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Conversations about science, technology, history, philosophy and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power. Lex is an AI researcher at MIT and beyond.
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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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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
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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
#396 – James Sexton: Divorce Lawyer on Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Lies & Love
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(00:00) - Introduction
(09:01) - Why marriages fail
(30:32) - Sex and fetishes
(39:49) - Breakups
(1:05:35) - Johnny Depp and Amber Heard
(1:25:36) - Complicated divorce cases
(1:32:22) - Cheating with the nanny
(1:34:39) - Relationship advice
(1:43:20) - Cost of divorce
(2:05:11) - Prenups
(2:19:33) - Cheating
(2:27:17) - Open marriages and threesomes
(2:40:05) - Sex and fighting
(3:05:00) - Kevin Costner's divorce
(3:14:44) - Lying
(3:22:12) - Productivity
(3:30:06) - Jiu Jitsu
(3:38:38) - Sex, love, and marriage
#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin
Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin.
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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
#398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse
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(08:38) - Metaverse
(23:01) - Quest 3
(37:50) - Nature of reality
(42:28) - AI in the Metaverse
(59:26) - Large language models
(1:05:23) - Future of humanity
#409 – Matthew Cox: FBI Most Wanted Con Man – $55 Million in Bank Fraud
Matthew Cox is a former con man who served 13 years in federal prison for bank fraud, mortgage fraud, and identity theft. He is the author of many books, including his memoir Shark in the Housing Pool, and runs the YouTube channel Inside True Crime. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(08:43) - Mortgage fraud
(23:32) - Creating fake people
(57:17) - Arrested by FBI
(1:14:08) - Omerta: Code of silence
(1:36:26) - Fake ID's
(2:05:48) - Getting caught
(2:19:12) - Going on the run from FBI
(2:30:54) - Identity theft
(2:51:34) - More scams
(3:03:23) - FBI Most Wanted
(3:05:51) - Close calls
(3:36:46) - Break up with Becky
(3:41:26) - Calling parents
(3:43:25) - Calling FBI
(3:49:06) - Running from cops
(4:10:56) - Getting arrested
(4:26:21) - Snitching
(4:42:35) - Prison
(5:00:08) - War dogs
(5:06:50) - Frank Amodeo
(5:42:21) - Freedom
(5:53:15) - Family
(5:59:19) - Regret
#402 – Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special
Michael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, author, and anarchist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(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
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI
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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(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
#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.
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Drums: Vinnie Colaiuta
Keyboards: Jason Rebello
"Cause We've Ended As Lovers" is originally by Stevie Wonder
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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)
#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3
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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(33:06) - Hitler
(50:33) - Russia and Ukraine
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(3:29:58) - Life and mortality
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness
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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(09:47) - Lessons from father
(19:53) - Scar story
(40:31) - Cus D'Amato
(50:43) - Mike Tyson
(2:08:39) - Forgiveness
#413 – Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech
Bill Ackman is an investor who has led some of the biggest and controversial financial trades in history. He is founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(08:55) - Investing basics
(13:47) - Investing in music
(22:08) - Process of researching companies
(26:47) - Investing in restaurants
(32:16) - Investing in Google
(37:58) - AI
(43:13) - Warren Buffet
(45:22) - Psychology of investing
(54:53) - Activist investing
(1:04:41) - General Growth Properties
(1:20:57) - Canadian Pacific Railway
(1:28:21) - OpenAI
(1:32:32) - Biggest loss and lowest point
(1:47:21) - Herbalife and Carl Icahn
(2:04:11) - Oct 7
(2:10:42) - College campus protests
(2:29:09) - DEI in universities
(2:50:00) - Neri Oxman
(3:15:30) - X and free speech
(3:19:54) - Trump
(3:27:30) - Dean Phillips
(3:34:36) - Future
#411 – Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam
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(10:18) - Oct 7
(19:14) - Palestinian diaspora
(23:29) - Wael Al-Dahdouh
(38:21) - Violence
(1:01:59) - Biden and Trump
(1:15:11) - Ceasefire march
(1:25:24) - Benjamin Netanyahu
(1:32:26) - Houthi rebel attacks
(1:34:03) - Hostages
(1:40:23) - MLK Jr and Malcolm X
(1:53:04) - Palestinian refugees
(2:02:14) - Muhammad and Jesus
(2:13:07) - Al-Aqsa Mosque
(2:22:04) - Ramadan
(2:26:57) - Hope for the future
#414 – Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom
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(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
#410 – Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism
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(07:21) - Liberalism vs Conservatism
(12:34) - Education
(28:51) - Trump vs Biden
(49:16) - Foreign policy
(1:02:13) - Israel-Palestine
(1:17:10) - Russia-Ukraine
(1:28:50) - January 6
(1:44:48) - Abuse of power
(1:54:46) - Wokeism
(2:01:27) - Institutional capture
(2:15:21) - Monogamy vs open relationships
(2:20:14) - Rapid fire questions
#397 – Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
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(34:06) - Religion
(36:46) - College rankings by freedom of speech
(42:54) - Deplatforming
(57:29) - Whataboutism
(1:02:32) - Steelmanning
(1:10:08) - How the left argues
(1:20:48) - Diversity, equity, and inclusion
(1:32:39) - Why colleges lean left
(1:40:17) - How the right argues
(1:44:52) - Hate speech
(1:53:39) - Platforming
(2:03:10) - Social media
(2:24:17) - Depression
(2:35:48) - Hope
#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
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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
#400 – Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity
Elon Musk is CEO of X, xAI, SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and The Boring Company.
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(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
#404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe
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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
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(3:17:46) - God
#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events
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#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics
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(33:55) - Boston Dynamics
(37:13) - BigDog
(45:20) - Hydraulic actuation
(47:12) - Natural movement
(52:59) - Leg Lab
(59:51) - AI Institute
(1:03:09) - Athletic intelligence
(1:11:04) - Building a team
(1:14:05) - Videos
(1:21:53) - Engineering
(1:25:21) - Dancing robots
(1:30:08) - Hiring
(1:34:00) - Optimus robot
(1:42:30) - Future of robotics
(1:47:24) - Advice for young people