Lex Fridman ✅

OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 1:06 - Woodley vs Jake Paul boxing match 4:56 - Askren vs Jake Paul boxing match 7:30 - Jordan Burroughs and Kyle Dake 18:44 - Askren vs Burroughs charity match 23:28 - Champion mentality and handling losses 37:47 - Future interest in competition 47:17 - Askren's early career 58:05 - Robots wrestling 1:12:46 - Olympics 1:18:53 - Dagestan wrestling 1:24:58 - Askren Wrestling Academy 1:40:39 - Khabib Nurmagomedov 1:47:16 - 2020 Olympics 1:48:56 - Wrestling dominance in MMA

OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 1:08 - Robots in science fiction 6:49 - Cozmo 32:04 - AI companions 38:59 - Anki 1:04:33 - Waymo Via 1:36:10 - Sensor suites for long haul trucking 1:46:06 - Machine learning 2:04:03 - Waymo vs Tesla 2:14:38 - Safety and risk management 2:23:42 - Societal effects of automation 2:34:47 - Amazon Astro 2:39:12 - Challenges of the robotics industry 2:43:39 - Humanoid robotics 2:50:42 - Advice for getting a PhD in robotics 2:58:13 - Advice for robotics startups 3:09:19 - Advice for students

OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 0:43 - WWII and human nature 9:28 - Search engine morality 14:06 - Space exploration 31:07 - Aliens and UFOs 39:30 - SpaceX and Blue Origin 46:52 - Social media 51:19 - Climate change 1:03:09 - Consequences of big ideas 1:07:50 - Virtual reality 1:30:58 - Artificial intelligence 1:45:57 - Cryptocurrency 1:58:35 - Writing, storytelling, and books 2:21:13 - Martial arts 2:30:31 - Final thoughts

OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 1:34 - University of Austin (UATX) 34:29 - Sam Harris 52:56 - Elon Musk 1:01:15 - Money 1:11:10 - Hyperinflation 1:16:35 - Bitcoin 1:33:17 - Ethereum and smart contracts 1:42:04 - Worst disasters in human history 2:04:02 - How history will remember the current pandemic 2:17:36 - Hope for the future 2:26:06 - Love 2:32:44 - Meaning of life

OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 1:18 - Lab-leak theory 4:26 - Gain-of-function research of viruses 16:35 - Bioterrorism 21:04 - Tony Fauci 31:15 - COVID Vaccines 37:20 - Joe Rogan 44:23 - Variants 49:05 - Rapid at home testing 53:18 - Animal testing 58:44 - Stepping down as director of the NIH 1:02:37 - Barack Obama 1:04:40 - Accelerating Medicines Partnership 1:15:18 - Faith 1:20:47 - Fear of death 1:23:49 - Meaning of life

OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 0:44 - Ethnography 12:57 - Challenges of driving a truck 31:36 - Trucking industry: State of affairs 1:04:41 - Future of autonomous trucks 1:30:57 - Solving the automated truck dilemma 2:02:52 - Role of society in automated trucking 2:30:01 - Tesla and revolutionizing the trucking industry 2:49:41 - Hope and final thoughts

OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 0:43 - The most beautiful throw 25:12 - Russian approach to randori 38:43 - Judo gripping 50:12 - IOC 1:00:37 - Toughest match 1:05:44 - Jimmy Pedro Sr 1:24:59 - Travis Stevens 1:44:29 - Kayla Harrison 2:02:47 - Putin and judo 2:06:59 - Getting started in judo 2:11:45 - BJJ 2:15:11 - Advice for young people

OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 1:22 - At-home COVID-19 tests 11:25 - Medical devices and FDA classification 17:44 - Rapid test availability 34:07 - Who is in charge of public health? 50:46 - Testing privacy 58:02 - Biden's COVID-19 Action Plan 1:09:15 - Uncertainty, fear, and COVID 1:16:10 - Vaccines and herd immunity 1:24:50 - Meditation and consciousness 1:34:52 - Minimalism and Capitalism 1:38:28 - The future of humanity

OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 0:57 - What is complexity 13:58 - Randomness in the universe 18:19 - The Wolfram Physics Project 30:21 - Space and time are discrete 42:26 - Quantum mechanics and hypergraphs 51:40 - What is intelligence 1:02:23 - Computational equivalence 1:10:43 - What it is like to be a cellular automata 1:25:07 - Making prediction vs explanations 1:38:27 - Why does the universe exist 1:44:08 - The universe and rulial space 1:52:51 - Does an atom have consciousness 2:03:17 - Why does our universe exist 2:11:48 - What is outside the ruliad 2:22:22 - Automated proof systems 2:38:17 - Multicomputation for biology 2:56:48 - Cardano NFT collaboration with Wolfram Alpha 3:03:48 - Global theory of economics

OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 1:53 - The experience of drugs 12:57 - Drug use for grownups 18:40 - Studies on drugs 19:50 - Negative effects of drugs 25:18 - Should all drugs be legalized 30:47 - War on drugs: positive or negative 36:39 - Proper, positive, and misuse of drugs 40:59 - Recovery 47:53 - Drug depiction in movies 51:24 - How the study of drugs changed Carl 53:48 - Formative memories 58:16 - Greatest hip hop artist of all time 1:01:38 - What mind altering drugs teach us 1:05:45 - Advice for young people 1:07:51 - The meaning of life

OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 0:27 - Entropy 8:35 - Consciousness 24:54 - Quantum gravity 28:14 - String theory 41:41 - Time 54:13 - Free will 58:36 - Emergence and complexity 1:05:48 - The Big Bang 1:18:47 - Extraterrestrial life 1:29:09 - Space exploration 1:37:07 - Fear of death

OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 1:34 - Universal human rights 15:34 - Authoritarianism 25:44 - AIs impact on civil liberties 37:07 - Edward Snowden and government surveillance 40:46 - Money 44:59 - Bitcoin 1:00:46 - Government response to Bitcoin 1:11:17 - The blockchain 1:16:40 - Can Bitcoin fail? 1:19:31 - Bitcoin scams 1:23:16 - Patriotism 1:25:39 - Human Rights Foundation 1:30:13 - Conflict with China 1:33:03 - Corporate accountability 1:48:25 - Garry Kasparov and the HRF 1:53:34 - Journalism, conversations, and truth 2:00:48 - Alex's book recommendations 2:08:54 - Attacks on Bitcoin 2:10:34 - The future of humanity 2:14:55 - Advice for young people 2:26:12 - Meaning of life

OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 0:45 - World War II 11:48 - Yeonmi Park, starvation, and mental health 26:04 - Kelsi's 9/11 experience 29:34 - Becoming a soldier 36:01 - Artillery: The Hand of God 45:44 - Weapons training 1:03:29 - Pre-Deployment 1:19:36 - Arrival to Afghanistan 1:41:49 - Tragic war story 2:06:54 - Feelings after tragedy 2:10:36 - The Taliban 2:16:12 - Retrospective: 20 years in Afghanistan 2:32:51 - How war changes people 2:38:13 - PTSD 3:07:07 - Ayahuasca and mental recovery 3:39:04 - Love 3:57:07 - Advice for young people 4:00:27 - Death

OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 0:49 - Violence in humans vs violence in chimps 20:21 - Study of violence in chimps 39:16 - Human evolution and violence 1:35:45 - The Goodness Paradox and Catching Fire 1:48:02 - How cooking changed our evolution 2:02:48 - The beauty of the human mind emerges 2:06:54 - A map of how chimps, gorillas, and humans are all related 2:19:26 - Preserving nature 2:27:17 - The meaning of life

OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 0:24 - Life and death 7:43 - Quincy Jones 13:06 - Quentin Tarantino 16:32 - Kung Fu 21:28 - Biggie 23:15 - Tupac 26:12 - Nas 29:15 - Favorite verse 33:13 - Who is God? 38:23 - Wu-Tang Clan 42:16 - Bruce Lee 49:07 - Godfather 55:03 - Veganism 59:54 - AI 1:04:08 - Chess 1:07:26 - American Gangster 1:13:22 - Creativity 1:19:51 - Advice for young people 1:23:14 - Meaning of life

OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 0:19 - Existentialism 20:27 - Nietzsche and nihilism 38:03 - Dostoevsky 53:30 - Camus and suicide 1:12:00 - The Big Lebowski 1:19:49 - Ayn Rand 1:29:57 - Evil 1:40:31 - Heidegger 1:52:11 - Hubert Dreyfus 1:58:04 - Moby Dick 2:09:19 - David Foster Wallace 2:29:31 - Can AI make art? 2:49:15 - Meaning of life

OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 0:23 - What is beautiful about mathematics? 9:12 - How difficult should math really be? 17:31 - Students giving up on math 28:52 - Improving math education in schools 38:49 - Inspiring mathematical creativity 56:35 - youcubed 1:00:55 - Best methods for studying math 1:21:29 - Advice for young people

OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 0:44 - How are processors made? 20:02 - Are engineers or physicists more important 22:31 - Super-conductivity 38:18 - Computation 42:55 - Computation vs communication 46:36 - Electrons for computation and light for communication 57:19 - Neuromorphic computing 1:22:11 - What is NIST? 1:25:28 - Implementing super-conductivity 1:33:08 - The future of neuromorphic computing 1:52:41 - Loop neurons 1:58:57 - Machine learning 2:13:23 - Cosmological evolution 2:20:32 - Cosmological natural selection 2:37:53 - Life in the universe 2:45:40 - The rare Earth hypothesis

OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 1:11 - Early programming 22:52 - SciPy 39:46 - Open source 51:29 - NumPy 1:28:44 - Guido van Rossum 1:41:02 - Efficiency 1:49:54 - Objects 1:56:52 - Numba 2:05:58 - Anaconda 2:10:25 - Conda 2:26:01 - Quansight Labs 2:29:37 - OpenTeams 2:37:10 - GitHub 2:42:40 - Marketing 2:47:18 - Great programming 2:58:08 - Hiring 3:02:06 - Advice for young people

OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 4:39 - What is Judo? 12:27 - Travis's signature throw 17:52 - Fundamentals 19:44 - Throws 32:36 - Gripping 41:09 - Weight cutting 1:10:22 - Injuries 1:14:22 - Jiu-Jitsu 1:18:05 - Lex on his judo competition experience 1:21:30 - Levels of mastery 1:34:41 - Matches 1:48:42 - Travis inspired Lex to practice judo 1:54:56 - London 2012 Olympic games 2:36:33 - 2016 Olympic games 3:10:56 - Mixed team competition 3:18:21 - The value of epic throws 3:21:49 - Shohei Ono 3:28:11 - Chess 3:33:14 - The coach 3:39:50 - Advice for young people

OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 0:43 - Beauty in neural networks 5:02 - Darwin and evolution 10:47 - The origin of intelligence 17:29 - Explorations in cognition 23:33 - Learning representations by back-propagating errors 29:58 - Dave Rumelhart and cognitive modeling 43:01 - Connectionism 1:05:54 - Geoffrey Hinton 1:07:49 - Learning in a neural network 1:24:42 - Mathematics & reality 1:31:50 - Modeling intelligence 1:42:28 - Noam Chomsky and linguistic cognition 1:56:49 - Advice for young people 2:07:56 - Psychiatry and exploring the mind 2:20:35 - Legacy 2:26:24 - Meaning of life

OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 1:11 - What is Cyc? 9:17 - How to form a knowledge base of the universe 19:43 - How to train an AI knowledge base 24:04 - Global consistency versus local consistency 48:25 - Automated reasoning 54:05 - Direct uses of AI and machine learning 1:06:43 - The semantic web 1:17:16 - Tools to help Cyc interpret data 1:26:26 - The most beautiful idea about Cyc 1:32:25 - Love and consciousness in AI 1:39:24 - The greatness of Marvin Minsky 1:44:18 - Is Cyc just a beautiful dream? 1:49:03 - What is OpenCyc and how was it born? 1:54:53 - The open source community and OpenCyc 2:05:20 - The inference problem 2:07:03 - Cyc's programming language 2:14:37 - Ontological engineering 2:22:02 - Do machines think? 2:30:47 - Death and consciousness 2:40:48 - What would you say to AI? 2:45:24 - Advice to young people 2:47:20 - Mortality

OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 3:12 - September 11, 2001 31:07 - Falling man 35:18 - Ground Zero 41:36 - 20 for 20 44:47 - What it means to be a great firefighter 47:31 - Why did you become a firefighter? 49:20 - Tally Ho 52:05 - New view of the world 59:35 - Empathy 1:04:08 - Leukemia 1:19:37 - New York City 1:25:47 - John Feal 1:39:17 - Conspiracy theories 1:48:05 - Faith 1:50:04 - Modern communication 1:54:30 - Hand written letters 2:08:21 - Love 2:20:05 - War in Afghanistan 2:31:44 - Brave stories from 9/11

OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 0:48 - First programs 24:11 - Literate programming 27:20 - Beauty in programming 33:15 - OpenAI 42:26 - Optimization 48:31 - Consciousness 57:14 - Conway's game of life 1:10:01 - Stable marriage 1:13:21 - Richard Feynman 1:24:15 - Knuth-Morris-Pratt Algorithm 1:33:47 - Hardest problem 1:51:26 - Open source 1:56:39 - Favorite symbols 2:06:12 - Productivity 2:13:53 - Meaning of life