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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MIT roboticist Sertac Karaman on self-driving at scale, Optimus Ride, lidar vs cameras, and drones that fly faster than humans can.
Joe Rogan and Brian Redban catch up on their Austin comedy clubs, AI voice fakes, VRChat, salt myths and fast-food nostalgia.
Berkeley professor Dawn Song explains how AI models get fooled, how training data leaks, and why people should own their data.
MIT biologist Manolis Kellis explains the genome as digital code, what evolution reveals about SARS-CoV-2, and why messiness makes life robust.
Patrick Bet-David and Joe Rogan debate the 2024 race, COVID distrust, ESG and BlackRock, and why Rogan should interview Trump.
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.
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.
Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett on falling in love by text, how brains really evolved, evil, many selves and consciousness.
Rev's Dan Kokotov and Lex Fridman on human and AI transcription, word error rate, the data flywheel, podcasts, and loved products.
Trae Tha Truth talks sobriety, removing his own bullet, Harvey rescues, UFC and boxing lore, AI fears and his album Stuck In Motion.
Neuroscientist MD Russell Kennedy tells Mel Robbins anxiety is a childhood alarm stored in the body, and how to heal it neck down.
Comedian Ehsan Ahmad and Joe Rogan talk about the Mothership, the craft of opening a show, media distrust, AI and luck.
OpenAI's Sam Altman and Joe Rogan discuss AI's net-good but disruptive future, UBI, neural interfaces, social media, and psychedelic therapy.
Dr. Becky Kennedy explains how childhood wiring drives adult triggers and shares three steps to repair and rewire your reactions.
Joe Rogan and comic Joe List riff on building the Comedy Mothership, crowd work, phones and boredom, sauna, AI and the soul.
Mel Robbins redefines manifesting as mental rehearsal: name the goal, visualize the hard steps, feel them, then do the work patiently.
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.
Mel Robbins and her 17-year-old son Oakley share how he went from hating himself to self-acceptance, plus simple tools to like yourself more.
Whistleblower David Grusch tells Joe Rogan about alleged UFO crash retrievals, the reprisals he faced, and the push for a disclosure law.
Coleman Hughes and Joe Rogan on NYC's migrant crisis, media framing, RFK Jr., Israel and Hamas, designer babies, AI and UFOs.
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.
Mel Robbins shares her own trauma story, explains the nervous system as your home's wiring and offers six ways to flip from fight or flight to calm.
Kernel founder Bryan Johnson puts a brain interface on Lex Fridman and explains measuring the mind, data-driven eating, depression and zero principles.
Mel Robbins explains the reticular activating system, the 'look for hearts' game, and thought substitution to train your mind to work for you.
Green Beret Tim Kennedy tells Joe Rogan about rescue missions in Israel and Kabul, the border, preparedness, parenting and discipline.