Author Archives: Lex Fridman

#169 – Ryan Hall: Solving Martial Arts from First Principles

Ryan Hall is a martial artist, BJJ black belt, and MMA fighter undefeated in the UFC. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(08:28) – First principles approach to martial arts
(16:09) – Illusion of choice
(19:42) – Game theory
(28:04) – First fight
(32:20) – Defense
(41:03) – Waiting for a fight
(51:11) – Free will
(1:08:59) – Freedom and compassion
(1:18:01) – Social media
(1:24:21) – Leadership
(1:30:09) – How to get good at jiu jitsu
(1:50:23) – Learning how to learn
(1:58:29) – Questioning the foundations of jiu jitsu
(2:17:34) – Humans cannot fully comprehend reality
(2:21:45) – Artificial intelligence
(2:34:38) – Deadlines
(2:41:29) – Tie choke
(2:49:58) – Hardship
(2:54:20) – Love

#168 – Silvio Micali: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Algorand, Bitcoin, and Ethereum

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Silvio Micali is a computer scientist at MIT, Turing award winner, and founder of Algorand. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(08:55) – Blockchain
(11:52) – Cryptocurrency
(14:42) – Money
(18:56) – Scarcity
(20:37) – Scalability, Security, and Decentralization
(24:03) – Algorand
(40:36) – Bitcoin
(43:39) – Ethereum
(45:10) – NFTs
(48:34) – Decentralization of power
(52:42) – Intelligent adaptation
(55:25) – Leaders
(58:31) – Freedom
(1:01:31) – Privacy
(1:04:15) – Bitcoin maximalism
(1:08:01) – Satoshi Nakamoto
(1:12:39) – One-way function
(1:16:52) – Pseudorandomness
(1:21:34) – Free will
(1:23:39) – Will quantum computers break cryptography?
(1:28:44) – Interactive proofs
(1:35:38) – Mechanism design
(1:43:04) – Favorite meal
(1:46:18) – Book recommendations
(1:53:15) – Advice for young people
(1:55:48) – Fear of death
(1:58:29) – Meaning of life

#167 – Saagar Enjeti: Politics, History, and Power

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Saagar Enjeti is a DC-based political correspondent and podcaster. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Saagar’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/esaagar
Realignment Podcast: https://linktr.ee/esaagar

OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(10:19) – Hitler
(14:39) – Evil
(15:58) – Donald Trump
(26:29) – Teddy Roosevelt
(31:51) – Nazi Germany
(36:47) – The balance of power in US government
(40:43) – Bureaucracy
(49:17) – Money
(51:32) – UFOs
(55:36) – Jeffrey Epstein
(1:08:57) – Left and Right
(1:19:40) – How to fix politics
(1:45:07) – Political predictions
(1:58:21) – Journalism
(2:09:16) – Joe Rogan
(2:16:43) – Lyndon Johnson
(2:18:02) – World War I
(2:22:53) – Dan Carlin
(2:29:47) – How Stalin came to power
(2:35:15) – Putin
(2:41:25) – Lenin and Stalin
(2:44:55) – Book recommendations
(2:52:23) – Antarctica and Mars
(2:59:37) – Born to Run
(3:02:05) – Texas

#166 – Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media

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Cal Newport is a computer scientist who also writes about productivity. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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A World Without Email (book): https://amzn.to/3blXyjv
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Cal’s Website: https://www.calnewport.com/
Deep Questions (podcast): https://www.calnewport.com/podcast/

OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(08:24) – Deep work
(13:10) – Focus
(18:52) – Time blocking
(25:47) – Deadlines
(35:22) – Do less, do better, know why
(38:04) – Clubhouse
(52:07) – Burnout
(58:34) – Boredom
(1:06:19) – Quit social media for 30 days
(1:16:13) – Social media
(1:41:21) – How email destroyed our productivity at work
(1:51:07) – How we fix email
(1:58:09) – Over-optimization
(2:02:23) – When to use email and when not to
(2:10:06) – Podcasting
(2:14:42) – Alan Turing proving the impossible
(2:18:41) – Fragility of math in the face of randomness
(2:27:30) – Neural networks
(2:36:16) – What will the P=NP proof look like?
(2:39:55) – Is math discovered or invented?
(2:44:02) – Book publishing
(2:54:09) – Love
(2:57:30) – Death
(3:00:26) – Meaning of life

#165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts

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Josh Barnett is an MMA fighter, catch wrestler, and a scholar of violence. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Josh’s Website: https://www.joshbarnett.com/
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Josh’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshlbarnett
Josh’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoshBarnettOfficial
Josh’s Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Barnett
Josh’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyZmZwQESO8G0BOSHTpZcvg

OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(08:29) – Nietzsche
(13:47) – Good and Evil
(28:59) – Joe Rogan library
(30:57) – Catch wrestling
(41:03) – Anarchy
(59:32) – Hitler and Stalin
(1:16:34) – Karl Gotch
(1:24:59) – Mike Tyson
(1:33:20) – Violent victory
(1:41:29) – Fedor Emelionenko
(1:43:50) – Greatest MMA fighters of all time
(1:53:47) – Early UFCs
(1:58:32) – Advice for young people
(2:02:24) – The value of competition
(2:05:02) – Blade Runner
(2:15:54) – Meaning of life

#164 – Andrew Huberman: Sleep, Dreams, Creativity & the Limits of the Human Mind

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Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist at Stanford. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Andrew’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2D2CMWXMOVWx7giW1n3LIg
Huberman Lab Podcast: https://hubermanlab.libsyn.com/
Andrew’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hubermanlab
Andrew’s Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_…
Andrew’s Website: http://www.hubermanlab.com/

OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(07:03) – Why do humans need sleep?
(13:59) – Temperature
(16:48) – Optimal temperature for sleep
(21:51) – Sleep anxiety
(27:55) – 8 hours of sleep
(30:31) – Nap
(36:18) – Goggins Challenge
(51:41) – Breathing while running
(56:30) – Anger
(59:46) – Testosterone makes effort feel good
(1:05:02) – Fasting
(1:13:07) – Keto
(1:15:58) – Meat
(1:21:38) – Nutrition
(1:23:03) – Dreams
(1:31:11) – REM sleep
(1:37:13) – Psychedelics
(1:48:36) – DMT
(1:53:11) – Creativity
(1:56:45) – Pushing the limits of the human mind
(2:01:55) – Neuroplasticity
(2:06:31) – Neuroscience and AI
(2:11:14) – Eye tracking
(2:20:28) – New podcast on neuroscience
(2:34:59) – Clubhouse
(2:47:08) – Elon Musk

#163 – Eric Weinstein: Difficult Conversations, Freedom of Speech, and Physics

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Eric Weinstein is a mathematical physicist and podcaster. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Eric’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein
Eric’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ericweinsteinphd
The Portal podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-portal/id1469999563

OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(07:27) – Aliens and physics
(11:12) – Breaking the frame of conversation
(12:56) – Time travel across multiple dimensions
(19:07) – Is the government in possession of alien spacecraft?
(25:31) – Freedom of speech
(36:49) – Elon Musk
(38:07) – Idealism of every era
(41:26) – Non-locality of free speech in the Internet age
(47:03) – Glenn Beck
(48:57) – Joe Rogan
(53:41) – Freedom and fear
(55:14) – Jeffrey Epstein
(58:53) – Aaron Swartz
(1:04:29) – Jeffrey Epstein and Geometric Unity
(1:24:04) – Cancel culture
(1:26:06) – Alex Jones
(1:35:01) – Curtis Yarvin
(1:39:40) – Michael Malice
(1:42:00) – Intellectual Dark Web
(1:48:52) – Innovation
(2:02:10) – Economics
(2:09:29) – Cryptocurrency
(2:15:37) – Geometric Unity paper
(2:32:42) – David Goggins challenge
(2:34:05) – Father and son

#162 – Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness

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Jim Keller is a legendary microprocessor engineer, previously at AMD, Apple, Tesla, Intel, and now Tenstorrent. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Jim’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/jimkxa
Jim’s Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Keller_(engineer)
Tenstorrent: https://www.tenstorrent.com/

OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(07:02) – Good design is both science and engineering
(13:03) – Javascript
(17:09) – RISC vs CISC
(21:09) – What makes a great processor?
(22:38) – Intel vs ARM
(24:27) – Steve Jobs and Apple
(27:05) – Elon Musk and Steve Jobs
(32:50) – Father
(36:33) – Perfection
(42:48) – Modular design
(48:22) – Moore’s law
(55:20) – Hardware for deep learning
(1:02:14) – Making neural networks fast at scale
(1:09:51) – Andrej Karpathy and Chris Lattner
(1:14:05) – How GPUs work
(1:18:12) – Tesla Autopilot, NVIDIA, and Mobileye
(1:22:52) – Andrej Karpathy and Software 2.0
(1:29:13) – Tesla Dojo
(1:31:49) – Neural networks will understand physics better than humans
(1:34:02) – Re-engineering the human brain
(1:38:56) – Infinite fun and the Culture Series by Iain Banks
(1:40:50) – Neuralink
(1:46:13) – Dreams
(1:50:06) – Ideas
(2:00:19) – Aliens
(2:05:16) – Jordan Peterson
(2:10:13) – Viruses
(2:13:22) – WallStreetBets and Robinhood
(2:21:25) – Advice for young people
(2:23:15) – Human condition
(2:25:43) – Fear is a cage
(2:30:34) – Love
(2:36:57) – Regrets

#161 – Jason Calacanis: Startups, Angel Investing, Capitalism, and Friendship

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Jason Calacanis is an angel investor, entrepreneur, and co-host of All-In Podcast and This Week in Startups. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Jason’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jason
Jason’s Website: https://calacanis.com/
Jason’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ThisWeekIn
Jason’s Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/calacanis
All-In Podcast: https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast
This Week in Startups Podcast: https://thisweekinstartups.com/about/

OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(06:52) – WallStreetBets and Robinhood
(17:58) – How does the WallStreetBets saga end?
(21:09) – Capitalism
(26:30) – Ideas vs Execution
(27:38) – Learning to learn
(33:06) – Risk-aversion
(39:07) – Robinhood
(47:33) – Parler and AWS
(49:59) – Social networks
(56:33) – Leadership
(1:01:21) – Work-life balance
(1:09:44) – Great leaders lead by example
(1:17:30) – Advice for startup founders
(1:21:57) – Clubhouse
(1:22:42) – When will we fully re-open the economy
(1:33:20) – Augmented reality
(1:36:48) – When should a startup raise money?
(1:43:44) – David Goggins
(1:45:40) – Disagreement with Chamath Palihapitiya
(1:58:52) – Story about Elon Musk’s darkest moments
(2:07:08) – Friendship

#160 – Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave

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Brendan Eich is the creator of JavaScript and co-founder of Mozilla and Brave. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Brendan’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrendanEich
Brendan’s Website: https://brendaneich.com
Brave browser: https://brave.com

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:54) – History of early programming languages
(11:47) – Physics needs more experiments and less theory
(16:24) – JavaScript origin story
(41:17) – JavaScript was created in 10 days
(50:57) – Marc Andreessen
(54:14) – Internet Explorer
(57:58) – Evolution of JavaScript
(1:03:44) – JavaScript standardization
(1:09:33) – TypeScript
(1:12:05) – JavaScript ecosystem
(1:15:15) – HTML5
(1:18:47) – Making JavaScript fast
(1:27:57) – JavaScript is the most popular language in the world
(1:38:23) – Advice for programmers
(1:44:20) – Browser wars
(1:50:50) – Firefox
(2:12:33) – Brave
(2:25:33) – Basic Attention Token
(2:50:36) – California
(2:59:48) – Mortality
(3:00:54) – Legacy