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#353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy

Dennis Whyte is a nuclear scientist at MIT and the director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(05:54) – Nuclear fusion
(23:53) – e=mc^2
(38:20) – Fission vs fusion
(43:32) – Nuclear weapons
(47:19) – Plasma
(54:29) – Nuclear fusion reactor
(1:09:50) – 2022 nuclear fusion breakthrough explained
(1:30:27) – Magnetic confinement
(1:49:36) – ITER
(1:54:23) – SPARC
(2:08:23) – Future of fusion power
(2:16:55) – Engineering challenges
(2:35:36) – Nuclear disasters
(2:40:21) – Cold fusion
(2:54:36) – Kardashev scale
(3:04:00) – Advice for young people

#352 – Omar Suleiman: Islam

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Imam Omar Suleiman is the Founder and President of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research and a professor of Islamic Studies at Southern Methodist University. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Yaqeen Institute’s Website: https://yaqeeninstitute.org

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
(08:39) – God
(16:25) – Loss
(25:14) – Life after death
(26:53) – Why God allows suffering
(40:18) – Seeking the truth
(47:58) – Islamophobia
(1:12:55) – Muslim ban
(1:20:24) – Meaning of prayer
(1:34:01) – Mecca
(1:39:12) – Malcolm X
(1:42:23) – Muhammad Ali
(1:47:09) – Khabib Nurmagomedov
(1:53:19) – Prophets
(1:59:31) – Quran
(2:05:17) – Ramadan
(2:12:21) – Future of Islam
(2:15:30) – Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis
(2:23:37) – War and religion
(2:33:29) – Israel and Palestine
(2:59:13) – Hope for the future
(3:03:56) – Prayer

#351 – MrBeast: Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram

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MrBeast is a legendary YouTube creator. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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MrBeast Main Channel: https://youtube.com/@MrBeast
MrBeast Reacts: https://youtube.com/@BeastReacts
MrBeast Gaming: https://youtube.com/@MrBeastGaming
MrBeast Philanthropy: https://youtube.com/@BeastPhilanthropy
MrBeast’s TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@mrbeast
MrBeast’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrBeast
MrBeast’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/mrbeast
Feastable’s Website: https://feastables.com
MrBeast Burger’s Website: https://mrbeastburger.com
MrBeast’s Merch: https://shopmrbeast.com

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:55) – 1 billion views and 1 billion subscribers
(12:41) – Mortality
(20:04) – Improving YouTube
(22:26) – Twitter
(27:14) – Brand deals
(30:24) – Audience retention
(35:03) – Hiring
(42:41) – Talking to the camera
(47:42) – Brainstorming
(1:00:03) – TikTok
(1:09:07) – Advice for beginners
(1:13:23) – How to grow on YouTube
(1:21:07) – Elon Musk and Twitter
(1:22:32) – 10 million dollars vs 10 million subscribers
(1:29:50) – Going to Antarctica
(1:31:35) – Process of making a video
(1:36:11) – Overcoming depression
(1:47:15) – Building a business
(1:55:10) – MrBeast Burger and Feastables
(1:59:15) – Creating video games
(2:03:24) – Making billions of dollars
(2:05:58) – Money vs Happiness
(2:12:46) – Mental health
(2:19:24) – Love
(2:21:32) – Legacy

#350 – Betül Kaçar: Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens

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Betül Kaçar is an astrobiologist at University of Wisconsin. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Betül’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/betulland
Betül’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/betul.kacar.astro/
Kacar Lab: https://kacarlab.org/
Betül’s TED Talk: https://go.ted.com/betulkacar

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
(08:20) – History of life on Earth
(16:25) – Origin of life
(39:11) – Genetic language of life
(52:08) – Life and energy
(1:02:50) – Ancient DNA
(1:21:48) – Evolution
(1:33:19) – Alien life
(2:01:19) – Panspermia
(2:07:41) – Restarting life on Earth
(2:20:23) – Where ideas come from
(2:27:54) – Science and language
(2:36:31) – Love
(2:37:55) – Advice to young people
(2:42:29) – Meaning of life

#349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism

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Bhaskar Sunkara is a democratic socialist, political writer, founding editor of Jacobin, president of The Nation, and author of The Socialist Manifesto. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Bhaskar’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/sunraysunray
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The Nation: https://thenation.com
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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
(13:24) – Socialism
(31:54) – Communism
(58:31) – Class struggle
(1:09:33) – Quality of life
(1:17:29) – Unions
(1:29:57) – Corruption
(1:43:15) – Freedom of speech
(1:51:38) – War
(1:59:24) – Karl Marx
(2:13:03) – Socialist vision
(2:18:28) – AI and socialism
(2:23:26) – Socialist policies
(2:48:45) – Billionaires
(2:54:43) – Bernie Sanders
(3:05:10) – AOC
(3:17:11) – 2024 presidential election
(3:22:05) – China
(3:31:06) – Jacobin
(3:38:35) – The Socialist Manifesto
(3:45:55) – Advice for young people
(3:49:28) – Meaning of life

#348 – Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

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Nathalie Cabrol is an astrobiologist at the SETI Institute, directing the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Nathalie’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/shasta721
SETI’s Website: https://seti.org
In Her Orbit (article): https://nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/22/magazine/voyages-nathalie-cabrol-searching-mars-life-on-earth.html

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:47) – Working in extreme environments
(11:26) – Water and life on Mars
(19:31) – Origin of life
(37:00) – Complexity
(40:37) – AI
(49:23) – Extinction
(57:06) – Fermi Paradox
(1:10:48) – SETI research
(1:13:39) – Diving in volcanic lakes
(1:32:57) – Surviving an earthquake on a volcano
(1:43:37) – Resilience of life
(1:51:31) – Life below the surface of Mars
(2:00:26) – Depression
(2:04:08) – Mortality

#347 – Michael Malice: Christmas Special

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Michael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, author, and anarchist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Michael’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/michaelmalice
Michael’s Community: https://malice.locals.com
Michael’s YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UC5tj5QCpJKIl-KIa4Gib5Xw
Michael’s Website: http://michaelmalice.com/about
Your Welcome podcast: https://bit.ly/30q8oz1
Books:
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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
(07:43) – Santa and the White Pill
(10:30) – Marxism and Anarchism
(25:48) – The case for socialism
(29:59) – Human nature and ideology
(38:20) – Cynicism
(54:05) – Twitter
(58:46) – October Revolution
(1:01:56) – Trotsky, Lenin, and Stalin
(1:06:22) – Communism
(1:30:08) – Suppression of speech
(1:52:04) – Twitter Files
(1:59:08) – Self-publishing
(2:12:27) – Kulaks and starvation
(2:49:42) – The Great Terror
(2:58:00) – Lavrentiy Beria
(3:04:25) – Joseph Stalin
(3:13:00) – Iron Curtain
(3:25:29) – Ideologies vs leaders
(3:29:21) – Emma Goldman
(3:33:41) – White pill moments
(3:45:04) – Hope for the future

#346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels

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Ed Calderon is a security specialist who worked on counter-narcotics and organized crime investigation in Mexico. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Ed’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/eds_manifesto

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
(07:13) – Corruption
(40:55) – Cartels
(56:16) – El Chapo
(1:13:27) – Weapons
(1:25:33) – Assassinations
(1:34:20) – Counter-ambush teams
(1:57:46) – PTSD and alcohol
(2:20:25) – Improvised weapons
(2:23:57) – Street fights
(2:52:54) – Kidnapping
(2:57:10) – Escaping restraints
(3:06:38) – Imitation
(3:15:06) – Narco cults
(3:28:01) – Adolfo Constanzo
(3:32:29) – Fentanyl
(3:49:14) – Immigration
(4:00:34) – Advice for young people
(4:09:06) – Mortality

#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

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Coffeezilla is a journalist and investigator on YouTube who exposes financial frauds, scams, and fake gurus. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Coffeezilla’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/coffeebreak_YT
Coffeezilla’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coffeebreak_yt

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
(06:04) – Coffee
(08:13) – SBF and FTX
(22:54) – $8 billion
(32:01) – Evil vs incompetence
(41:57) – Key lessons from FTX collapse
(55:15) – Should SBF go to jail?
(1:03:02) – Role of influencers and celebrities
(1:07:30) – How FTX covered up fraud
(1:11:26) – Interview with SBF
(1:26:29) – SafeMoon fraud
(1:32:41) – Bitcoin
(1:43:20) – Psychology of investigating fraud
(1:52:26) – Investigating politics and corruption
(1:59:39) – Coffeezilla origin story
(2:04:19) – MLM marketing scams
(2:11:58) – Andrew Tate and Hustlers University
(2:29:40) – Save the Kids crypto scandal
(2:36:59) – Money and fame
(2:44:03) – MrBeast
(2:50:26) – Fake gurus and Get-Rich-Quick schemes
(3:09:45) – Process of investigation
(3:22:31) – Twitter Files release
(3:31:36) – Time management and productivity
(3:43:36) – Advice for young people

#344 – Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation

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Noam Brown is a research scientist at FAIR, Meta AI, co-creator of AI that achieved superhuman level performance in games of No-Limit Texas Hold’em and Diplomacy. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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webDiplomacy: https://webdiplomacy.net/
Noam’s papers:
Superhuman AI for multiplayer poker: https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10119653
Superhuman AI for heads-up no-limit poker: https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10077416
Human-level play in the game of Diplomacy: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade9097

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
(05:37) – No Limit Texas Hold ’em
(09:30) – Solving poker
(22:40) – Poker vs Chess
(29:18) – AI playing poker
(1:02:46) – Heads-up vs Multi-way poker
(1:13:37) – Greatest poker player of all time
(1:17:10) – Diplomacy game
(1:27:01) – AI negotiating with humans
(2:09:26) – AI in geopolitics
(2:14:11) – Human-like AI for games
(2:20:12) – Ethics of AI
(2:24:26) – AGI
(2:28:25) – Advice to beginners

Lex Fridman

Research Scientist at MIT. Host of Lex Fridman Podcast.

Category Archives: ai

#353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy

#352 – Omar Suleiman: Islam

#351 – MrBeast: Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram

#350 – Betül Kaçar: Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens

#349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism

#348 – Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

#347 – Michael Malice: Christmas Special

#346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels

#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

#344 – Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation