#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

07/06/23 • 154 min

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an activist, lawyer, author, and candidate for the President of the Unites States. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(09:05) – US history
(13:21) – Freedom
(15:16) – Camus
(18:38) – Hitler and WW2
(27:50) – War in Ukraine
(51:11) – JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis
(1:16:19) – JFK assassination conspiracy
(1:25:53) – CIA influence
(1:34:52) – 2024 elections
(1:46:36) – Jordan Peterson
(1:48:18) – Anthony Fauci
(1:51:44) – Big Pharma
(2:11:24) – Peter Hotez
(2:17:05) – Exercise and diet
(2:19:30) – God

TRANSCRIPT:
https://lexfridman.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-transcript/

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#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God

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OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(08:04) – Time is an illusion
(17:44) – Memes
(20:20) – Eliezer Yudkowsky
(32:45) – Virtual reality
(39:04) – AI friends
(46:29) – tiny corp
(59:50) – NVIDIA vs AMD
(1:02:47) – tinybox
(1:14:56) – Self-driving
(1:29:35) – Programming
(1:37:31) – AI safety
(2:02:29) – Working at Twitter
(2:40:12) – Prompt engineering
(2:46:08) – Video games
(3:02:23) – Andrej Karpathy
(3:12:28) – Meaning of life

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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

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OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(08:22) – Hate
(14:02) – Judicial reform and protests
(22:38) – AI
(32:40) – Competition
(39:21) – Power and corruption
(46:32) – Peace
(1:01:05) – War in Ukraine
(1:05:01) – Abraham Accords
(1:09:02) – History
(1:13:48) – Survival