This film or show by HBO has come up 6 times on Lex Fridman. 6 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Dan Kokotov, Lex Fridman, guest. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-03-03 and the most recent from 2022-11-22. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Every time it came up
Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road | Lex Fridman Podcast #340
“shows like Chernobyl from HBO made me realize okay you can do a good job of a difficult story and reveal the human side but also reveal the technical side”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Chris Tarbell: Former FBI special agent and cybercrime specialist who tracked down and arrested Ross Ulbricht (Dread Pirate Roberts) of Silk Road and Hector Monsegur (Sabu) of LulzSec and Anonymous. He is now co-founder of the cybersecurity firm Naxo and co-hosts the podcast The Hacker and the Fed. The FBI agent who took down Silk Road and Anonymous's Sabu tells the technical and human story of hunting cybercriminals.
Roger Reaves: Smuggling Drugs for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel | Lex Fridman Podcast #199
“there's a there's a series called Chernobyl done by HBO... they did an incredible job of being historically accurate”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Roger Reaves: One of history's most prolific drug smugglers, a pilot who flew countless tons of cocaine and marijuana for Pablo Escobar and Jorge Ochoa's Medellin Cartel, employer of Barry Seal, and author of the memoir 'Smuggler.'. A legendary cartel pilot recounts smuggling tons of cocaine for Escobar, surviving Mexican torture, and escaping five prisons across the globe.
Natalya Bailey: Rocket Engines and Electric Spacecraft Propulsion | Lex Fridman Podcast #157
“based on the excellent hbo series russian with the chernobyl it seems like we have our risk estimation about this particular power drastically inaccurate”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Natalya Bailey: Rocket scientist and spacecraft propulsion engineer, formerly at MIT, now founder and CTO of Accion Systems, which builds efficient electric propulsion engines for satellites and spacecraft. Rocket scientist Natalya Bailey breaks down in-space electric propulsion, nanoscale colloid thrusters, and why knowledge may be the meaning of life.
Dan Kokotov: Speech Recognition with AI and Humans | Lex Fridman Podcast #151
“if you look at the the show hbo show chernobyl it's a really good story of how bureaucracy you know uh leads to catastrophic events”— Dan Kokotov
The guest here is Dan Kokotov: VP of Engineering at Rev.ai, the speech-to-text company behind Rev.com's human captioning/transcription and its ASR engine. A programmer-turned-manager who immigrated from Russia in 1991. Rev's VP of engineering explains how AI and human transcribers combine to build the world's best speech-to-text engine.
Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion | Lex Fridman Podcast #121
“but yeah but the tv show was just phenomenal i mean yeah it's definitely first of all it's an incredible”— guest
The guest here is Eugenia Kuyda: Co-founder and CEO of Replika, an app that lets users build a chatbot AI friend that connects emotionally. A former Russian investigative journalist who created the first version of the tech to memorialize a close friend who died. Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda on loneliness, losing her best friend, and building an AI companion born from grief.
Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science | Lex Fridman Podcast #77
“there's a brilliant series called Chernobyl yes this one tested how so you spec talk I think I mean as eyes are I mean they got so many things brilliant”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Alex Garland: British writer and director of philosophical science-fiction films including Ex Machina, Annihilation, and the series Devs. Known for weaving rigorous science and philosophy into mainstream cinema. Filmmaker Alex Garland and Lex Fridman explore AI, consciousness, free will, and the poetry of science behind Ex Machina, Annihilation, and Devs.
