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Lex Fridman Podcast

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Lex Fridman Podcast

Lex Fridman PodcastVoices#501 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux DHH is the creator of Ruby on Rails, Omarchy Linux, CTO of 37signals, and a racecar driver. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep501-sc See below for timestamps, transcript,

August 26
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Lex Fridman PodcastVoices#499 – Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee Gary Gallagher is a historian of the American Civil War. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep499-sc See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, submit quest

July 28
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Lex Fridman PodcastVoices#498 – Anthony Kaldellis: Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Rise & Fall of Empires Anthony Kaldellis is a historian of the Roman Empire and author of “The New Roman Empire”, a comprehensive history of the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire). Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https:/

June 30
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Lex Fridman PodcastVoices#497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln Don Lincoln is a particle physicist at Fermilab who has spent decades working at the frontiers of high energy physics. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep497-sc See below

May 29
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Lex Fridman PodcastVoices#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet Jean-Baptiste Kempf is lead developer of VLC and president of VideoLAN. Kieran Kunhya is a longtime FFmpeg contributor, codec engineer, and the person behind the now-infamous FFmpeg account on X. Thank you for listening

May 6
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Lex Fridman PodcastVoices#495 – Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age Lars Brownworth is a historian, teacher, podcaster, and author specializing in Viking history, medieval Europe, and the Byzantine Empire. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/

April 9
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Lex Fridman PodcastVoices#494 – Jensen Huang: NVIDIA – The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution Jensen Huang is the co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, the world’s most valuable company and the engine powering the AI computing revolution. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/e

March 23
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Lex Fridman PodcastVoices#493 – Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming 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,

March 11
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Lex Fridman PodcastVoices#492 – Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music 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

March 1
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Lex Fridman PodcastVoices#491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger Peter Steinberger is the creator of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent framework that’s the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep49

February 12
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Lex Fridman PodcastVoices#490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI 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

February 1
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Lex Fridman PodcastVoices#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle 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. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://l

January 13
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Lex Fridman PodcastVoices#488 – Infinity, Paradoxes that Broke Mathematics, Gödel Incompleteness & the Multiverse – Joel David Hamkins 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 s

December 31
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Lex Fridman PodcastVoices#487 – Irving Finkel: Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations & Flood Myths 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

December 12
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Lex Fridman PodcastVoices#486 – Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life Michael Levin is a biologist at Tufts University working on novel ways to understand and control complex pattern formation in biological systems. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/s

November 30
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Lex Fridman PodcastVoices#485 – David Kirtley: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy 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. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfri

November 17
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Lex Fridman PodcastVoices#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming 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. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridma

October 31
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Lex Fridman PodcastVoices#483 – Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex 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,

October 14
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Lex Fridman PodcastVoices#481 – Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA Norman Ohler is a historian and author of “Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich,” a book that investigates the role of psychoactive drugs, particularly stimulants such as methamphetamine, in the military history of World Wa

September 19
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Lex Fridman PodcastVoices#480 – Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park 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 lectures at Queen Mary Universi

September 4
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Lex Fridman PodcastVoices#479 – Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories 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’s Garage YouTube channel, where he shares stories from h

August 29
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Lex Fridman PodcastVoices#478 – Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex 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 critic of U.S. military intervent

August 24
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Lex Fridman PodcastVoices#477 – Keyu Jin: China’s Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism Keyu Jin is an economist specializing in China’s economy, international macroeconomics, global trade imbalances, and financial policy. She is the author of The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism. Thank y

August 13