Lex Fridman Podcast

Janna Levin is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist specializing in black holes, cosmology of extra dimensions, topology of the universe, and gravitational waves. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin"The narrator is a scientist herself, a physicist obsessed with Kurt Godel, the greatest logician of many centuries, and with Alan Turing, the extraordinary mathematician, breaker of the Enigma Code during World War II. … ...

Tim Sweeney is a legendary video game programmer, founder and CEO of Epic Games that created the Unreal Engine, Fortnite, Gears of War, Unreal Tournament, and many other groundbreaking and influential video games. Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books No books extracted yet.

Jeffrey Wasserstrom is a historian of modern China. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall – Margaret E. Roberts The Origins of Totalitarianism – Hannah Arendt Brave New World – Aldous Huxley (thematically referenced)

Robert Rodriguez is a legendary filmmaker and creator of Sin City, El Mariachi, Desperado, Spy Kids, Machete, From Dusk Till Dawn, Alita: Battle Angel, The Faculty, and his newest venture Brass Knuckle Films. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books No books extracted yet.

Dave Smith is a comedian, libertarian, political commentator, and the host of Part of the Problem podcast. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books A Foreign Policy of Freedom by Ron Paul Amazon End the Fed by Ron PaulIn the post-meltdown world, it is irresponsible, ineffective, and ultimately useless to have a serious economic debate without considering and challenging the role of the Federal Reserve. Most people think of the Fed as … ...

Douglas Murray is the author of On Democracies and Death Cults, The War on The West, and The Madness of Crowds. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books Life and Fate Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman“something very unusual actually in the history of human bigotry and you know bias and ugliness but the real thing is one of my great heroes vastly Grossman says at the center of life and fate almost everything that is worth saying about antisemitism is Grossman's genius” ▶ Play at 2:24:50 Amazon· mentioned in 2 episodes The Gulag Archipelago The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Amazon The Satanic Verses by Salman RushdieThe Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's fourth novel, first published September 26, 1988 and inspired in part by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. As with his previous books, Rushdie used magical realism and relie… ...

Ezra Klein is one of the most influential voices representing the left-wing of American politics. He is a columnist for the NY Times and host of The Ezra Klein Show. Derek Thompson is a writer at The Atlantic and host of the Plain English podcast. Together they have written a new book titled Abundance that lays out a set of ideas for the future of the Democratic party. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our ...

ThePrimeagen (aka Michael Paulson) is a programmer who has educated, entertained, and inspired millions of people to build software and have fun doing it. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books No books extracted yet.

Narendra Modi is the Prime Minister of India. On YouTube this episode is available in English, Hindi, Russian (and soon other languages). Captions and voice-over audio tracks are provided (for the main episode video on YouTube) in English, Hindi, Russian, and the original mixed-language version, with subtitles available in your preferred language. To listen to the original mixed-language version, please select the Hindi (Latin) audio track. The default is English overdub. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our ...

Dylan Patel is the founder of SemiAnalysis, a research & analysis company specializing in semiconductors, GPUs, CPUs, and AI hardware. Nathan Lambert is a research scientist at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and the author of a blog on AI called Interconnects. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyOriginally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good drugs, antiaging programs, and total social control through politics, programming,… ...