- 11-30#142 – Manolis Kellis: Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything
- 00:00Introduction
- 06:48Music and life
- 46:21The number 42
- 52:22The question about the meaning of life
- 55:02Are humans unique in the universe?
- 1:00:46Human civilization
- 1:12:52Mars
- 1:14:45Human mind and the abstraction layers of reality
- 1:25:38Neural networks and intelligence
- 1:32:55Ideas as organisms
- 1:42:19Language
- 1:53:34Legacy
- 2:08:25Poems
- 11-25#141 – Erik Brynjolfsson: Economics of AI, Social Networks, and Technology105 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 08:23Exponential growth
- 12:51Elon Musk exponential thinking
- 15:08Moore’s law is a series of revolutions
- 20:31GPT-3
- 22:09Autonomous vehicles
- 29:11Electricity
- 33:40Productivity
- 38:47Why is Twitter and Facebook free?
- 49:03Dismantling the nature of truth
- 52:24Nutpicking and Cancel Culture
- 58:39How will AI change our world
- 1:04:40Existential threats
- 1:06:33AI and the nature of work
- 1:12:39Thoughts on Andrew Yang and UBI
- 1:18:30Economics of innovation
- 1:24:37Effect of COVID on the economy
- 1:33:50MIT and Stanford
- 1:38:23Book recommendations
- 1:41:28Meaning of life
- 11-20#140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain141 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 07:27Falling in love
- 25:10Love at first sight
- 39:49Romantic
- 43:48Writing process
- 54:32Evolution of the human brain
- 1:08:41Nature of evil
- 1:17:23Love is an evolutionary advantage
- 1:21:59Variation in species
- 1:27:41Does evolution have a direction?
- 1:45:19Love with an inanimate object
- 1:49:37Just be yourself is confusing advice
- 1:59:49Consciousness
- 2:06:26Book recommendations
- 11-16#139 – Andrew Huberman: Neuroscience of Optimal Performance156 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 06:24Fear
- 14:36Virtual reality
- 18:20Claustrophobia
- 20:08Skydiving
- 21:43Overcoming fears
- 26:43Optimal performance
- 29:57Deep work
- 45:22Psychedelics
- 49:08Deep work
- 1:02:48Everything in the brain is an abstraction
- 1:10:06Human vision system
- 1:21:42Neuralink
- 1:49:12Science of consciousness
- 2:04:00David Goggins
- 2:21:04Science communication
- 2:28:36Man’s Search for Meaning
- 11-13#138 – Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Objectivism174 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 06:28Principles of a life well lived
- 14:35Free will
- 20:50Nature of reality
- 29:28Ayn Rand
- 1:01:11Objectivism
- 1:26:29Godel Incompleteness Theorem
- 1:31:36Capitalism
- 2:01:22Virtue of selfishness
- 2:11:27Win-win
- 2:17:31Anarchy
- 2:36:24Tribalism and division
- 2:40:42Objectivism and Jordan Peterson on personal responsibility
- 11-08#137 – Alex Filippenko: Supernovae, Dark Energy, Aliens & the Expanding Universe160 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 06:36Universe expansion
- 08:00Dark energy
- 15:28Scientific revolutions
- 27:18Asteroid hitting Earth
- 30:50Giant solar flares and the power grid
- 37:50Elon Musk and space exploration
- 42:41Exoplanets
- 50:03Traveling close to the speed of light
- 52:13Traveling faster than the speed of light
- 1:00:39Intelligent life in the universe
- 1:04:14Fermi Paradox
- 1:13:52Finding alien life would be bad news
- 1:18:49UFO sightings
- 1:31:58Universe expansion speed
- 1:36:42The universe is infinite
- 1:40:58What happened before the Big Bang?
- 1:45:14Roger Penrose
- 1:48:48Nobel Prize for the accelerating universe
- 2:10:23Supernova
- 2:21:47The greatest story ever told
- 2:25:44Richard Feynman
- 2:32:37Meaning of life
- 11-03#136 – Dan Carlin: Hardcore History207 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 07:53Nature of evil
- 14:50Is violence and force fundamental to human civilization?
- 19:58Will we always have war?
- 29:38The Russian front in World War II
- 37:32Ideologies of the US, the Soviet Union, and China
- 50:15Putin
- 1:02:50Journalism is broken
- 1:10:16Genghis Khan
- 1:24:36Greatest leader in history
- 1:32:21Could Hitler have been stopped?
- 1:49:21Hitler’s Antisemitism
- 1:55:12Destructive power of evil
- 2:04:26Will human civilization destroy itself?
- 2:16:31Elon Musk, Tesla, SpaceX
- 2:24:53Steering around the iceberg – wow do we avoid collapse of society?
- 2:47:00Advice on podcasting
- 2:50:12Joe Rogan, Spotify, and the future of podcasting
- 3:05:19Future episodes of Hardcore History podcast
- 3:20:21Is Ben real?
- 3:21:05Meaning of life
- 11-02#135 – Charles Isbell: Computing, Interactive AI, and Race in America149 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 07:16Top 3 movies of all time
- 13:26People are easily predictable
- 19:08Breaking out of our bubbles
- 30:54Interactive AI
- 37:26Lifelong machine learning
- 45:53Faculty hiring
- 53:27University rankings
- 1:00:55Science communicators
- 1:10:20Hip hop
- 1:19:20Funk
- 1:20:44Computing
- 1:36:35Race
- 1:52:40Cop story
- 2:01:01Racial tensions
- 2:10:23MLK vs Malcolm X
- 2:13:44Will human civilization destroy itself?
- 2:18:14Fear of death and the passing of time