of body dashboards.
Legendary chip architect Jim Keller talks craftsmanship, modular design, graph-native AI hardware at Tenstorrent, consciousness, fear and love.
Turing Award winner Silvio Micali explains blockchains as shared ledgers, how Algorand aims to beat the blockchain trilemma, and the beauty of cryptography.
Harvard law professor Ronald Sullivan tells Lex Fridman why everyone deserves a defense, from Harvey Weinstein to Aaron Hernandez, and what Harvard got wrong.
Daniel Schmachtenberger and Lex Fridman on why civilizations self-terminate, exponential tech risk, better social systems and a meaningful life.
Librex founder Ryan Schiller tells Lex Fridman how he built an anonymous campus discussion app to fight the chilling of debate at Yale and beyond.
Evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein talks close calls, COVID origins, YouTube censorship, his telomere paper, monogamy and the meaning of life.
Quantum astrochemist Clara Sousa-Silva explains the phosphine signal on Venus, molecular fingerprints, and why life may be common but intelligence rare.
Investor and writer Nic Carter explains Bitcoin's values, the blocksize war, layered scaling, energy critiques, Ethereum, Dogecoin and NFTs.
FAIR researcher Ishan Misra explains how machines can learn to see without human labels, from contrastive learning and SwAV to SEER and DINO.
Caltech astrophysicist Konstantin Batygin explains the evidence for Planet Nine, how solar systems form, and why useless knowledge matters.
UT Austin's Risto Miikkulainen explains how evolutionary algorithms discover surprising solutions, from sleepless basil to scheming robots.
Michael Malice and Lex Fridman debate anarchism and voting, and discuss heroism under totalitarianism, cynicism and the family history behind their joy.
Nobel physicist Frank Wilczek on why the world is comprehensible, asymptotic freedom, axions as dark matter, time crystals, complementarity and aliens.
Author and podcaster Rob Reid explains why synthetic biology is our nearest existential risk and how cheap defenses could neutralize it.
Belcampo co-founder Anya Fernald explains how to cook meat well, what regenerative and humane farming mean, and why simple food wins.
Brian Muraresku and Lex Fridman trace psychedelic wine and beer through ancient Greece, Eleusis and early Christianity, and ask what it means today.
Coach John Danaher explains how he builds champions: escapes first, heuristics over details, smart drilling, leg-lock control and five-year reinvention.
Ultrarunner and coach Zach Bitter talks 100-mile records, the voice that tells you to quit, aerobic base training, low-carb fueling and his run across America.
Judo world champion and coach Jimmy Pedro tells Lex Fridman how he built Olympic medalists like Kayla Harrison and Travis Stevens, and why belief matters.
Cognitive scientist Joscha Bach argues we live inside a dream our brains generate, and explores free will, suffering, GPT-3, ideology and love.
Columbia virologist Vincent Racaniello explains to Lex Fridman what viruses are, how SARS-CoV-2 and vaccines work, and what the pandemic taught us.
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson explains proof of stake, extended UTXO, governance, Ethiopia and why crypto should give everyone fair access.
Roboticist Rodney Brooks and Lex Fridman debate AI hype, self-driving cars, whether computation is the right metaphor, and lessons from iRobot and Rethink.