I really enjoyed this conversation with Leonard. Here's the outline: 0:00 - Introduction 1:02 - Richard Feynman 2:09 - Visualization and intuition 6:45 - Ego in Science 9:27 - Academia 11:18 - Developing ideas 12:12 - Quantum computers 21:37 - Universe as an information processing system 26:35 - Machine learning 29:47 - Predicting the future 30:48 - String theory 37:03 - Free will 39:26 - Arrow of time 46:39 - Universe as a computer 49:45 - Big bang 50:50 - Infinity 51:35 - First image of a black hole 54:08 - Questions within the reach of science 55:55 - Questions out of reach of science
Lex Fridman - What, if any, AI system have you used in your daily life to learn? I’ve heard of different algorithms- such as python. Are they only for computers or have we achieved a new level of chi to connect “wirelessly” ... #chakra-training #ac/dc #twin flame Hi #bio rhythm
@@ZeroOskul , Your question is very hard to answer in the way you have asked it, because the list you gave are completely unrelated things. What does a bows einstein condensate and have to do with gravity? Very little to nothing! And Einstein debunk string theory. Einstein spent much of his life trying to come up with a unified theory, something like string theory, but eventually he ran into problems that could not be solved. String theory is a separate but likely parallel model to the things you have listed; and each item in the list you made has its own strengths and weaknesses. put your list makes no sense it's just a random collection of scientific terms you're trying to make sound like thing. None of them are complete models for theory of gravity or a theory of everything.
People need to understand how great this podcast is. Never before has the public ever had the opportunity to listen to soo many conversations between two people at the VERY top of there respective (and receptive) fields and understand each other completely. Lex, THANK YOU
@@simonclarent3742 Careful, your inferiority complex is showing. I think if these talks do anything it's simply prove that these people are not special at all and anyone can do what they do if they just have the interest and motivation. The only person I've heard on these podcasts so far that has been on an other level was Joscha Bach, all the rest have not only shown that they're basic humans but deeply flawed humans that are no different from anyone else. I appreciate their work and contribution and everything, but no more or less than the plumber. The way you're deifying them and trying to raise yourself to the pedestal you've put them on by putting others down shows clearly that you don't feel like you'll ever measure up. If you manage to change your perspective one day you'll see these talks as inspiring because it shows that you too can do this because they show that no special intelligence or super human ability is required. Now answer this, can you even afford a plumber?
Damn, I was gonna say that. I'm the obvious comment guy. Oh well, I'm left with pointing out that: It's free. It's at our fingertips, literally. It can be LISTENED too which makes work and travel possible while still learning And Lex always wears the same outfit, seemingly.
This podcast is indeed amazing. I'd also recommend Sean Carroll's Mindscape. He's a theoretical physicist/cosmologist, and he has tons of people at the top of various disciplines as guests.
I used to watch Susskind lectures 10 years ago. He's an extremely good teacher, he might be my favorite physics teacher that I've ever seen. I'm happy that you interview him!
If Joe Rohan is like the Oprah for men and Lex Fridman is like the Joe Rogan of science, does this mean Lex Fridman is the Oprah of science? lol (lets not turn this into a thing)
You compare Lex to Joe???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What is your IQ? or Education level? I hope that Lex will disactive the comments because people like you make sick as a ***
@@adilarqib1347 so you're demonstrating your IQ is so low that you cannot grasp the comparison of two people who are both podcasters... wow. So sorry I "make you sick", I guess you're also fragile like a snowflake too.
@@DaveWhoa Bisou mon chouchou je t'aime. My IQ is 1/100 & very stupid. This why I collaborated with more than 250 researchers and I finished 2 masters.
The fact that Leonard Susskind at his 80( at the time of the interview) has this mental clarity and he is able to reflect on all those aspects with such limpidity is astonishing.
I love Susskind man. Altough I don't get all things he said , I understand some of them. Wht a pleasure we listen to these men on our phones. I'm 37 years old I coudn't imagine this in my childhood. Thank u from Türkiye.
I could listen to Professor Susskind talk all day, one of my favorite physicists and lecturers ever. Can’t wait for him to publish the next book in The Theoretical Minimum
as a complete layman, I was able to grasp an understanding of this concepts and I got my heart racing a few times just thinking of the consequences of what I was hearing, this was absolutely epic discussion, thank you so much for sharing this!!
10:03 "I felt like an outsider, until a certain age when I suddenly found myself the ultimate insider" I'm very familiar with that feeling, it's so heartwarming to hear this from people like Leonard. 😊
Thank you for creating a channel like this! It’s such a breath of fresh air in a youtube full of mindless substance-less videos Also Leonard Susskind is awesome 😎😁
I so appreciate Prof. Susskinds’ ability to explain in simple terms the incredibly complex and difficult to comprehend mechanics of subatomic particles and down to strings. Thanks for doing this Lex.
I'm a political science undergrad, struggling for countless sleepless nights to find an illusion of meaning and purpose in this bizarrely random universe. You, my dear friend, and your podcasts are really helping me get through this phase.
