13
Carmack talks a lot about fission in a recent Lex Fridman episode, a good listen for anyone into this.
@mslupski1 +12 more
#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets
with John Carmack
Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast
Conversations that explore technology, history, philosophy, physics, mathematics, biology, chemistry, engineering, AI, robotics, programming, music, film, art, sports, psychology, neuroscience, geopolitics, business, economics, religion, astronomy, and the human condition with people from all walks of life.
298 Hacker News mentions · 117 episodes
Episodes recommended on Hacker News
7
Great listen overall; Karpathy expands quite a bit on the same perspective.
@jcims +6 more
#333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI
with Andrej Karpathy , Yan Le Cun; Andrej Karpathy , Karpathy , Andrej
7
Lex Fridman just did a great podcast episode with Brendan Eich. Lots of great little tidbits of history in the conversation.
@jcims +6 more
#160 – Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave
with Brendan Eich
7
Lex Fridman interviewed him as well and that was pretty detailed.
@subsubzero +6 more
#122 – David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering
with David Fravor , Commander David Fravor , Commander Fravor
6
Jump to 30 minutes for Jim Keller discussing Moore's law and his interpretation of it.
@NortySpock +5 more
Jim Keller: Moore’s Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles
with Jim Keller , Keller
5
Suggests the Zuckerberg interview with Lex Fridman as the place to hear his VR argument.
@SideQuark +4 more
#398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse
with Zuckerberg , Mark Zuckerberg
4
Lee Cronin talked about some of this on the Lex Fridman podcast recently.
@ssl232 +3 more
#404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe
with Lee Cronin
4
Lex Fridman gets to invite very interesting people, not just from AI research; favorites are Chris Lattner, Bjarne Stroustrup, and Jim Keller.
@mmxmb +3 more
#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI
with Chris Lattner, Bjarne Stroustrup, Jim Keller , Chris Lattner
4
Lex's cellular automata musings in the Michael Levin episode show the same fascination the commenter has, sparking a wish to put xenobots on the podcast.
@DonHopkins +3 more
#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots
with Michael Levin
4
The Lex Fridman podcast interview with Jeff Hawkins is solid.
@adolph +3 more
#208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
with Jeff Hawkins
3
Aside from Huberman Lab, I would say the Lex Fridman Climate Change Debate episode is worth hearing.
@sanman811 +2 more
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin
with Fiona Hill, Bjorn Lomborg, Andrew Revkin, Ray Kurzweil , Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin
3
The Tony Fadell interview was also interesting, a great review of the history of iPod and iPhone and his work at Nest.
@yardie +2 more
#294 – Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, and Nest
with Tony Fadell
3
I'd recommend listening to his interview with Lex Fridman.
@ephbit +2 more
#284 – Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics
with Saifedean Ammous , Safedean Ammous
3
Watch Lex Fridman's interview with Musk, where they discuss exactly this topic.
@shafyy +2 more
#252 – Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI
with Elon Musk
3
Douglas Lenat's remarks on this at Lex Fridman's podcast were really insightful.
@roeles +2 more
#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI
with Douglas Lenat , Doug Lenat
3
You can have a sense of how it would be to work with him in this interview with Lex Fridman.
@eric_khun +2 more
#162 – Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness
with Jim Keller
3
Worth hearing: Lex's dad, a plasma physicist, on why hot fusion is possible but too complex to scale, and muon-doping ideas.
@jcims +2 more
Lex Fridman: Ask Me Anything – AMA January 2021
with Lex Fridman's father (plasma physicist, not named in the comment) , Doug , BK
3
Lex Fridman had a really good interview with Avi Loeb about Oumuamua, among other things. Highly recommend!
@cronix +2 more
#154 – Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua
with Avi Loeb
3
Lex Fridman has a great interview with Jurgen here, where he presents his idea of consciousness.
@jcims +2 more
Juergen Schmidhuber: Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs
with Jürgen Schmidhuber , Schmidhuber
2
Have a lot more respect for Peter after listening to his recent 3hr interview with Lex Fridman. Came away liking and respecting.
@re5i5tor +1 more
#491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger
with Peter , Peter Steinberger
2
Lex Fridman just dropped a 4 hour podcast with Durov
@NiekvdMaas +1 more
#482 – Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature
with Pavel Durov
2
Tao's recent Lex Fridman interview has an interesting bit on the Poincaré conjecture, where he goes out of his way not to use those words.
