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• Chris Voss FBI Hostage Negotiator
• Craig Jones, Nicky Rod, Nicky Ryan B-Team Jiu Jitsu
• Ginni Rometty IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity
• Aaron Smith-Levin Scientology
• Tim Urban Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics
• Andrew Strominger Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and Theoretical Physics
• Aella Sex Work, OnlyFans, Porn, Dating, and Human Sexuality
• Paul Conti Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil
• Tim Dodd SpaceX, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel
• David Kipping Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds
• Jeremi Suri American Civil War
• Dennis Whyte Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy
• Omar Suleiman Islam
• MrBeast Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram
• Betül Kaçar Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens
• Bhaskar Sunkara The Case for Socialism
• Nathalie Cabrol Search for Alien Life
• Michael Malice Christmas Special
• Ed Calderon Mexican Drug Cartels
• Coffeezilla SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, and Fake Gurus
• Noam Brown AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation
• Roger Gracie Jiu Jitsu
• Todd Howard Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield
• Guido van Rossum Python and the Future of Programming
• Chris Tarbell FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road
• Climate Change Debate Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin
• Chamath Palihapitiya Money, Success, Startups, Energy, and War
• Destiny Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, and War
• Ben Shapiro Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler & Extremism
• Fiona Hill Putin and Trump
• Abbas Amanat Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, and Middle East History
• Andrej Karpathy Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI
• Kanye 'Ye' West Kanye 'Ye' West Interview
• Balaji Srinivasan How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science & the FDA
• Hikaru Nakamura Chess and the Psychology of Greatness
• Kate Darling Social Robots, Ethics, and the Future of MIT
• John Danaher Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives
• GothamChess Chess
• Annaka Harris Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality
• Michael Levin Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, and Xenobots
• Daniel Negreanu Poker
• Will Sasso Comedy, MADtv, AI, Madness & Pro Wrestling
• Rana el Kaliouby Emotion AI, Social Robots, and Self-Driving Cars
• Ray Kurzweil Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality
• Christopher Capozzola World War I, Ideology, Propaganda, and Politics
• Botez Sisters Chess, Streaming, and Fame
• Nick Lane Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, and Biology
• John Vervaeke Meaning Crisis and the Search for Wisdom
• Noam Chomsky Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War
• Magnus Carlsen Greatest Chess Player of All Time
• Liv Boeree Poker, Game Theory, Aliens & Existential Risk
• Jordan Peterson Life, Death, Power, Fame, and Meaning
• Duncan Trussell Comedy, Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man
• Magatte Wade Africa
• Andrew Bustamante CIA Spy
• John Carmack Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, and Programming
• Ryan Graves UFOs and Fighter Jets
• Brian Armstrong Coinbase CEO
• Oriol Vinyals Deep Learning and AGI
• Martin Rees Black Holes, Alien Life, and the Big Bang
• Robert Barron Christianity and the Catholic Church
• Steve Keen Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics
• Richard Haier IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences
• Jack Barsky KGB Spy
• Joe Rogan Comedy, Controversy, Aliens, and Freedom
• Demis Hassabis DeepMind
• Susan Cain The Power of Introverts and Loneliness
• Jonathan Reisman Anatomy of the Human Body
• Douglas Murray Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West
• Richard Wolff Marxism and Communism
• Tony Fadell iPhone, iPod, and Nest
• Donald Hoffman Reality is an Illusion
• Robin Hanson Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity
• Jonathan Haidt The Case Against Social Media
• Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
• Stephen Kotkin Putin, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine
• Sarma Melngailis Bad Vegan
• Bobby Lee Comedy, Skyrim, Sex Robots, Love, Fame, and Power
• Oliver Stone Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine
• Glenn Loury Race, Racism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture
• Saifedean Ammous Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics
• Chris Mason Space Travel, Colonization & Long-Term Survival
• David Buss Sex, Dating, Relationships, and Sex Differences
• Grimes Music, AI, and the Future of Humanity
• Cristiano Amon Qualcomm CEO
• Sara Walker and Lee Cronin Alien Debate
• Skye Fitzgerald Hunger, War, and Human Suffering
• Andrew Huberman Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship
• Michael Saylor Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money
• Rick Rubin Music
• Karl Deisseroth Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry
• Chris Blattman War and Violence
• Brett Johnson Cybercrime
• Ariel Ekblaw Space Colonization and Exploration
• David Wolpe Judaism
• Lee Cronin Origin of Life, Aliens, and Complexity
• Robert Proctor Nazi Science and Ideology
• Mark Zuckerberg Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse
• Nicole Perlroth Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar
• Devon Larratt Arm Wrestling
• Tim Urban Elon Musk, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity
• John Abramson Big Pharma
• Garry Nolan UFOs and Aliens
• Philip Goff Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind
• Georges St-Pierre, John Danaher, and Gordon Ryan The Greatest of All Time
• Thomas Tull From Batman to AI and the Rolling Stones
• Yann LeCun Dark Matter of Intelligence
• Brian Keating Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & the Nobel Prize
• Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony Nationalism Debate
• Mark Normand Comedy!
• Jay Bhattacharya The Case Against Lockdowns
• Michael Malice New Year's Special
• Elon Musk SpaceX and Tesla Autopilot, Robotics, and AI
• Ray Dalio Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires
• Peter Wang Python and the Search for Meaning
• Albert Bourla Pfizer CEO
• Norman Naimark Genocide and Absolute Power
• Jamie Metzl Lab Leak Theory
• Peter Woit Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong
• Tom Brands Iowa Wrestling
• Robert Crews Afghanistan
• Kevin Systrom Instagram
• Ben Askren Wrestling and MMA
• Boris Sofman Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars & Future of Robotics
• Neal Stephenson Sci-Fi, Space, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity
• Niall Ferguson History of Money, Power, War, and Truth
• Francis Collins National Institutes of Health
• Steve Viscelli Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream
• Jimmy Pedro Judo and the Forging of Champions
• Michael Mina Rapid COVID Testing
• Stephen Wolfram Complexity and the Fabric of Reality
• Carl Hart Drugs, Addiction, and Society
• Brian Greene Quantum Gravity, Big Bang, Aliens, Death & Meaning
• Alex Gladstein Bitcoin and the Fight for Human Rights
• Kelsi Sheren War, Artillery, PTSD, and Love
• Richard Wrangham Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution
• RZA Wu-Tang Clan, Kung Fu, Chess, God, Life, and Death
• Sean Kelly Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning
• Jo Boaler Innovating Mathematics Education
• Jeffrey Shainline Optoelectronic Intelligence
• Travis Oliphant NumPy, SciPy, and Anaconda
• Travis Stevens Judo, Olympics, and Mental Toughness
• Jay McClelland Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition
• Douglas Lenat Cyc and Common-Sense Reasoning for AI
• Niels Jorgensen New York Firefighters and the Heroes of 9/11
• Donald Knuth Programming, Algorithms, and the Game of Life
• Jaron Lanier Virtual Reality and Social Media
• Rodney Brooks Robotics
• Vincent Racaniello Viruses and Vaccines
• Wojciech Zaremba OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, and the Future of AI
• Jed Buchwald Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science
• Barry Barish Gravitational Waves
• Joscha Bach Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness
• Brian Muraresku The Secret History of Psychedelics
• Matt Walker Sleep
• Luís and João Batalha Fermat's Library and the Art of Studying Papers
• Jeff Hawkins The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
• Chris Duffin Powerlifting and the Engineering of Strength
• Ishan Misra Self-Supervised Deep Learning in Computer Vision
• Zach Bitter Ultramarathon Running
• Cumrun Vafa String Theory
• Anya Fernald Regenerative Farming and the Art of Cooking Meat
• Rick Doblin Psychedelics
• Konstantin Batygin Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System
• Michael Malice Totalitarianism and Anarchy
• Roger Reaves Smuggling Drugs for Pablo Escobar
• Sara Walker Origin of Life
• Jocko Willink War, Leadership, and Discipline
• Yeonmi Park North Korea
• Clara Sousa-Silva Search for Life on Venus & Other Planets
• Bret Weinstein Science and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic
• Rob Reid The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses
• Charles Hoskinson Cardano
• Daniel Schmachtenberger Philosophy
• Jordan Ellenberg Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes
• David Sinclair Extending the Human Lifespan
• Vitalik Buterin Ethereum 2.0
• Frank Wilczek Physics of Quarks, Dark Matter, Life & Aliens
• Bryan Johnson Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces
• Sam Harris Consciousness, Free Will, AI, UFOs, and Meaning
• Katherine de Kleer Planets, Moons, and Asteroids in Our Solar System
• Po-Shen Loh Math Olympiad, Combinatorics, and Contact Tracing
• John Danaher The Path to Mastery in Jiu Jitsu
• Sergey Nazarov Chainlink and Hybrid Smart Contracts
• Jeremi Suri History of American Power
• Georges St-Pierre The Science of Fighting
• Michael Malice and Yaron Brook Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy
• Risto Miikkulainen Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computatio
• Robert Breedlove Bitcoin from First Principles
• Yannis Pappas History and Comedy
• Tyler Cowen Economic Growth & the Fight Against Conformity
• Nic Carter Bitcoin, Layered Scaling & Blocksize Debates
• Ryan Schiller Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses
• Anthony Pompliano Bitcoin
• Ronald Sullivan The Ideal of Justice
• Ryan Hall Martial Arts from First Principles
• Silvio Micali Cryptocurrency, Algorand, Bitcoin, and Ethereum
• Saagar Enjeti Politics, History, and Power
• Cal Newport Deep Work
• Josh Barnett Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts
• Andrew Huberman Sleep, Dreams, Psychedelics, and Neuroplasticity
• Eric Weinstein Difficult Conversations, Freedom, and Physics
• Jim Keller The Future of Computing
• Jason Calacanis Startups, Angel Investing, Capitalism, and Friendship
• Brendan Eich JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave
• Richard Craib WallStreetBets, Numerai & Future of Stock Trading
• Zev Weinstein The Next Generation of Big Ideas
• Natalya Bailey Rocket Engines and Electric Spacecraft Propulsion
• Tim Dillon Comedy, Power & Conspiracy Theories
• Max Tegmark AI and Physics
• Avi Loeb Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua
• Dmitry Korkin Evolution of Proteins, Viruses & Life
• Dan Gable Olympic Wrestling
• Dan Kokotov Speech Recognition with AI and Humans
• Michael Malice The White Pill
• Diana Walsh Pasulka Aliens, Technology, Religion & Belief
• Charles Isbell and Michael Littman Machine Learning and Education
• Dmitri Dolgov Waymo
• Michael Mina Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset
• Matthew Johnson Psychedelics
• Michael Littman Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI
• John Clarke Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence
• Manolis Kellis Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything
• Erik Brynjolfsson Economics of AI, Social Networks & Technology
• Lisa Feldman Barrett Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain
• Andrew Huberman Neuroscience of Optimal Performance
• Yaron Brook Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Objectivism
• Alex Filippenko Supernovae & the Expanding Universe
• Dan Carlin Hardcore History
• Charles Isbell Computing, AI & Race in America
• Eric Weinstein On the Nature of Good and Evil
• Manolis Kellis Biology of Disease
• George Hotz Learning to Drive with Neural Nets
• Chris Lattner The Future of Computing and Programming
• Scott Aaronson Computational Complexity and Consciousness
• Lisa Feldman Barrett How the Brain Works
• Michael Malice Anarchy, Democracy, Love, and Trolling
• Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience
• James Gosling Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Day of Computing
• Ryan Hall Philosophy of Martial Arts
• Stephen Wolfram Fundamental Theory of Physics
• Manolis Kellis Origin of Life, Humans, and Ideas
• David Fravor UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets & Aerospace
• Eugenia Kuyda Forming a Friendship with an AI Companion
• François Chollet Measures of Intelligence
• David Eagleman Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain
• Grant Sanderson Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching
• Sheldon Solomon Death and Meaning
• Sara Seager Planets and Life Outside Our Solar System
• Dileep George Brain-Inspired AI
• Russ Tedrake Underactuated Robotics
• Manolis Kellis Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics
• Ian Hutchinson Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion
• Richard Karp Algorithms and Computational Complexity
• Jitendra Malik Computer Vision
• Brian Kernighan UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go
• Sergey Levine Robotics and Machine Learning
• Peter Singer Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI
• Matt Botvinick Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind
• Robert Langer Biotechnology
• David Patterson Computer Architecture and Data Storage
• Ben Goertzel Artificial General Intelligence
• Steven Pressfield The War of Art
• Joscha Bach Artificial Consciousness
• Karl Friston Neuroscience and the Free Energy Principle
• Kate Darling Social Robotics
• Sertac Karaman Robots That Fly & Robots That Drive
• Stephen Schwarzman Going Big in Business
• Dawn Song Adversarial ML & Computer Security
• Ilya Sutskever Deep Learning
• Daphne Koller Biomedicine and Machine Learning
• Harry Cliff Particle Physics and the Large Hadron Collider
• Jack Dorsey Square, Cryptocurrency, and AI
• Dmitry Korkin Computational Biology of Coronavirus
• Stephen Wolfram Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics
• Eric Weinstein Geometric Unity and the Call for New Ideas
• Richard Dawkins Evolution, Intelligence, Simulation, and Memes
• David Silver AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep RL
• Roger Penrose Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe
• William MacAskill Effective Altruism
• Nick Bostrom Simulation and Superintelligence
• Simon Sinek Leadership, Hard Work & the Infinite Game
• Anca Dragan Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering
• Vitalik Buterin Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money
• Lee Smolin Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
• Ann Druyan Cosmos, Carl Sagan, and the Beauty of Science
• Alex Garland Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation
• John Hopfield Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology
• Marcus Hutter Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI
• Michael I. Jordan Machine Learning
• Andrew Ng Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI
• Scott Aaronson Quantum Computing
• Vladimir Vapnik Predicates, Invariants, and the Essence of Intelligence
• Jim Keller Moore's Law
• David Chalmers Consciousness
• Cristos Goodrow YouTube Algorithm
• Paul Krugman Economics of Innovation, Automation, and UBI
• Ayanna Howard Human-Robot Interaction
• Daniel Kahneman Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI
• Grant Sanderson 3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics
• Stephen Kotkin Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power
• Donald Knuth The Art of Computer Programming
• Melanie Mitchell Concepts, Analogies and Common Sense
• Jim Gates Supersymmetry and String Theory
• Sebastian Thrun Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education
• Michael Stevens Vsauce
• Rohit Prasad Amazon Alexa and Conversational AI
• Judea Pearl Causal Reasoning
• Whitney Cummings Comedy, Robotics, Neurology, and Love
• Ray Dalio Principles
• Noam Chomsky Language, Cognition, and Deep Learning
• Gilbert Strang Linear Algebra, Math, Teaching & MIT OCW
• Dava Newman Space Exploration, Space Suits, NASA, and Mars
• Michael Kearns Algorithmic Ethics in Machine Learning
• Elon Musk Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot
• Bjarne Stroustrup C++
• Sean Carroll Quantum Mechanics and Many-Worlds
• Garry Kasparov Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin
• Michio Kaku Future of Humans, Aliens, Space Travel & Physics
• David Ferrucci IBM Watson, Jeopardy & Deep Conversations with AI
• Gary Marcus Hybrid of Deep Learning and Symbolic AI
• Peter Norvig Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
• Leonard Susskind String Theory, Quantum Mechanics and Black Holes
• Regina Barzilay Deep Learning for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
• Colin Angle iRobot
• Francois Chollet Keras, Deep Learning, and the Progress of AI
• Vijay Kumar Flying Robots
• Yann LeCun Deep Learning, CNNs, and Self-Supervised Learning
• Jeremy Howard fast.ai Deep Learning Courses and Research
• Pamela McCorduck Machines Who Think and the Early Days of AI
• Keoki Jackson Lockheed Martin
• Paola Arlotta Brain Development from Stem Cell to Organoid
• George Hotz Comma.ai, OpenPilot, Autonomous Vehicles
• Kevin Scott Microsoft
• Gustav Soderstrom Spotify
• Chris Urmson Self-Driving Cars at Aurora, Google, CMU, and DARPA
• Kai-Fu Lee AI Superpowers: China and Silicon Valley
• Sean Carroll The Nature of the Universe, Life, and Intelligence
• Jeff Hawkins On Intelligence
• Rosalind Picard Affective Computing
• Gavin Miller Adobe Research
• Rajat Monga TensorFlow
• Chris Lattner Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators
• Oriol Vinyals DeepMind AlphaStar, Language, and Sequences
• Ian Goodfellow Generative Adversarial Networks
• Elon Musk Tesla Autopilot
• Greg Brockman OpenAI and AGI
• Eric Weinstein Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society
• Leslie Kaelbling Reinforcement Learning, Planning, and Robotics
• Kyle Vogt Cruise Automation
• Tomaso Poggio Brains, Minds, and Machines
• Tuomas Sandholm Poker and Game Theory
• Juergen Schmidhuber Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs
• Pieter Abbeel Deep Reinforcement Learning
• Stuart Russell Long-Term Future of AI
• Eric Schmidt Google
• Guido van Rossum Python
• Jeff Atwood Stack Overflow
• Vladimir Vapnik Statistical Learning
• Yoshua Bengio Deep Learning
• Steven Pinker AI in the Age of Reason
• Christof Koch Consciousness
• Max Tegmark Life 3.0