Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist. Lee Cronin is a chemist. This is a conversation and debate about alien life and alien civilizations.
Cristiano Amon is the CEO of Qualcomm, world-leader in 5G wireless communication and computation systems inside premium Android phones and other robots.
Grimes is a musician, artist, singer, songwriter, producer, and director.
David Buss is an evolutionary psychologist at UT Austin. He is one of the founders of the field of evolutionary psychology. His current research is on sex differences in mate selection, mate attraction, infidelity, and the emotions of jealousy, lust, and love.
Chris Mason is a professor of genomics, physiology, and biophysics at Cornell, doing research on the long-term effects of space on the human body. He is the author of The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds.
Saifedean Ammous is an Austrian economist and author of The Bitcoin Standard and The Fiat Standard.
Glenn Loury is a professor of economics and social sciences at Brown University, and a prominent podcaster and social critic who speaks and writes about race, inequality, and social policy.
Oliver Stone is a filmmaker with 3 Oscar wins and 11 Oscar nominations. His films include Platoon, Wall Street, Born on the Fourth of July, Scarface, JFK, Nixon, Alexander, W, Snowden, and documentaries where he has interviewed Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Vladimir Putin.
Bobby Lee is a comedian and co-host of TigerBelly and Bad Friends podcasts.
Sarma Melngailis is a chef and restauranteur who was the subject of the Netflix documentary Bad Vegan: Fame, Fraud, Fugitives.
Stephen Kotkin is a historian specializing in Stalin and Soviet history.
Dan Reynolds is the lead singer of Imagine Dragons, one of the most popular bands in the world.
Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at NYU and author of The Coddling of the American Mind, The Righteous Mind, and The Happiness Hypothesis.
Robin Hanson is a professor at George Mason University and researcher at Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford.
Donald Hoffman is a cognitive scientist at UC Irvine and author of The Case Against Reality.
Tony Fadell is an engineer and designer, co-creator of the iPod, iPhone, Nest Thermostat, and author of the new book Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making.
Richard Wolff is a Marxist philosopher and economist.
Douglas Murray is an author and political commentator.
Jonathan Reisman is a physician and author of The Unseen Body who has practiced medicine in some of the most remote places in the world.
Susan Cain is the author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, and Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole.
Demis Hassabis is the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind.
Joe Rogan is a comedian, UFC commentator, and host of the Joe Rogan Experience.
Jack Barsky is a former KGB spy and author of "Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America".
Richard Haier is a psychologist specializing in the science of human intelligence.
Steve Keen is a heterodox economist and author.
Robert Barron is a bishop and founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.
Lord Martin Rees is a cosmologist and astrophysicist at Cambridge University and co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.
Oriol Vinyals is the Research Director and Deep Learning Lead at DeepMind.
Brian Armstrong is the CEO of Coinbase.
Lt. Ryan Graves is a former Navy fighter pilot, who has worked on advanced research and development programs for DARPA, Office of Naval Research, and Air Force Research Labs on topics of multi-agent collaborative autonomy, AI-assisted air-to-air combat, and manned-unmanned teaming technologies. Ryan and people in his squadron detected and engaged with UFOs on multiple occasions, and he has been one of the few people willing to speak publicly about these experiences.
Andrew Bustamante is a former CIA covert intelligence officer.
Magatte Wade is an entrepreneur with a passion for creating positive change in Africa through economic freedom.
Duncan Trussell is a comedian, host of The Duncan Trussell Family Hour podcast, and co-creator of The Midnight Gospel.
Jordan Peterson is a psychologist, lecturer, podcast host, and author.
Liv Boeree is a poker champion and science educator on topics of game theory, physics, complexity, and life.
Magnus Carlsen is the highest-rated chess player in history and widely considered to be the greatest chess player of all time.
Noam Chomsky is a linguist, philosopher, and political activist.
John Vervaeke is a psychologist and cognitive scientist at University of Toronto.
Nick Lane is a biochemist at UCL and author of Transformer, The Vital Question, and many other amazing books on biology, chemistry, and life.
Alexandra and Andrea Botez are chess players, commentators, educators, entertainers, and streamers.
Christopher Capozzola is a professor of history at MIT.
Ray Kurzweil is an author, inventor, and futurist.
Rana el Kaliouby is a pioneer in the field of emotion recognition and human-centric AI. She is the founder of Affectiva, deputy CEO of Smart Eye, and author of Girl Decoded.
Will Sasso is a comedian, actor, and co-host of the Dudesy podcast.
Daniel Negreanu is one of the greatest poker players of all time.
Michael Levin is a biologist at Tufts University working on novel ways to understand and control complex pattern formation in biological systems.
Annaka Harris is the author of Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind.
Levy Rozman, also known as GothamChess, is a professional chess player, streamer, and educator.
John Danaher is one of the greatest coaches and minds in martial arts history.
Kate Darling is a researcher at MIT Media Lab interested in human robot interaction and robot ethics.
Hikaru Nakamura is a chess super grandmaster and is currently the #1 ranked blitz chess player in the world. He is also one of the top chess streamers on Twitch and YouTube.
Hikaru Nakamura is a chess super grandmaster and is currently the #1 ranked blitz chess player in the world. He is also one of the top chess streamers on Twitch and YouTube.
Balaji Srinivasan is an angel investor, tech founder, philosopher, and author of The Network State: How to Start a New Country. He was formerly the CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz.
Balaji Srinivasan is an angel investor, tech founder, philosopher, and author of The Network State: How to Start a New Country. He was formerly the CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz.
Ye is a legendary artist, producer, and designer.
Ye is a legendary artist, producer, and designer.
Andrej Karpathy is a legendary AI researcher, engineer, and educator. He's the former director of AI at Tesla, a founding member of OpenAI, and an educator at Stanford.
Andrej Karpathy is a legendary AI researcher, engineer, and educator. He's the former director of AI at Tesla, a founding member of OpenAI, and an educator at Stanford.
Abbas Amanat is a historian at Yale specializing in the modern history of Iran.
Abbas Amanat is a historian at Yale specializing in the modern history of Iran.
Fiona Hill is a presidential advisor and foreign policy expert specializing in Russia.
Fiona Hill is a presidential advisor and foreign policy expert specializing in Russia.
Ben Shapiro is a conservative political commentator, host of The Ben Shapiro Show, co-founder of The Daily Wire, and author of The Authoritarian Moment and other books.
Ben Shapiro is a conservative political commentator, host of The Ben Shapiro Show, co-founder of The Daily Wire, and author of The Authoritarian Moment and other books.
Steven Bonnell, aka Destiny, is a progressive political commentator and a live streamer on YouTube. Melina Goransson is a live streamer on Twitch.
Steven Bonnell, aka Destiny, is a progressive political commentator and a live streamer on YouTube. Melina Goransson is a live streamer on Twitch.
Chamath Palihapitiya is a venture capitalist, engineer, CEO of Social Capital, and co-host of the All-In Podcast.
Chamath Palihapitiya is a venture capitalist, engineer, CEO of Social Capital, and co-host of the All-In Podcast.
Bjørn Lomborg is author of "False Alarm". Andrew Revkin is a climate journalist (21 years at NY Times).
Bjørn Lomborg is author of "False Alarm". Andrew Revkin is a climate journalist (21 years at NY Times).
Chris Tarbell is a former FBI special agent and cybercrime investigation specialist who brought down Ross Ulbricht and Silk Road, and Hector Monsegur (aka Sabu) of LulzSec and Anonymous.
Chris Tarbell is a former FBI special agent and cybercrime investigation specialist who brought down Ross Ulbricht and Silk Road, and Hector Monsegur (aka Sabu) of LulzSec and Anonymous.
Guido van Rossum is the creator of Python programming language.
Guido van Rossum is the creator of Python programming language.
Todd Howard is a legendary video game designer at Bethesda Game Studios. He led the development of the Elder Scrolls series and the Fallout series, and an upcoming game Starfield.
Todd Howard is a legendary video game designer at Bethesda Game Studios. He led the development of the Elder Scrolls series and the Fallout series, and an upcoming game Starfield.
Roger Gracie is a legendary jiu jitsu competitor and MMA fighter.
Roger Gracie is a legendary jiu jitsu competitor and MMA fighter.
Noam Brown is a research scientist at FAIR, Meta AI, co-creator of AI that achieved superhuman level performance in games of No-Limit Texas Hold'em and Diplomacy.
Noam Brown is a research scientist at FAIR, Meta AI, co-creator of AI that achieved superhuman level performance in games of No-Limit Texas Hold'em and Diplomacy.
Coffeezilla is a journalist and investigator on YouTube who exposes financial frauds, scams, and fake gurus.
Coffeezilla is a journalist and investigator on YouTube who exposes financial frauds, scams, and fake gurus.
Ed Calderon is a security specialist who worked on counter-narcotics and organized crime investigation in Mexico.
Ed Calderon is a security specialist who worked on counter-narcotics and organized crime investigation in Mexico.
Michael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, author, and anarchist.
Michael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, author, and anarchist.
Nathalie Cabrol is an astrobiologist at the SETI Institute, directing the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe.
Nathalie Cabrol is an astrobiologist at the SETI Institute, directing the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe.
Bhaskar Sunkara is a democratic socialist, political writer, founding editor of Jacobin, president of The Nation, and author of The Socialist Manifesto.
Bhaskar Sunkara is a democratic socialist, political writer, founding editor of Jacobin, president of The Nation, and author of The Socialist Manifesto.
Betül Kaçar is an astrobiologist at University of Wisconsin.
Betül Kaçar is an astrobiologist at University of Wisconsin.
MrBeast is a legendary YouTube creator.
Imam Omar Suleiman is the Founder and President of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research and a professor of Islamic Studies at Southern Methodist University.
Dennis Whyte is a nuclear scientist at MIT and the director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center.
Jeremi Suri is a historian at UT Austin.
David Kipping is an astronomer at Columbia University, director of the Cool Worlds Lab, and host of the Cool Worlds YouTube channel.
Tim Dodd is host of the Everyday Astronaut YouTube channel, where he teaches about rocket engines and all things space travel.
Paul Conti is a psychiatrist.
Aella is a sex researcher, writer, and sex worker.
Andrew Strominger is a theoretical physicist at Harvard.
Tim Urban is the author of the blog Wait But Why and a new book What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies.
Aaron Smith-Levin is a former Scientologist, Vice President of the Aftermath Foundation, and host of the Growing Up In Scientology YouTube channel.
Ginni Rometty is a former long-time CEO, president, and chairman of IBM.
Craig Jones, Nicky Rod and Nicky Ryan, together with Ethan Crelinsten are founders of the B-Team, a legendary jiu jitsu team based in Austin, TX.
Chris Voss is a former FBI hostage and crisis negotiator and author of Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It.
Sam Harris is an author, podcaster, and philosopher.
Dr. Shannon Curry is a clinical and forensic psychologist who conducts research, therapy, and clinical evaluation pertaining to trauma, violence, and relationships. She testified in the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial.
Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, DALL-E, Codex, and many other state-of-the-art AI technologies.
Eliezer Yudkowsky is a researcher, writer, and philosopher on the topic of superintelligent AI.
Paul Rosolie is a conservationist, explorer, author, filmmaker, real life Tarzan, and founder of Junglekeepers which today protects over 50,000 acres of threatened habitat.
Edward Frenkel is a mathematician at UC Berkeley working on the interface of mathematics and quantum physics. He is the author of Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality.
Max Tegmark is a physicist and AI researcher at MIT, co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, and author of Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
Simone Giertz is an inventor, designer, engineer, and roboticist famous for a combination of humor and brilliant creative design in the systems and products she creates.
Manolis Kellis is a computational biologist at MIT.
Robert Playter is CEO of Boston Dynamics, a legendary robotics company that over 30 years has created some of the most elegant, dextrous, and simply amazing robots ever built, including the humanoid robot Atlas and the robot dog Spot.
David Pakman is a left-wing progressive political commentator and host of The David Pakman Show.
Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, theoretical physicist, and the founder of Wolfram Research, a company behind Wolfram|Alpha, Wolfram Language, and the Wolfram Physics and Metamathematics projects.
Harvey Silverglate is a free speech advocate, co-founder of FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Expression, and author of several books on freedom of speech and criminal justice. He is running for Harvard Board of Overseers on a platform of free speech.
Anna Frebel is an astronomer and astrophysicist at MIT.
Randall Kennedy is a law professor at Harvard and author of many seminal books on race, law, history, culture, and politics.
Neil Gershenfeld is the director of the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms.
Chris Lattner is a legendary software and hardware engineer, leading projects at Apple, Tesla, Google, SiFive, and Modular AI, including the development of Swift, LLVM, Clang, MLIR, CIRCT, TPUs, and Mojo.
Bert Kreischer is a comedian, actor, and podcaster. Check him out on Bertcast, 2 Bears 1 Cave, Something is Burning, and the new movie The Machine.
Mark Zuckerberg is CEO of Meta.
Matthew McConaughey is an Oscar-winning actor and author of Greenlights.
Jimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia.
Marc Andreessen is the co-creator of Mosaic, co-founder of Netscape, and co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
George Hotz is a programmer, hacker, and the founder of comma-ai and tiny corp.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an activist, lawyer, author, and candidate for the President of the Unites States.
Benjamin Netanyahu is the Prime Minister of Israel.
Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and Unstoppable Us.
Mohammed El-Kurd is a Palestinian writer and poet.
Joscha Bach is a cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and philosopher.
Neri Oxman is a designer, engineer, scientist, and artist working on computational design, synthetic biology and digital fabrication, previously at MIT, and now at OXMAN.
Walter Isaacson is an author of biographies on Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, and many others.
James Sexton is a divorce attorney and author.
Greg Lukianoff is a free speech advocate, first-amendment attorney, president of FIRE - Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, and co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind and a new book The Canceling of the American Mind.
Mark Zuckerberg is CEO of Meta.
Jared Kushner is a former Senior Advisor to President Donald Trump and author of Breaking History.
Elon Musk is CEO of X, xAI, SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and The Boring Company.
John Mearsheimer is an international relations scholar at University of Chicago. He is one of the most influential and controversial thinkers in the world on the topics of war and power.
Michael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, author, and anarchist.
Lisa Randall is a theoretical physicist at Harvard.
Lee Cronin is a chemist at University of Glasgow.
Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin.
Teddy Atlas is boxing trainer to 18 world champions, ESPN boxing commentator, and host of podcast THE FIGHT with Teddy Atlas.
Guillaume Verdon (aka Beff Jezos on Twitter) is a physicist, quantum computing researcher, and founder of e/acc (effective accelerationism) movement.
Tal Wilkenfeld is a singer-songwriter, bassist, and guitarist. She has performed with legendary artists including Jeff Beck, Prince, Incubus, Eric Clapton, Herbie Hancock, Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart, Hans Zimmer, Pharrell Williams, and many more.
Matthew Cox is a former con man who served 13 years in federal prison for bank fraud, mortgage fraud, and identity theft. He is the author of many books, including his memoir Shark in the Housing Pool, and runs the YouTube channel Inside True Crime.
Ben Shapiro is a conservative political commentator, host of The Ben Shapiro Show, co-founder of The Daily Wire, and author of The Authoritarian Moment and other books. Steven Bonnell, aka Destiny, is a liberal political commentator and a live streamer on YouTube.
Omar Suleiman is a Palestinian-American Muslim scholar, civil rights leader, and President of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research.
Marc Raibert is founder and former long-time CEO of Boston Dynamics, and recently Executive Director of the newly-created Boston Dynamics AI Institute.
Bill Ackman is an investor who has led some of the biggest and controversial financial trades in history. He is founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management.
Tucker Carlson is a highly-influential political commentator. You can watch and listen to him on the Tucker Carlson Network and the Tucker Carlson Podcast.
Serhii Plokhy is a Ukrainian historian at Harvard University, director of the Ukrainian Research Institute, and an author of many books on history of Eastern Europe, including his latest book The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History.
Yann LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, professor at NYU, Turing Award winner, and one of the most influential researchers in the history of AI.
Kimbal Musk is a chef, entrepreneur, and author of The Kitchen Cookbook: Cooking for Your Community.
Norman Finkelstein and Benny Morris are historians. Mouin Rabbani is a Middle East analyst. Steven Bonnell (aka Destiny) is a political livestreamer.
Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, Sora, and many other state-of-the-art AI technologies.
Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and author of "Nuclear War: A Scenario" and many other books on war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security.
Dana White is the CEO and president of the UFC.
Mark Cuban is a businessman, investor, star of TV series Shark Tank, long-time principal owner of Dallas Mavericks, and founder of Cost Plus Drugs.
Tulsi Gabbard is a politician, veteran, and author of For Love of Country.
Bassem Youssef is an Egyptian-American comedian & satirist, referred to as the Jon Stewart of the Arab World.
Andrew Callaghan is the host of Channel 5 on YouTube, where he does street interviews with fascinating humans at the edges of society, the so-called vagrants, vagabonds, runaways, outlaws, from QAnon adherents to Phish heads to O Block residents and much more.
Edward Gibson is a psycholinguistics professor at MIT and heads the MIT Language Lab.
Neil Adams is a judo world champion, 2-time Olympic silver medalist, 5-time European champion, and often referred to as the Voice of Judo.
Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist, author, and host of Mindscape podcast.
Paul Rosolie is a naturalist, explorer, author, and founder of Junglekeepers, dedicating his life to protecting the Amazon rainforest.
Charan Ranganath is a psychologist and neuroscientist at UC Davis, specializing in human memory. He is the author of a new book titled Why We Remember.
Roman Yampolskiy is an AI safety researcher and author of a new book titled AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable.
Kevin Spacey is a two-time Oscar-winning actor, who starred in Se7en, the Usual Suspects, American Beauty, and House of Cards, creating haunting performances of characters who often embody the dark side of human nature.
Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist. She is the author of a new book titled "Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence".
Arvind Srinivas is CEO of Perplexity, a company that aims to revolutionize how we humans find answers to questions on the Internet.
Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist at Stanford and host of the Huberman Lab Podcast.
Ivanka Trump is a businesswoman, real estate developer, and former senior advisor to the President of the United States.
Jordan Jonas is a wilderness survival expert, explorer, hunter, guide, and winner of Alone Season 6, a show in which the task is to survive alone in the arctic wilderness longer than anyone else. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest competitors in the history on that show.
Elon Musk is CEO of Neuralink, SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, and CTO of X. DJ Seo is COO & President of Neuralink. Matthew MacDougall is Head Neurosurgeon at Neuralink.
Craig Jones is a legendary jiu jitsu personality, competitor, co-founder of B-Team, and organizer of the CJI tournament that offers over $2 million in prize money.
Pieter Levels (aka levelsio on X) is a self-taught developer and entrepreneur who has designed, programmed, launched over 40 startups, many of which are highly successful.
Cenk Uygur is a progressive political commentator and host of The Young Turks.
Donald Trump is the 45th President of the United States and the Republican candidate in the 2024 US Presidential Election.
Gregory Aldrete is a historian specializing in ancient Rome and military history.
Vejas Liulevicius is a historian specializing in Germany and Eastern Europe, who has lectured extensively on Marxism and the rise, the reign, and the fall of Communism.
Vivek Ramaswamy is a conservative politician, entrepreneur, and author of many books on politics, including his latest titled Truths: The Future of America First.
Ed Barnhart is an archaeologist and explorer specializing in ancient civilizations of the Americas. He is the Director of the Maya Exploration Center, host of the ArchaeoEd Podcast, and lecturer on the ancient history of North, Central, and South America.
Aman Sanger, Arvid Lunnemark, Michael Truell, and Sualeh Asif are creators of Cursor, a popular code editor that specializes in AI-assisted programming.
Jordan Peterson is a psychologist, author, lecturer, and podcast host.
Graham Hancock a journalist and author who for over 30 years has explored the controversial possibility that there existed a lost civilization during the last Ice Age, and that it was destroyed in a global cataclysm some 12,000 years ago.
Bernie Sanders is a US Senator from Vermont and a two-time presidential candidate.
Rick Spence is a historian specializing in the history of intelligence agencies, espionage, secret societies, conspiracies, the occult, and military history.
Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic, the company that created Claude. Amanda Askell is an AI researcher working on Claude's character and personality. Chris Olah is an AI researcher working on mechanistic interpretability. T
Javier Milei is the President of Argentina
Saagar Enjeti is a political journalist & commentator, co-host of Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar and The Realignment Podcast. He is exceptionally well-read, and the books he recommends are always fascinating and eye-opening.
Adam Frank is an astrophysicist studying star systems and the search for extraterrestrial life and alien civilizations. T