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#408 – Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

Tal Wilkenfeld is a singer-songwriter, bassist, and guitarist. She has performed with legendary artists including Jeff Beck, Prince, Incubus, Eric Clapton, Herbie Hancock, Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart, Hans Zimmer, Pharrell Williams, and many more. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Big thank you to Crossroads Guitar Festival and Jeff Beck Estate for the footage included in this podcast.
Crossroads Guitar Festival: https://crossroadsguitarfestival.com/
Jeff Beck & Tal Wilkenfeld at Crossroads: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BVgUzUZeTw4
Guitar: Jeff Beck
Bass: Tal Wilkenfield
Drums: Vinnie Colaiuta
Keyboards: Jason Rebello
“Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers” is originally by Stevie Wonder

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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:51) – Jeff Beck
(15:44) – Confidence on stage
(32:23) – Leonard Cohen
(40:23) – Taxi Driver
(51:43) – Songwriting
(55:23) – How to learn and practice
(1:13:53) – Slap vs Fingerstyle
(1:20:16) – Davie504
(1:24:36) – Prince
(1:30:13) – Jimi Hendrix
(1:32:27) – Mentorship
(1:38:46) – Sad songs
(1:44:43) – Tal performs Under The Sun (live)
(1:50:00) – Tal performs Killing Me (live)

#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

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Guillaume Verdon (aka Beff Jezos on Twitter) is a physicist, quantum computing researcher, and founder of e/acc (effective accelerationism) movement. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Extropic: https://extropic.ai/
E/acc Blog: https://effectiveaccelerationism.substack.com/

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(09:18) – Beff Jezos
(19:16) – Thermodynamics
(25:31) – Doxxing
(35:25) – Anonymous bots
(42:53) – Power
(45:24) – AI dangers
(48:56) – Building AGI
(57:09) – Merging with AI
(1:04:51) – p(doom)
(1:20:18) – Quantum machine learning
(1:33:36) – Quantum computer
(1:42:10) – Aliens
(1:46:59) – Quantum gravity
(1:52:20) – Kardashev scale
(1:54:12) – Effective accelerationism (e/acc)
(2:04:42) – Humor and memes
(2:07:48) – Jeff Bezos
(2:14:20) – Elon Musk
(2:20:50) – Extropic
(2:29:26) – Singularity and AGI
(2:33:24) – AI doomers
(2:34:49) – Effective altruism
(2:41:18) – Day in the life
(2:47:45) – Identity
(2:50:35) – Advice for young people
(2:52:37) – Mortality
(2:56:20) – Meaning of life

#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

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Teddy Atlas is boxing trainer to 18 world champions, ESPN boxing commentator, and host of podcast THE FIGHT with Teddy Atlas. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/teddy-atlas-transcript

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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(09:47) – Lessons from father
(19:53) – Scar story
(40:31) – Cus D’Amato
(50:43) – Mike Tyson
(2:08:39) – Forgiveness

#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin

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Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin.

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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/jeff-bezos-transcript

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(00:00) – Introduction
(08:53) – Texas ranch and childhood
(12:31) – Space exploration and rocket engineering
(25:05) – Physics
(34:39) – New Glenn rocket
(1:17:28) – Lunar program
(1:27:24) – Amazon
(1:44:45) – Principles
(2:03:25) – Productivity
(2:14:03) – Future of humanity

#404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

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Lee Cronin is a chemist at University of Glasgow. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/lee-cronin-3-transcript

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Nature Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06600-9
Chemify’s Website: https://chemify.io

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(09:37) – Assembly theory paper
(30:06) – Assembly equation
(43:19) – Discovering alien life
(1:01:38) – Evolution of life on Earth
(1:09:34) – Response to criticism
(1:27:12) – Kolmogorov complexity
(1:39:02) – Nature review process
(1:59:56) – Time and free will
(2:06:21) – Communication with aliens
(2:28:19) – Cellular automata
(2:32:48) – AGI
(2:49:36) – Nuclear weapons
(2:55:22) – Chem Machina
(3:08:16) – GPT for electron density
(3:17:46) – God

#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/lisa-randall-transcript

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(00:00) – Introduction
(11:11) – Dark matter
(30:02) – Extinction events
(41:02) – Particle physics
(56:16) – Physics vs mathematics

#402 – Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate 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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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/michael-malice-7-transcript

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(00:00) – Introduction
(10:15) – Beauty and mantis shrimp
(14:43) – Parrots, Pirates, and Monty Python
(20:55) – Humor and absurdity
(28:16) – Thanksgiving
(56:56) – Unboxing the mystery box
(1:12:54) – Karl Marx and religion
(1:21:11) – Art
(1:25:25) – Books
(1:38:02) – How to be happy
(1:40:12) – Depression
(1:41:15) – Fear
(1:42:42) – Betrayal

#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

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John Mearsheimer is an international relations scholar at University of Chicago. He is one of the most influential and controversial thinkers in the world on the topics of war and power. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/john-mearsheimer-transcript

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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(09:52) – Power
(33:06) – Hitler
(50:33) – Russia and Ukraine
(1:46:45) – Israel and Palestine
(2:47:37) – China
(3:29:58) – Life and mortality

#400 – Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity

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Elon Musk is CEO of X, xAI, SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and The Boring Company.

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Tesla AI: https://x.com/Tesla_AI
SpaceX: https://x.com/spacex
Neuralink: https://x.com/neuralink
The Boring Company: https://x.com/boringcompany

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(10:25) – War and human nature
(14:51) – Israel-Hamas war
(20:59) – Military-Industrial Complex
(25:16) – War in Ukraine
(29:59) – China
(44:15) – xAI Grok
(55:13) – Aliens
(1:03:13) – God
(1:05:41) – Diablo 4 and video games
(1:14:48) – Dystopian worlds: 1984 and Brave New World
(1:20:59) – AI and useful compute per watt
(1:26:40) – AI regulation
(1:33:32) – Should AI be open-sourced?
(1:40:54) – X algorithm
(1:52:15) – 2024 presidential elections
(2:05:14) – Politics
(2:08:16) – Trust
(2:13:47) – Tesla’s Autopilot and Optimus robot
(2:22:46) – Hardships

#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

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Jared Kushner is a former Senior Advisor to President Donald Trump and author of Breaking History. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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=== Recorded on Mon, Oct 9 ===
(00:00) – Introduction
(07:02) – Hamas attack on Israel
(09:55) – Response to attack
(16:14) – History of Hamas
(18:54) – Iran
(20:41) – Al-Aqsa Mosque
(27:06) – Abraham Accords
(36:00) – Trump vs Biden on Middle East
(45:00) – Israeli-Saudi Normalization
(49:12) – How the Israel-Gaza war ends
(53:29) – Benjamin Netanyahu
(57:06) – Palestinian support
=== Recorded on Thu, Oct 5 ===
(59:47) – Trump 2024
(1:03:15) – Human nature
(1:10:13) – Geopolitics and negotiation
(1:18:56) – North Korea
(1:27:35) – Personalities of leaders
(1:34:11) – Government bureaucracy
(1:39:56) – Accusations of collusion with Russia
(1:49:35) – Ivanka
(1:55:30) – Father
(2:04:13) – Money and power
(2:12:56) – Trust and betrayal
(2:21:57) – Mohammed bin Salman
(2:44:16) – Israeli–Palestinian peace process
(2:58:47) – Abraham Accords and Arab-Israeli normalization
(3:08:53) – Donald Trump
(3:13:59) – War in Ukraine
(3:19:14) – Vladimir Putin
(3:26:33) – China
(3:44:50) – Learning process
(3:51:19) – Hope for the future

Lex Fridman

Research Scientist at MIT. Host of Lex Fridman Podcast.

Category Archives: ai

#408 – Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin

#404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

#402 – Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special

#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

#400 – Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity

#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East