Lex Fridman Podcast
About the podcast
Conversations about science, technology, history, philosophy and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power. Lex is an AI researcher at MIT and beyond.
Marc Andreessen is an entrepreneur, investor, co-creator of Mosaic, co-founder of Netscape, and co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) - Introduction
(12:46) - Best possible future
(22:09) - History of Western Civilization
(31:28) - Trump in 2025
(39:09) - TDS in tech
(51:56) - Preference falsification
(1:07:52) - Self-censorship
(1:22:55) - Censorship
(1:31:34) - Jon Stewart
(1:34:20) - Mark Zuckerberg on Joe Rogan
(1:43:09) - Government pressure
(1:53:57) - Nature of power
(2:06:45) - Journalism
(2:12:20) - Bill Ackman
(2:17:17) - Trump administration
(2:24:56) - DOGE
(2:38:48) - H1B and immigration
(3:16:42) - Little tech
(3:29:02) - AI race
(3:37:52) - X
(3:41:24) - Yann LeCun
(3:44:59) - Andrew Huberman
(3:46:30) - Success
(3:49:26) - God and humanity
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Jennifer Burns is a historian of ideas, focusing on the evolution of economic, political, and social ideas in the United States in the 20th century. She wrote two biographies, one on Milton Friedman, and the other on Ayn Rand.
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) - Introduction
(10:05) - Milton Friedman
(24:58) - The Great Depression
(39:15) - Schools of economic thought
(50:22) - Keynesian economics
(58:10) - Laissez-faire
(1:06:00) - Friedrich Hayek
(1:11:18) - Money and monetarism
(1:26:03) - Stagflation
(1:30:56) - Moral case for capitalism
(1:34:53) - Freedom
(1:39:51) - Ethics of competition
(1:43:37) - Win-win solutions
(1:45:26) - Corruption
(1:47:51) - Government intervention
(1:54:10) - Conservatism
(2:00:33) - Donald Trump
(2:03:09) - Inflation
(2:07:38) - DOGE
(2:12:58) - Javier Milei
(2:18:03) - Richard Nixon
(2:25:17) - Ronald Reagan
(2:28:24) - Cryptocurrency
(2:43:40) - Ayn Rand
(2:51:18) - The Fountainhead
(3:02:58) - Sex and power dynamics
(3:19:04) - Evolution of ideas in history
(3:26:32) - Postmodernism
(3:37:33) - Advice to students
(3:45:50) - Lex reflects on Volodymyr Zelenskyy interview
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the President of Ukraine. On YouTube this episode is available in English, Ukrainian, and Russian. Captions and voice-over audio tracks are provided in English, Ukrainian, Russian, and the original mixed-language version, with subtitles available in your preferred language. To listen to the original mixed language version, please select the English (UK) audio track audio track. The default is English overdub.
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) - Introduction
(20:17) - Language
(30:06) - World War II
(46:54) - Invasion on Feb 24, 2022
(53:30) - Negotiating Peace
(1:13:47) - NATO and security guarantees
(1:26:39) - Sitting down with Putin and Trump
(1:46:09) - Compromise and leverage
(1:51:38) - Putin and Russia
(2:01:30) - Donald Trump
(2:12:01) - Martial Law and Elections
(2:24:21) - Corruption
(2:33:06) - Elon Musk
(2:37:10) - Trump Inauguration on Jan 20
(2:40:18) - Power dynamics in Ukraine
(2:43:50) - Future of Ukraine
(2:48:32) - Choice of language
(2:58:02) - Podcast prep and research process
(3:06:27) - Travel and setup
(3:12:13) - Conclusion
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Adam Frank is an astrophysicist studying star systems and the search for extraterrestrial life and alien civilizations.
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) - Introduction
(14:22) - Planet formation
(19:32) - Plate tectonics
(26:54) - Extinction events
(31:04) - Biosphere
(34:02) - Technosphere
(38:17) - Emergence of intelligence
(44:29) - Drake equation
(48:43) - Exoplanets
(51:28) - Habitable zones
(54:30) - Fermi Paradox
(1:03:28) - Alien civilizations
(1:12:55) - Colonizing Mars
(1:25:11) - Search for aliens
(1:41:37) - Alien megastructures
(1:47:43) - Kardashev scale
(1:52:56) - Detecting aliens
(1:59:38) - Warp drives
(2:05:45) - Cryogenics
(2:09:03) - What aliens look like
(2:17:48) - Alien contact
(2:28:53) - UFO sightings
(2:40:38) - Physics of life
(3:06:29) - Nature of time
(3:22:53) - Cognition
(3:27:16) - Mortality
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Saagar Enjeti is a political journalist & commentator, co-host of Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar and The Realignment Podcast. He is exceptionally well-read, and the books he recommends are always fascinating and eye-opening. You can check out all the books he mentions in this episode here: https://lexfridman.com/saagar-books
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The Realignment Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@therealignment
Saagar's Linktree: https://linktr.ee/esaagar
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) - Introduction
(09:47) - Why Trump won
(14:48) - Book recommendations
(18:24) - History of wokeism
(25:54) - History of Scots-Irish
(32:32) - Biden
(36:34) - FDR
(38:36) - George W Bush
(40:59) - LBJ
(46:15) - Cuban Missile Crisis
(53:48) - Immigration
(1:25:46) - DOGE
(1:52:27) - MAGA ideology
(1:55:39) - Bernie Sanders
(2:04:00) - Obama vs Trump
(2:21:00) - Nancy Pelosi
(2:24:14) - Kamala Harris
(2:40:00) - 2020 Election
(3:03:49) - Sam Harris
(3:14:55) - UFOs
(3:20:47) - Future of the Republican Party
(3:27:24) - Future of the Democratic Party
(3:35:21) - Hope
Javier Milei is the President of Argentina. This episode is available in both English and Spanish.