@coderatlarge +1 more
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI
with Terence Tao
2
Thompson and Klein sat for 3 hours, which shows they have something to say which stands up to scrutiny.
@chubot +1 more
#462 – Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson: Politics, Trump, AOC, Elon & DOGE
2
Lex Fridman's series of interviews with various key people from Anthropic is worth a listen alongside the other AI interviews this week.
@robinhouston +1 more
#452 – Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity
2
Elon's recent Lex Fridman episode explains that the hard part of self-driving is world modeling, not brute-force model fitting.
@pas +1 more
#438 – Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity
2
Commenter just listened to the three-hour Lex Fridman interview with George Hotz and found it worth the time.
@rmason +1 more
#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God
with George Hotz
2
Max Tegmark had some pretty awesome words, quite inspiring albeit kind of scary. Worth checking it out.
@ChatGTP +1 more
#371 – Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development
with Max Tegmark
2
I enjoy the interview with him on Lex Fridman's podcast, too. Some repeat of the book, and some new material.
@LVB +1 more
#364 – Chris Voss: FBI Hostage Negotiator
with Chris Voss
2
you can hear about it from the founder in this really good Lex Fridman podcast
@joegahona +1 more
#351 – MrBeast: Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram
with MrBeast
2
Watched a Lex Fridman podcast with Richard Wolff, who made many of the same compelling points.
@ellopoppit +1 more
#295 – Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism
with Richard Wolff
2
Pretty interesting discussion on the negative effects of social media, with Haidt arguing kids shouldn't use Twitter or Facebook before 16 or 18.
@endorphine +1 more
#291 – Jonathan Haidt: The Case Against Social Media
with Jonathan Haidt
2
Highly recommend the Lex Fridman podcast interview linked in the other comment!
@istorical +1 more
#271 – Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures
with Ariel Ekblaw
2
Jamie Metzl's 5-hour Lex Fridman episode on the lab leak case is compelling, though not proof it happened.
@wand3r +1 more
#247 – Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory
with Jamie Metzl
2
Lex Fridman interviews Neal and it's a wonderful listen.
@samstave +1 more
#240 – Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity
with Neal , Neal Stephenson
2
If you find planet and moon formation interesting, the recent astronomer episodes on Lex Fridman are worth checking out.
@superbaconman +1 more
#201 – Konstantin Batygin: Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System
with Konstantin Batygin
2
This episode feels like it's from the future. Sara introduces a completely different approach to defining life, one that feels revolutionary.
@bitcurious +1 more
#198 – Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds
with Sara Walker
2
Lex Fridman's interview with Sergey, Chainlink founder, is exceptional, if lengthy.
@58x14 +1 more
#181 – Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks
2
If anyone's interested, Eric Weinstein was the guest on the latest Lex Fridman episode, where he mentions this article.
@woadwarrior01 +1 more
#163 – Eric Weinstein: Difficult Conversations, Freedom of Speech, and Physics
with Eric Weinstein
2
Highly recommends the episode for learning the history of RISC, computer architecture, and predictions about Moore's Law.
@lukeplato +1 more
#104 – David Patterson: Computer Architecture and Data Storage
with David Patterson
2
This excerpt from Lex Fridman's podcast with Stephen Schwarzman provides a fairly good assessment of the situation...it's a rough ride.
@jcims +1 more
#96 – Stephen Schwarzman: Going Big in Business, Investing, and AI
with Stephen Schwarzman
2
I recommend his recent appearance on the Lex Fridman podcast
@codebolt +1 more
#85 – Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe
with Roger Penrose , Penrose
2
See what Goodfellow says in the linked interview, about how linking a knowledge base with a neural network could possibly yield interesting results.
@mindcrime +1 more
Ian Goodfellow: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
with Ian Goodfellow
1
Mine was Lex Fridman #227 with Sean Kelly on existentialism, nihilism and the search for meaning.
@h_alpha
#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning
with Sean Kelly
1
Lex Fridman had an interesting podcast on IQ a few months ago, with a link to the episode.
@jwatt
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet
1
Lex Fridman has an excellent interview with a state of the art intelligence researcher; the researcher covers what is known, how it is known, and what has been proven wrong.
@SideQuark
#490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI
1
This interview sent me down a Finkel interview rabbit hole, as he makes a delightful guest.
@GeekyBear
#487 – Irving Finkel: Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations & Flood Myths
with Irving Finkel
1
Discusses how AI can either help you learn or rob you of learning, depending on whether you go fast or slower and more educational.
@MilnerRoute
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting
1
Lex Fridman interviewed Modi recently, worth a listen or read.
@hagbard_c
#460 – Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India – Power, Democracy, War & Peace
with Modi
1
The Cursor founders' Lex Fridman episode covers the technical sides of Cursor far better than the commenter could.
@rco8786
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI
with Cursor founders
1
There's an interesting podcast episode of Lex Fridman with Charan Ranganath in case people are looking for more on the topic
@fruit_snack
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories
with Charan Ranganath
1
Watch his recent Lex Fridman interview. Personally I thought it was great, but many low-knowledge people will judge such demeanor harshly.
@schiffern
#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI
with Sam
1
Was pretty interesting. Definitely raised some strong points.
@boristsr
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI
with Yann LeCun
1
Serhii Plokhy's Lex Fridman interview covers why people in Russia prefer a strongman over weak leadership.
@Gravityloss
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War
with Serhii Plokhy
1
Lex Fridman has a long interview with Marc Raibert, CEO of Boston Dynamics, which is really excellent.
@adriancooney
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics
with Marc Raibert
1
Recommends this interview with Guillaume Verdon, a physicist and quantum computing researcher who founded the e/acc movement.
@samstave
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI
with Guillaume Verdon
1
Jeff Bezos has it right; his interview on the Lex Fridman podcast explains the nuance in his data analysis approach.
@nradov
#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin
with Jeff Bezos
1
This Lex Fridman interview with Greg Lukianoff provides more useful information on the subject than the article.
@kieranmaine
#397 – Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
with Greg Lukianoff
1
Go listen to RFK on Lex Fridman; he's pretty reasonable on every topic and willing to change his position.
@evo_9
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning
1
The entire episode is very much worth listening to if you want a nuanced perspective on race problems in the US.
@ajmurmann
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
with Randall Kennedy
1
I found this podcast episode helpful for me to process what I've felt.
@chang1
#376 – Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
with Stephen Wolfram
1
Frenkel was also recently a guest on Lex Fridman's podcast, very interesting.
@nairboon
#370 – Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox – Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love
with Edward Frenkel
1
First half, up to the 1 hour mark, is interesting enough to warrant a listen.
@capableweb
#367 – Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI
1
The Lex Fridman episode with Aaron Smith-Levin, a former Scientology insider, made the commenter think Scientology has been overly vilified.
@DuckFeathers
#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology
with Aaron Smith-Levin
1
I love this Lex Fridman interview of a nuclear-fusion physicist at MIT.
@mcbishop
#353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy
1
Coffee's recent interview on the Lex Fridman podcast gives more background to these investigations
@raphlinus
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power
with Coffeezilla
1
Recommends Lex Fridman Podcast #344 featuring Noam Brown.
@xdavidliu
#344 – Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation
with Noam Brown
1
Lex Fridman's interview with Todd Howard goes into this in depth.
@marsten
#342 – Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield
with Todd Howard
1
The Kurzweil podcast appearance on Lex Fridman is nuts; listening to even half of it makes the dystopian outlook worse.
@samstave
#321 – Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality
with Kurzweil
1
Training in certain methods helps you tell which insights from a psychedelic state are actually "real" versus just noise.
@s0berpotato
#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom
with John Vervaeke
1
Ryan Graves's Lex Fridman interview explains the stigma of reporting UAP sightings as a military pilot.
@stevenhuang
#308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens
with Ryan Graves
1
Lex Fridman's Brian Armstrong episode is worth hearing, including the funny bit about older banking systems running on "cobalt".
@trollied
#307 – Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation
with Brian Armstrong
1
Lex Fridman's interview with Oriol Vinyals on Lex's AI podcast covers this in more depth.
@nicwilson
#306 – Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence
with Oriol Vinyals
1
Steve Keen's Lex Fridman episode lays out the flaws of neoclassical economics and how banks create money; it made the whole subject click.
@kranke155
#303 – Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics
with Steve Keen
1
A recent Grimes interview on Lex Fridman had interesting, good things to say about music and your brain aging.
@chubot
#281 – Grimes: Music, AI, and the Future of Humanity
with Grimes
1
There was an interesting Lex Fridman podcast recently featuring Michael Saylor, on the advantages of bitcoin as a 'property' as opposed to a 'security'.
@benrow
#276 – Michael Saylor: Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money
with Michael Saylor
1
Highly recommends the Lex Fridman episode with Lee Cronin on the origins of life and complexity theory; it changed the commenter's view of life and the universe.
@nomel
#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness
with Lee Cronin
1
Calls the Lex Fridman interview with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya "excellent," arguing protecting the vulnerable would have been more effective than trying to contain the virus.
@herdcall
#254 – Jay Bhattacharya: The Case Against Lockdowns
with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
1
If you want interview style he was on the Lex Fridman Podcast #251 too.
@WestCoastJustin
#251 – Ray Dalio: Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires
with Ray Dalio
1
Peter Wang in the recent Lex Fridman interview gave names for concepts about the pitfalls of "homogeneous demand" created by ads and algorithms.
@loceng
#250 – Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality
with Peter Wang
1
Amazing interview. Makes me hopeful for the future.
@cheeko1234
#246 – Peter Woit: Theories of Everything and Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong
1
Lex Fridman's interview with the NIH director was eye-opening.
@systemvoltage
#238 – Francis Collins: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
1
Watch Lex Fridman interview Michael Mina about cheap rapid testing that's not available because of regulatory roadblocks. It's an infuriating listen.
@gnusty_gnurc
#235 – Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing
with Michael Mina
1
Recently heard this podcast with Lex Fridman and Carl Hart, author of Drug Use for Grown-Ups, and talks about this.
@rogereur
#233 – Carl Hart: Heroin, Cocaine, MDMA, Alcohol & the Role of Drugs in Society
with Carl Hart
1
Highly recommend episode #231 of Lex Fridman talking to Alex Gladstein; a long but interesting discussion on human rights, democracy, and money.
@jazzyjackson
#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights
with Alex Gladstein
1
Lex Fridman's interview with Richard Wrangham on violence in human history and how we differ from other great apes was thought provoking and introduced new concepts.
@egman_ekki
#229 – Richard Wrangham: Role of Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution
with Richard Wrangham
1
If in doubt, check out the Lex Fridman podcast with NumPy creator Travis Oliphant; he pronounces "Py" as "pie".
@windsignaling
#224 – Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming
with Travis Oliphant
1
I don't really like Lex Fridman, but this interview is excellent.
@lanstin
#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life
with Donald Knuth
1
Rick Doblin just on Lex Fridman's podcast, with a link to the episode.
@jcims
#202 – Rick Doblin: Psychedelics
with Rick Doblin
1
Full podcast which is more about Johnson's brain monitoring device
@indigodaddy
#186 – Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces
with Johnson
1
Katherine de Kleer's Io segment, starting about 14 minutes in, explains Io as the Jupiter system's massive polluter.
@pengaru
#184 – Katherine de Kleer: Planets, Moons, and Asteroids in Our Solar System
with Katherine de Kleer
1
Risto Miikkulainen discusses evolutionary computation tuning plant growing recipes, including finding basil grows best under 24 hours of light.
@mkolodny
#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation
with Risto Miikkulainen
1
I really enjoyed listening to Cal on the Lex Fridman podcast a few weeks ago.
@gabrielsroka
#166 – Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media
with Cal Newport
1
Listen to Mina's Lex Fridman interview; he details what rapid tests do and how the US government mismanaged self-testing.
@AtomicOrbital
#146 – Michael Mina: Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset
with Michael Mina
1
Shared as "of interest to this thread": a Lex Fridman episode with psychedelics researcher Matthew Johnson.
@cheezeburger
#145 – Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics
with Matthew W. Johnson
1
go watch Lex Fridman's first interview with Andrew Huberman if you want to see him explain it properly.
@ZephyrBlu
#139 – Andrew Huberman: Neuroscience of Optimal Performance
with Andrew Huberman
1
Carlin's interview on the Lex Fridman podcast was great.
@piyh
#136 – Dan Carlin: Hardcore History
with Dan Carlin
1
Two-hour Lex Fridman interview with George Hotz on why cameras will beat lidar for self-driving, and whether level 5 can pay off.
@rmason
#132 – George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets
with George Hotz
1
Worth listening: she explains how constant prediction is the most efficient way for a brain to run, rather than reaction.
@nsbk
#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works
with Lisa Feldman Barrett
1
I watched this the other day; he's not some total lunatic, he's actually very intelligent, and much of what he says deserves a seat at the adults table.
@mistermann
#128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling
with Michael Malice
1
Really interesting episode with him talking about it on Lex Fridman's podcast. Feels like there's something there.
@jcims
#124 – Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe
1
Manolis Kellis discusses similar ideas on Lex Fridman, arguing the Greeks embraced all emotions, not just happy endings.
@nomilk
#123 – Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness
with Manolis Kellis
1
Lex Fridman discussed this topic with François Chollet in "Measures of Intelligence". Highly recommended, lengthy but really worth it.
@yamrzou
#120 – François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence
with François Chollet
1
Great interview with Brian on Lex Fridman's podcast, linked from the comment.
@jcims
#109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming
with Brian Kernighan
1
Joscha Bach's first Lex Fridman interview is a good start; he has the best model of consciousness I've come across.
@LichenStone
#101 – Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality
with Joscha Bach
1
The idea that visual and language generation could be generalized with the same underlying model was the most interesting part of the episode.
@saeranv
#94 – Ilya Sutskever: Deep Learning
with Ilya Sutskever
1
The best take down of Twitter comes from Jack Dorsey in this interview, especially his history of machine learning at Square.
@specialist
#91 – Jack Dorsey: Square, Cryptocurrency, and Artificial Intelligence
with Jack Dorsey
1
The recent interview with David Silver on Lex Fridman's podcast touches on this towards the end
@dharma1
#86 – David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning
with David Silver
1
Listening to the founder of Ethereum on the Lex Fridman podcast was fascinating, and the way he thinks is impressive.
@neillyons
#80 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money
with Founder of Ethereum
1
If you find the youtube algorithm interesting, you may like this interview with the guy in charge of the team who works on it.
@rland
Cristos Goodrow: YouTube Algorithm
with Head of the YouTube recommendation algorithm team (unnamed in comment)
1
Fascinating to learn how much energy Don Knuth still spends verifying newly published algorithms.
@jhncls
Donald Knuth: Algorithms, TeX, Life, and The Art of Computer Programming
with Don Knuth
1
Judea Pearl's answer on how mathematics should be taught is worth hearing, as the commenter says it's in the Lex Fridman interview.
@calebjosue
Judea Pearl: Causal Reasoning, Counterfactuals, Bayesian Networks, and the Path to AGI
with Judea Pearl
1
I watched Lex Fridman's interview with him and he seemed very nice and thoughtful.
@ZephyrBlu
Jeremy Howard: fast.ai Deep Learning Courses and Research
with fast.ai author (named in the parent thread's fast.ai post; name not given in this comment)
1
Interview on brain organoids with Harvard neuroscientist Paola Arlotta, covering whether they may one day have consciousness properties.
@rsiqueira
Paola Arlotta: Brain Development from Stem Cell to Organoid
with Paola Arlotta
1
He's definitely an interesting guy. He was on the Lex Fridman podcast twice, in August 2019 and October 2020.
@merryje
George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles
with George Hotz
1
I watched a couple of Lex Fridman podcasts this week with Chris Lattner that I thought were interesting
@mwattsun
Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators
with Chris Lattner
1
Highly recommended: Lex Fridman's podcast with Greg Brockman explains OpenAI's rationale for its recent org changes.
@jcims
Greg Brockman: OpenAI and AGI
with Greg Brockman
1
Eric Weinstein discusses with Lex Fridman how communication became decentralized, global, and instantaneous, changing how ideas spread.
@loceng
Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society
with Eric Weinstein
Why Hacker News recommends it
-
Watch the MIT researcher, Lex Fridman, interview with Elon Musk
HN thread · mmohades · 0 points ↗ -
Highly recommend watching this Lex Fridman interview with the fast.ai creator; he covers making deep learning less of a black box.
