Lex Fridman

Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds | Lex Fridman Podcast #198

Jocko Willink: War, Leadership, and Discipline | Lex Fridman Podcast #197

Yeonmi Park: North Korea | Lex Fridman Podcast #196

Clara Sousa-Silva: Searching for Signs of Life on Venus and Other Planets | Lex Fridman Podcast #195

Bret Weinstein: Truth, Science, and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic | Lex Fridman Podcast #194

Rob Reid: The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses and Lab Leaks | Lex Fridman Podcast #193

Charles Hoskinson: Cardano | Lex Fridman Podcast #192

Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction | Lex Fridman Podcast #191

Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries | Lex Fridman Podcast #190

David Sinclair: Extending the Human Lifespan Beyond 100 Years | Lex Fridman Podcast #189

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0 | Lex Fridman Podcast #188

Lex Fridman interviews Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, covering a wide range of topics including Buterin's experience with Shiba Inu tokens, his philosophical views on cryptocurrency and public goods, the future of Ethereum with Ethereum 2.0, proof-of-stake versus proof-of-work, sharding, layer 2 scaling solut...

Frank Wilczek: Physics of Quarks, Dark Matter, Complexity, Life & Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #187

Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces | Lex Fridman Podcast #186

Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #185

Consciousness and the illusion of free will define the human experience, functioning as fundamental constraints rather than autonomous choices. Thoughts emerge from a mysterious, unauthored source, rendering the concept of a self-directed agent a persistent cognitive illusion. While language and conceptual frameworks p...

Katherine de Kleer: Planets, Moons, Asteroids & Life in Our Solar System | Lex Fridman Podcast #184

Po-Shen Loh: Mathematics, Math Olympiad, Combinatorics & Contact Tracing | Lex Fridman Podcast #183

John Danaher: The Path to Mastery in Jiu Jitsu, Grappling, Judo, and MMA | Lex Fridman Podcast #182

Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks | Lex Fridman Podcast #181

Jeremi Suri: History of American Power | Lex Fridman Podcast #180

Georges St-Pierre: The Science of Fighting | Lex Fridman Podcast #179