Yes bizarrely random when a nation can produce people like the guests on this podcast - as well as people like the 45th POTUS and current members of the GOP. And their supporters. I can understand how it must be doing your head in as a political science student.
Politics is a science? How so? Science is supposed to be steeped in truth. Politicians are 100% ADVERSE to truth. They hate it. So how can this term political science be???? They're mocking us. That's what they're doing.
Lex the quality of questions is unparalleled. Those questions make even the geniuses on your podcasts think deeper and sometimes on the bigger picture. Thank you for this interview. You are a blessing my friend
This conversation carries so much weight, the information per second is so dense, I keep having to rewind and digest it all. Awesome interview mr. Fridman.
The man is disarmingly truthful: "I don't understand De Sitter space, NOBODY understands De Sitter space, everybody agrees with that, well everybody agrees I don't understand De Sitter space"
Excellent conversation. Thanks for that. I find Susskind not just more informative, but more enjoyable to listen to than any other public facing physicist. Such a relief and a change of pace from others that he doesn't take the whole "Now this is *really* gonna blow your mind" angle with everything he talks about. Like a fresh cool breeze over my brain whenever I get the chance to listen to him. And great work interviewing him, calm collected and prepared. I really like that analogy to music, and I'd have to say where most other people are playing Big Band, Susskind is playing jazz. Dig it.
I hope you keep this podcast going. Mind blowing conversation has taught me so many interesting things. I'm a simple stay at home mom listening to you has opened my mind : )
So moving what you say.. but please don't feel impeded by your "simple stay at home mum" condition.. it's so unfair "simple working dad" feel they can do almost whatever they want in life just because they have so much free time to do it, for the only reason they can always count on their wife!
@@ernesthector2451 Thank you for appreciating the importance of female nurturing. I stand for all feminine and masculine qualities equally. One doesn’t succeed without some (not all) aspects of the other.
Wonderful job! I’ve seen probably 10 or 15 interviews with Leonard Susskind over the years, in addition to listening to many of his lectures, and reading a few of his books, and this was the most informative 57 minutes of all. You covered a wide range of topics by asking good, simple (but not naive) open-ended questions and letting him talk.
I was working in a startup in Silicon Valley, and was able to take early versions of the classes in Stanford night school. the classes were mostly older engineers, some retired. Best of times.
Leonard Susskind is a legend! Great interview. Thanks for uploading. I've been watching Leonard's lectures for years online. He's one of the best teachers out there.
Susskind is a great guest always happy to listen to him talk about physics, also impressed at the variety of people you've managed to nab for the podcast. Keep it up!
Leonard Susskind has a wonderful ability to explain things to a lay person. His ability to abstract things such that you can understand things built on top of that abstraction without realising thta he is abstracting a lot os details is wonderful. There is also a down to earth nature and his honesty that permeates through his style of speaking and the language he uses that make me want to listen to the stuff he is speaking. Thanks Lex for the work you are doing bringing people from different fields talk about ideas.
THE ULTIMATE UNDERSTANDING OF SPACE AS ELECTROMAGNETIC/GRAVITATIONAL (IN BALANCE): A PHOTON may be placed at the center of THE SUN (as A POINT, of course), as the reduction of SPACE is offset by (or BALANCED with) the SPEED OF LIGHT; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. The ability of THOUGHT to DESCRIBE OR RECONFIGURE sensory experience is ULTIMATELY dependent upon the extent to which THOUGHT IS SIMILAR TO sensory experience. THOUGHTS ARE INVISIBLE. E=mc2 is DIRECTLY AND FUNDAMENTALLY DERIVED FROM F=ma. F=ma AND E=mc2 PROVE that ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY, AS ALL of SPACE is NECESSARILY ELECTROMAGNETIC/GRAVITATIONAL (IN BALANCE). This NECESSARILY represents, INVOLVES, AND describes what is possible/potential AND ACTUAL IN BALANCE. Indeed, energy has/involves GRAVITY; AND ENERGY has/involves inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE. "Mass"/ENERGY involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE consistent WITH/AS what is BALANCED ELECTROMAGNETIC/GRAVITATIONAL FORCE/ENERGY, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. ACCORDINGLY, gravity/acceleration involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. SO, GRAVITATIONAL FORCE/ENERGY IS proportional to (or BALANCED with/as) inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. THEREFORE, "mass"/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. ALL of SPACE is NECESSARILY ELECTROMAGNETIC/GRAVITATIONAL (IN BALANCE), AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. BALANCE AND completeness go hand in hand. It ALL makes perfect sense. GREAT !!!!! Gravity/acceleration involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. ACCORDINGLY, a given PLANET (INCLUDING WHAT IS THE EARTH) sweeps out equal areas in equal times; AND this is THEN consistent WITH/AS F=ma, E=mc2, AND WHAT IS PERPETUAL MOTION; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. Gravity/acceleration involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. ACCORDINGLY, the rotation of the Moon MATCHES it's revolution. It is PROVEN. It ALL makes perfect sense. Therefore, objects fall at the SAME RATE (neglecting air resistance, of course); AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. Very importantly outer "space" involves full inertia; AND it is FULLY INVISIBLE AND black. Get a good LOOK at what is THE EYE. NOW, the stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky. GREAT. GRAVITATIONAL FORCE/ENERGY IS proportional to (or BALANCED with/as) inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. This ALSO explains the supergiant stars, the cosmological redshift, AND the black hole(s). "Mass"/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. ALL of SPACE is NECESSARILY ELECTROMAGNETIC/GRAVITATIONAL (IN BALANCE), AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. It ALL makes perfect sense. MAGNIFICENT !!! F=ma AND E=mc2 PROVE that ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. GREAT. Points are POINTS. Gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY. ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. BALANCE AND completeness go hand in hand. THINK about it ALL. Beautiful. By Frank DiMeglio
Short but immensely satisfying talk. There is something about him and Lex and us the viewers the audience, there’s something is it an answerable question if I were to ask what is that thing?
As someone with a history in computing and an interest in AI, i really appreciate that you are the channel to bring the world.of interested people.up to speed. It is really important work. Please continue to help build this archive for future generations.
I love Susskind, have been follow his videos for years. This was an excellent discussion and you (Lex) did a great job a picking out relevant and interesting questions!
Thank you Leonard, for this great interview. You inspired me a long time ago to try and understand more of modern physics. Your lectures on YT have been a great help. This interview for me is icing on the cake. Really hope you are with us for a long time to come.
Thanks Lex. I was waiting for a podcast with Leonard Susskind after watching tens of his lectures on quantum mechanics and general relativity. I wasn't expecting it to be honest but here you go. That's simply amazing .. can't thank you much Lex ..
at 16 he was a plumber for his ill dad in NY. He liked physics told his dad, dad misheard him for a pharmicist, when he explained he wanted to be a physicist, his dad told him to be like Einstein.
I like how in this podcast Lex is actuallu smiling in a way that to me says "am I doing a valid question?". I reckon interviewing the max exponent of a given field has to be quite intimidating.
@Lex Fridman, I found your podcasts just a few months ago and I am deeply impressed with the guests you interview and your ability to discuss a very wide range of topics with them. Please keep it up, this really is excellent work!
I love Leonard Susskind, I have watched many of his physics lectures and find them incredibly understandable and engaging even though I have no formal training in physics
I find it incredible that we now have access to these kinds of discussions, with these kinds of great thinkers, just through watching videos on UA-cam. Thanks for posting this, I really enjoyed it.
I always enjoy listening to Leonard Susskind, but specially when he is being asked intelligent questions by a person that understand the subject! I could see Mr Susskind appreciated he was not wasting his time. Great Podcast!
I never wanted to be a theoretical physicist but I do wish I had more opportunities to discuss these matters, just as casually as these two have done during this interview.
After Hawking, this is the greatest man alive. Such a rare thing to have such great people in the world, even more rare to have a conversation with them. This was an absolute treat, thank you!
Addiction often comes from something on the inside and you might find yourself addicted to something else soon enough. Don't fool yourself that being addicted to something "positive" like doing your job or studying/working with mathematics or physics is a good thing. It really isn't.
@@Bollibompa shut up. Do you think Susskind, Reimann, Einstein, etc. became who they were because they just dabbled? Or do you think they were addicted?
Great discussion! Also, I'm kind of stoked to know that Susskind's explanation of how time travel would manifest itself in reality as kind of reversing the system is something I've been pondering this past year or so. Very interesting stuff!
You were talking about different things in the end. Lex asked about the photograph of a black hole, Leonard talked about the LIGO gravitational wave experiment. Of course, both are incredible scientific accomplishments in my opinion. In any case, I really enjoyed this interview. Thanks for your incredible work, keep it up!
37:56 - “An observer is a system with enough degrees of freedom that it can record information and which can become entangled with the thing that’s measuring, entanglement is the key. The observer becomes physically entangled with it.” This is beautiful.
Great podcast! You have a relaxed way of interviewing that puts the guest at ease and you also ask really nice and interesting questions. Very interesting rhythm in this podcast. I am subscribed.
Jesus Lex! Great analogies, great conversations- I never see the follow up questions coming! You are so tuned in and present! Thank you for incredible content!
Great stuff Lex! Can you please get Dr. Ben Goertzel on the podcast? Would be interesting to hear how he's going with Singularity Net and the idea of decentralised AI networks.
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The part of the arrow of time and Thermodynamics just blow my mind ! What an easy way to explain the second law using the time as a probabilistic idea that we call entropy. Time only emerges as important idea if we have systems as large as it makes a difference. Susskind is a treasure.
Not a critique, just an observation: Near the end of the episode, Lex asks Susskind about the Event Horizon Telescope image of a black hole. Susskind seems to think Lex is asking about the LIGO observation of 2 colliding black holes using gravitational waves. Neither one manages to notice that they are talking about 2 completely different things. Did anyone else notice that? It’s like Susskind assumed that Lex must be talking about LIGO because it’s clearly the most impressive recent development in Physics. And my guess is that Lex didn’t notice that Susskind was talking about something different because he’s not especially acquainted with the details of either project (I’m no expert either, so that isn’t an insult).
