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#486 – michael levin: hidden reality of alien intelligence & biological life

#485 – david kirtley: nuclear fusion, plasma physics, and the future of energy

#484 – dan houser: gta, red dead redemption, rockstar, absurd & future of gaming

#483 – julia shaw: criminal psychology of murder, serial killers, memory & sex

#482 – pavel durov: telegram, freedom, censorship, money, power & human nature

#481 – norman ohler: hitler, nazis, drugs, ww2, blitzkrieg, lsd, mkultra & cia

#480 – dave hone: t-rex, dinosaurs, extinction, evolution, and jurassic park

#479 – dave plummer: programming, autism, and old-school microsoft stories

#478 – scott horton: the case against war and the military industrial complex

#477 – keyu jin: china’s economy, tariffs, trade, trump, communism & capitalism

#476 – jack weatherford: genghis khan and the mongol empire

#475 – demis hassabis: future of ai, simulating reality, physics and video games

#474 – dhh: future of programming, ai, ruby on rails, productivity & parenting

#473 – iran war debate: nuclear weapons, trump, peace, power & the middle east

#473 – iran war debate: nuclear weapons, trump, peace, power & the middle east

#472 – terence tao: hardest problems in mathematics, physics & the future of ai

#471 – sundar pichai: ceo of google and alphabet

#470 – james holland: world war ii, hitler, churchill, stalin & biggest battles

#469 – oliver anthony: country music, blue-collar america, fame, money, and pain

#468 – janna levin: black holes, wormholes, aliens, paradoxes & extra dimensions

#467 – tim sweeney: fortnite, unreal engine, and the future of gaming

#466 – jeffrey wasserstrom: china, xi jinping, trade war, taiwan, hong kong, mao

#465 – robert rodriguez: sin city, desperado, el mariachi, alita, and filmmaking

#464 – dave smith: israel, ukraine, epstein, mossad, conspiracies & antisemitism

#463 – douglas murray: putin, zelenskyy, trump, israel, netanyahu, hamas & gaza

#462 – ezra klein and derek thompson: politics, trump, aoc, elon & doge

#461 – theprimeagen: programming, ai, adhd, productivity, addiction, and god

#460 – narendra modi: prime minister of india – power, democracy, war & peace

#459 – deepseek, china, openai, nvidia, xai, tsmc, stargate, and ai megaclusters

#458 – marc andreessen: trump, power, tech, ai, immigration & future of america

#457 – jennifer burns: milton friedman, ayn rand, economics, capitalism, freedom

#456 – volodymyr zelenskyy: ukraine, war, peace, putin, trump, nato, and freedom

#455 – adam frank: alien civilizations and the search for extraterrestrial life

#454 – saagar enjeti: trump, maga, doge, obama, fdr, jfk, history & politics

#453 – javier milei: president of argentina – freedom, economics, and corruption

#452 – dario amodei: anthropic ceo on claude, agi & the future of ai & humanity

#451 – rick spence: cia, kgb, illuminati, secret societies, cults & conspiracies

#450 – bernie sanders interview

#449 – graham hancock: lost civilization of the ice age & ancient human history

#448 – jordan peterson: nietzsche, hitler, god, psychopathy, suffering & meaning

#447 – cursor team: future of programming with ai

#446 – ed barnhart: maya, aztec, inca, and lost civilizations of south america

#445 – vivek ramaswamy: trump, conservatism, nationalism, immigration, and war

#444 – vejas liulevicius: communism, marxism, nazism, stalin, mao, and hitler

#443 – gregory aldrete: the roman empire – rise and fall of ancient rome

#442 – donald trump interview

#441 – cenk uygur: trump vs harris, progressive politics, communism & capitalism

#440 – pieter levels: programming, viral ai startups, and digital nomad life

#439 – craig jones: jiu jitsu, $2 million prize, cji, adcc, ukraine & trolling

#438 – elon musk: neuralink and the future of humanity

#437 – jordan jonas: survival, hunting, siberia, god, and winning alone season 6

#436 – ivanka trump: politics, family, real estate, fashion, music, and life

#435 – andrew huberman: focus, controversy, politics, and relationships

#434 – aravind srinivas: perplexity ceo on future of ai, search & the internet

#433 – sara walker: physics of life, time, complexity, and aliens

#432 – kevin spacey: power, controversy, betrayal, truth & love in film and life

#431 – roman yampolskiy: dangers of superintelligent ai

#430 – charan ranganath: human memory, imagination, deja vu, and false memories

#429 – paul rosolie: jungle, apex predators, aliens, uncontacted tribes, and god

#428 – sean carroll: general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes & aliens

#427 – neil adams: judo, olympics, winning, losing, and the champion mindset

#426 – edward gibson: human language, psycholinguistics, syntax, grammar & llms

#425 – andrew callaghan: channel 5, gonzo, qanon, o-block, politics & alex jones

#424 – bassem youssef: israel-palestine, gaza, hamas, middle east, satire & fame

#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

#413 – bill ackman: investing, financial battles, harvard, dei, x & free speech

#412 – marc raibert: boston dynamics and the future of robotics

#411 – omar suleiman: palestine, gaza, oct 7, israel, resistance, faith & islam

#410 – ben shapiro vs destiny debate: politics, jan 6, israel, ukraine & wokeism

#409 – matthew cox: fbi most wanted con man – $55 million in bank fraud

#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

#398 – mark zuckerberg: first interview in the metaverse

#397 – greg lukianoff: cancel culture, deplatforming, censorship & free speech

#396 – james sexton: divorce lawyer on marriage, relationships, sex, lies & love

#395 – walter isaacson: elon musk, steve jobs, einstein, da vinci & ben franklin

#394 – neri oxman: biology, art, and science of design & engineering with nature

#393 – andrew huberman: relationships, drama, betrayal, sex, and love

#392 – joscha bach: life, intelligence, consciousness, ai & the future of humans

#391 – mohammed el-kurd: palestine

#390 – yuval noah harari: human nature, intelligence, power, and conspiracies

#389 – benjamin netanyahu: israel, palestine, power, corruption, hate, and peace

#388 – robert f. kennedy jr: cia, power, corruption, war, freedom, and meaning

#387 – george hotz: tiny corp, twitter, ai safety, self-driving, gpt, agi & god

#386 – marc andreessen: future of the internet, technology, and ai

#385 – jimmy wales: wikipedia

#384 – matthew mcconaughey: freedom, truth, family, hardship, and love

#383 – mark zuckerberg: future of ai at meta, facebook, instagram, and whatsapp

#382 – bert kreischer: comedy, drinking, rogan, segura, churchill & kim jong un

#381 – chris lattner: future of programming and ai

#380 – neil gershenfeld: self-replicating robots and the future of fabrication

#379 – randall kennedy: the n-word – history of race, law, politics, and power

#378 – anna frebel: origin and evolution of the universe, galaxies, and stars

#377 – harvey silverglate: freedom of speech

#376 – stephen wolfram: chatgpt and the nature of truth, reality & computation

#375 – david pakman: politics of trump, biden, bernie, aoc, socialism & wokeism

#374 – robert playter: boston dynamics ceo on humanoid and legged robotics

#373 – manolis kellis: evolution of human civilization and superintelligent ai

#372 – simone giertz: queen of sh*tty robots, innovative engineering, and design

#371 – max tegmark: the case for halting ai development

#370 – edward frenkel: reality is a paradox – mathematics, physics, truth & love

#369 – paul rosolie: amazon jungle, uncontacted tribes, anacondas, and ayahuasca

#368 – eliezer yudkowsky: dangers of ai and the end of human civilization

#367 – sam altman: openai ceo on gpt-4, chatgpt, and the future of ai

#366 – shannon curry: johnny depp & amber heard trial, marriage, dating & love

#365 – sam harris: trump, pandemic, twitter, elon, bret, idw, kanye, ai & ufos

#364 – chris voss: fbi hostage negotiator

#363 – b-team jiu jitsu: craig jones, nicky rod, and nicky ryan

#362 – ginni rometty: ibm ceo on leadership, power, and adversity

#361 – aaron smith-levin: scientology

#360 – tim urban: tribalism, marxism, liberalism, social justice, and politics

#359 – andrew strominger: black holes, quantum gravity, and theoretical physics

#358 – aella: sex work, onlyfans, porn, escorting, dating, and human sexuality

#357 – paul conti: narcissism, sociopathy, envy, and the nature of good and evil

#356 – tim dodd: spacex, starship, rocket engines, and future of space travel

#355 – david kipping: alien civilizations and habitable worlds

#354 – jeremi suri: american civil war

#353 – dennis whyte: nuclear fusion and the future of energy

#352 – omar suleiman: islam

#351 – mrbeast: future of youtube, twitter, tiktok, and instagram

#350 – betül kaçar: origin of life, ancient dna, panspermia, and aliens

#349 – bhaskar sunkara: the case for socialism

#348 – nathalie cabrol: search for alien life

#347 – michael malice: christmas special

#346 – ed calderon: mexican drug cartels

#345 – coffeezilla: sbf, ftx, fraud, scams, fake gurus, money, fame, and power

#344 – noam brown: ai vs humans in poker and games of strategic negotiation

#343 – roger gracie: greatest jiu jitsu competitor of all time

#342 – todd howard: skyrim, elder scrolls 6, fallout, and starfield

#341 – guido van rossum: python and the future of programming

#340 – chris tarbell: fbi agent who took down silk road

#339 – climate change debate: bjørn lomborg and andrew revkin

#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

#328 – john danaher: submission grappling, adcc, animal combat, and knives

#327 – gothamchess: hans niemann, magnus carlsen, cheating scandal & chess bots

#326 – annaka harris: free will, consciousness, and the nature of reality

#325 – michael levin: biology, life, aliens, evolution, embryogenesis & xenobots

#324 – daniel negreanu: poker

#323 – will sasso: comedy, madtv, ai, friendship, madness, and pro wrestling

#322 – rana el kaliouby: emotion ai, social robots, and self-driving cars

#321 – ray kurzweil: singularity, superintelligence, and immortality

#320 – christopher capozzola: world war i, ideology, propaganda, and politics

#319 – botez sisters: chess, streaming, and fame

#318 – nick lane: origin of life, evolution, aliens, biology, and consciousness

#317 – john vervaeke: meaning crisis, atheism, religion & the search for wisdom

#316 – noam chomsky: putin, ukraine, china, and nuclear war

#315 – magnus carlsen: greatest chess player of all time

#314 – liv boeree: poker, game theory, ai, simulation, aliens & existential risk

#313 – jordan peterson: life, death, power, fame, and meaning

#312 – duncan trussell: comedy, sentient robots, suffering, love & burning man

#311 – magatte wade: africa, capitalism, communism, and the future of humanity

#310 – andrew bustamante: cia spy

#309 – john carmack: doom, quake, vr, agi, programming, video games, and rockets

#308 – ryan graves: ufos, fighter jets, and aliens

#307 – brian armstrong: coinbase, cryptocurrency, and government regulation

#306 – oriol vinyals: deep learning and artificial general intelligence

#305 – martin rees: black holes, alien life, dark matter, and the big bang

#304 – bishop robert barron: christianity and the catholic church

#303 – steve keen: marxism, capitalism, and economics

#302 – richard haier: iq tests, human intelligence, and group differences

#301 – jack barsky: kgb spy

#300 – joe rogan: comedy, controversy, aliens, ufos, putin, cia, and freedom

#299 – demis hassabis: deepmind

#298 – susan cain: the power of introverts and loneliness

#297 – jonathan reisman: the human body – from sex & sperm to hands & heart

#296 – douglas murray: racism, marxism, and the war on the west

#295 – richard wolff: marxism and communism

#294 – tony fadell: iphone, ipod, and nest

#293 – donald hoffman: reality is an illusion – how evolution hid the truth

#292 – robin hanson: alien civilizations, ufos, and the future of humanity

#291 – jonathan haidt: the case against social media

#290 – dan reynolds: imagine dragons

#289 – stephen kotkin: putin, zelenskyy, and war in ukraine

#288 – sarma melngailis: bad vegan

#287 – bobby lee: comedy, skyrim, sex robots, love, fame, and power

#286 – oliver stone: vladimir putin and war in ukraine

#285 – glenn loury: race, racism, identity politics, and cancel culture

#284 – saifedean ammous: bitcoin, anarchy, and austrian economics

#283 – chris mason: space travel, colonization, and long-term survival in space

#282 – david buss: sex, dating, relationships, and sex differences

#281 – grimes: music, ai, and the future of humanity

#280 – cristiano amon: qualcomm ceo

#279 – alien debate: sara walker and lee cronin

#278 – skye fitzgerald: hunger, war, and human suffering

#277 – andrew huberman: focus, stress, relationships, and friendship

#276 – michael saylor: bitcoin, inflation, and the future of money

#275 – rick rubin: legendary music producer

#274 – karl deisseroth: depression, schizophrenia, and psychiatry

#273 – chris blattman: war and violence

#272 – brett johnson: us most wanted cybercriminal

#271 – ariel ekblaw: space colonization and self-assembling space megastructures

#270 – david wolpe: judaism

#269 – lee cronin: origin of life, aliens, complexity, and consciousness

#268 – robert proctor: nazi science and ideology

#267 – mark zuckerberg: meta, facebook, instagram, and the metaverse

#266 – nicole perlroth: cybersecurity and the weapons of cyberwar

#265 – devon larratt: arm wrestling

#264 – tim urban: elon musk, neuralink, ai, aliens, and the future of humanity

#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

#253 – michael malice: new year’s special

#252 – elon musk: spacex, mars, tesla autopilot, self-driving, robotics, and ai

#251 – ray dalio: money, power, and the collapse of empires

#250 – peter wang: python and the source code of humans, computers, and reality

#249 – albert bourla: pfizer ceo

#248 – norman naimark: genocide, stalin, hitler, mao, and absolute power

#247 – jamie metzl: lab leak theory

#246 – peter woit: theories of everything and why string theory is not even wrong

#245 – tom brands: iowa wrestling

#244 – robert crews: afghanistan, taliban, bin laden, and war in the middle east

#243 – kevin systrom: instagram

#242 – ben askren: wrestling and mma

#241 – boris sofman: waymo, cozmo, self-driving cars, and the future of robotics

#240 – neal stephenson: sci-fi, space, aliens, ai, vr & the future of humanity

#239 – niall ferguson: history of money, power, war, and truth

#238 – francis collins: national institutes of health (nih)

#237 – steve viscelli: trucking and the decline of the american dream

#236 – jimmy pedro: judo and the forging of champions

#235 – michael mina: rapid covid testing

#234 – stephen wolfram: complexity and the fabric of reality

#233 – carl hart: heroin, cocaine, mdma, alcohol & the role of drugs in society

#232 – brian greene: quantum gravity, big bang, aliens, life, death, and meaning

#231 – alex gladstein: bitcoin, authoritarianism, and human rights

#230 – kelsi sheren: war, artillery, ptsd, and love

#229 – richard wrangham: role of violence, sex, and fire in human evolution

#228 – rza: wu-tang clan, kung fu, chess, god, life, and death

#227 – sean kelly: existentialism, nihilism, and the search for meaning

#226 – jo boaler: how to learn math

#225 – jeffrey shainline: neuromorphic computing and optoelectronic intelligence

#224 – travis oliphant: numpy, scipy, anaconda, python & scientific programming

#223 – travis stevens: judo, olympics, and mental toughness

#222 – jay mcclelland: neural networks and the emergence of cognition

#221 – douglas lenat: cyc and the quest to solve common sense reasoning in ai

#220 – niels jorgensen: new york firefighters and the heroes of 9/11

#219 – donald knuth: programming, algorithms, hard problems & the game of life

#218 – jaron lanier: virtual reality, social media & the future of humans and ai

#217 – rodney brooks: robotics

#216 – vincent racaniello: viruses and vaccines

#215 – wojciech zaremba: openai codex, gpt-3, robotics, and the future of ai

#214 – jed buchwald: isaac newton and the philosophy of science

#213 – barry barish: gravitational waves and the most precise device ever built

#212 – joscha bach: nature of reality, dreams, and consciousness

#211 – brian muraresku: the secret history of psychedelics

#210 – matt walker: sleep

#209 – luís and joão batalha: fermat’s library and the art of studying papers

#208 – jeff hawkins: the thousand brains theory of intelligence

#207 – chris duffin: the mad scientist of strength

#206 – ishan misra: self-supervised deep learning in computer vision

#205 – zach bitter: ultramarathon running

#204 – cumrun vafa: string theory

#203 – anya fernald: regenerative farming and the art of cooking meat

#202 – rick doblin: psychedelics

#201 – konstantin batygin: planet 9 and the edge of our solar system

#200 – michael malice: totalitarianism and anarchy

#199 – roger reaves: smuggling drugs for pablo escobar and the medellin cartel

#198 – sara walker: the origin of life on earth and alien worlds

#197 – jocko willink: war, leadership, and discipline

#196 – yeonmi park: north korea

#195 – clara sousa-silva: searching for signs of life on venus and other planets

#194 – bret weinstein: truth, science, and censorship in the time of a pandemic

#193 – rob reid: the existential threat of engineered viruses and lab leaks

#192 – charles hoskinson: cardano

#191 – daniel schmachtenberger: steering civilization away from self-destruction

#190 – jordan ellenberg: mathematics of high-dimensional shapes and geometries

#189 – david sinclair: extending the human lifespan beyond 100 years

#188 – vitalik buterin: ethereum 2.0

#187 – frank wilczek: physics of quarks, dark matter, complexity, life & aliens

#186 – bryan johnson: kernel brain-computer interfaces

#185 – sam harris: consciousness, free will, psychedelics, ai, ufos, and meaning

#184 – katherine de kleer: planets, moons, and asteroids in our solar system

#183 – po-shen loh: mathematics, math olympiad, combinatorics & contact tracing

#182 – john danaher: the path to mastery in jiu jitsu, grappling, judo, and mma

#181 – sergey nazarov: chainlink, smart contracts, and oracle networks

#180 – jeremi suri: history of american power

#179 – georges st-pierre: the science of fighting

#178 – michael malice and yaron brook: ayn rand, human nature, and anarchy

#177 – risto miikkulainen: neuroevolution and evolutionary computation

#176 – robert breedlove: philosophy of bitcoin from first principles

#175 – yannis pappas: history and comedy

#174 – tyler cowen: economic growth and the fight against conformity and mediocrity

#173 – nic carter: bitcoin core values, layered scaling, and blocksize debates

#172 – ryan schiller: librex and the free exchange of ideas on college campuses

#171 – anthony pompliano: bitcoin

#170 – ronald sullivan: the ideal of justice in the face of controversy and evil

#169 – ryan hall: solving martial arts from first principles

#168 – silvio micali: cryptocurrency, blockchain, algorand, bitcoin, and ethereum

#167 – saagar enjeti: politics, history, and power

#166 – cal newport: deep work, focus, productivity, email, and social media

#165 – josh barnett: philosophy of violence, power, and the martial arts

#164 – andrew huberman: sleep, dreams, creativity & the limits of the human mind

#163 – eric weinstein: difficult conversations, freedom of speech, and physics

#162 – jim keller: the future of computing, ai, life, and consciousness

#161 – jason calacanis: startups, angel investing, capitalism, and friendship

#160 – brendan eich: javascript, firefox, mozilla, and brave

#159 – richard craib: wallstreetbets, numerai, and the future of stock trading

#158 – zev weinstein: the next generation of big ideas and brave minds

#157 – natalya bailey: rocket engines and electric spacecraft propulsion

#156 – tim dillon: comedy, power, conspiracy theories, and freedom

lex fridman: ask me anything – ama january 2021

#155 – max tegmark: ai and physics

#154 – avi loeb: aliens, black holes, and the mystery of the oumuamua

#153 – dmitry korkin: evolution of proteins, viruses, life, and ai

#152 – dan gable: olympic wrestling, mental toughness & the making of champions

#151 – dan kokotov: speech recognition with ai and humans

#150 – michael malice: the white pill, freedom, hope, and happiness amidst chaos

#149 – diana walsh pasulka: aliens, technology, religion, and the nature of belief

#148 – charles isbell and michael littman: machine learning and education

#147 – dmitri dolgov: waymo and the future of self-driving cars

#146 – michael mina: rapid testing, viruses, and the engineering mindset

#145 – matthew johnson: psychedelics

#144 – michael littman: reinforcement learning and the future of ai

#143 – john clarke: the art of fighting and the pursuit of excellence

#142 – manolis kellis: meaning of life, the universe, and everything

#141 – erik brynjolfsson: economics of ai, social networks, and technology

#140 – lisa feldman barrett: love, evolution, and the human brain

#139 – andrew huberman: neuroscience of optimal performance

#138 – yaron brook: ayn rand and the philosophy of objectivism

#137 – alex filippenko: supernovae, dark energy, aliens & the expanding universe

#136 – dan carlin: hardcore history

#135 – charles isbell: computing, interactive ai, and race in america

#134 – eric weinstein: on the nature of good and evil, genius and madness

#133 – manolis kellis: biology of disease

#132 – george hotz: hacking the simulation & learning to drive with neural nets

#131 – chris lattner: the future of computing and programming languages

#130 – scott aaronson: computational complexity and consciousness

#129 – lisa feldman barrett: counterintuitive ideas about how the brain works

#128 – michael malice: anarchy, democracy, libertarianism, love, and trolling

#127 – joe rogan: conversations, ideas, love, freedom & the joe rogan experience

#126 – james gosling: java, jvm, emacs, and the early days of computing

#125 – ryan hall: martial arts and the philosophy of violence, power, and grace

#124 – stephen wolfram: fundamental theory of physics, life, and the universe

#123 – manolis kellis: origin of life, humans, ideas, suffering, and happiness

#122 – david fravor: ufos, aliens, fighter jets, and aerospace engineering

lex solo #3 – in memory of my grandmother

#121 – eugenia kuyda: friendship with an ai companion

lex solo #2 – the future of neuralink

#120 – françois chollet: measures of intelligence

#119 – david eagleman: neuroplasticity and the livewired brain

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#118 – grant sanderson: math, manim, neural networks & teaching with 3blue1brown

#117 – sheldon solomon: death and meaning

#116 – sara seager: search for planets and life outside our solar system

#115 – dileep george: brain-inspired ai

#114 – russ tedrake: underactuated robotics, control, dynamics and touch

#113 – manolis kellis: human genome and evolutionary dynamics

#112 – ian hutchinson: nuclear fusion, plasma physics, and religion

#111 – richard karp: algorithms and computational complexity

#110 – jitendra malik: computer vision

#109 – brian kernighan: unix, c, awk, ampl, and go programming

#108 – sergey levine: robotics and machine learning

#107 – peter singer: suffering in humans, animals, and ai

#106 – matt botvinick: neuroscience, psychology, and ai at deepmind

#105 – robert langer: edison of medicine

#104 – david patterson: computer architecture and data storage

#103 – ben goertzel: artificial general intelligence

#102 – steven pressfield: the war of art

#101 – joscha bach: artificial consciousness and the nature of reality

#99 – karl friston: neuroscience and the free energy principle

#97 – sertac karaman: robots that fly and robots that drive

#96 – stephen schwarzman: going big in business, investing, and ai

#95 – dawn song: adversarial machine learning and computer security

#94 – ilya sutskever: deep learning

#93 – daphne koller: biomedicine and machine learning

#92 – harry cliff: particle physics and the large hadron collider

#91 – jack dorsey: square, cryptocurrency, and artificial intelligence

#90 – dmitry korkin: computational biology of coronavirus

#89 – stephen wolfram: cellular automata, computation, and physics

#88 – eric weinstein: geometric unity and the call for new ideas, leaders & institutions

#87 – richard dawkins: evolution, intelligence, simulation, and memes

#86 – david silver: alphago, alphazero, and deep reinforcement learning

#85 – roger penrose: physics of consciousness and the infinite universe

#83 – nick bostrom: simulation and superintelligence

#82 – simon sinek: leadership, hard work, optimism and the infinite game

#81 – anca dragan: human-robot interaction and reward engineering

#80 – vitalik buterin: ethereum, cryptocurrency, and the future of money

#79 – lee smolin: quantum gravity and einstein’s unfinished revolution

#78 – ann druyan: cosmos, carl sagan, voyager, and the beauty of science

#77 – alex garland: ex machina, devs, annihilation, and the poetry of science

#76 – john hopfield: physics view of the mind and neurobiology

#75 – marcus hutter: universal artificial intelligence, aixi, and agi

#74 – michael i. jordan: machine learning, recommender systems, and the future of ai

#73 – andrew ng: deep learning, education, and real-world ai

#72 – scott aaronson: quantum computing

vladimir vapnik: predicates, invariants, and the essence of intelligence

jim keller: moore’s law, microprocessors, abstractions, and first principles

david chalmers: the hard problem of consciousness

cristos goodrow: youtube algorithm

paul krugman: economics of innovation, automation, safety nets & universal basic income

ayanna howard: human-robot interaction and ethics of safety-critical systems

daniel kahneman: thinking fast and slow, deep learning, and ai

grant sanderson: 3blue1brown and the beauty of mathematics

stephen kotkin: stalin, putin, and the nature of power

donald knuth: algorithms, tex, life, and the art of computer programming

melanie mitchell: concepts, analogies, common sense & future of ai

jim gates: supersymmetry, string theory and proving einstein right

sebastian thrun: flying cars, autonomous vehicles, and education

michael stevens: vsauce

rohit prasad: amazon alexa and conversational ai

judea pearl: causal reasoning, counterfactuals, bayesian networks, and the path to agi

whitney cummings: comedy, robotics, neurology, and love

ray dalio: principles, the economic machine, artificial intelligence & the arc of life

noam chomsky: language, cognition, and deep learning

gilbert strang: linear algebra, deep learning, teaching, and mit opencourseware

dava newman: space exploration, space suits, and life on mars

michael kearns: algorithmic fairness, bias, privacy, and ethics in machine learning

elon musk: neuralink, ai, autopilot, and the pale blue dot

bjarne stroustrup: c++

sean carroll: quantum mechanics and the many-worlds interpretation

garry kasparov: chess, deep blue, ai, and putin

michio kaku: future of humans, aliens, space travel & physics

david ferrucci: ibm watson, jeopardy & deep conversations with ai

gary marcus: toward a hybrid of deep learning and symbolic ai

peter norvig: artificial intelligence: a modern approach

leonard susskind: quantum mechanics, string theory, and black holes

regina barzilay: deep learning for cancer diagnosis and treatment

colin angle: irobot

françois chollet: keras, deep learning, and the progress of ai

vijay kumar: flying robots

yann lecun: deep learning, convolutional neural networks, and self-supervised learning

jeremy howard: fast.ai deep learning courses and research

pamela mccorduck: machines who think and the early days of ai

keoki jackson: lockheed martin

paola arlotta: brain development from stem cell to organoid

george hotz: comma.ai, openpilot, and autonomous vehicles

kevin scott: microsoft cto

gustav soderstrom: spotify

chris urmson: self-driving cars at aurora, google, cmu, and darpa

kai-fu lee: ai superpowers – china and silicon valley

sean carroll: the nature of the universe, life, and intelligence

jeff hawkins: thousand brains theory of intelligence

rosalind picard: affective computing, emotion, privacy, and health

gavin miller: adobe research

rajat monga: tensorflow

chris lattner: compilers, llvm, swift, tpu, and ml accelerators

oriol vinyals: deepmind alphastar, starcraft, language, and sequences

ian goodfellow: generative adversarial networks (gans)

elon musk: tesla autopilot

greg brockman: openai and agi

eric weinstein: revolutionary ideas in science, math, and society

leslie kaelbling: reinforcement learning, planning, and robotics

kyle vogt: cruise automation

tomaso poggio: brains, minds, and machines

tuomas sandholm: poker and game theory

juergen schmidhuber: godel machines, meta-learning, and lstms

pieter abbeel: deep reinforcement learning

stuart russell: long-term future of ai

eric schmidt: google

jeff atwood: stack overflow and coding horror

guido van rossum: python

vladimir vapnik: statistical learning

yoshua bengio: deep learning

steven pinker: ai in the age of reason

christof koch: consciousness

max tegmark: life 3.0