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#263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma

John Abramson is faculty at Harvard Medical School and a family physician for over two decades. He’s the author of the new book Sickening about how big pharma broke American healthcare and how we can fix it. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(14:29) – Biggest problem with big pharma
(23:30) – Advertising
(43:22) – Corruption
(59:38) – Pfizer vaccine data
(1:08:30) – Vaccine profits
(1:19:25) – Censorship
(1:40:11) – FDA
(1:48:45) – NIH
(1:57:42) – Live longer
(2:01:13) – Medications
(2:09:37) – Doctors
(2:13:44) – Advice for young people
(2:14:40) – Big pharma’s influence
(2:19:24) – Mortality
(2:21:15) – Meaning of life

#262 – Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens

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Garry Nolan is a professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. His research is in microbiology, immunology, bio-computation, and analysis of UFO artifacts, materials, and reports of UFO encounters. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:41) – Biology
(13:45) – Alien civilizations
(17:49) – UFO encounters
(54:50) – Atacama skeleton
(1:02:07) – UFO materials
(1:13:29) – Jacques Vallee
(1:17:37) – UFO data
(1:28:43) – Alien hardware in US possession
(1:33:20) – Bob Lazar
(1:36:15) – Avi Loeb and Oumuamua
(1:40:17) – Advice for young people
(1:47:05) – Meaning of life

#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind

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Philip Goff is a philosopher of mind and consciousness at Durham University and author of Galileo’s Error. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Consciousness and Fundamental Reality (book): https://amzn.to/3ojldH1

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:40) – Conscious matter
(41:06) – Death, mystical experiences and collective consciousness
(51:30) – The authority of expertise
(1:12:27) – Panpsychism and physics
(1:41:11) – Suffering, zombies and illusion
(2:13:57) – JRE podcast recap
(2:25:33) – Free will
(2:43:12) – Are we living in a simulation?
(2:47:04) – Meaning of life

#260 – Georges St-Pierre, John Danaher & Gordon Ryan: The Greatest of All Time

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Georges St-Pierre is an MMA fighter. John Danaher is a martial arts coach. Gordon Ryan is a submission grappler. Each are considered by many to be the greatest of all time in each of their respective disciplines. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Gordon’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gordonlovesjiujitsu/

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:35) – Success
(22:35) – Trash talk
(25:42) – Doubt
(34:06) – Emotions
(46:01) – Gordon’s beef with André Galvão
(50:11) – Diet
(1:00:12) – Training
(1:28:21) – Human nature and combat sports
(1:39:34) – MMA vs Grappling
(1:48:53) – Gordon Ryan vs Felipe Pena
(1:52:40) – GSP and shoot boxing
(2:03:56) – GSP vs Khabib
(2:11:56) – Pankration
(2:15:08) – Effective grappling and takedowns
(2:30:40) – Aliens and Mars
(2:47:20) – Robots
(2:51:15) – Advice for young people

#259 – Thomas Tull: From Batman Dark Knight Trilogy to AI and the Rolling Stones

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Thomas Tull is founder of Legendary Entertainment, Tulco, part-owner of Pittsburgh Steelers, and guitarist for the band Ghost Hounds. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:14) – Legendary Entertainment
(23:56) – James Cameron
(25:50) – Storytelling
(36:02) – Allure of movies
(39:56) – Future of American industries
(58:48) – Tulco
(1:03:58) – Intellectual honest and life lessons
(1:14:30) – Colossal
(1:18:28) – Warren Buffet
(1:27:10) – The Rolling Stones
(1:45:20) – Greatest guitarist
(1:53:33) – Thomas Tull’s music
(2:03:00) – Football
(2:13:56) – Advice for young people
(2:19:42) – Mortality and death

#258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning

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Yann LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, professor at NYU, Turing Award winner, and one of the seminal researchers in the history of machine learning. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Books and resources mentioned:
Self-supervised learning (article): https://bit.ly/3Aau1DQ

