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#395 – Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin

Walter Isaacson is an author of biographies on Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, and many others. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/walter-isaacson-transcript

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Walter’s Books:
Elon Musk: https://amzn.to/48aWSZC
The Code Breaker: https://amzn.to/3EAa0cU
Leonardo da Vinci: https://amzn.to/3RlFICB
The Innovators: https://amzn.to/45R8gs4
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(10:42) – Difficult childhood
(27:47) – Jennifer Doudna
(30:44) – Einstein
(36:02) – Tesla
(53:07) – Elon Musk’s humor
(57:17) – Steve Jobs’ cruelty
(1:00:41) – Twitter
(1:12:50) – Firing
(1:15:35) – Hiring
(1:24:38) – Time management
(1:32:22) – Groups vs individuals
(1:36:08) – Mortality
(1:39:40) – How to write
(2:00:38) – Love & relationships
(2:05:33) – Advice for young people

#394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature

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Neri Oxman is a designer, engineer, scientist, and artist working on computational design, synthetic biology and digital fabrication, previously at MIT, and now at OXMAN. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/neri-oxman-transcript

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Neri’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/nerioxman
OXMAN Website: https://oxman.com/
OXMAN Instagram: https://instagram.com/oxmanofficial

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(09:06) – Biomass vs anthropomass
(23:27) – Computational templates
(43:42) – Biological hero organisms
(54:42) – Engineering with bacteria
(1:02:59) – Plant communication
(1:16:22) – Albert Einstein letter
(1:19:44) – Beauty
(1:24:40) – Faith
(1:34:26) – Flaws
(1:54:15) – Extinction
(2:05:22) – Alien life
(2:09:12) – Music
(2:10:39) – Movies
(2:15:11) – Advice for young people

#393 – Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, Sex, and Love

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Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist at Stanford and host of the Huberman Lab Podcast. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/andrew-huberman-4-transcript

EPISODE LINKS:
Andrew’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/AndrewHubermanLab
Andrew’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/hubermanlab
Andrew’s Website: https://hubermanlab.com
Andrew’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/hubermanlab

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(09:42) – Exercise routine
(15:52) – Advice to younger self
(23:07) – Jungian shadow
(27:53) – Betrayal and loyalty
(48:03) – Drama
(1:05:42) – Chimp Empire
(1:10:35) – Overt vs covert contracts
(1:16:42) – Age and health
(1:22:49) – Sexual selection
(1:33:26) – Relationships
(1:45:59) – Fertility
(1:56:25) – Productivity
(2:13:13) – Family

#392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans

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Joscha Bach is a cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and philosopher. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/joscha-bach-3-transcript

EPISODE LINKS:
Joscha’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Plinz
Joscha’s Website: http://bach.ai
Joscha’s Substack: https://substack.com/@joscha

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:26) – Stages of life
(18:48) – Identity
(25:24) – Enlightenment
(31:55) – Adaptive Resonance Theory
(38:42) – Panpsychism
(48:42) – How to think
(56:36) – Plants communication
(1:14:31) – Fame
(1:40:09) – Happiness
(1:47:26) – Artificial consciousness
(1:59:35) – Suffering
(2:04:19) – Eliezer Yudkowsky
(2:11:55) – e/acc (Effective Accelerationism)
(2:17:33) – Mind uploading
(2:28:22) – Vision Pro
(2:32:36) – Open source AI
(2:45:29) – Twitter
(2:52:44) – Advice for young people
(2:55:40) – Meaning of life

#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

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Mohammed El-Kurd is a Palestinian writer and poet. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/mohammed-el-kurd-transcript

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Books Mentioned:
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine (book): https://amzn.to/3K7ZtsE

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(10:41) – Palestine
(35:09) – Hate
(48:40) – Antisemitism
(56:37) – Peace in the Middle East
(1:03:34) – West Bank
(1:13:43) – Hamas
(1:23:31) – Two-state solution
(1:39:21) – Jerusalem
(1:46:04) – Role of the US
(1:47:54) – Ghassan Kanafani
(1:58:39) – 2024 Elections
(1:59:48) – Poetry
(2:09:08) – Language
(2:17:36) – Hope

#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

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Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and Unstoppable Us. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/yuval-noah-harari-transcript

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Yuval’s Website: https://www.ynharari.com
Sapiens (book): https://amzn.to/3NQB9wt
Homo Deus (book): https://amzn.to/44MzwXu
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (book): https://amzn.to/3Dfkz4D
Unstoppable Us (book): https://amzn.to/3NYyBg5

