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#423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex

Tulsi Gabbard is a politician, veteran, and author of For Love of Country. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/tulsi-gabbard-transcript

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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:14) – War in Iraq
(15:00) – Battle injuries and PTSD
(22:10) – War on terrorism
(30:51) – War in Gaza
(34:52) – War in Ukraine
(38:38) – Syria
(46:20) – Warmongers
(55:40) – Nuclear war
(1:11:08) – TikTok ban
(1:23:13) – Bernie Sanders
(1:28:08) – Politics
(1:46:59) – Personal attacks
(1:49:07) – God

#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

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Mark Cuban is a businessman, investor, star of TV series Shark Tank, long-time principal owner of Dallas Mavericks, and founder of Cost Plus Drugs. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(11:10) – Entrepreneurship
(26:03) – Shark Tank
(36:29) – How Mark made first billion
(1:02:39) – Dallas Mavericks
(1:08:05) – DEI debate
(1:43:58) – Trump vs Biden
(1:46:20) – Immigration
(1:55:53) – Drugs and Big Pharma
(2:11:53) – AI
(2:16:05) – Advice for young people

#421 – Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/dana-white-transcript

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UFC’s Website: https://ufc.com/

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:31) – Mike Tyson and early days of fighting
(17:10) – Jiu jitsu
(23:14) – Origin of UFC
(37:25) – Joe Rogan
(43:31) – Lorenzo Fertitta
(45:58) – Great fighters
(49:55) – Khabib vs Conor
(53:01) – Jon Jones
(56:03) – Conor McGregor
(1:01:05) – Trump
(1:06:44) – Elon vs Zuck
(1:08:04) – Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul
(1:10:52) – Forrest Griffin vs Stephan Bonnar
(1:18:06) – Gambling
(1:33:08) – Mortality

#420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy

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Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and author of “Nuclear War: A Scenario” and many other books on war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/annie-jacobsen-transcript

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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:37) – Nuclear war
(12:21) – Launch procedure
(18:00) – Deterrence
(21:34) – Tactical nukes
(30:59) – Nuclear submarines
(33:59) – Nuclear missiles
(41:10) – Nuclear football
(50:17) – Missile interceptor system
(54:34) – North Korea
(1:01:10) – Nuclear war scenarios
(1:10:02) – Warmongers
(1:14:31) – President’s cognitive ability
(1:20:43) – Refusing orders
(1:28:41) – Russia and Putin
(1:33:48) – Cyberattack
(1:35:09) – Ground zero of nuclear war
(1:39:48) – Surviving nuclear war
(1:44:06) – Nuclear winter
(1:54:29) – Alien civilizations
(2:00:04) – Extrasensory perception
(2:13:50) – Area 51
(2:17:48) – UFOs and aliens
(2:28:15) – Roswell incident
(2:34:55) – CIA assassinations
(2:53:47) – Navalny
(2:56:12) – KGB
(3:02:48) – Hitler and the atomic bomb
(3:06:52) – War and human nature
(3:10:17) – Hope

#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

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Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, Sora, and many other state-of-the-art AI technologies. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/sam-altman-2-transcript

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ChatGPT Website: https://chat.openai.com/
Sora Website: https://openai.com/sora
GPT-4 Website: https://openai.com/research/gpt-4

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:51) – OpenAI board saga
(25:17) – Ilya Sutskever
(31:26) – Elon Musk lawsuit
(41:18) – Sora
(51:09) – GPT-4
(1:02:18) – Memory & privacy
(1:09:22) – Q*
(1:12:58) – GPT-5
(1:16:13) – $7 trillion of compute
(1:24:22) – Google and Gemini
(1:35:26) – Leap to GPT-5
(1:39:10) – AGI
(1:57:44) – Aliens

#418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

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Norman Finkelstein and Benny Morris are historians. Mouin Rabbani is a Middle East analyst. Steven Bonnell (aka Destiny) is a political livestreamer. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/israel-palestine-debate-transcript

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Norman’s Website: https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/
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Knowing Too Much (excerpt): https://jumpshare.com/v/8EUbbP40Do44ITDfJUoR
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Destiny’s X: https://x.com/TheOmniLiberal
Destiny’s Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/
Destiny’s Website: https://destiny.gg
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(12:11) – 1948
(1:10:43) – Partition
(2:15:16) – October 7
(3:09:27) – Gaza
(3:36:02) – Peace
(4:40:47) – Hope for the future