HN thread · meowface · 0 points ↗ -
I don't work with AI but that's a must-listen to podcast these days.
HN thread · dmix · 0 points ↗ -
Lex Fridman's conversation with Donald Knuth is worth hearing; AI is civilization's journey into understanding the human mind.
HN thread · rsiqueira · 0 points ↗ -
The Donald Knuth, Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig episodes were great.
HN thread · sien · 0 points ↗ -
Really loved listening to his recent podcast with Lex Fridman.
HN thread · arbhassan · 0 points ↗ -
Defer to Jim Keller's interview with Lex Fridman for why computer architecture is extraordinarily complex and needs brilliant people working together.
HN thread · spectramax · 0 points ↗ -
It's mostly focused on science tech and philosophy with a lot of high-profile guests from different fields.
HN thread · olmideso · 0 points ↗ -
Lex Fridman's AI podcast, Azeem Azhar's Exponential View, and Eric Weinstein's Portal are three favorites that make long solo hikes less lonely.
HN thread · mark_l_watson · 0 points ↗ -
Incredible view on consciousness from a very technical perspective; a very disruptive and highly challenging podcast.
HN thread · cp_mlreef · 0 points ↗ -
Loves this take from Joscha Bach on Lex Fridman's podcast, even without reading the linked article.
HN thread · jcims · 0 points ↗ -
Specialist guests make the conversation more interesting; Lex Fridman, Brian Cox, and Sean Carroll had engaging episodes.
HN thread · mrandolph · 0 points ↗ -
Since you brought up Keller, here is a great podcast conversation with Lex Fridman.
HN thread · BbzzbB · 0 points ↗ -
I recently watched Lex Fridman's podcast episode with him and it was really interesting as well.
HN thread · ZephyrBlu · 0 points ↗ -
Lex Fridman has a fantastic interview with Numenta's founder, Jeff Hawkins.
HN thread · zubiaur · 0 points ↗ -
A recent Lex Fridman episode interviews Jeff Hawkins on the Thousand Brains theme, a good companion to the paper.
HN thread · ssivark · 0 points ↗ -
Recommends Eric Weinstein's Lex Fridman interview, where he calls on MIT to stop harming people like Aaron Schwartz.
HN thread · maxharris · 0 points ↗ -
A Navy pilot who was actually there gives his firsthand account in this Lex Fridman interview.
HN thread · maxharris · 0 points ↗ -
This interview with Lex Fridman is a bit more accessible, and it expands on that stuff
HN thread · maxharris · 0 points ↗ -
I want to explore Objectivism after listening to Lex Fridman's podcast, as an alternative to religion for questions of mortality.
HN thread · playing_colours · 0 points ↗ -
Jim Keller on another Lex Fridman episode is excellent at explaining things like out-of-order execution.
HN thread · klelatti · 0 points ↗ -
Jim Keller talks about this in the Lex Fridman podcast, linked at the 31-minute mark.
HN thread · andy_ppp · 0 points ↗ -
I loved this interview Lex Fridman had with George Hotz. He's very opinionated original thinker with the credentials to back it up.
HN thread · bko · 0 points ↗ -
He has interesting guests and a good vibe.
HN thread · JimTheMan · 0 points ↗ -
Lex's guests don't feel under threat, so they open up more than they would under loaded, journalist-style questions.
HN thread · galfarragem · 0 points ↗ -
Highly recommend the Lex Fridman interview to listen to Jeff explain live
HN thread · gamegoblin · 0 points ↗ -
Check out interviews with Jeff Hawkins of Numenta, such as the Lex Fridman interview, for the idea that the cortex is the same everywhere.
HN thread · wwarner · 0 points ↗ -
Joscha Bach's theory that our brains hallucinate ourselves, like a fantasy character moving through life, is mind-blowing.
HN thread · pantelisk · 0 points ↗ -
Commenter says Dalio's Lex Fridman interview was good, and that Dalio is less bad than most investors who make public statements.
HN thread · bostonsre · 0 points ↗ -
Lex Fridman's podcast is consistently blowing my mind, highly recommend it.
HN thread · aurbano · 0 points ↗ -
Lex Fridman's podcast is much better if you want something more intellectual.
