The Perfect Summary Podcast
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Author Annaka Harris tells Lex Fridman why conscious will is an illusion, why consciousness might be fundamental, and how seeing through the self can ease suffering.
Former Navy SEAL and podcaster Shawn Ryan joins Joe Rogan on censorship, border security, China, UFOs, ibogaine and how his show began.
Levy Rozman (GothamChess) walks Lex Fridman through the Niemann-Carlsen cheating saga, chess engines, online hate and his own darkest moments.
Johns Hopkins researcher Dr. Matthew Johnson explains how psilocybin, MDMA and other psychedelics are studied as treatments, and what the real risks are.
MIT robot ethicist Kate Darling explains why robots are more like animals than humans, the risks of social robots, and what the Epstein scandal taught her.
Andrej Karpathy talks transformers, Software 2.0, Tesla's vision-only bet, Optimus, aliens, AGI and how he works and learns with Lex Fridman.
Bioinformatics professor Dmitry Korkin explains protein domains, the SARS-CoV-2 shell, what AlphaFold 2 really solved, and the odds of alien life.
Vice co-founder Shane Smith and Joe Rogan talk media, staying small, money and happiness, AI and jobs, surveillance, immigration and UFOs.
MIT physicist Max Tegmark on understandable AI, alignment, algorithmic news bubbles, killer drones, consciousness and our place in the cosmos.
On the eve of the 2024 election, Elon Musk and Joe Rogan discuss X and free speech, immigration, government waste, tariffs, AI and robots.
Python creator Guido van Rossum explains readability, the 3.11 speedup, type hints, the GIL, Python 4, Copilot and stepping down as BDFL.
Recorded on election day 2024, Joe Rogan and comedian Tim Dillon riff on the race, the media, foreign money, AI and the future of humans.
Meta AI's Noam Brown explains how Libratus and Pluribus beat poker pros and how Cicero learned to negotiate with humans in Diplomacy.
SETI astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol talks life on Mars, the nature of life, UFOs, diving volcanic lakes, and loss with Lex Fridman.
Marc Andreessen tells Joe Rogan how censorship, debanking, and planned AI controls pushed him away from the Democrats, and why he feels hopeful now.
Astronomer David Kipping and Lex Fridman discuss exomoons, the hunt for life, technosignatures, the Fermi paradox, AI and the simulation argument.
Gad Saad and Joe Rogan range over decision science, evolutionary explanations of behavior, academia, AI, odd coincidences, and choosing peace over conflict.
Retired NASA astrophysicist Michelle Thaller explains black holes, bendable time, entanglement and the Big Bang, and why scientists must admit what they don't know.
Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty tells Lex Fridman how adversity, preparation and 'good power' shaped her leadership through IBM's biggest reinvention.
Harland Williams and Joe Rogan riff on submarines, aliens, AI creativity, wolves, simulation theory, the death of the sitcom and roast comedy.
Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues evolution hides reality behind a perceptual headset and that consciousness, not the brain, is fundamental.
Sam Harris and Lex Fridman debate Trump, COVID, experts, quitting Twitter, feuds with Elon Musk and Bret Weinstein, AI risk and free will.
Eliezer Yudkowsky tells Lex Fridman why he thinks we get one try at aligning superintelligent AI, and why we're failing it.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on how GPT-4 works, bias and alignment, AGI timelines, OpenAI's capped-profit structure, power, jobs and the future.
Mathematician Edward Frenkel on why reality is paradoxical, the limits of computation, the Langlands program, surviving Soviet antisemitism, and love.
IONS chief scientist Dean Radin tells Joe Rogan about remote viewing at Stargate, presentiment experiments, psychic genetics and a nasal RNA therapy.
Max Tegmark explains the open letter to pause giant AI experiments, Moloch's race to the bottom, AI safety, consciousness, and hope for a good future.
Behavior expert Chase Hughes and Joe Rogan discuss a 5.5-hour DMT journey, psychedelic therapy, spotting psyops, and elicitation tactics.
UCSF neurosurgeon Eddie Chang on critical periods, rewriting the textbook map of language, epilepsy, stuttering, and decoding speech for paralyzed patients.
MIT biologist Manolis Kellis on what makes humans irreplaceable, evolution's layers, AI love and rights, the six-month pause, and self-actualization.