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.
FiltersArtificial IntelligenceCreativitySleepStressClear
Pick as many as you like: any of them matches within a group.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mel Robbins makes the case for doing nothing on purpose, why rest feels weird, and a one-minute daily practice to unplug.
Comedian Jimmy Carr and Joe Rogan on comedy's golden age, teaching stand-up, gratitude, dyslexia, envy, conspiracies and finding your purpose.
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.
Lex Fridman answers listener questions on AI suffering, immigrant loneliness, questions for aliens, career pivots, happiness, guest choices and keto.
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.
Numerai founder Richard Craib explains the GameStop squeeze, evil vs chill shorting, and his crowdsourced AI hedge fund built on staking.
Mel Robbins uses autumn leaves to show how to spot what drains you, remove or redirect it, and quit complaining and controlling others.