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#310 – Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy

Andrew Bustamante is a former CIA covert intelligence officer. Check out his work and podcast at https://everydayspy.com Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:10) – CIA and the President
(18:47) – War in Ukraine
(59:44) – Most powerful intelligence agencies
(1:06:54) – David Petraeus
(1:16:31) – Undercover disguises
(1:29:30) – Human nature
(1:38:49) – CIA recruitment process
(1:55:33) – CIA and secrecy
(2:02:06) – Cyber security
(2:12:47) – Sexpionage
(2:19:22) – Private intelligence
(2:32:48) – NSA and Snowden
(3:00:48) – Conspiracy theories
(3:21:55) – CIA and UFOs
(3:36:41) – Spy tricks
(3:53:23) – Advice for young people

#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets

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John Carmack is a legendary programmer, co-founder of id Software, and lead programmer of many revolutionary video games including Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, and the Commander Keen series. He is also the founder of Armadillo Aerospace, and for many years the CTO of Oculus VR. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(09:49) – Programming languages
(40:53) – Modern programming
(50:55) – Day in the life
(58:45) – Hard work
(1:01:58) – Pizza and Diet Coke
(1:04:43) – Setup
(1:30:01) – id Software
(2:02:50) – Commander Keen
(2:09:36) – Hacker ethic
(2:17:16) – Wolfenstein 3D
(2:37:14) – Doom
(2:51:34) – Quake
(3:15:55) – John Romero
(3:23:42) – Metaverse
(3:52:04) – Elon Musk
(3:57:59) – Mars
(4:07:01) – Nuclear energy
(4:10:39) – AGI
(4:57:51) – Andrej Karpathy
(5:00:50) – Martial arts
(5:09:49) – Advice for young people
(5:18:49) – Meaning of life

#308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens

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Lt. Ryan Graves is a former Navy fighter pilot, who has worked on advanced research and development programs for DARPA, Office of Naval Research, and Air Force Research Labs on topics of multi-agent collaborative autonomy, AI-assisted air-to-air combat, and manned-unmanned teaming technologies. Ryan and people in his squadron detected and engaged with UFOs on multiple occasions, and he has been one of the few people willing to speak publicly about these experiences. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Ryan’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/uncertainvector
Ryan’s Website: https://uncertainvector.com
DoD Statement: https://defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:28) – Top Gun analysis
(19:33) – Fighter jets
(1:07:00) – UFO sightings
(1:33:28) – Congressional hearing
(1:41:29) – Tic Tac UFO & Gimbal UFO
(1:55:55) – Alien life
(2:09:17) – Autonomous weapon systems
(2:26:24) – Advice for young people
(2:34:40) – Meaning of life

#307 – Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation

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Brian Armstrong is the CEO of Coinbase. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Brian’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong
Brian’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brian_armstrong
Coinbase’s Website: https://www.coinbase.com
ResearchHub: https://www.researchhub.com
NewLimit: https://www.newlimit.com/

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(08:19) – Programming
(14:17) – Coinbase
(45:05) – Startup advice
(1:02:56) – Economic freedom
(1:12:06) – Coinbase technology
(1:23:33) – Listing on Coinbase
(1:32:47) – Regulations
(1:47:25) – Crypto dominance
(1:51:42) – Employee activism
(2:08:00) – Leadership
(2:10:39) – ResearchHub
(2:20:17) – NewLimit
(2:24:44) – Advice for young people
(2:28:55) – Meaning of life

#306 – Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence

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Oriol Vinyals is the Research Director and Deep Learning Lead at DeepMind. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Oriol’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/oriolvinyalsml
Oriol’s publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NkzyCvUAAAAJ
DeepMind’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/DeepMind
DeepMind’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/deepmind
DeepMind’s Website: https://deepmind.com
Papers:
1. Gato: https://deepmind.com/publications/a-generalist-agent
2. Flamingo: https://deepmind.com/blog/tackling-multiple-tasks-with-a-single-visual-language-model
3. Language Models are Few-Shot Learners: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165
4. Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07682
5. Attention Is All You Need: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2017/file/3f5ee243547dee91fbd053c1c4a845aa-Paper.pdf

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(05:18) – AI
(20:14) – Weights
(26:33) – Gato
(1:01:22) – Meta learning
(1:15:21) – Neural networks
(1:37:46) – Emergence
(1:44:30) – AI sentience
(2:08:27) – AGI

#305 – Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang

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Lord Martin Rees is a cosmologist and astrophysicist at Cambridge University and co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Martin’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/lordmartinrees
Martin’s Website: https://www.martinrees.uk
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On the Future: https://amzn.to/3OlzLjB