#417 – Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family

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Kimbal Musk is a chef, entrepreneur, and author of The Kitchen Cookbook: Cooking for Your Community. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/kimbal-musk-transcript

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The Kitchen (restaurants): https://www.thekitchen.com/

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:50) – Growing up in South Africa
(19:21) – Cooking
(42:06) – Ingredients
(49:11) – Anthony Bourdain
(51:26) – Cooking school
(1:07:46) – Life-threatening accident
(1:21:50) – Road trip across US
(1:33:33) – Zip2
(1:38:16) – Tesla
(1:45:41) – SpaceX
(1:49:24) – Hope for the future

#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

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Yann LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, professor at NYU, Turing Award winner, and one of the most influential researchers in the history of AI. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/yann-lecun-3-transcript

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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(09:10) – Limits of LLMs
(20:47) – Bilingualism and thinking
(24:39) – Video prediction
(31:59) – JEPA (Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture)
(35:08) – JEPA vs LLMs
(44:24) – DINO and I-JEPA
(45:44) – V-JEPA
(51:15) – Hierarchical planning
(57:33) – Autoregressive LLMs
(1:12:59) – AI hallucination
(1:18:23) – Reasoning in AI
(1:35:55) – Reinforcement learning
(1:41:02) – Woke AI
(1:50:41) – Open source
(1:54:19) – AI and ideology
(1:56:50) – Marc Andreesen
(2:04:49) – Llama 3
(2:11:13) – AGI
(2:15:41) – AI doomers
(2:31:31) – Joscha Bach
(2:35:44) – Humanoid robots
(2:44:52) – Hope for the future

#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

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Serhii Plokhy is a Ukrainian historian at Harvard University, director of the Ukrainian Research Institute, and an author of many books on history of Eastern Europe, including his latest book The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/serhii-plokhy-transcript

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Serhii’s Website: https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/serhii-plokhii
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute: https://huri.harvard.edu/
Serhii’s Books: https://amzn.to/3OS2EqK
2006 – The Origins of the Slavic Nations
2010 – Yalta: The Price of Peace
2012 – The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires
2014 – The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union
2015 – The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
2016 – The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story
2017 – Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
2018 – Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
2021 – Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
2021 – The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present
2022 – Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disaster
2023 – The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(09:10) – Collapse of the Soviet Union
(25:19) – Origins of Russia and Ukraine
(38:22) – Ukrainian nationalism
(46:04) – Stepan Bandera
(1:15:05) – KGB
(1:30:03) – War in Ukraine
(2:06:19) – NATO and Russia
(2:17:22) – Peace talks
(2:31:09) – Ukrainian Army head Valerii Zaluzhnyi
(2:37:46) – Power and War
(2:48:37) – Holodomor
(2:55:09) – Chernobyl
(3:05:43) – Nuclear power
(3:15:20) – Future of the world

#414 – Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom

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Tucker Carlson is a highly-influential political commentator. You can watch and listen to him on the Tucker Carlson Network and the Tucker Carlson Podcast. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/tucker-carlson-transcript

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Tucker’s YouTube: https://youtube.com/@TuckerCarlson
Tucker’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/tuckercarlson
Tucker’s Facebook: https://facebook.com/tuckercarlsonTCN/
Vladimir Putin Interview: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fOCWBhuDdDo

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(11:58) – Putin
(28:13) – Navalny
(49:25) – Moscow
(1:08:54) – Freedom of speech
(1:15:08) – Jon Stewart
(1:27:54) – Ending the War in Ukraine
(1:37:21) – Nazis
(1:45:48) – Putin’s health
(1:56:52) – Hitler
(2:06:17) – Nuclear war
(2:24:36) – Trump
(2:41:33) – Israel-Palestine
(2:47:42) – Xi Jinping
(3:01:40) – Advice for young people
(3:06:58) – Hope for the future

Lex Fridman

Research Scientist at MIT. Host of Lex Fridman Podcast.

Category Archives: ai

#423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex

#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

#421 – Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

#420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy

#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

#418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

#417 – Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family

#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

#414 – Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom