Lex Fridman Podcast

#142 – Manolis Kellis: Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything

Nov 30, 2020

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The Final Frontier of Artificial Intelligence

02:05

What Is the Meaning of Life?

05:55

The Next Frontier, the Next Frontier in the Cosmos?

02:37

Introduction

2min

How to Get 20% Off Grammarly Premium

2min

A Few Things You Should Know Before You Start a Podcast

2min

The Three Songs That Have Really Shaped Me

3min

The Hériasum Magal Le Sanquepon De Sanquemat De San

4min

Language and Language

2min

Creativity Is Not Disconnected From Art and Music

3min

My Girl, the Giffe-Aron, the Patrick Reich

3min

It's Not the Combat Gear That Makes a Man

4min

10.

We Are Just Ordinary Men and of Course We're Disposable

4min

11.

The Prison of Your Mind

3min

12.

The Common Humanity

3min

13.

You Want Me to Drive? I'll Follow

5min

14.

You're the Lucky One

3min

15.

The Only Way Not to Make Mistakes

3min

16.

What Is the Meaning of Life?

6min

17.

Are You Searching for Meaning?

3min

18.

Are We the Most Beautiful Thing in the Universe?

6min

19.

The Fermi Paradox - Is There a Great Filter?

4min

20.

The Moral Arc of the Universe

2min

21.

Is There a Pandemic Coming?

2min

22.

What Has Changed Is Software

4min

23.

Are You Excited by the Possibility of a Human?

2min

24.

The Lion Attacks a Gazelle in the Serengeti

4min

25.

Exactly. The Layers Interplaying Together

4min

26.

The Next Frontier, the Next Frontier in the Cosmos?

3min

27.

The Final Frontier of Artificial Intelligence

2min

28.

Is There a Ton More Hardware or Just a Ton More Hardware?

2min

29.

Is GPT 10 the Way to a Super Intelligence?

3min

30.

I Love the Concept of Memes and Ideas

5min

31.

Is There a Coevolution of Genes and Means in Cognitive Systems?

4min

32.

The Stickiness of Multiple Cognitive Systems Together

6min

33.

The Concept of Neural Link

4min

34.

Neuralink - Is GPT Three Ready?

3min

35.

What Do You Hope This World Will Remember You As?

3min

36.

I Love It When I'm Wrong

3min

37.

Your Genes Will Have the Legacy

4min

38.

How to Write a Master's Paper

3min

39.

A Poem or Two?

2min

40.

I Will Not Come Unless You Write Me a Poem

6min

Manolis Kellis is a computational biologist at MIT. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Manolis Website: http://web.mit.edu/manoli/
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:48) – Music and life
(46:21) – The number 42
(52:22) – The question about the meaning of life
(55:02) – Are humans unique in the universe?
(1:00:46) – Human civilization
(1:12:52) – Mars
(1:14:45) – Human mind and the abstraction layers of reality
(1:25:38) – Neural networks and intelligence
(1:32:55) – Ideas as organisms
(1:42:19) – Language
(1:53:34) – Legacy
(2:08:25) – Poems