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) - Introduction
(14:44) - Economic freedom
(20:09) - Anarcho-capitalism
(30:02) - Presidency and reforms
(49:22) - Poverty
(55:54) - Corruption
(1:04:32) - Freedom
(1:18:43) - Elon Musk
(1:24:11) - DOGE
(1:26:13) - Donald Trump
(1:32:13) - US and Argentina relations
(1:39:22) - Messi vs Maradona
(1:48:16) - God
(1:50:22) - Elvis and Rolling Stones
(1:54:02) - Free market
(2:01:03) - Loyalty
(2:03:40) - Advice for young people
(2:05:06) - Hope for Argentina
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Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic, the company that created Claude. Amanda Askell is an AI researcher working on Claude's character and personality. Chris Olah is an AI researcher working on mechanistic interpretability.
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Claude: https://claude.ai
Anthropic's X: https://x.com/AnthropicAI
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Dario's X: https://x.com/DarioAmodei
Dario's Website: https://darioamodei.com
Machines of Loving Grace (Essay): https://darioamodei.com/machines-of-loving-grace
Chris's X: https://x.com/ch402
Chris's Blog: https://colah.github.io
Amanda's X: https://x.com/AmandaAskell
Amanda's Website: https://askell.io
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) - Introduction
(10:19) - Scaling laws
(19:25) - Limits of LLM scaling
(27:51) - Competition with OpenAI, Google, xAI, Meta
(33:14) - Claude
(36:50) - Opus 3.5
(41:36) - Sonnet 3.5
(44:56) - Claude 4.0
(49:07) - Criticism of Claude
(1:01:54) - AI Safety Levels
(1:12:42) - ASL-3 and ASL-4
(1:16:46) - Computer use
(1:26:41) - Government regulation of AI
(1:45:30) - Hiring a great team
(1:54:19) - Post-training
(1:59:45) - Constitutional AI
(2:05:11) - Machines of Loving Grace
(2:24:17) - AGI timeline
(2:36:52) - Programming
(2:43:52) - Meaning of life
(2:49:58) - Amanda Askell - Philosophy
(2:52:26) - Programming advice for non-technical people
(2:56:15) - Talking to Claude
(3:12:47) - Prompt engineering
(3:21:21) - Post-training
(3:26:00) - Constitutional AI
(3:30:53) - System prompts
(3:37:00) - Is Claude getting dumber?
(3:49:02) - Character training
(3:50:01) - Nature of truth
(3:54:38) - Optimal rate of failure
(4:01:49) - AI consciousness
(4:16:20) - AGI
(4:24:58) - Chris Olah - Mechanistic Interpretability
(4:29:49) - Features, Circuits, Universality
(4:47:23) - Superposition
(4:58:22) - Monosemanticity
(5:05:14) - Scaling Monosemanticity
(5:14:02) - Macroscopic behavior of neural networks
(5:18:56) - Beauty of neural networks
Rick Spence is a historian specializing in the history of intelligence agencies, espionage, secret societies, conspiracies, the occult, and military history.
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) - Introduction
(09:04) - KGB and CIA
(23:21) - Okhrana, Cheka, NKVD
(38:53) - CIA spies vs KGB spies
(45:29) - Assassinations and mind control
(52:23) - Jeffrey Epstein
(59:15) - Bohemian Grove
(1:11:09) - Occultism
(1:22:20) - Nazi party and Thule society
(2:02:38) - Protocols of the Elders of Zion
(2:35:43) - Charles Manson
(3:02:30) - Zodiac Killer
(3:13:24) - Illuminati
(3:20:48) - Secret societies
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Bernie Sanders is a US Senator from Vermont and a two-time presidential candidate.
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(11:43) - Corruption in politics
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(31:33) - 2016 election
(37:32) - Barack Obama
(43:26) - Capitalism
(51:35) - Response to attacks
(56:32) - AOC and progressive politics
(1:04:24) - Mortality
(1:06:30) - Hope for the future
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Graham Hancock a journalist and author who for over 30 years has explored the controversial possibility that there existed a lost civilization during the last Ice Age, and that it was destroyed in a global cataclysm some 12,000 years ago. He is the presenter of the Netflix documentary series "Ancient Apocalypse", the 2nd season of which has just been released.
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) - Introduction
(09:58) - Lost Ice Age civilization
(17:03) - Göbekli Tepe
(29:07) - Early humans
(34:07) - Astronomical symbolism
(45:36) - Younger Dryas impact hypothesis
(1:03:55) - The Great Pyramid and the Sphinx of Giza
(1:24:29) - Sahara Desert and the Amazon rainforest
(1:33:49) - Response to critics
(1:57:56) - Panspermia
(2:05:22) - Shamanism
(2:29:22) - How the Great Pyramid was built
(2:36:41) - Mortality
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