HN thread · sexy_seedbox · 0 points ↗ -
Check out the Lex Fridman Jim Keller podcast on YouTube.
HN thread · rorykoehler · 0 points ↗ -
He goes into this in some depth in Lex Fridman's interview, worth checking out if you're curious about why AGI is a meaningless term.
HN thread · andreyk · 0 points ↗ -
Lex's depth-first search style: he backs up to the original point after exploring each tangent, so nothing gets dropped.
HN thread · sleavey · 0 points ↗ -
Lex Fridman podcast is good. Some people don't like his somewhat monotoned voice but he has interesting guests.
HN thread · Zelphyr · 0 points ↗ -
If you haven't already, highly suggest watching his Lex Fridman interview. I learned a lot from it, both about chips and Keller.
HN thread · silisili · 0 points ↗ -
Still uses Wolfram Alpha regularly, and listening to Stephen Wolfram's 3-part Lex Fridman podcast made them use it even more.
HN thread · erikig · 0 points ↗ -
An excellent Lex Fridman interview with Wolfram on this topic; it is stimulating and sparked the commenter's own machine learning ideas.
HN thread · tinco · 0 points ↗ -
John Danaher's Lex Fridman appearance: his narrow vocal range is so monotonic and soothing that the commenter falls asleep in under five minutes.
HN thread · Jugurtha · 0 points ↗ -
My favorite podcasts this year were Lex Fridman's and Naval's.
HN thread · AlchemistCamp · 0 points ↗ -
Hotz has an interesting take on life and tech. If you have time, listen to one of Lex's conversations with Hotz.
HN thread · mark_l_watson · 0 points ↗ -
This episode gives a good overview of how Python's scientific computing community developed.
HN thread · calmdown13 · 0 points ↗ -
Pretty interesting Lex Fridman podcast episode in this area; it's encouraging to hear progress being made in this direction.
HN thread · jcims · 0 points ↗ -
Lex Fridman's interview with Lee Cronin is fascinating and thought-provoking on the complexity of life-created structures.
HN thread · egman_ekki · 0 points ↗ -
He talks about how top fighters take high-risk experiments; learning to recover from mistakes frees you to take big risks.
HN thread · sz4kerto · 0 points ↗ -
Lex's podcast is good-faith conversation with interesting, highly intelligent people, with no ads and no ulterior motive, just pure interesting conversation for three hours.
HN thread · disambiguation · 0 points ↗ -
The back-to-back Oliver Stone and Stephen Kotkin episodes were really interesting; two opposing views on Russia and Ukraine, each given ample time.
HN thread · rtsil · 0 points ↗ -
I love Lex Fridman's podcast, though it's not strictly a YouTube channel.
HN thread · echobear · 0 points ↗ -
Lex interviews many guests about a particular topic or interest in a row and then releases several episodes on the matter.
HN thread · nonoesp · 0 points ↗ -
The entire video is worth viewing, an impressive 5:15h!
HN thread · kken · 0 points ↗ -
I liked this interview with Brian with Lex Fridman.
HN thread · etaioinshrdlu · 0 points ↗ -
Curated snips of guests' advice-to-young-people segments; favorites include Elon Musk, Yann LeCun, Demis Hassabis.
HN thread · KevinBenSmith · 0 points ↗ -
Lex Fridman is less crazy but also a less skilled interviewer, but he's got some stellar interviews like the one with Jim Keller.
HN thread · jiggawatts · 0 points ↗ -
Try listening to a non-exciting podcast at 75% speed. Lex Fridman's voice and tempo are perfect for it, and Overcast can turn off after N minutes.
HN thread · Tempest1981 · 0 points ↗ -
Just watched the Lex Fridman Guido van Rossum episode, which frames Rust vs C/C++ as mirroring Perl vs Python's trajectory.
HN thread · Decabytes · 0 points ↗ -
Only related to software engineering, but the Lex Fridman Podcast should be in this thread.
HN thread · nsikorr · 0 points ↗ -
The Michael Levin episode of the Lex Fridman podcast blew me away; I had to pause it multiple times.
HN thread · chrsw · 0 points ↗ -
Karpathy's YouTube playlist, NanoGPT, and the Lex Fridman podcast together feel like a university-level education with free internship guidance.
HN thread · subbu · 0 points ↗ -
His Lex Fridman interview was very interesting too.
HN thread · theptip · 0 points ↗ -
Many of his older episodes feature CS-leaning guests you might not normally see in the mainstream.
HN thread · cbracketdash · 0 points ↗ -
Recalls a Lex Fridman episode that may help answer questions about a wife's first psychosis episode.
HN thread · lightning19 · 0 points ↗ -
Worth it for educational physics and cosmology, especially episodes with Roger Penrose, Brian Greene, or Leonard Susskind.
HN thread · chatmasta · 0 points ↗ -
Lisa Feldman covers the predicting brain in this episode; the whole thing is worth a listen.
HN thread · nsbk · 0 points ↗ -
A fascinating Lex Fridman episode with Paul Rosolie; he came across as very genuine, despite skepticism about the charity.
HN thread · foo42 · 0 points ↗ -
Jim Keller was on the Lex Fridman podcast twice and it was awesome.
HN thread · WestCoastJustin · 0 points ↗ -
Chris Lattner talks to Lex Fridman about Mojo and other things; might be of interest to readers.
HN thread · teh_klev · 0 points ↗ -
Listen to The Zuck on lex fridman admitting we got some stuff wrong, censored things we shouldn't have.
HN thread · salad-tycoon · 0 points ↗ -
I loved the George Hotz interview on Lex Fridman's podcast. I strongly disagree with some of his opinions, but thoroughly enjoyed hearing them.
HN thread · a_wild_dandan · 0 points ↗ -
Watch the Lex Fridman podcast on July 4th, 2023. 2+ hours of thoughtful dialog.
HN thread · evo_9 · 0 points ↗ -
Obligatory Lex Fridman podcast, where he discusses it
HN thread · nomel · 0 points ↗ -
Recommends the Lex Fridman Podcast under interviews, alongside several other conversation-style shows.
HN thread · thepablohansen · 0 points ↗ -
Would highly recommend her Lex Fridman episode; it made me want to dig out Raspberry Pi and ESP32 boards.
HN thread · raajg · 0 points ↗ -
Lex Fridman's podcast is also great.
HN thread · santy-gegen · 0 points ↗ -
Joscha Bach calls consciousness the monkey with a stick controlling the elephant; listen to his Lex Fridman interviews to start.
HN thread · rolisz · 0 points ↗ -
Sam Altman discusses how programming will change, possibly into natural language, from 1:29:55 onward.
HN thread · nopinsight · 0 points ↗ -
There was an interesting interview of Lee Cronin on Lex Fridman's podcast a while ago.
HN thread · HarHarVeryFunny · 0 points ↗ -
I created a YT Playlist of 50+ Lex Fridman programming, robotics, AI, tech, etc videos.
HN thread · gabrielsroka · 0 points ↗ -
Lex Fridman had Cronin on his podcast, quite an interesting discussion.
HN thread · monkellipse · 0 points ↗ -
Pieter was just on Lex Fridman's podcast not too long ago, I enjoyed it.
HN thread · jcims · 0 points ↗ -
The interview with Demis is well worth a listen, though the commenter isn't always a fan of the host.
HN thread · hilux · 0 points ↗ -
They tell a lot about this in the Lex Fridman podcast, very interesting.
HN thread · szundi · 0 points ↗ -
He's on Lex Fridman's podcast as well. Great conversation.
HN thread · jcims · 0 points ↗ -
Lex Fridman often asks his podcast guests to steel man the opposing side's views; guests with well-thought-out opinions do this really well.
HN thread · jimmydddd · 0 points ↗ -
Found the DHH and Lex Fridman conversation disagreeable in places but still really interesting, starting with a retelling of a similar early programming experience.
HN thread · nonethewiser · 0 points ↗ -
Fridman is by far the best interviewer on technical AI topics: he knows the field, asks pertinent questions, and knows when to let the speaker speak.
HN thread · NitpickLawyer · 0 points ↗ -
If you want to see the mask slip, watch Lex's interview with Zelensky.
HN thread · schmidtleonard · 0 points ↗ -
I recommend watching the Lex Fridman interview with Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Kieran Kunhya.
HN thread · richardstahl · 0 points ↗ -
He goes into depths about the problems right now in academia
HN thread · abledon · 0 points ↗