This film or show by Bethesda has come up 6 times on Lex Fridman. 5 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Bobby Lee, George Hotz, Lex Fridman, Todd Howard. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2021-07-19 and the most recent from 2023-06-29. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Every time it came up
George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387
“Skyrim and GTA 5. Skyrim yeah that's probably number one for me”— George Hotz
The guest here is George Hotz: Hacker famous for jailbreaking the iPhone and PS3; founder of comma.ai (self-driving) and tiny corp (tinygrad neural-network framework). Briefly an 'intern' at Twitter under Elon Musk. George Hotz returns for a wide-ranging, contrarian talk on AI doom, open-source as the only safe path, tinygrad, decentralizing compute, and standing eye to eye with God.
Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield | Lex Fridman Podcast #342
“Skyrim's 11 years old, still probably our most played game. And so we don't see it slowing down.”— Todd Howard
The guest here is Todd Howard: Game director and executive producer at Bethesda Game Studios, widely regarded as one of the greatest video game designers of all time. He has led the Elder Scrolls and Fallout franchises, including Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3 and 4, and the new space RPG Starfield. Legendary game director Todd Howard takes Lex Fridman deep into how Bethesda builds living open worlds, from Daggerfall to Starfield and the long-awaited Elder Scrolls VI.
John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets | Lex Fridman Podcast #309
“I'm a fan of role playing games the Elder Scroll series like Skyrim or even Daggerfall it just takes you to another world”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is John Carmack: Co-founder and lead programmer at id Software, widely considered one of the greatest programmers ever, behind Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake. Former CTO of Oculus VR and now founder of an AGI startup. Legendary programmer John Carmack spends over five hours with Lex Fridman on Doom, Quake, VR, rockets, and his all-in bet on building AGI.
Bobby Lee: Comedy, Skyrim, Sex Robots, Love, Fame, and Power | Lex Fridman Podcast #287
“in terms of video games Elder Scrolls yeah did you play that yeah of course it's probably my favorite game if I could live in a world”— Bobby Lee
The guest here is Bobby Lee: Korean-American stand-up comedian and former Mad TV cast member who co-hosts the TigerBelly and Bad Friends podcasts. Known for absurdist, dark, deeply personal comedy. Comedian Bobby Lee opens up to Lex Fridman about addiction, a recent near-death rock bottom, love, childhood trauma, fame, and Skyrim.
Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media & the Future of Humans and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #218
“i really like the elder scrolls series it's a role-playing game uh skyrim for example why do i enjoy so deeply just walking around that world”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Jaron Lanier: Computer scientist, artist, musician and writer widely credited as a founding father of virtual reality. A prominent critic of social media business models and author of books like 'Who Owns the Future?' and 'Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now.'. VR pioneer Jaron Lanier argues there's no real AI, social media's incentives make us cruel, and human dignity must come before algorithms.
Konstantin Batygin: Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System | Lex Fridman Podcast #201
“there's a game called uh skyrim it's an elder scrolls role playing game and i just uh i played it for quite a bit”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Konstantin Batygin: Planetary astrophysicist at Caltech and a leading proponent of the Planet Nine hypothesis. With collaborator Mike Brown he argued that clustered orbits of distant Kuiper Belt objects point to an unseen distant planet about five Earth masses. Caltech astrophysicist Konstantin Batygin explains the gravitational case for Planet Nine and the strange icy frontier at the edge of our solar system.
