Category Archives: ai

#338 – Chamath Palihapitiya: Money, Success, Startups, Energy, Poker & Happiness

Chamath Palihapitiya is a venture capitalist, engineer, CEO of Social Capital, and co-host of the All-In Podcast. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:55) – Childhood and forgiveness
(21:39) – Money and happiness
(28:29) – Poker
(31:57) – Mistakes
(42:47) – Early jobs
(44:25) – Facebook
(1:02:11) – Energy
(1:09:51) – Cloud computation
(1:14:06) – Fixing social media
(1:23:58) – Trump’s Twitter ban
(1:29:03) – Kanye West
(1:40:15) – All-In Podcast
(1:49:31) – Nuclear war
(2:01:07) – Startups
(2:09:38) – Work-life balance
(2:20:47) – Teamwork
(2:32:08) – Energy transition
(2:42:41) – Silicon Valley culture
(2:46:00) – Activism culture
(2:50:21) – Advice for young people
(2:56:56) – Meaning of life

#337 – Destiny: Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, War, and Relationships

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Steven Bonnell, aka Destiny, is a progressive political commentator and a live streamer on YouTube. Melina Goransson is a live streamer on Twitch. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Destiny’s YouTube: https://youtube.com/destiny
Destiny’s Subreddit: https://reddit.com/r/Destiny
Destiny’s Website: https://destiny.gg
Destiny’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/destiny
Melina’s Twitch: https://twitch.tv/melina
Melina’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melina.goransson
Melina’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/melinagoranson

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:55) – Politics and debates
(24:17) – War in Ukraine
(37:26) – Trans athletics
(40:35) – AI
(53:18) – Lowest point in Destiny’s life
(1:13:29) – Hate speech and language
(1:49:51) – Misogyny
(2:05:02) – Big government and institutions
(2:44:46) – Hasan and Vaush
(3:00:55) – Joe Biden
(3:11:45) – Donald Trump
(3:17:45) – Free speech
(3:20:38) – Melina joins the conversation
(3:23:52) – Melina and Destiny
(3:34:23) – Open relationship
(3:41:45) – Red pill community
(3:52:00) – Sex body count
(4:04:14) – Advice for young people

#336 – Ben Shapiro: Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler, Extremism, and War

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Ben Shapiro is a conservative political commentator, host of The Ben Shapiro Show, co-founder of The Daily Wire, and author of The Authoritarian Moment and other books. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Ben’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/benshapiro
Ben’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/officialbenshapiro
Daily Wire: https://dailywire.com
Ben’s Books:
The Authoritarian Moment: https://amzn.to/3T3RRJv
Facts (Still) Don’t Care About Your Feelings: https://amzn.to/3T3Hwgs
How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps: https://amzn.to/3fxmeKx
The Right Side of History: https://amzn.to/3E3jGgS
How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: https://amzn.to/3FLHR4z
Facts Don’t Care about Your Feelings: https://amzn.to/3UrcBvL
Books mentioned:
The Strongman: https://amzn.to/3U8f2U7
Economics in One Lesson: https://amzn.to/3DWAbLA
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: https://amzn.to/3DTGlej

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:07) – Kanye ‘Ye’ West
(14:47) – Hitler and the nature of evil
(22:53) – Political attacks on the left and the right
(28:37) – Quebec mosque shooting
(38:33) – Elon Musk buying Twitter
(51:36) – Trump and Biden
(56:09) – Hunter Biden’s laptop
(1:07:42) – Candace Owens
(1:11:22) – War in Ukraine
(1:21:31) – Rhetoric vs truth
(1:26:26) – Infamous BBC interview
(1:29:42) – Day in the life
(1:44:37) – Abortion
(1:57:32) – Climate change
(2:04:55) – God and faith
(2:16:05) – Tribalism
(2:20:41) – Advice for young people
(2:24:26) – Andrew Breitbart
(2:26:56) – Self-doubt
(2:28:58) – Love

#335 – Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump

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Fiona Hill is a presidential advisor and foreign policy expert specializing in Russia. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Fiona’s Books:
There Is Nothing for You Here: https://amzn.to/3TR0nN9
Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin: https://amzn.to/3WiGU9F

