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Every guest on Lex Fridman Podcast

346 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Silvio Micali

   #168 – Silvio Micali: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Algorand, Bitcoin, and Ethereum · Mar 2021

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   Cal Newport

   #166 – Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media · Mar 2021

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   Josh Barnett

   #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · Mar 2021

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   Eric Weinstein

   #163 – Eric Weinstein: Difficult Conversations, Freedom of Speech, and Physics · 3 episodes

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   Jim Keller

   #162 – Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness · Feb 2021

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   Jason Calacanis

   #161 – Jason Calacanis: Startups, Angel Investing, Capitalism, and Friendship · Feb 2021

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   Brendan Eich

   #160 – Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave · Feb 2021

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   Richard Craib

   #159 – Richard Craib: WallStreetBets, Numerai, and the Future of Stock Trading · Feb 2021

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   Zev Weinstein

   #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · Feb 2021

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    Natalya Bailey

    #157 – Natalya Bailey: Rocket Engines and Electric Spacecraft Propulsion · Feb 2021

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    Tim Dillon

    #156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom · Jan 2021

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    Avi Loeb

    #154 – Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua · Jan 2021

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    Dmitry Korkin

    #153 – Dmitry Korkin: Evolution of Proteins, Viruses, Life, and AI · 2 episodes

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    Dan Gable

    #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · Jan 2021

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    Dan Kokotov

    #151 – Dan Kokotov: Speech Recognition with AI and Humans · Jan 2021

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    Michael Littman

    #148 – Charles Isbell and Michael Littman: Machine Learning and Education · 2 episodes

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    Dmitri Dolgov

    #147 – Dmitri Dolgov: Waymo and the Future of Self-Driving Cars · Dec 2020

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    Matthew Johnson

    #145 – Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics · Dec 2020

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    John Clarke

    #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · Dec 2020

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    Erik Brynjolfsson

    #141 – Erik Brynjolfsson: Economics of AI, Social Networks, and Technology · Nov 2020

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    Alex Filippenko

    #137 – Alex Filippenko: Supernovae, Dark Energy, Aliens & the Expanding Universe · Nov 2020

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    Dan Carlin

    #136 – Dan Carlin: Hardcore History · Nov 2020

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    Charles Isbell

    #135 – Charles Isbell: Computing, Interactive AI, and Race in America · Nov 2020

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    Scott Aaronson

    #130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness · 2 episodes

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    James Gosling

    #126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing · Sep 2020

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    David Fravor

    #122 – David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering · Sep 2020

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    Eugenia Kuyda

    #121 – Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion · Sep 2020

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    Francois Chollet

    #120 – François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence · Aug 2020

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    David Eagleman

    #119 – David Eagleman: Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain · Aug 2020

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    Grant Sanderson

    #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · Aug 2020

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    Sheldon Solomon

    #117 – Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning · Aug 2020

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    Sara Seager

    #116 – Sara Seager: Search for Planets and Life Outside Our Solar System · Aug 2020

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    Dileep George

    #115 – Dileep George: Brain-Inspired AI · Aug 2020

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    Russ Tedrake

    #114 – Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch · Aug 2020

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    Ian Hutchinson

    #112 – Ian Hutchinson: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion · Jul 2020

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    Richard Karp

    #111 – Richard Karp: Algorithms and Computational Complexity · Jul 2020

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    Jitendra Malik

    #110 – Jitendra Malik: Computer Vision · Jul 2020

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    Brian Kernighan

    #109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming · Jul 2020

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    Sergey Levine

    #108 – Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning · Jul 2020

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    Peter Singer

    #107 – Peter Singer: Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI · Jul 2020

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