Lex Fridman Podcast

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.

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Junglekeeper (new book): https://amzn.to/4q7vpAp

Paul’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/paulrosolie

Junglekeepers Website: https://junglekeepers.org

Paul’s Website: https://paulrosolie.com

Mother of God (book): https://amzn.to/3ww2ob1

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(02:34) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(12:00) – Uncontacted tribes in the Amazon Jungle

(19:46) – Intense new encounter

(42:52) – Never-before-seen footage of tribe warriors

(56:08) – The mysteries of the jungle

(1:10:43) – Tribe’s diet: Monkeys, turtles, and turtle eggs

(1:20:19) – Jane Goodall

(1:26:31) – Advice for young people

(1:35:45) – Cartel, Narco-traffickers & assassination attempts

(1:57:45) – Climbing the giant tree

(2:08:43) – Giant anaconda

(2:26:01) – Rescuing a spider monkey

(2:32:05) – Dangerous animal encounters

(2:42:13) – Writing, journaling, and great writer inspirations

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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 several books, including Proof and the Art of Mathematics and Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics. And he has a great blog called Infinitely More.

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Joel’s Website: https://jdh.hamkins.org

Joel’s Substack: https://www.infinitelymore.xyz

Joel’s MathOverflow: https://mathoverflow.net/users/1946/joel-david-hamkins

Joel’s Papers: https://jdh.hamkins.org/publications

Joel’s Books:

Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics: https://amzn.to/3MThaAt

Proof and the Art of Mathematics: https://amzn.to/3YACc9A

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(01:58) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(15:40) – Infinity & paradoxes

(1:02:50) – Russell’s paradox

(1:15:57) – Gödel’s incompleteness theorems

(1:33:28) – Truth vs proof

(1:44:52) – The Halting Problem

(2:00:45) – Does infinity exist?

(2:18:19) – MathOverflow

(2:22:12) – The Continuum Hypothesis

(2:31:58) – Hardest problems in mathematics

(2:41:25) – Mathematical multiverse

(3:00:18) – Surreal numbers

(3:10:55) – Conway’s Game of Life

(3:13:11) – Computability theory

(3:23:04) – P vs NP

(3:26:21) – Greatest mathematicians in history

(3:40:05) – Infinite chess

(3:58:24) – Most beautiful idea in mathematics

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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The Ark Before Noah (book): https://amzn.to/4j2U0DW

Irving Lectures Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYXwZvOwHjVcFUi9iEqirkXRaCUJdXGha

British Museum Video Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0LQM0SAx603A6p5EJ9DVcESqQReT7QyK

British Museum Website: https://www.britishmuseum.org/

The Great Diary Project: https://thegreatdiaryproject.co.uk/

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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

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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Michael Levin’s X: https://x.com/drmichaellevin

Michael Levin’s Website: https://drmichaellevin.org

Michael Levin’s Papers: https://drmichaellevin.org/publications/

– 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

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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Helion: https://www.helionenergy.com/

Helion’s YouTube: https://youtube.com/HelionEnergy

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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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