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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:45) – Revolutions and governments
(24:23) – American Civil War
(33:35) – Lincoln and election of 1860
(37:25) – Slavery
(50:35) – Freedom of speech
(1:02:17) – Death toll of the Civil War
(1:05:36) – Ulysses S. Grant
(1:07:45) – Ku Klux Klan
(1:19:27) – Robert E. Lee
(1:27:11) – Abraham Lincoln
(1:42:18) – If the south won
(1:50:54) – Hypocrisy of the Founders
(1:56:56) – John Wilkes Booth
(2:00:11) – White supremacy
(2:05:34) – Disputed elections
(2:15:56) – Politics
(2:24:20) – Donald Trump and Joe Biden
(2:37:06) – January 6th
(3:02:04) – Hope for the future
#133 – Manolis Kellis: Biology of Disease
#132 – George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets
#131 – Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages
#130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness
#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works
#128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling
#127 – Joe Rogan: Conversations, Ideas, Love, Freedom & The Joe Rogan Experience
#126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing
#125 – Ryan Hall: Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Violence, Power, and Grace
#124 – Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe
#123 – Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness
#122 – David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering
Lex Solo #3 – In Memory of My Grandmother
#121 – Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion
Lex Solo #2 – The Future of Neuralink
#120 – François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence
#119 – David Eagleman: Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain
New Name: Lex Fridman Podcast
#118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown
#117 – Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning
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