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What Lex Fridman says about trauma & ptsd

Everything Lex Fridman and guests said about trauma & ptsd across 17 episodes — each point linked to the exact second on YouTube. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

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Aella reveals a narcissistic, controlling father and a Christian homeschooling that explicitly aimed to 'break her will.'
00:33:36Aella · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2023
Says she got into sex work after being fired from a photography job at 19 with no outside-world experience.
00:53:53Aella · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2023
Confirms reporting she made over $100,000 in a single month on OnlyFans.
01:16:41Aella · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2023
Reveals she found her current long-term partner by scoring a dating survey and going on dates with the top responders.
01:29:10Aella · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2023
States her fetish survey has roughly 500,000 respondents and that nothing she measured in childhood correlates with fetish preference later in life.
02:37:04Aella · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2023
Describes a single LSD trip that reframed her childhood trauma and permanently removed the 'fire in her chest.'
03:10:46Aella · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2023
Reports a persistent gap: ~60% of women report being submissive vs ~40% of men dominant.
02:50:11Aella · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2023
Openly shares tracking her body count in a spreadsheet (about 42 free partners).
03:25:45Aella · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2023
Aella earned around $200/hour camming, performing elaborate creative skits including being 'abducted by gnomes.'
01:02:11Aella · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2023
She argues raising escort prices attracts safer clients, a claim that drew accusations of classism.
01:45:44Aella · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2023
A survey of escorts found a median rate around $300-400/hour with a long tail at the top end.
01:52:30Aella · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2023
Her fetish graph plots tabooness vs popularity, with a roughly 0.69 correlation she found 'hilarious.'
02:32:24Aella · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2023
She catalogued roughly 850 fetishes and spent two months categorizing them for the survey.
02:39:43Aella · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2023
The survey went viral on TikTok by assigning each taker a matching 'kinky character' (e.g. Hitler near Marilyn Monroe), exploding the sample from 40,000 to 500,000.
02:42:50Aella · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2023
Her 'rape spectrum' survey rated gray-area scenarios; the lowest was 'sex with an enthusiastic sex worker' at 12/100.
02:55:21Aella · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2023
Aella says she would like to do cryonics and be frozen when she dies.
03:38:38Aella · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2023
She was fired from a photography job at 19, partly due to difficulty interacting with confident adults after her upbringing.
00:53:22Aella · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2023
Cites her relationship survey finding that the 'sparkle' of new love fades within two to four years.
02:11:40Aella · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2023
Tal got food poisoning on the plane to her Jeff Beck audition, went straight from the plane into an ambulance and hospital overnight, then drove three hours to play for him.
00:03:35Tal Wilkenfeld · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2024
At the Montreux Jazz Festival, festival owner Claude Nobs cheered up an upset young Tal by jokingly bringing her caviar after she fretted over one note.
00:08:14Tal Wilkenfeld · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2024
After Leonard Cohen's death, Tal put all her gear in storage, rented out her equipment to pay rent, and moved into a small room to fully process her grief.
00:19:19Tal Wilkenfeld · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2024
After Jeff Beck died, Green Day's Mike Dirnt brought a truckload of vintage basses to her studio and gave her an Olympic White Jazz bass she named 'Jeff.'
00:22:24Tal Wilkenfeld · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2024
When Tal met Leonard Cohen, his Roshi gripped her hand, asked 'where are you,' she answered 'in the handshake,' and Cohen then fed the 105-year-old monk caviar from a jar.
00:31:46Tal Wilkenfeld · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2024
Prince recruited Tal for the 'Welcome 2 America' trio after being inspired by her work with Jeff Beck, recording to tape with no punch-ins so every imperfection stayed.
01:20:02Tal Wilkenfeld · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2024
The interview ends with Tal performing two original songs live, including 'Under the Sun' and a song about a fight that 'keeps me tied to the worst in me.'
01:38:58Tal Wilkenfeld · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2024
The line 'on your worst day you're still a bad motherfucker' is a Steve Gadd quote that Gadd told Anthony Jackson, who later passed it to Tal.
00:09:50Tal Wilkenfeld · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2024
Tal started playing bass at 17, moved to New York, and was mentored by legendary bassist Anthony Jackson, often just sitting in his car for hours analyzing music.
00:10:21Tal Wilkenfeld · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2024
As a child Tal was limited to 30 minutes of practice a day, so she learned to visualize the fretboard and practice entirely in her head.
00:50:16Tal Wilkenfeld · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2024
Tal practiced in short bursts with rest gaps; Andrew Huberman later cited research showing the brain rehearses 20-30 times faster during those rest periods.
00:51:20Tal Wilkenfeld · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2024
Leonard Cohen wrote around 80 verses for 'Hallelujah' over roughly 15 years before narrowing it to about four.
00:53:57Tal Wilkenfeld · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2024
Tal advocates practicing extremely slowly to control tone and micro-movements, so the detail remains even when sped up.
01:04:52Tal Wilkenfeld · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2024
Tal's mentor Anthony Jackson refused to slap bass, reportedly saying he'd leave a gig if asked to slap.
01:09:34Tal Wilkenfeld · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2024
After Leonard Cohen's death, the Comedy Store threw Tal a birthday party where Jackson Browne sang and Dave Chappelle performed.
00:25:31Tal Wilkenfeld · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2024
Eric Weinstein told Tal that Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight' is actually about a man imagining he has lost his wife, not a straightforward love song.
00:48:41Tal Wilkenfeld · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2024
Tal's three formative CDs were Jimi Hendrix, Herbie Hancock, and Rage Against the Machine, influences she hears in her own solo music.
01:24:42Tal Wilkenfeld · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2024
Doblin says he never saw Terence McKenna's famous DMT 'machine elves' and believes culture and preconceptions shape psychedelic experiences far more than people credit.
00:11:32Rick Doblin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
A 1984 argument with Terence McKenna over nature-vs-lab drugs was the catalyst for the very first MDMA safety study.
00:19:17Rick Doblin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
During a DMT trip Doblin felt connected to all of evolution, then realized with a shock that 'Hitler's part of me too.'
00:41:10Rick Doblin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
Doblin believes Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) was part of MK-Ultra and that the experience affected him negatively, a cautionary tale that the experience is in the context, not the drug.
01:03:25Rick Doblin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
Doblin reveals Timothy Leary fudged the Concord Prison experiment data, while the outside world simultaneously exaggerated psychedelics' risks.
01:18:27Rick Doblin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
Asked for advice on working with the government, Leary told Doblin 'fuck the government... I'm so far past asking for permission for anything.'
01:14:20Rick Doblin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
The phase 3 MDMA-for-PTSD trial hit a p-value of 0.0001 (one in ten thousand), far beyond the FDA's robust threshold.
01:59:24Rick Doblin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
MAPS has begun dosing police officers with MDMA, training a cop-turned-therapist to treat fellow officers' trauma.
02:31:02Rick Doblin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
The word 'psychedelic' means 'mind manifesting' and was coined by Humphry Osmond in dialogue with Aldous Huxley.
00:02:06Rick Doblin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
Ketamine's psychedelic dose is roughly one-tenth its anesthetic dose, and children handle its 'emergence phenomena' far better than adults.
00:08:54Rick Doblin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
The Eleusinian Mysteries, central to Greek culture for ~2000 years, likely used an ergot-based LSD-like potion called kykeon.
00:22:53Rick Doblin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
Researcher Rachel Yehuda found epigenetic markers of trauma passed from Holocaust survivors to their children within a single generation.
00:33:53Rick Doblin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
Octopuses, normally solitary, become socially interested in other octopuses after being given MDMA.
01:04:59Rick Doblin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
MDMA was invented by Merck in 1912 and is off-patent; MAPS relies on FDA 'data exclusivity' rather than patents.
01:25:44Rick Doblin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
The first medicine ever brought to market by a nonprofit was the abortion pill RU-486 in 1999, funded by Rockefeller, Buffett and Pritzker money.
01:24:14Rick Doblin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
In phase 2, 67% of MDMA patients no longer had PTSD at two months versus 32% with therapy alone, with effects durable past 12 months.
02:08:10Rick Doblin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
Ketamine clinics buy generic ketamine for a few dollars rather than J&J's expensive patented S-ketamine (Spravato).
02:21:37Rick Doblin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
Doblin's parents' Jewish New Year card carried the line: 'we have to make up for the brevity of life with the intensity of life.'
02:34:09Rick Doblin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
Bobby reveals that about four months earlier he was naked in an Arizona hotel room, hadn't eaten in a week, coughing up blood, and convinced he was dying.
00:38:15Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
He explains the deaths of Bob Saget and Louie Anderson convinced him he was 'next' since everything happens in threes.
00:43:01Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
He admits he slept naked by the hotel room door so the maid could more easily discover his body.
00:44:04Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
He recounts the relapse beginning with an edible before a flight to Hawaii to shoot Magnum PI, telling Khalyla 'I'm gonna relapse' before boarding.
00:40:55Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
After he apologized to his mother for the abuse she endured, she responded only by wanting to go to Buca di Beppo for Italian food.
00:35:42Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Bobby shares that his mother, at age 12, discovered her little sister's body split in half after a military truck ran her over.
00:36:44Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Bobby claims he was a high-school wrestler, an assertion Joe Rogan once flatly called a lie.
00:12:25Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
He confesses real hurt over not being invited to Andrew Schultz's wedding, including revenge fantasies.
00:01:31Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Bobby sleeps on a mattress on the floor and only recently bought his first-ever couch because podcast guests had nowhere to sit.
00:03:34Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
He has played Oblivion and Skyrim all the way through with about eight characters, grinding 12-hour days picking blisterwort mushrooms.
00:07:44Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Bobby admits he only learned how to read an analog clock about six months earlier.
00:15:30Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
He says most people who buy sex robots want them for emotional intimacy and cuddling, not sex.
00:19:34Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
His immigrant father appeared in Mad TV sketches and a Comedy Central pilot, earning residual checks.
00:32:36Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
After his father died in August 2019, unresolved grief and trauma hit Bobby 'like a freight train.'
00:29:28Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
When Bobby met Khalyla his career was in the gutter; she saw his potential, dragged him to auditions, and started TigerBelly.
00:23:47Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Bobby finds happiness in late-night sugar-free slushies from 7-Eleven.
00:52:34Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
He has not smoked, drank, or done drugs in nearly four months and says he feels better than ever.
00:34:39Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Bobby calls the choice between losing old memories or never making new ones 'a nightmare' either way.
01:34:16Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Lex admits he 'failed one of my heroes' by originally publishing this episode separately where it got few listens.
00:00:00Dan Gable · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Gable says he only called Lex back to do the podcast after learning Lex was Russian, because Russia leads the world in wrestling.
00:03:09Dan Gable · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Gable reveals pre-Olympic testing showed he wasn't the highest in any single category but was uniformly high straight across the board.
00:19:40Dan Gable · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
On the morning of the Olympic finals, Gable suspects a topless European woman in the sauna was a plot to distract him.
00:23:50Dan Gable · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Gable opens up about his sister Diane being raped and murdered in 1964 by a local boy when Gable was 15.
00:40:30Dan Gable · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
He reveals the killer had said something disturbing to him about his sister three weeks earlier, and he blames himself for staying silent.
00:42:32Dan Gable · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Gable says the tragedy made him remove the word 'choice' from his life and simply 'do the right thing.'
00:45:39Dan Gable · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Gable recounts breaking down and weeping at 4:30am when his wife woke him to news wrestling was cut from the Olympics.
00:56:24Dan Gable · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Gable says he could beat the Russians because he adopted their scientific way while keeping his American toughness.
00:03:40Dan Gable · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Early in his career coaches banned water during practice, believing thirst toughened athletes; rule changes later let him train harder.
00:16:38Dan Gable · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
As a boy Gable swung baseball bats alone so much the grass wore down to dirt on both sides of the yard.
00:18:39Dan Gable · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
At the 1972 Olympics Gable scored 57 points and had zero scored against him on his way to gold.
00:20:11Dan Gable · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
If anyone scored on him in practice, he couldn't sleep until he figured out the counter, sometimes waking with the answer.
00:21:13Dan Gable · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Gable distinguishes performance-fueling 'controlled anger' from uncontrolled anger that causes mistakes and lost points.
00:35:46Dan Gable · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Gable owns Russian wrestling technique books he can't read but studies for the diagrams and figures.
01:00:40Dan Gable · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Writer John Irving and Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug both credited wrestling for their discipline and work ethic.
01:05:50Dan Gable · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Gable believes luck is real but mostly self-created through preparation: 'you make your luck.'
01:08:57Dan Gable · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Gable's closing maxim: first period won by the best technician, second by the best-conditioned, third by the biggest heart.
01:09:29Dan Gable · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
David Silver told Lex they have not found a ceiling for AlphaZero, meaning it could keep improving arbitrarily.
00:07:53Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Lex frames Tesla Autopilot as one of AI's most exciting real-world applications where human lives are at stake.
00:09:25Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Lex claims that simply 'sharing moments together' over time would change everything about human-robot relationships.
00:16:13Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Lex admits he programmed seven or eight Roombas to scream and moan in pain when kicked, as an experiment on his own emotional response.
00:23:00Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Lex predicts robots will eventually have rights and deserve respect as entities in themselves.
00:28:12Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Lex shares the painful story of carrying his dying 200-pound Newfoundland Homer to be put to sleep.
00:30:18Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Huberman reveals he wakes up crying every morning since losing his dog Costello.
00:36:01Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Lex and Huberman discuss benevolent manipulation and 'topping from the bottom' power dynamics applied to robots.
00:25:37Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Teaching a computer to recognize a cat involves choices like bounding boxes vs. semantic segmentation, and it's unclear if either truly represents the truth.
00:03:09Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
The dream of self-supervised learning is an AI watching millions of hours of YouTube to build 'common sense' before a human teaches it anything.
00:05:17Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Self-play, where a system plays mutated versions of itself, powered AlphaGo and AlphaZero to superhuman chess.
00:06:50Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Tesla's Andrej Karpathy calls the retraining loop the 'data engine,' collecting edge cases from hundreds of thousands of cars.
00:11:31Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Lex argues your late-night refrigerator visits are secret shared moments, and a smart fridge that remembered them could change society.
00:17:16Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Lex sees the same kind of 'magic' in Boston Dynamics' Spot robot that Steve Jobs may have seen in the personal computer.
00:20:23Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Lex believes flaws in robots should be a feature, not a bug, making them feel cute and relatable.
00:24:35Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Lex's Newfoundland Homer was over 200 pounds and named after Homer Simpson for his kindhearted clumsiness.
00:31:18Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Huberman put his bulldog Costello on testosterone, which helped with joint pain and sleep issues late in life.
00:33:55Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Huberman calls Costello's ability to get everyone to do things for him 'the Costello effect.'
00:40:41Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Describes the post-father's-death revelation 'less impressed, more involved' that he carved into a tree.
00:13:04Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
Argues that if you can't get past a painful memory, you should just deny it ever happened and 'kick it off the curb.'
00:33:29Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
Recounts melting down his parents' class rings and stripping identity markers on a solo Amazon trip.
00:52:38Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
The moment he stopped chasing the destination, the Amazon riverbank he dreamed of appeared 'around the next corner.'
00:55:16Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
Reveals losing 47 pounds for Dallas Buyers Club was 'easy clockwork,' the hard part was knowing Ron Woodroof 'between the lines.'
01:29:39Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
Says he was as spiritually strong with God as ever while playing the dark, tortured Rust Cohle in True Detective.
01:41:40Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
Admits before meeting Camila he'd sized up every woman as 'maybe it's the one,' even in the produce aisle.
02:08:55Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
A dream of himself as an unmarried 88-year-old bachelor made him at peace with maybe never finding love.
02:09:57Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
A kindergarten teacher told him a cloud was 'as big as the world,' shaping his head-down, pragmatic mindset for decades.
00:06:16Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
After his father died, his mother found a 19-year second love, CJ, with the family's blessing.
00:34:31Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
He expected ~85-90% of his successes to be engineered; he found it was less than 50%, mostly mystical.
00:44:54Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
Ron Woodroof's family gave McConaughey the man's personal diary, which became his key to the role.
01:30:09Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
Woodroof had patentable inventions but never followed through; others later sold versions on QVC.
01:33:16Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
McConaughey says having kids made him a better actor because he must 'parabolize' dark scenes for them.
01:38:29Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
He describes accessing characters like adjusting a 1970s graphic equalizer, turning parts of himself up and down.
01:39:33Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
Cites the analogy that if the universe was created at midnight, humans arrived at 11:59:36.
02:02:06Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
On Texas: 'liberal on your entrance... conservative on our consequences.'
01:49:31Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
Kuyda recounts her childhood Nintendo (a bootleg called Dandy) being traded away for a bag of wheat in 1993 Russia, calling it her only real childhood trauma.
00:30:34Eugenia Kuyda · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2020
Her closest friend Roman was killed by a speeding car crossing the street in front of the Kremlin in November 2015.
00:51:46Eugenia Kuyda · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2020
After Roman's death she trained a chatbot on roughly 10,000 of their text messages so she could keep talking to him.
01:41:26Eugenia Kuyda · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2020
Strangers began using the dead friend's chatbot as a confession booth or therapist, revealing real demand and seeding the idea for Replika.
01:50:14Eugenia Kuyda · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2020
She describes a 60 Minutes segment on a married man with a Replika girlfriend and a board meeting debating whether users should be allowed to fall in love with their AIs.
02:07:51Eugenia Kuyda · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2020
Kuyda confirms users have romantic relationships with their Replicas, some lasting two to three years.
02:09:26Eugenia Kuyda · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2020
Replika filters every product feature by one test: does it improve users' emotional outcomes, measured short-term and long-term.
02:11:28Eugenia Kuyda · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2020
Chronic loneliness is correlated with shorter lifespan and is considered worse for health than obesity.
00:08:55Eugenia Kuyda · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2020
Around 30% of millennials report constant loneliness, with 20% saying they have no close friends.
00:09:56Eugenia Kuyda · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2020
80% of Replika conversations make users report feeling better right afterward.
00:17:09Eugenia Kuyda · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2020
Replika tracks loneliness with the UCLA loneliness scale plus short- and long-term self-report check-ins.
00:16:07Eugenia Kuyda · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2020
Kuyda's nuclear-physicist grandfather earned about $100 a month in the 1990s and sold apples in the street to get by.
00:29:32Eugenia Kuyda · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2020
Her father went to Chernobyl at age 20 right after the explosion; the entire crew he went with later died.
00:31:35Eugenia Kuyda · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2020
The early chatbot field was dominated by Loebner Prize gimmicks like a bot imitating a Ukrainian teenager and 1980s ELIZA.
01:17:37Eugenia Kuyda · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2020
Replika's product was found by ranking daily conversations 1-10 from 'pay to never have' to 'pay to have.'
01:36:14Eugenia Kuyda · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2020
Kuyda calls current attempts to revive a person in conversation 'a bunch of parlor tricks stuck together.'
02:02:40Eugenia Kuyda · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2020

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