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:58) – Self-supervised learning
(17:17) – Vision vs language
(23:08) – Statistics
(28:55) – Three challenges of machine learning
(34:45) – Chess
(42:47) – Animals and intelligence
(52:31) – Data augmentation
(1:13:51) – Multimodal learning
(1:25:40) – Consciousness
(1:30:25) – Intrinsic vs learned ideas
(1:34:37) – Fear of death
(1:42:29) – Artificial Intelligence
(1:56:18) – Facebook AI Research
(2:12:56) – NeurIPS
(2:29:08) – Complexity
(2:37:33) – Music
(2:42:28) – Advice for young people

#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize

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Brian Keating is an experimental physicist at the UCSD, author of Losing the Nobel Prize, and host of the Into the Impossible podcast. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Books and resources mentioned:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:46) – Telescope
(12:10) – Beginning of the universe
(32:23) – Science and the Soviet Union
(37:49) – What it’s like to be a scientist
(56:45) – Age of the universe
(59:37) – Expansion of the universe
(1:07:37) – Gravitational waves
(1:10:49) – BICEP
(1:36:05) – Nobel prize
(1:59:06) – Joe Rogan
(2:06:21) – Recognition in science
(2:14:30) – Curiosity
(2:22:18) – Losing the Nobel Prize
(2:35:13) – Galileo Galilei
(2:54:00) – Eric Weinstein
(3:12:21) – Scientific community
(3:30:02) – James Webb telescope
(3:35:01) – Panspermia
(3:38:32) – Origin of life
(3:43:59) – Aliens
(3:49:41) – Death and purpose
(3:53:53) – God
(3:59:49) – Power

#256 – Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony

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Yaron Brook is an objectivist. Yoram Hazony is a national conservative. This is a conversation and debate about national conservatism vs individualism. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Yoram’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/yhazony
Yoram’s Website: https://www.yoramhazony.org/
Yaron Brook’s Books:
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Yoram Hazony’s Books:
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The Virtue of Nationalism: https://amzn.to/3mtxqs6

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(09:11) – Conservatism
(15:07) – Importance of history
(27:09) – Rationalism vs empiricism
(32:39) – Communism
(40:43) – Otto von Bismarck
(45:04) – Edmund Burke and the French Revolution
(49:52) – USA’s founding fathers
(1:02:47) – Founding documents
(1:24:36) – Cohesion and Individualism
(1:45:29) – Love and relationships
(1:53:41) – Individual freedom
(2:08:08) – Having children
(2:21:54) – Reason vs emotions
(2:28:44) – Nationalism
(2:40:56) – Finding love
(2:52:44) – Hope for the future
(2:58:08) – Meaning of life

#255 – Mark Normand: Comedy!

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Mark Normand is a stand-up comedian. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(08:45) – Love
(11:51) – Childhood in New Orleans
(26:37) – New York
(35:11) – LA vs NY
(44:25) – Advice for new comedians
(58:57) – Crafting jokes
(1:00:59) – Norm Macdonald
(1:08:32) – Favorite medium
(1:12:43) – Austin
(1:19:04) – Sending people to space
(1:20:37) – Robots with human emotion
(1:24:08) – Self-driving vehicles
(1:28:15) – Future of human interaction
(1:32:22) – Advice for young people
(1:36:22) – Rapid random questions
(1:54:09) – Meaning of life

#254 – Jay Bhattacharya: The Case Against Lockdowns

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Jay Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford University and co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(10:18) – How deadly is Covid?
(39:48) – Covid vs Influenza
(45:42) – Francis Collins email to Fauci
(1:06:19) – Francis Collins
(1:13:48) – Vaccine safety and efficacy
(1:20:46) – Vaccine hesitancy
(1:37:21) – Great Barrington Declaration and lockdowns
(1:53:39) – Focused Protection
(2:15:31) – Fear
(2:19:57) – Advice for young people
(2:24:56) – Fear of death
(2:26:53) – Meaning of life

Lex Fridman

Research Scientist at MIT. Host of Lex Fridman Podcast.

Category Archives: ai

#263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma

#262 – Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens

#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind

#260 – Georges St-Pierre, John Danaher & Gordon Ryan: The Greatest of All Time

#259 – Thomas Tull: From Batman Dark Knight Trilogy to AI and the Rolling Stones

#258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning

#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize

#256 – Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony

#255 – Mark Normand: Comedy!

#254 – Jay Bhattacharya: The Case Against Lockdowns