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(08:36) – Intelligence
(27:31) – Origin of humans
(37:53) – Suffering
(58:35) – Hitler
(1:17:07) – Benjamin Netanyahu
(1:35:30) – Peace in Ukraine
(1:52:20) – Conspiracy theories
(2:06:59) – AI safety
(2:21:16) – How to think
(2:31:00) – Advice for young people
(2:33:41) – Love
(2:43:50) – Mortality
(2:48:14) – Meaning of life

#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

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Benjamin Netanyahu is the Prime Minister of Israel. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/benjamin-netanyahu-transcript

EPISODE LINKS:
Netanyahu’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/netanyahu
Netanyahu’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/b.netanyahu
Netanyahu’s Website: https://www.netanyahu.org.il
Bibi: My Story (book): https://amzn.to/3XJd6UR
A Durable Peace (book): https://amzn.to/3pIofbX
Fighting Terrorism (book): https://amzn.to/3XNp6on

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(08:22) – Hate
(14:02) – Judicial reform and protests
(22:38) – AI
(32:40) – Competition
(39:21) – Power and corruption
(46:32) – Peace
(1:01:05) – War in Ukraine
(1:05:01) – Abraham Accords
(1:09:02) – History
(1:13:48) – Survival

#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an activist, lawyer, author, and candidate for the President of the Unites States. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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TRANSCRIPT:
https://lexfridman.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-transcript/

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Robert’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robertfkennedyjr
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Robert’s Campaign Website: https://www.kennedy24.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
(09:05) – US history
(13:21) – Freedom
(15:16) – Camus
(18:38) – Hitler and WW2
(27:50) – War in Ukraine
(51:11) – JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis
(1:16:19) – JFK assassination conspiracy
(1:25:53) – CIA influence
(1:34:52) – 2024 elections
(1:46:36) – Jordan Peterson
(1:48:18) – Anthony Fauci
(1:51:44) – Big Pharma
(2:11:24) – Peter Hotez
(2:17:05) – Exercise and diet
(2:19:30) – God

#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God

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George Hotz is a programmer, hacker, and the founder of comma-ai and tiny corp. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/george-hotz-3-transcript

EPISODE LINKS:
George’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/realgeorgehotz
George’s Twitch: https://twitch.tv/georgehotz
George’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/georgehotz
Tiny Corp’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/__tinygrad__
Tiny Corp’s Website: https://tinygrad.org/
Comma-ai’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/comma_ai
Comma-ai’s Website: https://comma.ai/
Comma-ai’s YouTube (unofficial): https://youtube.com/georgehotzarchive
Mentioned:
Learning a Driving Simulator (paper): https://bit.ly/42T6lAN

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
(08:04) – Time is an illusion
(17:44) – Memes
(20:20) – Eliezer Yudkowsky
(32:45) – Virtual reality
(39:04) – AI friends
(46:29) – tiny corp
(59:50) – NVIDIA vs AMD
(1:02:47) – tinybox
(1:14:56) – Self-driving
(1:29:35) – Programming
(1:37:31) – AI safety
(2:02:29) – Working at Twitter
(2:40:12) – Prompt engineering
(2:46:08) – Video games
(3:02:23) – Andrej Karpathy
(3:12:28) – Meaning of life

#386 – Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI

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Marc Andreessen is the co-creator of Mosaic, co-founder of Netscape, and co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/marc-andreessen-transcript

EPISODE LINKS:
Marc’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmarca
Marc’s Substack: https://pmarca.substack.com
Marc’s YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@a16z
Andreessen Horowitz: https://a16z.com
Why AI will save the world (essay): https://a16z.com/2023/06/06/ai-will-save-the-world
Books mentioned:
1. When Reason Goes on Holiday (book): https://amzn.to/3p80b1K
2. Superintelligence (book): https://amzn.to/3N7sc1A
3. Lenin (book): https://amzn.to/43L8YWD
4. The Ancient City (book): https://amzn.to/43GzReb

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(05:01) – Google Search
(12:49) – LLM training
(25:20) – Truth
(31:32) – Journalism
(41:24) – AI startups
(46:46) – Future of browsers
(53:09) – History of browsers
(59:10) – Steve Jobs
(1:13:45) – Software engineering
(1:21:00) – JavaScript
(1:25:18) – Netscape
(1:30:22) – Why AI will save the world
(1:38:20) – Dangers of AI
(2:08:40) – Nuclear energy
(2:20:37) – Misinformation
(2:35:57) – AI and the economy
(2:42:05) – China
(2:46:17) – Evolution of technology
(2:55:35) – How to learn
(3:03:45) – Advice for young people
(3:06:35) – Balance and happiness
(3:13:11) – Meaning of life

Lex Fridman

Research Scientist at MIT. Host of Lex Fridman Podcast.

Author Archives: lexteam

#395 – Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin

#394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature

#393 – Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, Sex, and Love

#392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans

#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God

#386 – Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI