Here are the timestamps. Please check out our sponsors to support this podcast. 0:00 - Introduction & sponsor mentions: - The Jordan Harbinger Show: www.jordanharbinger.com/lex/ - Four Sigmatic: foursigmatic.com/lex and use code LexPod to get up to 60% off - BetterHelp: betterhelp.com/lex to get 10% off - ExpressVPN: expressvpn.com/lexpod and use code LexPod to get 3 months free 2:49 - AI and physics 16:07 - Can AI discover new laws of physics? 24:57 - AI safety 42:33 - Extinction of human species 53:31 - How to fix fake news and misinformation 1:15:05 - Autonomous weapons 1:30:28 - The man who prevented nuclear war 1:40:36 - Elon Musk and AI 1:54:14 - AI alignment 2:00:16 - Consciousness 2:09:20 - Richard Feynman 2:13:30 - Machine learning and computational physics 2:24:28 - AI and creativity 2:35:42 - Aliens 2:51:25 - Mortality
The first video of yours I watched, I fell asleep during the intro. Now I'm obsessed with how chill and easy going your demeanour is, great for listening to while multitasking. Keep up the great content, man - scienece needs motivators and communicators like you. Also your guests are always top knotch so that helps.
I kinda feel like this whole long-form podcast heyday we're enjoying is a 2nd Enlightenment, but this time for everyone and not just the academic community. I can't imagine how many young, future world-changing scientists will be inspired by these amazing conversations. Thanks Max and Lex!
I HOPE that is what is going on. Most regular people lack the confidence to join in such discussions, but these podcasts make it clear that these guys are just like all humans, they’ve just devoted their life to knowledge and learning......instead of carpentry, small-business owner, or delivery driver. As work is automated....its already happening, but in the next 20 years, we will have to deal with mass unemployment. All of the big revolutions in human thought, occurred where the stress about where the next meal was coming from, diminished. Agricultural revolution, industrial revolution, and now the communications and automation revolution. An explosion of art, philosophy, mathematics, anything......people have drive, the VAST majority of them, and letting go of repetitive, menial human labor, can change the world IMO. I sincerely hope that is where we are headed. Growing pains along the way of course, but its happening. All that is required is the desire to learn. College and graduate lectures are everywhere. Textbooks can be found anywhere.
One thought that always runs through my mind is how intelligent and philophical the Greeks were. But no one is talking about how much deeper and informed our conversations are today. Not only are we capable of observing and understanding the biggest black holes, but also the smallest things in the universe. Now we have the science and technology not just to back up our theories but to help guide us into even more discoverys. And here we are in the 21st century and we're doing this like Greeks, we're talking about it. We're teaching each other. I have learned so much from Lex and his guests, AND IVE NEVER MET THE MAN. Him and his guests are doctors, scientist, smartest people we can find. AND THEY'RE TEACHING US EVERYTHING THEY KNOW FOR FREE. I'm happy with what we have here and I wouldn't have it any other way.
I’ve seen a bunch of Lex Friedman podcasts now. I honestly can’t pick a favorite. They’re all fantastic! Like Kuato said in Total Recall, “Open your mind.” But beware, it’s a firehose!
I’m really glad that this podcast exists. I can’t understand all the technical parts of the conversation. I really enjoy listening to these podcasts which I normally probably never would have heard in my daily life. Happy New Year Lex 🥳❗️An everyone on this channel❗️Best wishes for everyone 💋
Well, I'm from the future. 9 months have passed. I'm here and no other humans are here typing away. Nobody's reading. There's been no worthwhile communication in 9 months. Forget current humanity they don't understand Internet communication. Realize you're talking-to future people.
Lex is *the future* of podcast on RU-vid. I highly doubt that we see many follow in the footsteps of Joe Rogan moving to Spotify. There is now evidence that all isn't well for the Spotify platform in relation to Podcasts. If you guys are interested, theres a short video here that covers the topic. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oBw_fUiThTE.html
Hi Lex, just learned about you a couple of weeks ago. Absolutely love the content. Your voice is so soothing. You’re different than the usual scientists and engineers. Me too! I hope to meet u some day. Keep up the stimulating work. Breath of fresh air
"When we realise that what we do on our little spinning ball here, in our lifetime, could make the difference for the entire future of life in our universe." - Max Tegmark 2:48:05
@@nihlify yes I did thanks. I understand the sentiment, every time each of us makes a decision we change the future if the universe, but we are such an insignificant part of the entire universe. We will never know if there is life out there somewhere in our lifetimes, the fact light takes 4 years to travel to our closest star and there are literally billions upon billions of stars. We really are not that important.
Max Tegmark is an amazing human. Glad to have him here. Even if I only understand 2% of what he says. Currently reading "Reality+" by David Chalmers and I'm very excited to compared that to what Max has to say.
This conversation is so beautiful. I continue to have so much hope and inspiration for the future. Both of your conversations have open my eyes to many things and I absolutely loved reading life 3.0 one of my favorite books. the Resource you created I've share that with my family, friends, and community and it is such a needed tool. Thank you so much for your knowledge and wisdom that you shared. I'm so excited that we live in a day and age where we have tools like RU-vid that can help provide a conduit to be exposed to messages like yours.
This was by far my favorite podcast to date, Lex . Incredibly inspiring to listen to Max, with his philosophical quirks and great intuition about the universe. Your questions were excellent and made this podcast a truly unique experience. Thanks , Lex
Hey lex, im turning 23 today and I really enjoy listening to your podcasts waaaay far here in the Philippines. It would make my day 10x better to have a birthday greeting and a good life advice from you.
Hey Lex, these Podcasts are fire, especially when you ask about aliens haha. Keep doing awesome brother, these podcasts are really informative and boggles the mind.
This was such a beautiful conversation, Max has become one of my favorite humans on this planet in just 3 hours of hearing him speak, truly a wonderful world we live in.
Thank you lex for bringing all these brilliant minds within reach. The contents are very interesting and inspiring. Many conversations really touched me and reminded me of the childhood dream of becoming a scientist and the pure, simple joy in learning about something new which somehow got lost along the way after working. Thank you for making me rethink my perspectives in life and go chase after the unknown once again.
"Everything is better in the west, even the propaganda" Simply brilliant. I don't know if watching Max struggle to resist laughing because you (Lex) were struggling to contain the laughter contagion being transmitted through that effort was the reason why I was laughing or why I couldn't stop laughing.
I have the same feelings and amazement about plants, photosynthesis and oxidation of wood via flame as Tegmark’s paraphrasing. Knowing entropy increases and the pauses in it through biology certainly isn’t subtractive. It’s addictive.
2:01:29 I think there are things we need to understand about quantum physics before we can grasp consciousness. Penrose and the microtubules hypothesis I think has a good chance of being on a right track
Been watching Lex a pretty good while. IMO this is one of the most informative and enjoyable interviews I've seen. Max is the real deal. Such a brilliant and affable man. Great interview.
I think a really important question asked by Max in this is "what am i?" ; defining and attempting to understand what i, we, it actually is and what we have in common is actually the answer to the question we are placed on this esrth to ponder? Perhaps AGI will also ponder this?
Something that repeated in this interview and the previous one with Avi Loeb is: BE HUMBLE! Something that cannot be repeated enough these days.... Thank you, Mr. Friedman for this enlightening set of conversations
Even though its loosely defined I love his idea about physics perhaps bringing more certainty to machine learning. Maybe in the end we'll have ML help to define it's own bounds which are provable and reliable and then re-learn the grey area within those bounds.
Watching this in 2/22. Max's remarks at (time stamp) 1.24.30 regarding autonomous machines making life/death decisions were spot on. I seem to remember hearing recently an autonomous drone made a kill that was not from a real time command, but rather a pre-programmed directive.
Thank you Max and Lex for a most interesting conversation. With regards to dying, as in some or all of one's cells dying, we have only borrowed this Star Stuff for a short span of time, and all loans are eventually repaid.
Max Tegmark is absolutely brilliant and impressively articulate. Unlike so many painfully awkward physicists who are on the Asperger's spectrum, Max is a really good natured, charming guy..
Lex Fridman, and Max Tegmark, although this podcast is over two years old, it is extremely interesting and informative 👍. I wonder what advancements have happened since this time? With an increase in Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and Unidentified Submerged Objects sightings, are we on the precipitous point of a new awakening?
Love your outlook on life & work. And Thank You for your podcasts. They've been life changing. Signed, old Metallica fan out here. P.S. Do you like Blind Guardian?
I would LOVE to hear Max Tegmark and Anil Seth have a conversation about consciousness and AI. I tend to side with Anil that consciousness probably cannot be simulated because the entire body and environment are needed to create subjective experience. But I would love to hear Tegmark flesh out WHY he thinks we can simulate it, as Tegmark is obviously a brilliant person and I'm sure had thought this out.
ai and the promise of quickly, inexpensively being able to simulate systems (like that 4 ways of getting U235 at once example) is exactly why quantum computing/networking should be a national priority for the foreseeable future.
My little brother is in the 7th grade and he is quite clever and loves robotics, but he finds the math to easy and the natural sciencies poorly taught out. Trying to get him to watch this channel. Anyone have tips for how I can support him in his dream? Resources for good teaching in maths/natural sciencies and so on :) Thank you!
Loved hearing this show a low brain person like me would never been able to set down anywhere or time to listen to people like yourself talk that’s love of High tech has given me
With the heroes you've mentioned: choose some large number to multiply the number of heroes you admire and realize that's the number of heroes globally that we have. Choked, in most cases, by the elite holding the reigns of power.
Spilling the beans...This gentleman is validating conversation and talking points I have with my conspiracy theory friends...I am so excited to return to work Monday.
This is the scariest interview I think you have done. I think it needs to go viral through social commentary, since MSM would dismiss/omit it for selfish reasons!!!! David Schweikert, Arizona Representatives’ passion regarding the debt(perhaps a future interview?)
Great episode. Love your podcasts. So much so I even like to listen sometimes late at night. Last night This took me to a parralel universe where we somehow ended up in a driving in a Convertible. You guys were doing most of the talking. Sometimes I would interject. But then Pretty sure Max was driving. And he decides to punch it. Im like slow down, slow down-WTH! Problem is you guys keep talking and no response. Police car lights come on and next thing Max drives us into a building. I awakened and immediately realized why no one was responding to my comments about the driving. Happy to say no one was injured during this encounter. 😮
I would like you to meet a very interesting, brilliant man who has discovered & proved quite a few things. He’s a love & the best teacher I’ve Ever had. He’s Real. Like you. Also kind & gentle.. like you. I’d rather he explain his discoveries. I find it all fascinating. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed. “Mudfossil University” You’re the Best interviewer on utube. Great guests! Always interesting & informative & you have the most calming voice!😊 Love all your videos! God bless & Big Hugs, G’ma 🙏❤️🤗
