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Lex Fridman

Conversations about science, technology, history, philosophy and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power. Lex is an AI researcher at MIT and beyond.

519 - #453 – Javier Milei: President of Argentina – Freedom, Economics, and Corruption
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  • 519 - #453 – Javier Milei: President of Argentina – Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

    Javier Milei is the President of Argentina. This episode is available in both English and Spanish.
    Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep453-sc
    See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc.

    Transcript:
    https://lexfridman.com/javier-milei-transcript

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    Javier Milei's X: https://x.com/JMilei
    Javier Milei's Instagram: https://instagram.com/javiermilei
    Javier Milei's Facebook: https://facebook.com/JavierMileiEconomista

    SPONSORS:
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    Eight Sleep: Temp-controlled smart mattress.
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    OUTLINE:
    (00:00) - Introduction
    (14:44) - Economic freedom
    (20:09) - Anarcho-capitalism
    (30:02) - Presidency and reforms
    (49:22) - Poverty
    (55:54) - Corruption
    (1:04:32) - Freedom
    (1:18:43) - Elon Musk
    (1:24:11) - DOGE
    (1:26:13) - Donald Trump
    (1:32:13) - US and Argentina relations
    (1:39:22) - Messi vs Maradona
    (1:48:16) - God
    (1:50:22) - Elvis and Rolling Stones
    (1:54:02) - Free market
    (2:01:03) - Loyalty
    (2:03:40) - Advice for young people
    (2:05:06) - Hope for Argentina

    PODCAST LINKS:
    - Podcast Website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast
    - Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr
    - Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8
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    - Podcast Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4
    - Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/lexclips

    SOCIAL LINKS:
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    Wed, 20 Nov 2024 - 2h 08min
  • 518 - #452 – Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity

    Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic, the company that created Claude. Amanda Askell is an AI researcher working on Claude's character and personality. Chris Olah is an AI researcher working on mechanistic interpretability.
    Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep452-sc
    See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc.

    Transcript:
    https://lexfridman.com/dario-amodei-transcript

    CONTACT LEX:
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    EPISODE LINKS:
    Claude: https://claude.ai
    Anthropic's X: https://x.com/AnthropicAI
    Anthropic's Website: https://anthropic.com
    Dario's X: https://x.com/DarioAmodei
    Dario's Website: https://darioamodei.com
    Machines of Loving Grace (Essay): https://darioamodei.com/machines-of-loving-grace
    Chris's X: https://x.com/ch402
    Chris's Blog: https://colah.github.io
    Amanda's X: https://x.com/AmandaAskell
    Amanda's Website: https://askell.io

    SPONSORS:
    To support this podcast, check out our sponsors & get discounts:
    Encord: AI tooling for annotation & data management.
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    OUTLINE:
    (00:00) - Introduction
    (10:19) - Scaling laws
    (19:25) - Limits of LLM scaling
    (27:51) - Competition with OpenAI, Google, xAI, Meta
    (33:14) - Claude
    (36:50) - Opus 3.5
    (41:36) - Sonnet 3.5
    (44:56) - Claude 4.0
    (49:07) - Criticism of Claude
    (1:01:54) - AI Safety Levels
    (1:12:42) - ASL-3 and ASL-4
    (1:16:46) - Computer use
    (1:26:41) - Government regulation of AI
    (1:45:30) - Hiring a great team
    (1:54:19) - Post-training
    (1:59:45) - Constitutional AI
    (2:05:11) - Machines of Loving Grace
    (2:24:17) - AGI timeline
    (2:36:52) - Programming
    (2:43:52) - Meaning of life
    (2:49:58) - Amanda Askell - Philosophy
    (2:52:26) - Programming advice for non-technical people
    (2:56:15) - Talking to Claude
    (3:12:47) - Prompt engineering
    (3:21:21) - Post-training
    (3:26:00) - Constitutional AI
    (3:30:53) - System prompts
    (3:37:00) - Is Claude getting dumber?
    (3:49:02) - Character training
    (3:50:01) - Nature of truth
    (3:54:38) - Optimal rate of failure
    (4:01:49) - AI consciousness
    (4:16:20) - AGI
    (4:24:58) - Chris Olah - Mechanistic Interpretability
    (4:29:49) - Features, Circuits, Universality
    (4:47:23) - Superposition
    (4:58:22) - Monosemanticity
    (5:05:14) - Scaling Monosemanticity
    (5:14:02) - Macroscopic behavior of neural networks
    (5:18:56) - Beauty of neural networks

    Mon, 11 Nov 2024 - 5h 22min
  • 517 - #451 – Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

    Rick Spence is a historian specializing in the history of intelligence agencies, espionage, secret societies, conspiracies, the occult, and military history.
    Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep451-sc
    See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc.

    Transcript:
    https://lexfridman.com/rick-spence-transcript

    CONTACT LEX:
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    EPISODE LINKS:
    Rick's Website: https://www.uidaho.edu/class/history/faculty-staff/richard-spence
    Rick's Courses: https://bit.ly/40dIZbw

    SPONSORS:
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    OUTLINE:
    (00:00) - Introduction
    (09:04) - KGB and CIA
    (23:21) - Okhrana, Cheka, NKVD
    (38:53) - CIA spies vs KGB spies
    (45:29) - Assassinations and mind control
    (52:23) - Jeffrey Epstein
    (59:15) - Bohemian Grove
    (1:11:09) - Occultism
    (1:22:20) - Nazi party and Thule society
    (2:02:38) - Protocols of the Elders of Zion
    (2:35:43) - Charles Manson
    (3:02:30) - Zodiac Killer
    (3:13:24) - Illuminati
    (3:20:48) - Secret societies

    PODCAST LINKS:
    - Podcast Website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast
    - Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr
    - Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8
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    - Podcast Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4
    - Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/lexclips

    SOCIAL LINKS:
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    Wed, 30 Oct 2024 - 3h 36min
  • 516 - #450 – Bernie Sanders Interview

    Bernie Sanders is a US Senator from Vermont and a two-time presidential candidate.
    Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep450-sc
    See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc.

    Transcript:
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    EPISODE LINKS:
    Bernie's Website: https://berniesanders.com
    Bernie's X: https://x.com/BernieSanders
    Bernie's Instagram: https://instagram.com/berniesanders
    Bernie's YouTube: https://youtube.com/@BernieSanders
    Bernie's Facebook: https://facebook.com/berniesanders

    Bernie's Books:
    It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism: https://amzn.to/4fiIqS3
    Where We Go from Here: https://amzn.to/4eUSJMj
    Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution: https://amzn.to/3YkVAa4
    Our Revolution: https://amzn.to/40cIbnf
    Outsider in the White House: https://amzn.to/3BSfD8u

    SPONSORS:
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    Eight Sleep: Temp-controlled smart mattress.
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    OUTLINE:
    (00:00) - Introduction
    (08:51) - MLK Jr
    (11:43) - Corruption in politics
    (23:00) - Healthcare in US
    (31:33) - 2016 election
    (37:32) - Barack Obama
    (43:26) - Capitalism
    (51:35) - Response to attacks
    (56:32) - AOC and progressive politics
    (1:04:24) - Mortality
    (1:06:30) - Hope for the future

    PODCAST LINKS:
    - Podcast Website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast
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    - Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8
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    - Podcast Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4
    - Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/lexclips

    Wed, 23 Oct 2024 - 1h 09min
  • 515 - #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History

    Graham Hancock a journalist and author who for over 30 years has explored the controversial possibility that there existed a lost civilization during the last Ice Age, and that it was destroyed in a global cataclysm some 12,000 years ago. He is the presenter of the Netflix documentary series "Ancient Apocalypse", the 2nd season of which has just been released.
    Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep449-sc
    See below for timestamps, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc.

    CONTACT LEX:
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    EPISODE LINKS:
    Graham's Website: https://grahamhancock.com/
    Ancient Apocalypse (Season 2): https://netflix.com/title/81211003
    Graham's YouTube: https://youtube.com/GrahamHancockDotCom
    Graham's X: https://x.com/Graham__Hancock
    Graham's Facebook: https://facebook.com/Author.GrahamHancock
    Fingerprints of the Gods (book): https://amzn.to/4eM3QXC

    SPONSORS:
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    Notion: Note-taking and team collaboration.
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    OUTLINE:
    (00:00) - Introduction
    (09:58) - Lost Ice Age civilization
    (17:03) - Göbekli Tepe
    (29:07) - Early humans
    (34:07) - Astronomical symbolism
    (45:36) - Younger Dryas impact hypothesis
    (1:03:55) - The Great Pyramid and the Sphinx of Giza
    (1:24:29) - Sahara Desert and the Amazon rainforest
    (1:33:49) - Response to critics
    (1:57:56) - Panspermia
    (2:05:22) - Shamanism
    (2:29:22) - How the Great Pyramid was built
    (2:36:41) - Mortality

    PODCAST LINKS:
    - Podcast Website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast
    - Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr
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    - Podcast Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4
    - Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/lexclips

    Wed, 16 Oct 2024 - 2h 41min
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