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Here's my conversation with Dave Plummer (Dave W Plummer), programmer, former Microsoft engineer (Windows 95, NT, XP), creator of Task Manager, author of two books on autism, and host of the much-loved Dave's Garage YouTube channel. It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment)....

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Here's my 4-hour conversation with Marc Andreessen (Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸), where we discuss a positive vision for the future of America, given the many challenges we face. We talk about the state of the tech industry, the heated AI race, immigration, power & corruption in politics, and of course, most importantly, the critical role of humor and memes to the progress of human civilization. It's here on X in full, and is up everywhere else too. Links in comment. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 1:09 - Best possible future 10:32 - History of Western Civilization 19:51 - Trump in 2025 27:32 - TDS in tech 40:19 - Preference falsification 56:15 - Self-censorship 1:11:18 - Censorship 1:19:57 - Jon Stewart 1:22:43 - Mark Zuckerberg on Joe Rogan 1:31:32 - Government pressure 1:42:19 - Nature of power 1:55:08 - Journalism 2:00:43 - Bill Ackman 2:05:40 - Trump administration 2:13:19 - DOGE 2:27:11 - H1B and immigration 3:05:05 - Little tech 3:17:25 - AI race 3:26:15 - X 3:29:47 - Yann LeCun 3:33:21 - Andrew Huberman 3:34:53 - Success 3:37:49 - God and humanity
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Here's my 4-hour conversation with Marc Andreessen (Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸), where we discuss a positive vision for the future of America, given the many challenges we face. We talk about the state of the tech industry, the heated AI race, immigration, power & corruption in politics, and of course, most importantly, the critical role of humor and memes to the progress of human civilization. It's here on X in full, and is up everywhere else too. Links in comment. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 1:09 - Best possible future 10:32 - History of Western Civilization 19:51 - Trump in 2025 27:32 - TDS in tech 40:19 - Preference falsification 56:15 - Self-censorship 1:11:18 - Censorship 1:19:57 - Jon Stewart 1:22:43 - Mark Zuckerberg on Joe Rogan 1:31:32 - Government pressure 1:42:19 - Nature of power 1:55:08 - Journalism 2:00:43 - Bill Ackman 2:05:40 - Trump administration 2:13:19 - DOGE 2:27:11 - H1B and immigration 3:05:05 - Little tech 3:17:25 - AI race 3:26:15 - X 3:29:47 - Yann LeCun 3:33:21 - Andrew Huberman 3:34:53 - Success 3:37:49 - God and humanity

Lex Fridman

812,886 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

Here's my conversation with Javier Milei (Javier Milei), President of Argentina 🇦🇷. I'm posting it in both English (overdubbed) & Spanish (with subtitles) here on X and everywhere else. See comment thread for Spanish version and links. The Spanish version has me speaking Spanish 🔥 Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 3:27 - Economic freedom 8:52 - Anarcho-capitalism 18:45 - Presidency and reforms 38:05 - Poverty 44:37 - Corruption 53:14 - Freedom 1:07:26 - Elon Musk 1:12:54 - DOGE 1:14:56 - Donald Trump 1:20:56 - US and Argentina relations 1:28:05 - Messi vs Maradona 1:36:58 - God 1:39:05 - Elvis and Rolling Stones 1:42:45 - Free market 1:49:46 - Loyalty 1:52:23 - Advice for young people 1:53:49 - Hope for Argentina
1:57:00

Here's my conversation with Javier Milei (Javier Milei), President of Argentina 🇦🇷. I'm posting it in both English (overdubbed) & Spanish (with subtitles) here on X and everywhere else. See comment thread for Spanish version and links. The Spanish version has me speaking Spanish 🔥 Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 3:27 - Economic freedom 8:52 - Anarcho-capitalism 18:45 - Presidency and reforms 38:05 - Poverty 44:37 - Corruption 53:14 - Freedom 1:07:26 - Elon Musk 1:12:54 - DOGE 1:14:56 - Donald Trump 1:20:56 - US and Argentina relations 1:28:05 - Messi vs Maradona 1:36:58 - God 1:39:05 - Elvis and Rolling Stones 1:42:45 - Free market 1:49:46 - Loyalty 1:52:23 - Advice for young people 1:53:49 - Hope for Argentina

Lex Fridman

4,090,127 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

Here's my conversation with Sara Walker (Sara Imari Walker), a physicist and astrobiologist. We discuss how life emerged on Earth and in the Universe. She wrote a new book on just this topic, go pre-order it. This was a mind-blowing and super fun conversation. It's here on X in full, and is up on YouTube, Spotify, and everywhere else. Links in comment. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 1:07 - Definition of life 21:45 - Time and space 32:26 - Technosphere 36:51 - Theory of everything 45:32 - Origin of life 1:07:10 - Assembly theory 1:23:24 - Aliens 1:35:14 - Great Perceptual Filter 1:39:12 - Fashion 1:43:14 - Beauty 1:49:35 - Language 1:56:16 - Computation 2:06:03 - Consciousness 2:14:55 - Artificial life 2:38:48 - Free will 2:45:32 - Why anything exists
2:51:49

Here's my conversation with Sara Walker (Sara Imari Walker), a physicist and astrobiologist. We discuss how life emerged on Earth and in the Universe. She wrote a new book on just this topic, go pre-order it. This was a mind-blowing and super fun conversation. It's here on X in full, and is up on YouTube, Spotify, and everywhere else. Links in comment. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 1:07 - Definition of life 21:45 - Time and space 32:26 - Technosphere 36:51 - Theory of everything 45:32 - Origin of life 1:07:10 - Assembly theory 1:23:24 - Aliens 1:35:14 - Great Perceptual Filter 1:39:12 - Fashion 1:43:14 - Beauty 1:49:35 - Language 1:56:16 - Computation 2:06:03 - Consciousness 2:14:55 - Artificial life 2:38:48 - Free will 2:45:32 - Why anything exists

Lex Fridman

642,325 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

Here's my conversation with Rick Beato (Rick Beato), a musician, music educator, producer, songwriter, and host of a YouTube channel that celebrates great musicians & musical ideas, and helps millions of people fall in love with great music all over again. It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:44 - Guitar solos 4:43 - Gypsy jazz and Django Reinhardt 6:14 - Bebop jazz 10:27 - Perfect pitch vs relative pitch 15:04 - Learning to play guitar 38:34 - Miles Davis 44:01 - Bass guitar 45:08 - Greatest guitar solos of all time 1:14:23 - 27 Club 1:19:04 - Elton John 1:22:18 - Metallica 1:26:48 - Tom Waits 1:32:39 - Greatest rock stars 1:36:02 - Beethoven 1:42:37 - Bach 1:45:27 - AI in music 1:59:18 - Sabrina Carpenter 2:02:49 - YouTube copyright strikes 2:08:26 - Spotify 2:19:18 - Guitars 2:23:40 - Advice
2:33:47

Here's my conversation with Rick Beato (Rick Beato), a musician, music educator, producer, songwriter, and host of a YouTube channel that celebrates great musicians & musical ideas, and helps millions of people fall in love with great music all over again. It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:44 - Guitar solos 4:43 - Gypsy jazz and Django Reinhardt 6:14 - Bebop jazz 10:27 - Perfect pitch vs relative pitch 15:04 - Learning to play guitar 38:34 - Miles Davis 44:01 - Bass guitar 45:08 - Greatest guitar solos of all time 1:14:23 - 27 Club 1:19:04 - Elton John 1:22:18 - Metallica 1:26:48 - Tom Waits 1:32:39 - Greatest rock stars 1:36:02 - Beethoven 1:42:37 - Bach 1:45:27 - AI in music 1:59:18 - Sabrina Carpenter 2:02:49 - YouTube copyright strikes 2:08:26 - Spotify 2:19:18 - Guitars 2:23:40 - Advice

Lex Fridman

589,058 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

Here's my conversation with Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, the company that created Claude, one of the best AI systems in the world. We talk about scaling, AI safety, regulation, and a lot of super technical details about the present and future of AI and humanity. It's a 5+ hour conversation in total. Amanda Askell and Chris Olah (Chris Olah) join us for an hour each to talk about Claude's character and mechanistic interpretability, respectively. This was a fascinating, wide-ranging, super-technical, and fun conversation! First 4 hours are here on X (4 hours is current limit), and is up on everywhere else in full. Links in comment. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 3:14 - Scaling laws 12:20 - Limits of LLM scaling 20:45 - Competition with OpenAI, Google, xAI, Meta 26:08 - Claude 29:44 - Opus 3.5 34:30 - Sonnet 3.5 37:50 - Claude 4.0 42:02 - Criticism of Claude 54:49 - AI Safety Levels 1:05:37 - ASL-3 and ASL-4 1:09:40 - Computer use 1:19:35 - Government regulation of AI 1:38:24 - Hiring a great team 1:47:14 - Post-training 1:52:39 - Constitutional AI 1:58:05 - Machines of Loving Grace 2:17:11 - AGI timeline 2:29:46 - Programming 2:36:46 - Meaning of life 2:42:53 - Amanda Askell - Philosophy 2:45:21 - Programming advice for non-technical people 2:49:09 - Talking to Claude 3:05:41 - Prompt engineering 3:14:15 - Post-training 3:18:54 - Constitutional AI 3:23:48 - System prompts 3:29:54 - Is Claude getting dumber? 3:41:56 - Character training 3:42:56 - Nature of truth 3:47:32 - Optimal rate of failure 3:54:43 - AI consciousness 4:09:14 - AGI 4:17:52 - Chris Olah - Mechanistic Interpretability 4:22:44 - Features, Circuits, Universality 4:40:17 - Superposition 4:51:16 - Monosemanticity 4:58:08 - Scaling Monosemanticity 5:06:56 - Macroscopic behavior of neural networks 5:11:50 - Beauty of neural networks
3:58:08

Here's my conversation with Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, the company that created Claude, one of the best AI systems in the world. We talk about scaling, AI safety, regulation, and a lot of super technical details about the present and future of AI and humanity. It's a 5+ hour conversation in total. Amanda Askell and Chris Olah (Chris Olah) join us for an hour each to talk about Claude's character and mechanistic interpretability, respectively. This was a fascinating, wide-ranging, super-technical, and fun conversation! First 4 hours are here on X (4 hours is current limit), and is up on everywhere else in full. Links in comment. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 3:14 - Scaling laws 12:20 - Limits of LLM scaling 20:45 - Competition with OpenAI, Google, xAI, Meta 26:08 - Claude 29:44 - Opus 3.5 34:30 - Sonnet 3.5 37:50 - Claude 4.0 42:02 - Criticism of Claude 54:49 - AI Safety Levels 1:05:37 - ASL-3 and ASL-4 1:09:40 - Computer use 1:19:35 - Government regulation of AI 1:38:24 - Hiring a great team 1:47:14 - Post-training 1:52:39 - Constitutional AI 1:58:05 - Machines of Loving Grace 2:17:11 - AGI timeline 2:29:46 - Programming 2:36:46 - Meaning of life 2:42:53 - Amanda Askell - Philosophy 2:45:21 - Programming advice for non-technical people 2:49:09 - Talking to Claude 3:05:41 - Prompt engineering 3:14:15 - Post-training 3:18:54 - Constitutional AI 3:23:48 - System prompts 3:29:54 - Is Claude getting dumber? 3:41:56 - Character training 3:42:56 - Nature of truth 3:47:32 - Optimal rate of failure 3:54:43 - AI consciousness 4:09:14 - AGI 4:17:52 - Chris Olah - Mechanistic Interpretability 4:22:44 - Features, Circuits, Universality 4:40:17 - Superposition 4:51:16 - Monosemanticity 4:58:08 - Scaling Monosemanticity 5:06:56 - Macroscopic behavior of neural networks 5:11:50 - Beauty of neural networks

Lex Fridman

1,374,749 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr