Lex Fridman Podcast

Lars Brownworth is a historian, teacher, podcaster, and author specializing in Viking history, medieval Europe, and the Byzantine Empire.

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Lars’s Website: https://larsbrownworth.com/

The Sea Wolves (book): https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Wolves-History-Vikings/dp/1909979120

Lars’s Books: https://amzn.to/4sHY0xw

12 Byzantine Rulers Podcast : https://12byzantinerulers.com/

Norman Centuries Podcast: https://apple.co/4sgSxNi

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(01:03) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(08:57) – The start of the Viking Age

(18:50) – Viking military strategy, tactics & technology

(32:33) – Ragnar Lothbrok

(42:00) – The Great Heathen Army

(46:42) – Rollo and Normandy

(56:54) – Viking religion and Valhalla

(1:07:25) – Viking explorers

(1:12:33) – Vikings in North America

(1:25:55) – Vikings in the East

(1:45:33) – Byzantine Empire

(1:54:17) – History and human nature

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Jensen Huang is the co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, the world’s most valuable company and the engine powering the AI computing revolution.

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NVIDIA: https://nvidia.com

NVIDIA on X: https://x.com/nvidia

NVIDIA AI on X: https://x.com/NVIDIAAI

NVIDIA on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@nvidia

NVIDIA on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nvidia/

NVIDIA on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nvidia/

NVIDIA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NVIDIA/

NVIDIA on GitHub: https://github.com/NVIDIA

Nemotron: https://developer.nvidia.com/nemotron

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(00:26) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(06:34) – Extreme co-design and rack-scale engineering

(09:20) – How Jensen runs NVIDIA

(28:41) – AI scaling laws

(43:41) – Biggest blockers to AI scaling laws

(45:25) – Supply chain

(47:20) – Memory

(53:25) – Power

(58:45) – Elon and Colossus

(1:02:13) – Jensen’s approach to engineering and leadership

(1:07:38) – China

(1:15:51) – TSMC and Taiwan

(1:21:06) – NVIDIA’s moat

(1:26:43) – AI data centers in space

(1:30:31) – Will NVIDIA be worth $10 trillion?

(1:40:40) – Leadership under pressure

(1:54:26) – Video games

(2:01:18) – AGI timeline

(2:03:31) – Future of programming

(2:17:02) – Consciousness

(2:23:23) – Mortality

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Jeff Kaplan is a legendary Blizzard game designer of World of Warcraft and Overwatch, now preparing to launch a new game, The Legend of California, from his new studio Kintsugiyama – available to wishlist on Steam today, with alpha later in March.

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The Legend of California (Steam Page): https://store.steampowered.com/app/2550530/The_Legend_of_California

Jeff’s Game Studio: https://www.kintsugiyama.com/

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(02:24) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(10:47) – Early games: Pac-Man, Zork, Doom, Quake

(25:12) – Writing career – 170 rejection letters

(40:45) – EverQuest obsession

(53:43) – Getting hired at Blizzard

(1:09:11) – Lowest point in Jeff’s life

(1:15:16) – One of Us

(1:19:33) – Early Blizzard culture

(1:39:15) – Building World of Warcraft

(1:56:59) – How WoW changed video games

(2:14:21) – Single-player vs Multi-player

(2:35:15) – How Blizzard made great video games

(3:01:04) – Online toxicity

(3:08:38) – Why Titan failed

(3:25:48) – Overwatch in six weeks

(3:52:46) – Best Overwatch heroes

(4:01:16) – The challenge of matchmaking

(4:04:40) – Rust

(4:15:01) – Why Jeff left Blizzard

(4:37:14) – Diablo IV

(4:38:42) – Getting back to making video games

(4:47:38) – The Legend of California

(5:01:23) – Greatest video game of all time

(5:09:30) – AI and future of video games

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Rick Beato is a music educator, interviewer, producer, songwriter, and a true multi-instrument musician, playing guitar, bass, cello & piano. His incredible YouTube channel celebrates great musicians & musical ideas, and helps millions of people fall in love with great music all over again.

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Rick’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/rickbeato1

Rick’s Website: https://rickbeato.com

Rick’s Ear Training: https://beatoeartraining.com

The Beato Book: https://beatobook.com

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(00:28) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(09:17) – Guitar solos

(13:16) – Gypsy jazz and Django Reinhardt

(14:48) – Bebop jazz

(19:00) – Perfect pitch vs relative pitch

(23:37) – Learning to play guitar

(47:08) – Miles Davis

(52:34) – Bass guitar

(53:41) – Greatest guitar solos of all time

(1:22:56) – 27 Club

(1:27:37) – Elton John

(1:30:51) – Metallica

(1:35:21) – Tom Waits

(1:41:12) – Greatest rock stars

(1:44:35) – Beethoven

(1:51:10) – Bach

(1:54:01) – AI in music

(2:07:52) – Sabrina Carpenter

(2:11:23) – YouTube copyright strikes

(2:16:59) – Spotify

(2:27:51) – Guitars

(2:32:13) – Advice

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Peter Steinberger is the creator of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent framework that’s the fastest-growing project in GitHub history.

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Peter’s GitHub: https://github.com/steipete

Peter’s Website: https://steipete.com

Peter’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steipete

OpenClaw Website: https://openclaw.ai

OpenClaw GitHub: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw

OpenClaw Discord: https://discord.gg/openclaw

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(03:51) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(15:29) – OpenClaw origin story

(18:48) – Mind-blowing moment

(28:15) – Why OpenClaw went viral

(32:12) – Self-modifying AI agent

(36:57) – Name-change drama

(54:07) – Moltbook saga

(1:02:26) – OpenClaw security concerns

(1:11:07) – How to code with AI agents

(1:42:02) – Programming setup

(1:48:45) – GPT Codex 5.3 vs Claude Opus 4.6

(1:57:52) – Best AI agent for programming

(2:19:52) – Life story and career advice

(2:23:49) – Money and happiness

(2:27:41) – Acquisition offers from OpenAI and Meta

(2:44:51) – How OpenClaw works

(2:56:09) – AI slop

(3:02:13) – AI agents will replace 80% of apps

(3:10:50) – Will AI replace programmers?

(3:22:50) – Future of OpenClaw community