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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Bas Rutten joins Joe Rogan on Karate Combat, his obsessive training, injuries and depression after fighting, MMA history, and breath training.
Joscha Bach tells Lex Fridman why the self is a story the brain tells itself, what consciousness is for, and why civilization may not last.
Steven Pressfield on war as a metaphor for the inner fight, where Resistance comes from, serving the muse, and the daily routine of a working writer.
Comics Kim Congdon and Sara Weinshenk riff with Joe Rogan on podcasting, pandemic comedy, weed and hemp, Mike Tyson, UFOs, dreams, and a timeshare.
Turing Award winner David Patterson on why simple instruction sets won, open RISC-V, Moore's law slowing, machine learning chips, RAID, and teaching.
Andrew Dice Clay tells Joe Rogan how he became the first arena comic, survived the backlash and why acting was always the dream.
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.
Theo Von and Joe Rogan celebrate the Comedy Mothership and talk routines, SSRIs, vapes, exercise and drug companies.
Marcus Hutter explains AIXI, his mathematical model of perfect intelligence, and why compression, understanding and prediction are one.
Brian Kernighan recalls how UNIX and C took shape at Bell Labs, why AWK endures, and how he sees programming languages, AI, and computing today.
Joe Rogan and bowhunter Cameron Hanes talk bears and wolves, UFC, running, comedy, pandemic politics and overcoming envy.
Turing Award winner Richard Karp explains P vs NP, NP-completeness, randomized algorithms, and why he doubts machines will match human intelligence.
Berkeley's Sergey Levine explains why robot minds lag robot bodies, how reinforcement learning works, and what it will take for machines to keep improving.
Lex Fridman maps eight long-term futures for Neuralink, from easing suffering and telepathy to saved memories and merging with AI.
Sean Strickland tells Joe Rogan how fighting saved him from a violent childhood, why he only spars, and what's wrong with fighter pay.
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.
Michael Shellenberger unpacks the Twitter Files, government-backed censorship, COVID, AI, nuclear power and why he stays hopeful.
Joe Rogan and comic Brian Simpson riff on the Titan sub, money and freedom, gambling, fair pay for comics, memes and dangerous wildlife.
Gabriel 'Fluffy' Iglesias and Joe Rogan talk Dodger Stadium, early comedy grind, VW buses, diabetes, weight loss and aliens.
Minds founder Bill Ottman and Joe Rogan on decentralized social media, censorship laws, open source AI, Neuralink and UFOs.
Andrew Ng on the first MOOCs, betting on scale at Google Brain, learning deep learning, and bringing AI into factories.
Killer Mike and Joe Rogan on his album Michael, envy, mentors, local politics, prisons, barbershops, money and family wisdom.
Navy pilot David Fravor recounts chasing the 2004 Tic Tac UFO, answers debunkers, and shares lessons from 18 years of flying fighters.
Cardiologist Aseem Malhotra tells Joe Rogan why he doubts statins, blames sugar over fat, and turned against the COVID mRNA vaccines.
Physicist Michio Kaku explains how quantum computers could remake medicine, AI and the world economy, and what comes after.
Marc Andreessen tells Joe Rogan the real AI danger is censorship and regulatory capture, not killer robots, and makes the case for open source.
Steven Wright and Joe Rogan on the 1980s Boston comedy scene, how Wright writes jokes, the value of doing nothing, and his novel Harold.
Jack Dorsey on how Square widened access to the economy, why the internet needs Bitcoin, AI risks, UBI, fasting and mortality.
Joe Rogan and Duncan Trussell riff on cults and costumes, procrastination, the Gospel of John, child influencers and UFO secrecy.
Replika co-founder Eugenia Kuyda on loneliness, losing her best friend, and building an AI companion that makes people feel seen.