Historian Andrew Scull argues psychiatry has made only limited progress: its symptom-based diagnostic system is under strain, drug treatments are partial and often harmful, and public policy has largely abandoned people with serious mental illness.
Sebastian Raschka and Nathan Lambert talk to Lex Fridman about open and closed language models, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, China, coding tools and timelines for AGI.
Naturalist and author Paul Rosolie recounts the historic October 2024 encounter with an uncontacted tribe in the western Amazon, threats from drug traffickers and his organization Jungle Keepers' effort to protect more than 300,000 acres of rainforest.
Mathematician and philosopher Joel David Hamkins traces the history of infinity, from Cantor and Hilbert to Gödel and Cohen, and explains why there may be no single mathematical truth.
Biologist Michael Levin explains his framework for cognition as a spectrum of persuadability extending from simple algorithms to living organisms, and why the search for unconventional intelligence should begin with our own bodies.
British historian James Holland discusses World War II with Lex Fridman: from Hitler’s rise and propaganda to Operation Barbarossa, Stalingrad, Normandy and the lessons for modern societies.
Theoretical physicist and cosmologist Janna Levin discusses the nature of black holes, the information paradox, LIGO’s detection of gravitational waves and possible connections between quantum mechanics and gravity, as well as art and the people behind science.
Historian of modern China Jeffrey Wasserstrom talks with Lex Fridman about the continuity between Mao and Xi, Tiananmen, censorship, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the trade war.
Author Douglas Murray talks with Lex Fridman about the war in Ukraine, Hamas’s attack on Israel, Netanyahu and antisemitism, drawing on his book about democracies and death cults.
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