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Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces | Lex Fridman Podcast #186

Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces | Lex Fridman Podcast #186

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Waking Up

Sam Harris

“very much uh recommend it”
“i started using started meditating using his app waking up but very much uh recommend it it'd be interesting to get data on that”— Lex Fridman
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Deep Work

Cal Newport

“i'm a big fan of uh cal newport his ideas of deep work”
“i'm a big fan of uh cal newport his ideas of deep work that uh i spend uh with few exceptions i try to spend the first two hours”— Lex Fridman
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Zero: A Biography of a Dangerous Idea

Charles Seife (inferred)

“i think it's my favorite book i've ever read”
“i read the book zero a biography of a dangerous idea and i i have a really good book by the way it's i think it's my favorite book i've ever read”— guest
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Athletic Greens

Athletic Greens

“i only take uh athletic greens.com that's like the multivitamin essentially”
“i only take uh athletic athletic greens.com that's like the multivitamin essentially yeah that's like the lazy man”— Lex Fridman

The guest's own work

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Kernel Flow

Kernel

“so what we'll do is so you're wearing kernel flow which is an interface built uh using technology called spectroscopy”— guest
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Kernel Flux

Kernel

“kernel flux our amyg technology is going to give you the full movie in 1080p okay and neuralink is going to give you a circle on the screen of 4k”— guest
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Braintree

Bryan Johnson

“and so then i started braintree and the idea was the online world was broken because paypal had a uh had been acquired by ebay”— guest
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Venmo

Braintree (inferred)

“and then we met up with venmo and they had done a remarkable job in building products then something very counterintuitive”— guest

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Fitbit

Fitbit

“even just like a fitbit that measures i don't know some very basic measurements about your body is really cool but it's the the bandwidth of information”— Lex Fridman
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AlphaGo

DeepMind (inferred)

“i would argue that if you look at alphago when it played go from another dimension with the the human go players when it saw alphago's moves”— guest
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Douglas Adams

“whereas dirk gently the holistic detective by douglas adams says i don't like eliminating the impossible”— guest
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GPT-3

OpenAI (inferred)

“what if we gave gpt3 a bunch of human brains and said hey gpt3 learn some manners when you speak”— guest
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Neuralink

Neuralink

“he has a company in one of the many companies called neuralink that has uh that's also excited about the brain”— Lex Fridman
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Coinbase

Coinbase

“i think we were the first company to integrate coinbase into our i think we were the first payments company to formally incorporate uh crypto”— guest
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Braveheart

Mel Gibson (inferred)

“i just looked up braveheart speech and william wallace but i know you've seen it fighting you may die run and you'll live”— Lex Fridman
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Finite and Infinite Games

James Carse

“james karst wrote the book finite games infinite games the only game to play right now is to keep playing the game”— guest