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:24) – Education and career
(17:10) – Donbas in the 20th century
(25:28) – Soviet Union
(36:03) – Donald Trump’s foreign policy
(48:03) – Testifying against Donald Trump
(54:54) – US administrations
(1:16:28) – Impeachment of Donald Trump
(1:36:44) – Why people like Donald Trump
(1:45:49) – Vladimir Putin
(2:05:58) – Invasion of Ukraine
(2:21:03) – NATO implication in Ukraine war
(2:33:54) – Interviewing Vladimir Putin
(2:46:22) – 2024 elections
(2:49:30) – Alexei Navalny
(2:54:03) – Nuclear war
(3:05:54) – How Ukraine war will end
(3:12:40) – Hope for the future
(3:15:48) – Advice for young people

#334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

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Abbas Amanat is a historian at Yale specializing in the modern history of Iran. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Abbas’s Website: https://history.yale.edu/people/abbas-amanat
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2. Apocalyptic Islam and Iranian Shi’ism: https://amzn.to/3h66fU0

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:18) – Mahsa Amini protests in Iran
(24:35) – Propaganda
(42:13) – Iranian culture
(59:02) – Violent suppression of protests
(1:20:31) – Islamic Revolution
(1:38:14) – CIA in Iran
(1:54:30) – Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini
(2:25:26) – Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
(2:33:21) – Nuclear weapons
(2:41:38) – Israel
(2:56:18) – Putin
(3:03:50) – Future of Iran

#333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI

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Andrej Karpathy is a legendary AI researcher, engineer, and educator. He’s the former director of AI at Tesla, a founding member of OpenAI, and an educator at Stanford. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Andrej’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/karpathy
Andrej’s YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/AndrejKarpathy
Andrej’s Website: http://karpathy.ai
Andrej’s Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=l8WuQJgAAAAJ
Books mentioned:
The Vital Question: https://amzn.to/3q0vN6q
Life Ascending: https://amzn.to/3wKIsOE
The Selfish Gene: https://amzn.to/3TCo63s
Contact: https://amzn.to/3W3y5Au
The Cell: https://amzn.to/3W5f6pa

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(05:41) – Neural networks
(10:45) – Biology
(16:15) – Aliens
(26:27) – Universe
(38:18) – Transformers
(46:34) – Language models
(56:45) – Bots
(1:03:05) – Google’s LaMDA
(1:10:28) – Software 2.0
(1:21:28) – Human annotation
(1:23:25) – Camera vision
(1:28:30) – Tesla’s Data Engine
(1:32:39) – Tesla Vision
(1:39:09) – Elon Musk
(1:44:17) – Autonomous driving
(1:49:11) – Leaving Tesla
(1:54:39) – Tesla’s Optimus
(2:03:45) – ImageNet
(2:06:23) – Data
(2:16:15) – Day in the life
(2:29:31) – Best IDE
(2:36:37) – arXiv
(2:41:06) – Advice for beginners
(2:50:24) – Artificial general intelligence
(3:03:44) – Movies
(3:09:37) – Future of human civilization
(3:13:56) – Book recommendations
(3:20:05) – Advice for young people
(3:21:56) – Future of machine learning
(3:28:44) – Meaning of life

#332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview

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Ye is a legendary artist, producer, and designer. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Ye’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/kanyewest
Ye’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/kanyewest
Ye’s Website: https://kanyewest.com

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:26) – Engineering
(18:21) – Kim Kardashian
(20:07) – Sex and the future of humanity
(30:12) – Happiness
(32:49) – The Holocaust
(1:21:58) – Fashion
(1:37:31) – 2024 US election
(1:42:10) – Humor
(1:44:20) – Media and antisemitism
(1:56:23) – Trusting people
(1:59:37) – Accountability
(2:09:36) – Legacy
(2:10:28) – Advice for young people
(2:23:29) – Regret

