Lex Fridman Podcast

#493 – Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming

<p>Jeff Kaplan is a legendary Blizzard game designer of World of Warcraft and Overwatch, now preparing to launch a new game, The Legend of California, from his new studio Kintsugiyama …

Mar 11, 2026

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#492 – Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music

<p>Rick Beato is a music educator, interviewer, producer, songwriter, and a true multi-instrument musician, playing guitar, bass, cello &#38; piano. His incredible YouTube channel celebrates great musicians &#38; musical ideas, …

Mar 01, 2026

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#491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger

<p>Peter Steinberger is the creator of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent framework that&#8217;s the fastest-growing project in GitHub history.<br /> Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: <a …

Feb 12, 2026

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#490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI

<p>Nathan Lambert and Sebastian Raschka are machine learning researchers, engineers, and educators. Nathan is the post-training lead at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and the author of The RLHF …

Feb 01, 2026

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#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

<p>Paul Rosolie is a naturalist, explorer, author of a new book titled Junglekeeper, and is someone who has dedicated his life to protecting the Amazon rainforest.<br /> Thank you for …

Jan 13, 2026 · 3h 14m

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#488 – Infinity, Paradoxes that Broke Mathematics, Gödel Incompleteness & the Multiverse – Joel David Hamkins

<p>Joel David Hamkins is a mathematician and philosopher specializing in set theory, the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of infinity, and he&#8217;s the #1 highest-rated user on MathOverflow. He …

Dec 31, 2025

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#487 – Irving Finkel: Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations & Flood Myths

<p>Irving Finkel is a scholar of ancient languages and a longtime curator at the British Museum, renowned for his expertise in Mesopotamian history and cuneiform writing. He specializes in reading …

Dec 12, 2025

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#486 – Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life

<p>Michael Levin is a biologist at Tufts University working on novel ways to understand and control complex pattern formation in biological systems.<br /> Thank you for listening ❤ Check out …

Nov 30, 2025

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#485 – David Kirtley: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy

<p>David Kirtley is a nuclear fusion engineer and CEO of Helion Energy, a company working on building the world&#8217;s first commercial fusion power plant by 2028.<br /> Thank you for …

Nov 17, 2025

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#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

<p>Dan Houser is co-founder of Rockstar Games and is a legendary creative mind behind Grand Theft Auto (GTA) and Red Dead Redemption series of video games.<br /> Thank you for …

Oct 31, 2025 · 2h 54m

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#483 – Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex

<p>Julia Shaw is a criminal psychologist and author who in her books explores human nature, including psychopathy, violent crime, the psychology of evil, police interrogation, false memory manipulation, deception detection, …

Oct 14, 2025 · 2h 48m

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#482 – Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature

<p>Pavel Durov is the founder and CEO of Telegram.<br /> Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: <a href="https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep482-sc">https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep482-sc</a><br /> See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give …

Oct 01, 2025 · 4h 42m

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#481 – Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA

<p>Norman Ohler is a historian and author of &#8220;Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich,&#8221; a book that investigates the role of psychoactive drugs, particularly stimulants such as methamphetamine, in the …

Sep 19, 2025 · 4h 31m

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#480 – Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park

<p>Dave Hone is a paleontologist, expert on dinosaurs, co-host of the Terrible Lizards podcast, and author of numerous scientific papers and books on the behavior and ecology of dinosaurs. He …

Sep 04, 2025 · 3h 41m

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#479 – Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories

<p>Dave Plummer is a programmer, former Microsoft software engineer (Windows 95, NT, XP), creator of Task Manager, author of two books on autism, and host of the Dave&#8217;s Garage YouTube …

Aug 29, 2025

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#478 – Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex

<p>Scott Horton is the director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of The Scott Horton Show, co-host of Provoked, and for the past three decades a staunch …

Aug 24, 2025 · 10h 35m

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#477 – Keyu Jin: China’s Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism

<p>Keyu Jin is an economist specializing in China&#8217;s economy, international macroeconomics, global trade imbalances, and financial policy. She is the author of The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism.<br …

Aug 13, 2025 · 1h 57m

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#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

<p>Jack Weatherford is an anthropologist and historian specializing in Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire.<br /> Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: <a href="https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep476-sc">https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep476-sc</a><br /> See below …

Aug 01, 2025 · 4h 39m

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#475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games

<p>Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel Prize winner for his groundbreaking work in protein structure prediction using AI.<br /> Thank you for listening ❤ Check out …

Jul 23, 2025 · 2h 34m

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#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

<p>David Heinemeier Hansson (aka DHH) is a legendary programmer, creator of Ruby on Rails, co-owner &#38; CTO of 37signals that created Basecamp, HEY, &#38; ONCE, and is a NYT-best-selling author …

Jul 12, 2025

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