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Conversations about science, technology, history, philosophy and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power. Lex is an AI researcher at MIT and beyond.

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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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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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– 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

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, and human sexuality.

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(01:00) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(08:16) – Dark Tetrad – Psychopathy, Narcissism, Machiavellianism, Sadism

(29:23) – Serial killers

(43:59) – Murder

(51:51) – Lies and scams

(56:38) – Jealousy

(1:00:07) – Monogamy

(1:05:20) – Sexuality

(1:20:21) – Sexual fetishes

(1:35:56) – Criminal psychology

(1:39:04) – False memories

(2:25:01) – Criminals destroying the planet

(2:40:24) – Hope

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

Pavel Durov is the founder and CEO of Telegram.

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(02:46) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(11:29) – Philosophy of freedom

(14:37) – No alcohol

(22:42) – No phone

(28:38) – Discipline

(49:50) – Telegram: Lean philosophy, privacy, and geopolitics

(1:05:12) – Arrest in France

(1:21:23) – Romanian elections

(1:32:18) – Power and corruption

(1:41:50) – Intense education

(1:53:51) – Nikolai Durov

(1:58:19) – Programming and video games

(2:02:33) – VK origins & engineering

(2:19:46) – Hiring a great team

(2:29:02) – Telegram engineering & design

(2:48:04) – Encryption

(2:53:01) – Open source

(2:57:48) – Edward Snowden

(3:00:20) – Intelligence agencies

(3:01:32) – Iran and Russia government pressure

(3:04:41) – Apple

(3:11:38) – Poisoning

(3:43:53) – Money

(3:52:45) – TON

(4:02:35) – Bitcoin

(4:05:34) – Two chairs dilemma

(4:12:14) – Children

(4:23:24) – Father

(4:27:55) – Quantum immortality

(4:34:27) – Kafka

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

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 War II. It is a book that two legendary historians Ian Kershaw and Antony Beevor give very high praise for its depth of research. Norman also wrote “Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age”, and he is working on a new book “Stoned Sapiens” looking at the history of human civilization through the lens of drugs.

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(01:09) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(09:00) – Drugs in post-WWI Germany

(19:18) – Nazi rise to power

(23:45) – Hitler’s drug use

(29:37) – Response to historian criticism

(46:16) – Pervitin

(1:00:15) – Blitzkrieg and meth

(1:18:52) – Erwin Rommel (Crystal Fox)

(1:23:02) – Dunkirk

(1:31:06) – Hitler’s drug addiction

(1:47:03) – Methamphetamine

(1:48:57) – Invasion of Soviet Union

(2:07:54) – Cocaine

(2:16:49) – Hitler’s last days

(2:36:48) – German resistance against Nazis

(2:58:59) – Totalitarianism

(3:04:09) – Stoned Sapiens – Drugs in human history

(3:19:20) – Religion

(3:30:09) – LSD, CIA, and MKUltra

(3:55:39) – Writing on drugs

(4:08:40) – Berlin night clubs

(4:19:14) – Greatest book ever written

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

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 University of London on topics of Ecology, Zoology, Biology, and Evolution.

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(00:22) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(07:18) – T-Rex’s size & biomechanics

(31:00) – T-Rex’s hunting strategies

(44:07) – History of dinosaurs on Earth

(1:04:38) – $31.8 million T-Rex fossil

(1:17:44) – T-Rex’s skull and bone-crushing bite force

(1:36:33) – What Jurassic Park got wrong

(1:54:52) – Evolution and sexual selection

(2:15:26) – Spinosaurus

(2:26:02) – What Jurassic Park got right

(2:33:35) – T-Rex’s intelligence

(2:43:34) – Cannibalism among T-Rex

(2:49:05) – Extinction of the dinosaurs

(3:06:15) – Dragons

(3:22:39) – Birds are dinosaurs

(3:33:23) – Future of paleontology

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

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 his career, insights on software development, and deep dives into technology.

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(01:14) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(10:16) – First computer

(15:54) – Dropping out of high-school

(23:35) – Joining Microsoft

(25:47) – MS-DOS

(28:59) – Windows 95

(35:46) – The man behind Windows

(40:42) – Debugging

(45:59) – Task Manager

(51:08) – 3D Pinball: Space Cadet

(56:07) – Start menu and taskbar

(1:07:06) – Blue Screen of Death

(1:09:15) – Best programmers

(1:17:16) – Scariest time of Dave’s life

(1:24:44) – Best Windows version

(1:26:34) – Slot machines

(1:30:17) – Autism and ADHD

(1:49:37) – Fastest programming language

(1:53:42) – Future of programming

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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 interventionism.

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(00:00) – Introduction

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(09:14) – From the Cold War to the War on Terror

(1:02:13) – Iraq War 1

(1:30:17) – Bin Laden

(2:29:39) – Afghanistan War

(2:44:35) – Iraq War 2

(3:10:59) – Military Industrial Complex

(3:50:25) – Scott’s life story

(4:20:15) – Iraq War 2 (continued)

(5:11:43) – Syria

(6:05:01) – Iraq War 3

(6:17:28) – Somalia

(6:22:56) – Iran

(7:12:41) – Israel-Palestine

(9:02:19) – Cold War 2.0

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

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00:00 – Introduction

07:46 – Simulation

12:38 – Theories of everything

18:18 – Consciousness

40:32 – Roger Penrose on consciousness

50:44 – Turing test

54:31 – GPT-3

1:03:02 – Universality of computation

1:09:33 – Complexity

1:15:38 – P vs NP

1:27:57 – Complexity of quantum computation

1:40:03 – Pandemic

1:53:49 – Love

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