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Lex Fridman

Conversations that explore technology, history, philosophy, physics, mathematics, biology, chemistry, engineering, AI, robotics, programming, music, film, art, sports, psychology, neuroscience, geopolitics, business, economics, religion, astronomy, and the human condition with people from all walks of life.

Lex Fridman Podcast

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 – available to wishlist on Steam today, with alpha later in March.

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The Legend of California (Steam Page): https://store.steampowered.com/app/2550530/The_Legend_of_California

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(02:24) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(10:47) – Early games: Pac-Man, Zork, Doom, Quake

(25:12) – Writing career – 170 rejection letters

(40:45) – EverQuest obsession

(53:43) – Getting hired at Blizzard

(1:09:11) – Lowest point in Jeff’s life

(1:15:16) – One of Us

(1:19:33) – Early Blizzard culture

(1:39:15) – Building World of Warcraft

(1:56:59) – How WoW changed video games

(2:14:21) – Single-player vs Multi-player

(2:35:15) – How Blizzard made great video games

(3:01:04) – Online toxicity

(3:08:38) – Why Titan failed

(3:25:48) – Overwatch in six weeks

(3:52:46) – Best Overwatch heroes

(4:01:16) – The challenge of matchmaking

(4:04:40) – Rust

(4:15:01) – Why Jeff left Blizzard

(4:37:14) – Diablo IV

(4:38:42) – Getting back to making video games

(4:47:38) – The Legend of California

(5:01:23) – Greatest video game of all time

(5:09:30) – AI and future of video games

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– Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/lexclips

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

Rick Beato is a music educator, interviewer, producer, songwriter, and a true multi-instrument musician, playing guitar, bass, cello & piano. His incredible YouTube channel celebrates great musicians & musical ideas, and helps millions of people fall in love with great music all over again.

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Rick’s X: https://x.com/rickbeato

Rick’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/rickbeato1

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Rick’s Ear Training: https://beatoeartraining.com

The Beato Book: https://beatobook.com

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(00:28) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(09:17) – Guitar solos

(13:16) – Gypsy jazz and Django Reinhardt

(14:48) – Bebop jazz

(19:00) – Perfect pitch vs relative pitch

(23:37) – Learning to play guitar

(47:08) – Miles Davis

(52:34) – Bass guitar

(53:41) – Greatest guitar solos of all time

(1:22:56) – 27 Club

(1:27:37) – Elton John

(1:30:51) – Metallica

(1:35:21) – Tom Waits

(1:41:12) – Greatest rock stars

(1:44:35) – Beethoven

(1:51:10) – Bach

(1:54:01) – AI in music

(2:07:52) – Sabrina Carpenter

(2:11:23) – YouTube copyright strikes

(2:16:59) – Spotify

(2:27:51) – Guitars

(2:32:13) – Advice

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– Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/lexclips

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

Peter Steinberger is the creator of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent framework that’s the fastest-growing project in GitHub history.

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EPISODE LINKS:

Peter’s X: https://x.com/steipete

Peter’s GitHub: https://github.com/steipete

Peter’s Website: https://steipete.com

Peter’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steipete

OpenClaw Website: https://openclaw.ai

OpenClaw GitHub: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw

OpenClaw Discord: https://discord.gg/openclaw

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(03:51) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(15:29) – OpenClaw origin story

(18:48) – Mind-blowing moment

(28:15) – Why OpenClaw went viral

(32:12) – Self-modifying AI agent

(36:57) – Name-change drama

(54:07) – Moltbook saga

(1:02:26) – OpenClaw security concerns

(1:11:07) – How to code with AI agents

(1:42:02) – Programming setup

(1:48:45) – GPT Codex 5.3 vs Claude Opus 4.6

(1:57:52) – Best AI agent for programming

(2:19:52) – Life story and career advice

(2:23:49) – Money and happiness

(2:27:41) – Acquisition offers from OpenAI and Meta

(2:44:51) – How OpenClaw works

(2:56:09) – AI slop

(3:02:13) – AI agents will replace 80% of apps

(3:10:50) – Will AI replace programmers?

(3:22:50) – Future of OpenClaw community

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

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 Book. Sebastian Raschka is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) and Build a Reasoning Model (From Scratch).

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(01:39) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(16:29) – China vs US: Who wins the AI race?

(25:11) – ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini vs Grok: Who is winning?

(36:11) – Best AI for coding

(43:02) – Open Source vs Closed Source LLMs

(54:41) – Transformers: Evolution of LLMs since 2019

(1:02:38) – AI Scaling Laws: Are they dead or still holding?

(1:18:45) – How AI is trained: Pre-training, Mid-training, and Post-training

(1:51:51) – Post-training explained: Exciting new research directions in LLMs

(2:12:43) – Advice for beginners on how to get into AI development & research

(2:35:36) – Work culture in AI (72+ hour weeks)

(2:39:22) – Silicon Valley bubble

(2:43:19) – Text diffusion models and other new research directions

(2:49:01) – Tool use

(2:53:17) – Continual learning

(2:58:39) – Long context

(3:04:54) – Robotics

(3:14:04) – Timeline to AGI

(3:21:20) – Will AI replace programmers?

(3:39:51) – Is the dream of AGI dying?

(3:46:40) – How AI will make money?

(3:51:02) – Big acquisitions in 2026

(3:55:34) – Future of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, xAI, Meta

(4:08:08) – Manhattan Project for AI

(4:14:42) – Future of NVIDIA, GPUs, and AI compute clusters

(4:22:48) – Future of human civilization

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

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.

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EPISODE LINKS:

Junglekeeper (new book): https://amzn.to/4q7vpAp

Paul’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/paulrosolie

Junglekeepers Website: https://junglekeepers.org

Paul’s Website: https://paulrosolie.com

Mother of God (book): https://amzn.to/3ww2ob1

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(02:34) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(12:00) – Uncontacted tribes in the Amazon Jungle

(19:46) – Intense new encounter

(42:52) – Never-before-seen footage of tribe warriors

(56:08) – The mysteries of the jungle

(1:10:43) – Tribe’s diet: Monkeys, turtles, and turtle eggs

(1:20:19) – Jane Goodall

(1:26:31) – Advice for young people

(1:35:45) – Cartel, Narco-traffickers & assassination attempts

(1:57:45) – Climbing the giant tree

(2:08:43) – Giant anaconda

(2:26:01) – Rescuing a spider monkey

(2:32:05) – Dangerous animal encounters

(2:42:13) – Writing, journaling, and great writer inspirations

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– Podcast Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4

– Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/lexclips

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

Joel David Hamkins is a mathematician and philosopher specializing in set theory, the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of infinity, and he’s the #1 highest-rated user on MathOverflow. He is also the author of several books, including Proof and the Art of Mathematics and Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics. And he has a great blog called Infinitely More.

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Joel’s X: https://x.com/JDHamkins

Joel’s Website: https://jdh.hamkins.org

Joel’s Substack: https://www.infinitelymore.xyz

Joel’s MathOverflow: https://mathoverflow.net/users/1946/joel-david-hamkins

Joel’s Papers: https://jdh.hamkins.org/publications

Joel’s Books:

Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics: https://amzn.to/3MThaAt

Proof and the Art of Mathematics: https://amzn.to/3YACc9A

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(01:58) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(15:40) – Infinity & paradoxes

(1:02:50) – Russell’s paradox

(1:15:57) – Gödel’s incompleteness theorems

(1:33:28) – Truth vs proof

(1:44:52) – The Halting Problem

(2:00:45) – Does infinity exist?

(2:18:19) – MathOverflow

(2:22:12) – The Continuum Hypothesis

(2:31:58) – Hardest problems in mathematics

(2:41:25) – Mathematical multiverse

(3:00:18) – Surreal numbers

(3:10:55) – Conway’s Game of Life

(3:13:11) – Computability theory

(3:23:04) – P vs NP

(3:26:21) – Greatest mathematicians in history

(3:40:05) – Infinite chess

(3:58:24) – Most beautiful idea in mathematics

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

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 and interpreting cuneiform inscriptions, including tablets from Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian contexts. He became widely known for studying a tablet with a Mesopotamian flood story that predates the biblical Noah narrative, which he presented in his book “The Ark Before Noah” and in a documentary that involved building a circular ark based on the tablet’s technical instructions.

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Irving’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drirvingfinkel/

The Ark Before Noah (book): https://amzn.to/4j2U0DW

Irving Lectures Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYXwZvOwHjVcFUi9iEqirkXRaCUJdXGha

British Museum Video Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0LQM0SAx603A6p5EJ9DVcESqQReT7QyK

British Museum Website: https://www.britishmuseum.org/

The Great Diary Project: https://thegreatdiaryproject.co.uk/

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(00:43) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(09:53) – Origins of human language

(15:59) – Cuneiform

(23:12) – Controversial theory about Göbekli Tepe

(34:23) – How to write and speak Cuneiform

(39:42) – Primitive human language

(41:26) – Development of writing systems

(42:20) – Decipherment of Cuneiform

(54:51) – Limits of language

(59:51) – Art of translation

(1:05:01) – Gods

(1:10:25) – Ghosts

(1:20:13) – Ancient flood stories

(1:30:21) – Noah’s Ark

(1:41:44) – The Royal Game of Ur

(1:54:43) – British Museum

(2:02:08) – Evolution of human civilization

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

Michael Levin is a biologist at Tufts University working on novel ways to understand and control complex pattern formation in biological systems.

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Michael Levin’s X: https://x.com/drmichaellevin

Michael Levin’s Website: https://drmichaellevin.org

Michael Levin’s Papers: https://drmichaellevin.org/publications/

– Biological Robots: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00880

– Classical Sorting Algorithms: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05375

– Aging as a Morphostasis Defect: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38636560/

– TAME: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.10346

– Synthetic Living Machines: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.abf1571

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(00:29) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(10:09) – Biological intelligence

(18:42) – Living vs non-living organisms

(23:55) – Origin of life

(27:40) – The search for alien life (on Earth)

(1:00:44) – Creating life in the lab – Xenobots and Anthrobots

(1:13:46) – Memories and ideas are living organisms

(1:27:26) – Reality is an illusion: The brain is an interface to a hidden reality

(2:13:13) – Unexpected Intelligence in sorting algorithms

(2:38:51) – Can aging be reversed?

(2:42:41) – Mind uploading

(3:01:22) – Alien intelligence

(3:16:17) – Advice for young people

(3:22:46) – Questions for AGI

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

David Kirtley is a nuclear fusion engineer and CEO of Helion Energy, a company working on building the world’s first commercial fusion power plant by 2028.

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(03:00) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(11:35) – Nuclear fission vs fusion

(21:35) – Physics of E=mc^2

(26:50) – Is nuclear fusion safe?

(32:11) – Chernobyl

(38:38) – Geopolitics

(40:33) – Extreme scenarios

(47:28) – How nuclear fusion works

(1:20:20) – Extreme temperatures

(1:25:21) – Fusion control and simulation

(1:37:15) – Electricity from fusion

(2:11:20) – First fusion power plant in 2028

(2:18:13) – Energy needs of GPU clusters

(2:28:38) – Kardashev scale

(2:36:33) – Fermi Paradox

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

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.

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(01:29) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(11:32) – Greatest films of all time

(23:45) – Making video games

(26:36) – GTA 3

(29:55) – Open world video games

(32:42) – Character creation

(36:09) – Superintelligent AI in A Better Paradise

(45:21) – Can LLMs write video games?

(49:41) – Creating GTA 4 and GTA 5

(1:01:16) – Hard work and Rockstar’s culture of excellence

(1:04:56) – GTA 6

(1:21:46) – Red Dead Redemption 2

(2:01:39) – DLCs for GTA and Red Dead Redemption

(2:07:58) – Leaving Rockstar Games

(2:17:22) – Greatest game of all time

(2:22:10) – Life lessons from father

(2:24:29) – Mortality

(2:41:47) – Advice for young people

(2:47:49) – Future of video games

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

Simone Giertz is an inventor, designer, engineer, and roboticist famous for a combination of humor and brilliant creative design in the systems and products she creates. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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OUTLINE:

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(00:00) – Introduction

(06:49) – Early creations

(23:42) – Sh*tty Robots

(38:40) – Robots and human connection

(40:55) – Dating AI

(44:14) – Proud parent machine

(46:05) – Creative process

(47:31) – Bubble wrap music box

(52:53) – Education

(58:27) – Difficult projects

(59:56) – TED talk

(1:06:13) – Brain tumor

(1:14:51) – Fear of death

(1:19:15) – Mass production

(1:34:40) – Truckla

(1:39:29) – Weapons

(1:43:29) – Consciousness

(1:45:33) – MMA

(1:49:36) – China, Kenya, and USA

(1:54:29) – Advice for young people

(1:58:21) – Meaning of life

#372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design

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