The Perfect Summary Podcast
Every summary, narrated: the GIST of great conversations and books in minutes, so you can decide if you want the REST.
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Berkeley professor Dawn Song explains how AI models get fooled, how training data leaks, and why people should own their data.
Tony Woods and Joe Rogan swap military and comedy stories, man-eating animals, parasites in history, and a cold-plunge fix for high PSA.
Lex Fridman interviews Joe Rogan on 2020's chaos, his violent competitive streak, ideas as living things, podcasting advice, and love.
MIT biologist Manolis Kellis explains the genome as digital code, what evolution reveals about SARS-CoV-2, and why messiness makes life robust.
Georgia Tech dean Charles Isbell on predictable people, interactive AI, hiring bias, what computing is, hip hop, and race in America.
Scott Aaronson critiques IIT and Penrose, weighs GPT-3, and explains universality, the Complexity Zoo, and why he bets P is not NP.
The Protect Our Parks crew returns for a boozy, rowdy hang covering microplastics, fluoride, Carl Hart, the Donner Party, hippos and Tom Cruise.
Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson on exponential tech, the productivity J-curve, free digital goods, lies online, and AI and jobs.
Religion scholar Diana Walsh Pasulka on how beliefs shape reality, how religions start, and why UFO belief may be a new religion.
MIT computational biologist Manolis Kellis explains how genetics is revealing the hidden circuitry behind obesity, Alzheimer's and more.
Joe Rogan and Eddie Bravo talk Muay Thai, bare knuckle fighting, MMA rule changes, fight history, wild animals and Bravo's back rehab.
Rev's Dan Kokotov and Lex Fridman on human and AI transcription, word error rate, the data flywheel, podcasts, and loved products.
Bill Maher and Joe Rogan debate wokeness, crime, obesity and Ozempic, gender medicine, Trump versus Biden, campus echo chambers and COVID policy.
Trae Tha Truth talks sobriety, removing his own bullet, Harvey rescues, UFC and boxing lore, AI fears and his album Stuck In Motion.
Comedian Ehsan Ahmad and Joe Rogan talk about the Mothership, the craft of opening a show, media distrust, AI and luck.
Hot rod builder Steve Strope tells Joe Rogan about his eye surgeries, building magazine-cover cars in a parking garage, and more.
OpenAI's Sam Altman and Joe Rogan discuss AI's net-good but disruptive future, UBI, neural interfaces, social media, and psychedelic therapy.
Joe Rogan and comic Joe List riff on building the Comedy Mothership, crowd work, phones and boredom, sauna, AI and the soul.
Waymo CTO Dmitri Dolgov tells Lex Fridman how Waymo went from the DARPA Urban Challenge to a public driverless service in Phoenix, and what scaling takes.
Investor Anthony Pompliano makes the case for Bitcoin as digital sound money, and talks war, money as time, NFTs, Dogecoin and long-term thinking.
Big wave surfer Shane Dorian and Joe Rogan cover stem cells, a meat diet, bow hunting under pressure, fentanyl and brain recovery.
Ralph Barbosa and Joe Rogan talk Austin comedy, going viral, ignoring comments, painting cars and finding your own comedic voice.
Whistleblower David Grusch tells Joe Rogan about alleged UFO crash retrievals, the reprisals he faced, and the push for a disclosure law.
Black Rifle Coffee founder Evan Hafer and Joe Rogan talk purpose, freedom and responsibility, elk hunting, veteran struggles and the true cost of war.
Comedian Tim Dillon and Lex Fridman talk deplatforming, Alex Jones, QAnon, Trump, the deep state, comedy's power, his mother and what makes life well spent.
Comedian Jimmy Carr and Joe Rogan on comedy's golden age, teaching stand-up, gratitude, dyslexia, envy, conspiracies and finding your purpose.
Comic Luis J. Gomez and Joe Rogan riff on legal weed, online outrage, fear of the future, jiu-jitsu, fatherhood and how bombing makes comedians better.
Georgia Tech dean Charles Isbell and Brown professor Michael Littman join Lex Fridman to debate machine learning, education, college in COVID and friendship.
Joe Rogan and comic Brian Simpson roam from viral fame and eating disorders to CIA cocaine, the electoral college and staying sane in an overloaded world.
Kernel founder Bryan Johnson puts a brain interface on Lex Fridman and explains measuring the mind, data-driven eating, depression and zero principles.