The Perfect Summary Podcast

George Hotz on Comma.ai's openpilot, why end-to-end learning beats Tesla's approach, crypto, programming and hacking the simulation.

Blackstone co-founder Stephen Schwarzman on going big, spotting the lint on the dress, the MIT College of Computing, China and AI.

Filmmaker James Reed on 400 days inside the Ngogo chimp community: monkey hunts, silent patrols, alpha politics and a rare split.

Chris Lattner on Swift's design, value semantics, LLVM and MLIR, RISC-V chips at SiFive, Moore's Law, GPT-3 and staying a long-term optimist.

Zach Bryan tells Joe Rogan how he went from loading Navy missiles to viral fame, and how he handles writing, criticism and stage fright.

Joe Rogan and Bryan Callen roam from hormones and training to God, politics, forgiveness, great fighters and a friendly argument about UFOs.

Karl Friston explains brain imaging, the free energy principle, Markov blankets, and why moving non-randomly makes you alive.

Michael Malice and Lex Fridman trade jokes and history: the white pill, Stalin and Hitler, North Korea, anarchism and secession.

MIT roboticist Sertac Karaman on self-driving at scale, Optimus Ride, lidar vs cameras, and drones that fly faster than humans can.

Conservationist Paul Rosolie shares wild Amazon stories and how Jungle Keepers turns loggers into rangers to save the rainforest.

Joe Rogan and Brian Redban catch up on their Austin comedy clubs, AI voice fakes, VRChat, salt myths and fast-food nostalgia.

Former SEAL and thriller author Jack Carr joins Joe Rogan on his new book, failing-up generals, the writers' strike, hunting, and UFOs.

Berkeley professor Dawn Song explains how AI models get fooled, how training data leaks, and why people should own their data.

Anarchist Michael Malice and Lex Fridman spar over the state, trolling versus love, conspiracy theories, Ayn Rand and the meaning of life.

UFC fighter and jiu jitsu black belt Ryan Hall on warriors, violence, grace over justice, learning jiu jitsu like a language, and never quitting.

Stephen Meyer argues the universe's beginning, its fine-tuning and DNA's code point to a mind, as Joe Rogan pushes back with skepticism.

Lex Fridman interviews Joe Rogan on 2020's chaos, his violent competitive streak, ideas as living things, podcasting advice, and love.

Gad Saad and Joe Rogan on his happiness book, tribalism, free speech with no "but", gender ideology, Canada and Messi.

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.

Dan Carlin and Lex Fridman on evil, force, war, Genghis Khan, whether Hitler could have been stopped, and how civilization might survive.

Scott Aaronson critiques IIT and Penrose, weighs GPT-3, and explains universality, the Complexity Zoo, and why he bets P is not NP.

Hulk Hogan tells Joe Rogan about wrestling's brutal early days, 25 surgeries, getting off fentanyl, and the faith that keeps him centered at 70.

Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson on exponential tech, the productivity J-curve, free digital goods, lies online, and AI and jobs.

MIT biologist Manolis Kellis on the epigenome, how life began, escaping the rat race, and why embracing suffering leads to a fuller life.

Stephen Wolfram explains how simple rules on a hypergraph might produce space, time, relativity and quantum mechanics.

Religion scholar Diana Walsh Pasulka on how beliefs shape reality, how religions start, and why UFO belief may be a new religion.

UFC middleweight Jared Cannonier tells Joe Rogan how he went from Army combatives and a 300-pound heavyweight to a title contender at 39.

Rev's Dan Kokotov and Lex Fridman on human and AI transcription, word error rate, the data flywheel, podcasts, and loved products.

Accion Systems CTO Natalya Bailey explains ion and colloid thrusters, satellites, space debris, startup lessons and why knowledge is life's meaning.