Lex Fridman Podcast

Preston Stewart is a West Point graduate and Afghanistan veteran who covers the Ukraine war extensively on his YouTube channel, his podcast called War and Conflict, and his newsletter called Defense Tech News. Michael Kofman is a world-class military analyst specializing in the Russian and Ukrainian militaries. He is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment and he hosts The Russia Contingency podcast on the War on the Rocks platform.

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Michael’s X: https://x.com/KofmanMichael

Michael’s Podcast: https://warontherocks.com/premium/therussiacontingency/

Preston’s YouTube: https://youtube.com/@prestonstewart

Preston’s X: https://x.com/prestonstew_

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(00:43) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(08:20) – State of the war in Ukraine

(21:59) – Drone warfare and the kill zone

(59:09) – Who is winning the war?

(1:10:46) – Military analysis of Russia’s 2022 invasion

(1:26:34) – Battle of Bakhmut

(1:42:17) – War optimism and bad information

(2:02:26) – Prigozhin’s mutiny

(2:16:40) – Putin vs Zelenskyy

(2:34:38) – Trump

(2:43:33) – Paths to peace in Ukraine

(2:54:13) – Nature of war

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Ankur Moitra, Steven Brunton and Alex Kontorovich are three mathematicians who can speak to this incredible moment in the history of mathematics, when AI solved some of its hardest problems: Navier-Stokes, the quasi-Riemann hypothesis, the unique games conjecture and hundreds of other problems. Ankur Moitra is a mathematician at MIT (visiting the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton) working in theoretical computer science, who can speak to the unique games conjecture, complexity theory and the mathematics of how AI learns. Steven Brunton is a mathematician and fluid dynamics expert at UW, who can speak to Navier-Stokes, turbulence and machine learning for fluid dynamics. Alex Kontorovich is a mathematician at Rutgers specializing in number theory, who can speak to the Riemann hypothesis, Lean and machine-checked proofs.

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Ankur’s Website: https://people.csail.mit.edu/moitra/

Alex’s X: https://x.com/AlexKontorovich

Alex’s Website: https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~alexk/

Steven’s X: https://x.com/eigensteve

Steven’s YouTube: https://youtube.com/@Eigensteve

Steven’s Website: https://eigensteve.com

Lean: https://lean-lang.org/

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

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

(09:53) – Crisis moment in mathematics

(18:10) – Will AI “solve” mathematics?

(34:21) – Can AI create new math?

(1:13:53) – Riemann hypothesis

(1:37:45) – Navier-Stokes

(2:03:42) – How nature computes

(2:12:35) – Unique Games Conjecture and complexity theory

(2:27:28) – How mathematicians think

(2:41:05) – Is math invented or discovered?

(2:47:13) – Can AI solve P vs NP?

(2:57:28) – Why LLMs work so well

(3:11:54) – Problems AI can’t solve yet

(3:16:23) – Grigori Perelman

(3:25:41) – Advice for young people

Andrew Scull is a historian of psychiatry.

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Andrew’s Website (UCSD faculty page): https://sociology.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/emeritus/andrew-scull.html

Desperate Remedies (book): https://amzn.to/4vmBquI

Madness in Civilization (book): https://amzn.to/3SZhd0I

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(01:07) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(08:10) – Crisis in Psychiatry

(37:48) – Categories of Mental Illness

(45:07) – Asylums, Eugenics, and the Nazis

(57:13) – The Ice Pick Lobotomy

(1:03:26) – Malaria “Cure” for Syphilis

(1:21:42) – Insulin Coma Therapy

(1:29:34) – Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

(1:49:03) – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

(2:06:35) – Freud and Psychoanalysis

(2:36:30) – WWII and Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)

(2:57:04) – Antipsychotics

(3:20:24) – Antidepressants

(3:33:18) – Future of Psychiatry

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DHH is the creator of Ruby on Rails, Omarchy Linux, CTO of 37signals, and a racecar driver.

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Ruby on Rails: https://rubyonrails.org

37signals: https://37signals.com

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

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

(08:56) – Programming with AI agents

(24:14) – How software will change

(33:30) – AI impact on open source

(43:21) – Building Omarchy Linux distro

(53:05) – Vibe coding vs agentic engineering

(1:06:06) – The end of manual programming

(1:16:24) – Advice for programmers

(1:28:31) – Surviving Internet Hate

(1:37:46) – Programming setup for AI Agents

(1:50:11) – Obsessing about speed

(2:13:06) – Voice prompting vs typing

(2:27:05) – Best AI coding models

(2:43:55) – Best AI coding harnesses

(2:56:57) – AI video generation and filmmaking

(3:16:28) – Fatherhood

(3:44:35) – Linux will win the desktop

(3:55:51) – PewDiePie

(4:05:25) – Future of programming

(4:28:18) – Politics and immigration

(4:59:55) – Longevity, over-optimization, and fear of death

(5:11:38) – Eternal recurrence and future of human civization

Khabib Nurmagomedov is one of the greatest fighters of all time, who retired from the UFC undefeated with a perfect 29-0 record. We did this conversation entirely in Russian. It’s translated and dubbed into English. Both language audio tracks (and subtitles) are available on YouTube. Here, only the English audio is available. We worked hard to make it enjoyable to listen to, by carefully dubbing the translation using voice-cloning, as we’ve done for previous foreign-language podcasts.

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Khabib’s Telegram: https://t.me/khabib_nurmagomedov

Khabib’s Website: https://khabib.com

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(01:29) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(08:24) – Why Dagestan produces so many great fighters

(18:31) – History of Dagestan warrior culture

(27:51) – Hard training in the mountains of Dagestan

(31:42) – The trap of fame, money, and power

(42:23) – The key to Khabib’s dominance

(53:36) – Discipline and hard work

(1:06:04) – Street fights in Dagestan

(1:19:45) – Khabib’s top pressure

(1:25:29) – Khabib vs Conor McGregor

(1:38:14) – Khabib’s toughest fight

(1:46:02) – Greatest MMA fighters of all time

(2:03:46) – Coaching

(2:09:19) – Daniel Cormier

(2:13:38) – Islam Makhachev

(2:23:35) – Dana White

(2:27:05) – Joe Rogan

(2:29:20) – Ali Abdelaziz

(2:31:57) – Football

(2:39:12) – Messi vs Ronaldo

(2:57:12) – Dubai

(3:01:03) – God

(3:08:46) – Advice for young people