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:39) – Understanding the universe
(15:09) – Human limitations and AI
(24:05) – Dark matter
(31:25) – Vast universe
(39:07) – Alien life
(52:59) – Space exploration
(1:17:22) – Future technology
(1:28:44) – Newton and Einstein
(1:32:46) – Black holes
(1:46:27) – Cosmological threats
(2:13:31) – Advice for young people
(2:16:02) – Mortality

#304 – Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church

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Robert Barron is a bishop and founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Robert’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/bishopbarron
Robert’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/BishopBarron
Word on Fire’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/wordonfire_catholicministries
Word on Fire’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/WordOnFire
Word on Fire’s Website: https://wordonfire.org
Robert’s Books:
Redeeming the Time: https://amzn.to/3PwNQf0
Catholicism: https://amzn.to/3RyDMEh

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
(06:50) – Who is God?
(20:30) – Christianity
(25:18) – Sin
(42:48) – The Trinity
(44:32) – Catholicism
(54:29) – Sexual abuse scandal
(1:01:16) – Evil
(1:12:59) – Atheism
(1:24:21) – Jordan Peterson
(1:26:56) – Jesus
(1:29:42) – The Bible
(1:32:17) – America
(1:35:08) – Nietzsche
(1:39:12) – Word on Fire
(1:42:31) – Gay marriage
(1:44:48) – Abortion
(1:51:38) – Advice for young people
(1:54:12) – Mortality
(1:58:30) – Meaning of life

#303 – Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics

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Steve Keen is a heterodox economist and author. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Steve’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/profstevekeen
The New Economics (book): https://amzn.to/3zb4eg4

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
(07:26) – Defining economics
(14:26) – Schools of economics
(38:45) – Karl Marx
(57:00) – Labor theory of value
(1:16:45) – Socialism
(1:31:48) – Soviet Union
(1:45:08) – China
(2:05:00) – Climate change
(2:27:03) – Economics vs Politics
(2:35:06) – Minsky’s model
(2:49:50) – Financial crisis
(2:55:07) – Inflation
(3:08:21) – Marxism
(3:15:42) – Space and AI
(3:21:47) – Advice for young people
(3:25:38) – Depression
(3:30:10) – Love
(3:34:11) – Mortality

#302 – Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences

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Richard Haier is a psychologist specializing in the science of human intelligence. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Richard’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/rjhaier
Richard’s Website: https://richardhaier.com/
Documents & Articles:
1. Child IQ and survival to 79: https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5491698/
2. Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth: https://my.vanderbilt.edu/smpy/files/2013/02/DoingPsychScience2006.pdf
Books:
1. The Neuroscience of Intelligence: https://amzn.to/3n50DcC
2. The Book of Five Rings: https://amzn.to/3y4Xcc6
3. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: https://amzn.to/3zPAW7q
4. Flowers for Algernon: https://amzn.to/3OfRKZS
5. The Bell Curve: https://amzn.to/3Ng4RJe
6. The Mismeasure of Man: https://amzn.to/3N9IkxB
7. Human Diversity: https://amzn.to/3O7Trsc
8. Facing Reality: https://amzn.to/3bfzqkX

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(08:06) – Measuring human intelligence
(22:34) – IQ tests
(45:23) – College entrance exams
(53:59) – Genetics
(59:58) – Enhancing intelligence
(1:07:27) – The Bell Curve
(1:19:58) – Race differences
(1:39:11) – Bell curve criticisms
(1:48:21) – Intelligence and life success
(1:57:57) – Flynn effect
(2:02:49) – Nature vs nuture
(2:29:42) – Testing artificial intelligence
(2:41:46) – Advice
(2:45:53) – Mortality

#301 – Jack Barsky: KGB Spy

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Jack Barsky is a former KGB spy and author of “Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America”. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Jack’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/deepcoverbarsky
Jack’s Website: https://jackbarsky.com
Deep Undercover (book): https://amzn.to/39XMTgG
The Agent (podcast): https://cumuluspodcastnetwork.com/pods/the-agent

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) – KGB
(19:43) – Communism
(38:45) – Childhood
(45:32) – Becoming a KGB agent
(1:24:04) – Training
(1:37:53) – Language
(1:43:45) – Moscow
(1:58:45) – Spying
(2:15:43) – Putin
(2:18:35) – War in Ukraine
(2:30:02) – Putin in the KGB
(2:36:56) – Yuri Bezmenov
(2:47:33) – FSB and CIA
(2:55:24) – Putin and Zelenskyy
(3:04:13) – Quitting the KGB
(3:30:32) – Love and regrets
(3:38:44) – Mortality

Lex Fridman

Research Scientist at MIT. Host of Lex Fridman Podcast.

Author Archives: lexteam

#310 – Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy

#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets

#308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens

#307 – Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation

#306 – Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence

#305 – Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang

#304 – Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church

#303 – Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics

#302 – Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences

#301 – Jack Barsky: KGB Spy