Lex Fridman Podcast

Rick Beato is a music educator, interviewer, producer, songwriter, and a true multi-instrument musician, playing guitar, bass, cello & piano. His incredible YouTube channel celebrates great musicians & musical ideas, and helps millions of people fall in love with great music all over again. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen Europa by Santana Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl Master of Puppets by Metallica Money for Nothing by Dire Straits Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin Star Wars theme by John Williams Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton Yesterday by The Beatles

Peter Steinberger is the creator of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent framework that’s the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Nathan Lambert and Sebastian Raschka are machine learning researchers, engineers, and educators. Nathan is the post-training lead at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and the author of The RLHF Book. Sebastian Raschka is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) and Build a Reasoning Model (From Scratch). Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books “Apple in China” by Patrick McGee “Build a Large Language Model from Scratch by Nathan Lambert” “Build a Reasoning Model from Scratch by Nathan Lambert” “Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback by Nathan Lambert” “Season of the Witch by David Talbot “The Bitter Lesson by Richard Sutton (Essay)” “The Scaling Laws of Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback” by Nathan Lambert (Essay) Based on the podcast transcript, here are the books and essays that are clearly referenced or implied: Other mentions like Nathan’s “Starlight Jeffbook” and references to “social choice theory” from economics are not specific enough to infer exact titles The transcript contains no explicit or clearly implied references to specific books or essays. The mention of “excellent books” by the guests is too vague, and the Einstein quote is a standalone remark, not a title. Themes discussed (AI, future society, human agency) are not tied to any identifiable written works

Paul Rosolie is a naturalist, explorer, author of a new book titled Junglekeeper, and is someone who has dedicated his life to protecting the Amazon rainforest. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books Echoes from Eden by Dax Jungle Keeper by Paul Rosley Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson

Joel David Hamkins is a mathematician and philosopher specializing in set theory, the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of infinity, and he’s the #1 highest-rated user on MathOverflow. He is also the author of several books, including Proof and the Art of Mathematics and Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics. And he has a great blog called Infinitely More. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl Proof and the Order of Mathematics by Joel David Hamkins The Almanack of Natural Experimentation by Ronald Cosworth The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson

Keyu Jin is an economist specializing in China’s economy, international macroeconomics, global trade imbalances, and financial policy. She is the author of The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books The Analects by Confucius The New China Playbook Beyond Socialism and Capitalism by K.U. Gen

Jack Weatherford is an anthropologist and historian specializing in Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books (Note: “Kublai Khan: The Mongol King Who Remade China” is inferred from the mention of “Kublai Khan and the Making of China” in the transcript, acknowledging a possible title discrepancy. “Emperor of the Seas” was excluded as it doesn’t correspond to an actual book by Weatherford.) Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford Genghis Khan and the Quest for God by Jack Weatherford Kublai Khan and the Making of China by Jack Weatherford Kublai Khan: The Mongol King Who Remade China by Jack Weatherford Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves by Work Projects Administration The Secret History of the Mongol Queens by Jack Weatherford The Secret History of the Mongols by Anonymous Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives by Norman R. Yetman (Editor)

Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel Prize winner for his groundbreaking work in protein structure prediction using AI. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett Ethics by Baruch Spinoza (Essay) Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution by Nick Lane The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard Feynman (Essay) This Is Water by David Foster Wallace (Essay)

Debate on Iran war between Scott Horton and Mark Dubowitz. Scott Horton is the author and director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of The Scott Horton Show, and for the past three decades, a staunch critic of U.S. foreign policy and military interventionism. Mark Dubowitz is the chief executive of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, host of the Iran Breakdown podcast, and a leading expert on Iran and its nuclear program for over 20 years. This debate was recorded on Tuesday, June 24, after the Iran-Israel ceasefire was declared. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our ...

Terence Tao is widely considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians in history. He won the Fields Medal and the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, and has contributed to a wide range of fields from fluid dynamics with Navier-Stokes equations to mathematical physics & quantum mechanics, prime numbers & analytics number theory, harmonic analysis, compressed sensing, random matrix theory, combinatorics, and progress on many of the hardest problems in the history of mathematics. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our ...