#331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA

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Balaji Srinivasan is an angel investor, tech founder, philosopher, and author of The Network State: How to Start a New Country. He was formerly the CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Balaji’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/balajis
Balaji’s Website: https://balajis.com
Books:
1. The Network State: https://thenetworkstate.com
2. Reputation and Power: https://amzn.to/3eyQiF6
3. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: https://amzn.to/3TpuLNP
4. Seeing Like a State: https://amzn.to/3MJfvcD
Articles:
1. Bitcoin Is Civilization: https://www.commonsense.news/p/is-bitcoin-anarchy-or-civilization
2. Great Protocol Politics: https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/12/11/bitcoin-ethereum-cryptocurrency-web3-great-protocol-politics
3. Regulation, Disruption, and the Future: https://bit.ly/3CKY9Ys
4. The Measured Man: https://theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/the-measured-man/309018
5. Secret Document That Transformed China: https://npr.org/sections/money/2012/01/20/145360447/the-secret-document-that-transformed-china
6. Hollywood’s Missing Movies: https://reason.com/2000/06/01/hollywoods-missing-movies
7. New York Times Truth Campaign: https://adweek.com/agencyspy/droga5s-first-big-campaign-for-the-new-york-times-is-all-about-the-truth/126274

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:23) – Prime number maze
(33:35) – Government
(49:51) – The Network State
(59:55) – Pseudonymous economy
(1:23:41) – Exit
(1:38:23) – Building a network state
(2:26:09) – Wikipedia
(3:03:40) – Fixing science
(3:30:08) – Fixing the FDA
(5:01:16) – Longevity
(5:20:14) – Donald Trump’s ban from social media
(5:49:32) – War
(5:56:41) – Censorship
(6:10:40) – Social media
(6:26:56) – Wokeism and communism
(6:45:44) – Cryptocurrency
(7:03:17) – AI, AR, and VR
(7:15:15) – Advice for young people
(7:48:10) – Regulating logic

#330 – Hikaru Nakamura: Chess, Magnus, Kasparov, and the Psychology of Greatness

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Hikaru Nakamura is a chess super grandmaster and is currently the #1 ranked blitz chess player in the world. He is also one of the top chess streamers on Twitch and YouTube. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Hikaru’s Twitch: https://twitch.tv/gmhikaru
Hikaru’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/GMHikaru
Hikaru’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/GMHikaru
Hikaru’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/gmhikaru
Hikaru’s Website: https://hikarunakamura.com
Macauley Peterson’s video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tGXvcQP6VPo

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
(06:59) – A private game vs Magnus Carlsen
(14:47) – Chess openings
(30:59) – Mental preparation
(39:40) – Chess tactics
(50:03) – Solving chess
(55:43) – Aggression and ego
(1:00:28) – Hans Niemann cheating scandal
(1:10:21) – How to cheat in chess
(1:24:44) – Greatest chess player of all time
(1:35:00) – Hikaru’s immortal game
(1:47:26) – Paul Morphy
(1:49:10) – World Chess Championship
(1:51:59) – Magnus Carlsen
(1:55:33) – Sergey Karjakin
(1:58:00) – Beauty of chess
(2:04:55) – Day in the life
(2:19:34) – Streaming
(2:34:13) – Taking risks
(2:39:42) – Depression
(2:44:31) – Advice for young people
(2:51:51) – Love

#329 – Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT

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Kate Darling is a researcher at MIT Media Lab interested in human robot interaction and robot ethics. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Kate’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/grok_
Kate’s Website: http://katedarling.org
Kate’s Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/grok_
The New Breed (book): https://amzn.to/3ExhBuf
Creativity without Law (book): https://amzn.to/3MqV5F3
LuLaRobot (paper): http://drive.google.com/file/d/1PtYpkDQaQVPbhQIc6wcCC50JKWVsDo3k/view

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
(07:57) – What is a robot?
(23:57) – Metaverse
(33:19) – Bias in robots
(47:02) – Modern robotics
(49:34) – Automation
(53:57) – Autonomous driving
(1:02:22) – Privacy
(1:05:48) – Google’s LaMDA
(1:10:35) – Robot animal analogy
(1:23:38) – Data concerns
(1:41:40) – Humanoid robots
(2:00:42) – LuLaRobot
(2:09:36) – Ethics in robotics
(2:24:57) – Jeffrey Epstein
(2:58:31) – Love and relationships

Lex Fridman

Research Scientist at MIT. Host of Lex Fridman Podcast.

Category Archives: ai

#338 – Chamath Palihapitiya: Money, Success, Startups, Energy, Poker & Happiness

#337 – Destiny: Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, War, and Relationships

#336 – Ben Shapiro: Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler, Extremism, and War

#335 – Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump

#334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

#333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI

#332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview

#331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA

#330 – Hikaru Nakamura: Chess, Magnus, Kasparov, and the Psychology of Greatness

#329 – Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT