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#428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens

Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist, author, and host of Mindscape podcast. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/sean-carroll-3-transcript

EPISODE LINKS:
Sean’s Website: https://preposterousuniverse.com
Mindscape Podcast: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/
Sean’s YouTube: https://youtube.com/@seancarroll
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Sean’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/seanmcarroll
Sean’s Papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Lfifrv8AAAAJ
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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
(11:03) – General relativity
(23:22) – Black holes
(28:11) – Hawking radiation
(32:19) – Aliens
(41:15) – Holographic principle
(1:05:38) – Dark energy
(1:11:38) – Dark matter
(1:20:34) – Quantum mechanics
(1:41:56) – Simulation
(1:44:18) – AGI
(1:58:42) – Complexity
(2:11:25) – Consciousness
(2:20:32) – Naturalism
(2:24:49) – Limits of science
(2:29:34) – Mindscape podcast
(2:39:29) – Einstein

#427 – Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

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Neil Adams is a judo world champion, 2-time Olympic silver medalist, 5-time European champion, and often referred to as the Voice of Judo. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/neil-adams-transcript

EPISODE LINKS:
Neil’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/naefighting
Neil’s YouTube: https://youtube.com/NAEffectiveFighting
Neil’s TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@neiladamsmbe
Neil’s Facebook: https://facebook.com/NeilAdamsJudo
Neil’s X: https://x.com/NeilAdamsJudo
Neil’s Website: https://naeffectivefighting.com
Neil’s Podcast: https://naeffectivefighting.com/podcasts/the-dojo-collective-podcast
A Life in Judo (book): https://amzn.to/4d3DtfB
A Game of Throws (audiobook): https://amzn.to/4aA2WeJ

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
(09:13) – 1980 Olympics
(26:35) – Judo explained
(34:40) – Winning
(52:54) – 1984 Olympics
(1:01:55) – Lessons from losing
(1:17:37) – Teddy Riner
(1:37:12) – Training in Japan
(1:52:51) – Jiu jitsu
(2:03:59) – Training
(2:27:18) – Advice for beginners

#426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs

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Edward Gibson is a psycholinguistics professor at MIT and heads the MIT Language Lab. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/edward-gibson-transcript

EPISODE LINKS:
Edward’s X: https://x.com/LanguageMIT
TedLab: https://tedlab.mit.edu/
Edward’s Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4FsWE64AAAAJ
TedLab’s YouTube: https://youtube.com/@Tedlab-MIT

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
(10:53) – Human language
(14:59) – Generalizations in language
(20:46) – Dependency grammar
(30:45) – Morphology
(39:20) – Evolution of languages
(42:40) – Noam Chomsky
(1:26:46) – Thinking and language
(1:40:16) – LLMs
(1:53:14) – Center embedding
(2:19:42) – Learning a new language
(2:23:34) – Nature vs nurture
(2:30:10) – Culture and language
(2:44:38) – Universal language
(2:49:01) – Language translation
(2:52:16) – Animal communication

#425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

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Andrew Callaghan is the host of Channel 5 on YouTube, where he does street interviews with fascinating humans at the edges of society, the so-called vagrants, vagabonds, runaways, outlaws, from QAnon adherents to Phish heads to O Block residents and much more. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
– ShipStation: https://shipstation.com/lex and use code LEX to get 60-day free trial
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/andrew-callaghan-transcript

EPISODE LINKS:
Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan: https://www.youtube.com/channel5YouTube
Andrew’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/andreww.me
Andrew’s Website: https://andrew-callaghan.com/
Andrew’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/channel5
This Place Rules: https://www.hbo.com/movies/this-place-rules
Books Mentioned:
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Siddhartha: https://amzn.to/49rthKz

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
(08:53) – Walmart
(10:24) – Early life
(29:14) – Hitchhiking
(40:49) – Couch surfing
(49:50) – Quarter Confessions
(1:07:33) – Burning Man
(1:22:44) – Protests
(1:28:17) – Jon Stewart
(1:31:13) – Fame
(1:44:31) – Jan 6
(1:48:15) – QAnon
(1:54:00) – Alex Jones
(2:10:52) – Politics
(2:20:29) – Response to allegations
(2:37:28) – Channel 5
(2:43:04) – Rap
(2:44:51) – O Block
(2:48:47) – Crip Mac
(2:51:59) – Aliens

#424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

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Bassem Youssef is an Egyptian-American comedian & satirist, referred to as the Jon Stewart of the Arab World. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/bassem-youssef-transcript

EPISODE LINKS:
Bassem’s X: https://x.com/Byoussef
Bassem’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/bassem
Bassem’s Facebook: https://facebook.com/bassemyousseftv
Bassem’s Website: https://bassemyoussef.xyz

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
(06:30) – Oct 7
(36:59) – Two-state solution
(52:37) – Holocaust
(1:00:24) – 1948
(1:09:17) – Egypt
(1:23:39) – Jon Stewart
(1:25:51) – Going viral during the Arab Spring
(1:49:55) – Arabic vs English
(2:02:18) – Sam Harris and Jihad
(2:07:25) – Religion
(2:26:37) – TikTok
(2:31:10) – Joe Rogan
(2:33:07) – Joe Biden
(2:37:33) – Putin
(2:39:21) – War
(2:44:17) – Hope

#423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex

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Tulsi Gabbard is a politician, veteran, and author of For Love of Country. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/tulsi-gabbard-transcript

EPISODE LINKS:
For Love of Country (book): https://amzn.to/3VLlofM
Tulsi’s X: https://x.com/tulsigabbard
Tulsi’s YouTube: https://youtube.com/@TulsiGabbard
Tulsi’s Podcast: https://youtube.com/@TheTulsiGabbardShow
Tulsi’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/tulsigabbard
Tulsi’s Facebook: https://facebook.com/TulsiGabbard
Tulsi’s Website: https://tulsigabbard.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
(07:14) – War in Iraq
(15:00) – Battle injuries and PTSD
(22:10) – War on terrorism
(30:51) – War in Gaza
(34:52) – War in Ukraine
(38:38) – Syria
(46:20) – Warmongers
(55:40) – Nuclear war
(1:11:08) – TikTok ban
(1:23:13) – Bernie Sanders
(1:28:08) – Politics
(1:46:59) – Personal attacks
(1:49:07) – God

#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

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Mark Cuban is a businessman, investor, star of TV series Shark Tank, long-time principal owner of Dallas Mavericks, and founder of Cost Plus Drugs. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
– Listening: https://listening.com/lex and use code LEX to get one month free
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/mark-cuban-transcript

EPISODE LINKS:
Mark’s X: https://twitter.com/mcuban
Mark’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/mcuban
Cost Plus Drugs: https://costplusdrugs.com
Shark Tank: https://abc.com/shows/shark-tank
Dallas Mavericks: https://www.mavs.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
(11:10) – Entrepreneurship
(26:03) – Shark Tank
(36:29) – How Mark made first billion
(1:02:39) – Dallas Mavericks
(1:08:05) – DEI debate
(1:43:58) – Trump vs Biden
(1:46:20) – Immigration
(1:55:53) – Drugs and Big Pharma
(2:11:53) – AI
(2:16:05) – Advice for young people

#421 – Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

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Dana White is the CEO and president of the UFC. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/dana-white-transcript

EPISODE LINKS:
Dana’s X: https://x.com/danawhite
Dana’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/danawhite
Dana’s Facebook: https://facebook.com/danawhite
UFC’s YouTube: https://youtube.com/@UFC
UFC’s Website: https://ufc.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
(06:31) – Mike Tyson and early days of fighting
(17:10) – Jiu jitsu
(23:14) – Origin of UFC
(37:25) – Joe Rogan
(43:31) – Lorenzo Fertitta
(45:58) – Great fighters
(49:55) – Khabib vs Conor
(53:01) – Jon Jones
(56:03) – Conor McGregor
(1:01:05) – Trump
(1:06:44) – Elon vs Zuck
(1:08:04) – Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul
(1:10:52) – Forrest Griffin vs Stephan Bonnar
(1:18:06) – Gambling
(1:33:08) – Mortality

#420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy

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Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and author of “Nuclear War: A Scenario” and many other books on war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/annie-jacobsen-transcript

EPISODE LINKS:
Nuclear War: A Scenario (book): https://amzn.to/3THZHfr
Annie’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/anniejacobsen
Annie’s Website: https://anniejacobsen.com/
Annie’s Books: https://amzn.to/3TGWyMJ
Annie’s Books (audio): https://adbl.co/49ZnI7c

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
(07:37) – Nuclear war
(12:21) – Launch procedure
(18:00) – Deterrence
(21:34) – Tactical nukes
(30:59) – Nuclear submarines
(33:59) – Nuclear missiles
(41:10) – Nuclear football
(50:17) – Missile interceptor system
(54:34) – North Korea
(1:01:10) – Nuclear war scenarios
(1:10:02) – Warmongers
(1:14:31) – President’s cognitive ability
(1:20:43) – Refusing orders
(1:28:41) – Russia and Putin
(1:33:48) – Cyberattack
(1:35:09) – Ground zero of nuclear war
(1:39:48) – Surviving nuclear war
(1:44:06) – Nuclear winter
(1:54:29) – Alien civilizations
(2:00:04) – Extrasensory perception
(2:13:50) – Area 51
(2:17:48) – UFOs and aliens
(2:28:15) – Roswell incident
(2:34:55) – CIA assassinations
(2:53:47) – Navalny
(2:56:12) – KGB
(3:02:48) – Hitler and the atomic bomb
(3:06:52) – War and human nature
(3:10:17) – Hope

#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

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Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, Sora, and many other state-of-the-art AI technologies. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/sam-altman-2-transcript

EPISODE LINKS:
Sam’s X: https://x.com/sama
Sam’s Blog: https://blog.samaltman.com/
OpenAI’s X: https://x.com/OpenAI
OpenAI’s Website: https://openai.com
ChatGPT Website: https://chat.openai.com/
Sora Website: https://openai.com/sora
GPT-4 Website: https://openai.com/research/gpt-4

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
(07:51) – OpenAI board saga
(25:17) – Ilya Sutskever
(31:26) – Elon Musk lawsuit
(41:18) – Sora
(51:09) – GPT-4
(1:02:18) – Memory & privacy
(1:09:22) – Q*
(1:12:58) – GPT-5
(1:16:13) – $7 trillion of compute
(1:24:22) – Google and Gemini
(1:35:26) – Leap to GPT-5
(1:39:10) – AGI
(1:57:44) – Aliens

Lex Fridman

Research Scientist at MIT. Host of Lex Fridman Podcast.

Author Archives: lexteam

#428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens

#427 – Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

#426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs

#425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

#424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

#423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex

#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

#421 – Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

#420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy

#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI