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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Ben Goertzel on where the term AGI came from, his OpenCog design, decentralized AI, the truth about Sophia the robot, and why death is bad.
Lex Fridman maps eight long-term futures for Neuralink, from easing suffering and telepathy to saved memories and merging with AI.
Daphne Koller on using stem cells and machine learning to find new drugs, lessons from Coursera, and why AI must know when it is unsure.
Beckley Foundation founder Amanda Feilding on psychedelics, blood flow and the ego, microdosing for Alzheimer's, and her self-trepanation.
Cardiologist Aseem Malhotra tells Joe Rogan why he doubts statins, blames sugar over fat, and turned against the COVID mRNA vaccines.
Karl Friston explains brain imaging, the free energy principle, Markov blankets, and why moving non-randomly makes you alive.
Johns Hopkins researcher Matthew Johnson on psychedelic safety, psilocybin for quitting smoking, addiction economics, and consciousness.
Tony Woods and Joe Rogan swap military and comedy stories, man-eating animals, parasites in history, and a cold-plunge fix for high PSA.
Scott Aaronson critiques IIT and Penrose, weighs GPT-3, and explains universality, the Complexity Zoo, and why he bets P is not NP.
MIT computational biologist Manolis Kellis explains how genetics is revealing the hidden circuitry behind obesity, Alzheimer's and more.
Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett on falling in love by text, how brains really evolved, evil, many selves and consciousness.
Joe Rogan and comic Joe List riff on building the Comedy Mothership, crowd work, phones and boredom, sauna, AI and the soul.
Big wave surfer Shane Dorian and Joe Rogan cover stem cells, a meat diet, bow hunting under pressure, fentanyl and brain recovery.
Whistleblower David Grusch tells Joe Rogan about alleged UFO crash retrievals, the reprisals he faced, and the push for a disclosure law.
MIT's Manolis Kellis takes Lex Fridman through the songs of his life, the lore of 42, layers of reality, ideas as organisms, legacy and poetry.
Kernel founder Bryan Johnson puts a brain interface on Lex Fridman and explains measuring the mind, data-driven eating, depression and zero principles.
Sam Harris tells Lex Fridman why free will is an illusion, consciousness is not, AI is perilous, and meaning is found by paying attention now.
Immortality Key author Brian Muraresku and Joe Rogan explore psychedelic potions in ancient ritual, Homo naledi's burials, early Christian frescoes and AI.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin explains the Shiba Inu donation, proof of stake, sharding, rollups and the merge, then turns to longevity and meaning.
Stanford neuroscientist Andrew Huberman and Lex Fridman cover sleep, naps, fasting, REM dreams, psychedelics, neuroplasticity and pushing mental limits.
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.
Mel Robbins shares five evening habits, from the 3-2-1 rule to keeping your phone out of the bedroom, that set up a calmer, more productive morning.
Legendary chip architect Jim Keller talks craftsmanship, modular design, graph-native AI hardware at Tenstorrent, consciousness, fear and love.
Graham Hancock tells Joe Rogan about the backlash to Ancient Apocalypse, Amazon geoglyphs, Göbekli Tepe, the Sphinx, drug policy and new extended-state DMT research.
Joe Rogan and Duncan Trussell talk UFO disclosure, AI's rise, Duncan's diabetes wake-up call, addiction as a teacher, and consciousness.
Daniel Schmachtenberger and Lex Fridman on why civilizations self-terminate, exponential tech risk, better social systems and a meaningful life.
Brigham Buhler tells Joe Rogan why he thinks peptides are being squeezed out, how insurers profit from disease, and where stem cells and AI fit.
Evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein talks close calls, COVID origins, YouTube censorship, his telomere paper, monogamy and the meaning of life.
UFC welterweight Sean Brady talks recovery, weight cuts, his first loss, mental performance coaching and his win over Kelvin Gastelum with Joe Rogan.
Orthopedic surgeon Shawn Baker and Joe Rogan on the carnivore diet, high cholesterol in lean people, ultra-processed food, fiber, jiu jitsu and aging well.