This film or show by MicroProse / Sid Meier came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Demis Hassabis. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Every time it came up
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Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games | Lex Fridman Podcast #475
“my favorite one of all time”
“Well, my favorite one of all time is Civilization. I have to say that that was the Civilization 1 and Civilization 2. My favorite games of all time.”— Demis Hassabis
The guest here is Demis Hassabis: CEO and co-founder of Google DeepMind and a Nobel Prize winner (for AlphaFold). A former chess prodigy and video game designer turned AI researcher exploring intelligence, the simulation of reality, and the deepest questions of physics and biology. Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis on AGI by 2030, modeling reality with classical learning, video games, science, and the nature of life.
00:28:292025-07-23