I think he was prepared to say something about a picture of a black hole but when Lex asked him he possibly accidentaly shifted to discovery of gravitational waves. Our boy Sussex is getting old ;)
I think that Lenny decided to redirect Lex on the topic. Lex thinking that an image of a black hole was significant decided to bring it up, but Lenny sorta emphasizes the point that the image doesn’t prove anything that hasn’t already been understood and that the significance of LIGO and the implications of gravitational waves far surpasses the image and the superficiality of sorta a pop science that the image brings forth. I could be wrong tho, I would just like to think Lenny switching lanes on him was intentional 😭
What I love most about highly intelligent people like Leonard is their humility. The more they know the more they realize they do not know. He's the father of string theory and yet says "I'm not a very good mathematician". This is my favorite trait in curious and brilliant people. It really sets them apart from the average cocksure, arrogant person. Beautiful.
I absolutely love to listen to Dr Susskind. Absolutely fantastic guest Lex. I'm so glad I was exposed to you from Rogan. Two of my favorite worlds collided and I wasn't aware they knew each other. Thank you Lex for doing these and letting us wonderers try to keep up.
Thank you, Lex, for arranging and putting out this refreshing conversation. Good questions from you and very interesting and thought-provoking responses from Leonard. What a lovely man he is.
Fascinating gentleman and a great discussion as always thank you Lex. I always watch to the end and gain so much insight into so much that is important. I appreciate your work thank you.
honesty makes a real difference. i started beeing completly hones without beeing a jerk with all ppl around me. they startet to be honest to me to. not always a walk in the park but oddly satisfying.
Really like the intro. "Creating echos of it" is a powerful line, but I think it's the wrong way around, the human mind is the echo of something deeper we want to find.
I really enjoyed this conversation with Leonard. Here's the outline:
0:00 - Introduction
1:02 - Richard Feynman
2:09 - Visualization and intuition
6:45 - Ego in Science
9:27 - Academia
11:18 - Developing ideas
12:12 - Quantum computers
21:37 - Universe as an information processing system
26:35 - Machine learning
29:47 - Predicting the future
30:48 - String theory
37:03 - Free will
39:26 - Arrow of time
46:39 - Universe as a computer
49:45 - Big bang
50:50 - Infinity
51:35 - First image of a black hole
54:08 - Questions within the reach of science
55:55 - Questions out of reach of science
Lex Fridman - What, if any, AI system have you used in your daily life to learn? I’ve heard of different algorithms- such as python. Are they only for computers or have we achieved a new level of chi to connect “wirelessly” ... #chakra-training #ac/dc #twin flame
Hi #bio rhythm
This man has a fascinating mind, thank you for this.
I appreciate the fact that you put forth the effort in providing these timestamps. Very cool. Though, I watch the entire podcast anyway.
0:34 this!
@@ZeroOskul , Your question is very hard to answer in the way you have asked it, because the list you gave are completely unrelated things. What does a bows einstein condensate and have to do with gravity? Very little to nothing! And Einstein debunk string theory. Einstein spent much of his life trying to come up with a unified theory, something like string theory, but eventually he ran into problems that could not be solved. String theory is a separate but likely parallel model to the things you have listed; and each item in the list you made has its own strengths and weaknesses. put your list makes no sense it's just a random collection of scientific terms you're trying to make sound like thing. None of them are complete models for theory of gravity or a theory of everything.
People need to understand how great this podcast is.
Never before has the public ever had the opportunity to listen to soo many conversations between two
people at the VERY top of there respective (and receptive) fields and understand each other completely.
Lex, THANK YOU
Dean Ninalga haha receptive. I see what you did there.
I'd cancel my netflix and pay for this if Lex monetised this lol
@@simonclarent3742 Careful, your inferiority complex is showing. I think if these talks do anything it's simply prove that these people are not special at all and anyone can do what they do if they just have the interest and motivation. The only person I've heard on these podcasts so far that has been on an other level was Joscha Bach, all the rest have not only shown that they're basic humans but deeply flawed humans that are no different from anyone else. I appreciate their work and contribution and everything, but no more or less than the plumber. The way you're deifying them and trying to raise yourself to the pedestal you've put them on by putting others down shows clearly that you don't feel like you'll ever measure up. If you manage to change your perspective one day you'll see these talks as inspiring because it shows that you too can do this because they show that no special intelligence or super human ability is required. Now answer this, can you even afford a plumber?
Damn, I was gonna say that. I'm the obvious comment guy. Oh well, I'm left with pointing out that:
It's free.
It's at our fingertips, literally.
It can be LISTENED too which makes work and travel possible while still learning
And Lex always wears the same outfit, seemingly.
This podcast is indeed amazing.
I'd also recommend Sean Carroll's Mindscape. He's a theoretical physicist/cosmologist, and he has tons of people at the top of various disciplines as guests.
This should have been 2-3 hours interview. Enjoyed it so much!
Everytime Susskind gets interviewed, a lot of questions are about Feynman. It would annoy me so much.
My exact thoughts when the Lex said this is the last question...
He is an old man! Give him a break!
very much recommend a Brian Greene's interview to Leonard S. 2 hrs of full learning...arrange the search by recent and will easily appear.
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I used to watch Susskind lectures 10 years ago. He's an extremely good teacher, he might be my favorite physics teacher that I've ever seen. I'm happy that you interview him!
His two books on "the theoretical minimum" are fantastic
awesome Lex!!!!! you're becoming like a Joe Rogan to the stars of science, and we can't get enough of it
If Joe Rohan is like the Oprah for men and Lex Fridman is like the Joe Rogan of science, does this mean Lex Fridman is the Oprah of science? lol (lets not turn this into a thing)
You compare Lex to Joe???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What is your IQ? or Education level?
I hope that Lex will disactive the comments because people like you make sick as a ***
@@adilarqib1347 so you're demonstrating your IQ is so low that you cannot grasp the comparison of two people who are both podcasters... wow. So sorry I "make you sick", I guess you're also fragile like a snowflake too.
@@DaveWhoa Bisou mon chouchou je t'aime. My IQ is 1/100 & very stupid. This why I collaborated with more than 250 researchers and I finished 2 masters.
@@adilarqib1347 finishing a Masters doesn't mean you don't have issues. You've clearly got issues, sorry to say.
The fact that Leonard Susskind at his 80( at the time of the interview) has this mental clarity and he is able to reflect on all those aspects with such limpidity is astonishing.
Limpidity is not something an 80-year-old man would like to talk about
Your ability to ask the right questions and keep the conversation moving at a pleasant pace has greatly improved since the first episodes. Loving it!
One of my favorite talks. Absolutely love Leonard Susskind. Such a great teacher and legend.
I love Susskind man. Altough I don't get all things he said , I understand some of them. Wht a pleasure we listen to these men on our phones. I'm 37 years old I coudn't imagine this in my childhood. Thank u from Türkiye.
I could listen to Professor Susskind talk all day, one of my favorite physicists and lecturers ever. Can’t wait for him to publish the next book in The Theoretical Minimum
as a complete layman, I was able to grasp an understanding of this concepts and I got my heart racing a few times just thinking of the consequences of what I was hearing, this was absolutely epic discussion, thank you so much for sharing this!!
This interview is a treasure. You obviously do your pre-interview work, ask good questions and have solid edits. Thank you.
10:03 "I felt like an outsider, until a certain age when I suddenly found myself the ultimate insider" I'm very familiar with that feeling, it's so heartwarming to hear this from people like Leonard. 😊
Lex: thanks for talking to me
Leonard: ok. good
Ahahahah
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@@hmdshokri he answered with a vector.. Assembler language would be warmer :):):)
hahaha rightly so
Thank you for creating a channel like this! It’s such a breath of fresh air in a youtube full of mindless substance-less videos
Also Leonard Susskind is awesome 😎😁
I so appreciate Prof. Susskinds’ ability to explain in simple terms the incredibly complex and difficult to comprehend mechanics of subatomic particles and down to strings. Thanks for doing this Lex.
I'm a political science undergrad, struggling for countless sleepless nights to find an illusion of meaning and purpose in this bizarrely random universe. You, my dear friend, and your podcasts are really helping me get through this phase.
Yes bizarrely random when a nation can produce people like the guests on this podcast - as well as people like the 45th POTUS and current members of the GOP. And their supporters. I can understand how it must be doing your head in as a political science student.
Hope you found meaning in your life.
Politics is a science? How so? Science is supposed to be steeped in truth. Politicians are 100% ADVERSE to truth. They hate it. So how can this term political science be???? They're mocking us. That's what they're doing.
Lex the quality of questions is unparalleled. Those questions make even the geniuses on your podcasts think deeper and sometimes on the bigger picture. Thank you for this interview. You are a blessing my friend
This conversation carries so much weight, the information per second is so dense, I keep having to rewind and digest it all. Awesome interview mr. Fridman.
The man is disarmingly truthful: "I don't understand De Sitter space, NOBODY understands De Sitter space, everybody agrees with that, well everybody agrees I don't understand De Sitter space"
Excellent conversation. Thanks for that. I find Susskind not just more informative, but more enjoyable to listen to than any other public facing physicist. Such a relief and a change of pace from others that he doesn't take the whole "Now this is *really* gonna blow your mind" angle with everything he talks about. Like a fresh cool breeze over my brain whenever I get the chance to listen to him. And great work interviewing him, calm collected and prepared. I really like that analogy to music, and I'd have to say where most other people are playing Big Band, Susskind is playing jazz. Dig it.
Love that this is an intellectual podcast not just limited to ML etc. Keep at it, Lex.
I hope you keep this podcast going. Mind blowing conversation has taught me so many interesting things. I'm a simple stay at home mom listening to you has opened my mind : )
So moving what you say.. but please don't feel impeded by your "simple stay at home mum" condition.. it's so unfair "simple working dad" feel they can do almost whatever they want in life just because they have so much free time to do it, for the only reason they can always count on their wife!
@@ernesthector2451 Thank you for appreciating the importance of female nurturing. I stand for all feminine and masculine qualities equally. One doesn’t succeed without some (not all) aspects of the other.
Wonderful job! I’ve seen probably 10 or 15 interviews with Leonard Susskind over the years, in addition to listening to many of his lectures, and reading a few of his books, and this was the most informative 57 minutes of all. You covered a wide range of topics by asking good, simple (but not naive) open-ended questions and letting him talk.
Leonard is incredibly sharp and witty for a man who's done the work he's done. Brilliant podcast.
Watched his free lectures from Stanford University, great teacher.
They are awesome!
His was the first free online lecture I ever watched, I think around 2009 when I was a first year student!
I was working in a startup in Silicon Valley, and was able to take early versions of the classes in Stanford night school. the classes were mostly older engineers, some retired. Best of times.
Mr. Susskind is an example of clarity and intellectual honest. Kind of bright persons who doesn't need self-promotion. As usual, great interview, Lex.
Leonard Susskind is a legend! Great interview. Thanks for uploading. I've been watching Leonard's lectures for years online. He's one of the best teachers out there.
Susskind is a great guest always happy to listen to him talk about physics, also impressed at the variety of people you've managed to nab for the podcast. Keep it up!
Leonard Susskind has a wonderful ability to explain things to a lay person. His ability to abstract things such that you can understand things built on top of that abstraction without realising thta he is abstracting a lot os details is wonderful.
There is also a down to earth nature and his honesty that permeates through his style of speaking and the language he uses that make me want to listen to the stuff he is speaking.
Thanks Lex for the work you are doing bringing people from different fields talk about ideas.
Leonard Susskind: *I can win the battle with nature.*
What an absolute G.
THE ULTIMATE UNDERSTANDING OF SPACE AS ELECTROMAGNETIC/GRAVITATIONAL (IN BALANCE):
A PHOTON may be placed at the center of THE SUN (as A POINT, of course), as the reduction of SPACE is offset by (or BALANCED with) the SPEED OF LIGHT; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. The ability of THOUGHT to DESCRIBE OR RECONFIGURE sensory experience is ULTIMATELY dependent upon the extent to which THOUGHT IS SIMILAR TO sensory experience. THOUGHTS ARE INVISIBLE. E=mc2 is DIRECTLY AND FUNDAMENTALLY DERIVED FROM F=ma. F=ma AND E=mc2 PROVE that ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY, AS ALL of SPACE is NECESSARILY ELECTROMAGNETIC/GRAVITATIONAL (IN BALANCE). This NECESSARILY represents, INVOLVES, AND describes what is possible/potential AND ACTUAL IN BALANCE. Indeed, energy has/involves GRAVITY; AND ENERGY has/involves inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE. "Mass"/ENERGY involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE consistent WITH/AS what is BALANCED ELECTROMAGNETIC/GRAVITATIONAL FORCE/ENERGY, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. ACCORDINGLY, gravity/acceleration involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. SO, GRAVITATIONAL FORCE/ENERGY IS proportional to (or BALANCED with/as) inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. THEREFORE, "mass"/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. ALL of SPACE is NECESSARILY ELECTROMAGNETIC/GRAVITATIONAL (IN BALANCE), AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. BALANCE AND completeness go hand in hand. It ALL makes perfect sense. GREAT !!!!!
Gravity/acceleration involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. ACCORDINGLY, a given PLANET (INCLUDING WHAT IS THE EARTH) sweeps out equal areas in equal times; AND this is THEN consistent WITH/AS F=ma, E=mc2, AND WHAT IS PERPETUAL MOTION; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. Gravity/acceleration involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. ACCORDINGLY, the rotation of the Moon MATCHES it's revolution. It is PROVEN.
It ALL makes perfect sense. Therefore, objects fall at the SAME RATE (neglecting air resistance, of course); AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY.
Very importantly outer "space" involves full inertia; AND it is FULLY INVISIBLE AND black.
Get a good LOOK at what is THE EYE. NOW, the stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky. GREAT. GRAVITATIONAL FORCE/ENERGY IS proportional to (or BALANCED with/as) inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. This ALSO explains the supergiant stars, the cosmological redshift, AND the black hole(s). "Mass"/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. ALL of SPACE is NECESSARILY ELECTROMAGNETIC/GRAVITATIONAL (IN BALANCE), AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. It ALL makes perfect sense. MAGNIFICENT !!! F=ma AND E=mc2 PROVE that ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. GREAT. Points are POINTS. Gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY. ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. BALANCE AND completeness go hand in hand. THINK about it ALL. Beautiful.
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Short but immensely satisfying talk. There is something about him and Lex and us the viewers the audience, there’s something is it an answerable question if I were to ask what is that thing?
As someone with a history in computing and an interest in AI, i really appreciate that you are the channel to bring the world.of interested people.up to speed. It is really important work. Please continue to help build this archive for future generations.
Really impressed with the guests on this podcast, keep it up 🙏🏻
I love Susskind, have been follow his videos for years. This was an excellent discussion and you (Lex) did a great job a picking out relevant and interesting questions!
Thank you Leonard, for this great interview. You inspired me a long time ago to try and understand more of modern physics. Your lectures on YT have been a great help. This interview for me is icing on the cake. Really hope you are with us for a long time to come.
Thanks Lex. I was waiting for a podcast with Leonard Susskind after watching tens of his lectures on quantum mechanics and general relativity. I wasn't expecting it to be honest but here you go. That's simply amazing .. can't thank you much Lex ..
8:58 "I didn't learn that there was such a thing called physics until I was almost 20 years old"
Yea wtf, proceeds to invent string theory
at 16 he was a plumber for his ill dad in NY. He liked physics told his dad, dad misheard him for a pharmicist, when he explained he wanted to be a physicist, his dad told him to be like Einstein.
There’s hope for me yet
@@MrKaje72 or anything you set your mind to friend.
He started so late?I don't get it
Wish there was a weekly podcast like this with Mr Susskind, I could listen to him talk for hours and hours, sadly they have become really rare.
I couldn' t believe my eyes!! Leonard Susskind!!! You Rock Lex. Please invite Brian Green as next guest, please.
I like how in this podcast Lex is actuallu smiling in a way that to me says "am I doing a valid question?". I reckon interviewing the max exponent of a given field has to be quite intimidating.
I feel like my brain grows with every podcast of yours I watch.
Thank you Lex!
@Lex Fridman, I found your podcasts just a few months ago and I am deeply impressed with the guests you interview and your ability to discuss a very wide range of topics with them. Please keep it up, this really is excellent work!
I love Leonard Susskind, I have watched many of his physics lectures and find them incredibly understandable and engaging even though I have no formal training in physics
This man is an absolute legend!
So far the best interview with Penrose and Susskind
I find it incredible that we now have access to these kinds of discussions, with these kinds of great thinkers, just through watching videos on UA-cam. Thanks for posting this, I really enjoyed it.
Wow! Such an awesome dialog between these two. I haven't had one of these talks with me buddies for a long while.
I always enjoy listening to Leonard Susskind, but specially when he is being asked intelligent questions by a person that understand the subject! I could see Mr Susskind appreciated he was not wasting his time. Great Podcast!
The best episode yet. Fantastic interview with a legend.
Lenny is the greatest teacher i know - i guess i saw nearly all of his lectures here on YT.
I never wanted to be a theoretical physicist but I do wish I had more opportunities to discuss these matters, just as casually as these two have done during this interview.
Amazing interview. Privileged to hear the greatest minds in the world speak on universal scale problems.
After Hawking, this is the greatest man alive. Such a rare thing to have such great people in the world, even more rare to have a conversation with them. This was an absolute treat, thank you!
Weird statement considering Hawking isnt alive anymore
I Knew someone would just have to mention that fact although admittedly, I tripped over my words. I think people get what I'm getting at.
I can't thank you enough . Your podcasts have reignited my passion and interest in maths and physics after years of hopelessness and addiction.
Addiction often comes from something on the inside and you might find yourself addicted to something else soon enough. Don't fool yourself that being addicted to something "positive" like doing your job or studying/working with mathematics or physics is a good thing. It really isn't.
@@Bollibompa shut up. Do you think Susskind, Reimann, Einstein, etc. became who they were because they just dabbled? Or do you think they were addicted?
Great discussion! Also, I'm kind of stoked to know that Susskind's explanation of how time travel would manifest itself in reality as kind of reversing the system is something I've been pondering this past year or so. Very interesting stuff!
You were talking about different things in the end. Lex asked about the photograph of a black hole, Leonard talked about the LIGO gravitational wave experiment. Of course, both are incredible scientific accomplishments in my opinion.
In any case, I really enjoyed this interview. Thanks for your incredible work, keep it up!
37:56 - “An observer is a system with enough degrees of freedom that it can record information and which can become entangled with the thing that’s measuring, entanglement is the key. The observer becomes physically entangled with it.”
This is beautiful.
So it's all about companionship?
Thank you algotrithm! I watch Proffersor Susskind's lectures all the time
This was amazing. I can’t think of anybody who has asked Lenny such good questions. Some valuable info here.
Love this man's lectures, incredible mind, even though I don't understand half of what he lectures.
Great podcast! You have a relaxed way of interviewing that puts the guest at ease and you also ask really nice and interesting questions. Very interesting rhythm in this podcast. I am subscribed.
Jesus Lex! Great analogies, great conversations- I never see the follow up questions coming! You are so tuned in and present! Thank you for incredible content!
Excellent interview! Thank you Lex for driving a great flow of questions
This should become a regular talk. I can listen to these two guys forever.
Great interview. Leonard is a national treasure. Direct disciple of Feynman. Thank you
I love Leonard Susskind's intelligence and his humble honesty!
Great stuff Lex! Can you please get Dr. Ben Goertzel on the podcast? Would be interesting to hear how he's going with Singularity Net and the idea of decentralised AI networks.
The part of the arrow of time and Thermodynamics just blow my mind ! What an easy way to explain the second law using the time as a probabilistic idea that we call entropy. Time only emerges as important idea if we have systems as large as it makes a difference.
Susskind is a treasure.
Not a critique, just an observation:
Near the end of the episode, Lex asks Susskind about the Event Horizon Telescope image of a black hole. Susskind seems to think Lex is asking about the LIGO observation of 2 colliding black holes using gravitational waves. Neither one manages to notice that they are talking about 2 completely different things. Did anyone else notice that? It’s like Susskind assumed that Lex must be talking about LIGO because it’s clearly the most impressive recent development in Physics. And my guess is that Lex didn’t notice that Susskind was talking about something different because he’s not especially acquainted with the details of either project (I’m no expert either, so that isn’t an insult).
I think he was prepared to say something about a picture of a black hole but when Lex asked him he possibly accidentaly shifted to discovery of gravitational waves.
Our boy Sussex is getting old ;)
Perils of complexity at high levels of abstraction.
Lol, that happened at university with professors all the time !
I think that Lenny decided to redirect Lex on the topic. Lex thinking that an image of a black hole was significant decided to bring it up, but Lenny sorta emphasizes the point that the image doesn’t prove anything that hasn’t already been understood and that the significance of LIGO and the implications of gravitational waves far surpasses the image and the superficiality of sorta a pop science that the image brings forth. I could be wrong tho, I would just like to think Lenny switching lanes on him was intentional 😭
@@kyleallen6680 That's how I heard it.
Short and focused conversation. One of the greatest interviews form you I've seen
This episode just blew my mind! Your podcast is amazing, Lex! Cheers from Brazil!
What I love most about highly intelligent people like Leonard is their humility. The more they know the more they realize they do not know. He's the father of string theory and yet says "I'm not a very good mathematician". This is my favorite trait in curious and brilliant people. It really sets them apart from the average cocksure, arrogant person. Beautiful.
It is so relaxing to hear him talking
It's one of the podcasts I've really enjoyed listening to.
Hope to hear more from Mr. Susskind.
Excellent interview picking Susskind's considerable brain and character!
I absolutely love to listen to Dr Susskind. Absolutely fantastic guest Lex. I'm so glad I was exposed to you from Rogan. Two of my favorite worlds collided and I wasn't aware they knew each other. Thank you Lex for doing these and letting us wonderers try to keep up.
Awesome interview with a legend :-)
Thank you, Lex, for arranging and putting out this refreshing conversation. Good questions from you and very interesting and thought-provoking responses from Leonard. What a lovely man he is.
Fascinating gentleman and a great discussion as always thank you Lex. I always watch to the end and gain so much insight into so much that is important. I appreciate your work thank you.
This is such a pleasure to hear intelligent questions and recieve intelligent answers to them.
Holy Molly. Didn't expect this one ;O
Love Molly
MDMA=mc2
His explanation; how quantum computers arrive at an outcome... just pure perfection in clarity on his part. Wow so elegantly explained.
Lex try to get Penrose next, one of the greatest living physicists and does great interviews!!
Eanna Butler not to mention one of the best characters of all elite scientists, a true gem!!!
Great job Lex. Mr. Suskind is one of the most brilliant minds of our generation.
What a completely honest man.
honesty makes a real difference. i started beeing completly hones without beeing a jerk with all ppl around me. they startet to be honest to me to. not always a walk in the park but oddly satisfying.
Leonard Susskind is a brilliant mind.
Great clarity without the pomp-n-fluff.
I like that you finish your sentence when your interviewees accidentally or purposely cut you off
Wonderful discussion, Lex! Leonard Susskind is a national treasure, and you brought out the best in him. Nancy Robertson.
Really like the intro. "Creating echos of it" is a powerful line, but I think it's the wrong way around, the human mind is the echo of something deeper we want to find.
Mr. Susskind has the look of a classical deep thinker. His ideas are visual (mind eye) analysis. His field is unimaginable. IRONIC
2:49 the modesty....
He's a goddamned LEGEND!
Leonard Susskind is like a mix between a kind philosopher and an extremely smart physicist. So honest such a humble human being.
This is what you want to find on the internet before going rockclimbing.... !
Well done. The good audio quality helps sell it ---- those 7b's are great in this application.
Wow. This is great insight. Love it. What incredible minds roam this world. These interviews are inspiring. Thank you ❤
The video was so engaging that even 1hr long conversation felt like 5-10 minute talk. Thanks Lex👍
Wow! Leonard and Lex, two of my favorite people in the universe. Nancy.
Really appreciate the interviewer for asking such wonderful questions ......
This is one of my favorite interviews
Leonard is very inspiring and great communicator of science. Keep up the good work Lex