Lex Fridman

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There are 7,000+ known living languages. This diagram shows the # of native speakers for each language. More people speak a dialect of Chinese than speak English natively. This makes me wonder how much is lost in translation.

Source: SCMP data on 6.3 billion people (of 7.9 billion).

I got to spend all day today with Jensen in Taiwan: talking with thousands of engineers and eating street food at a night market. Jensen is received as a rockstar in Taiwan, like it's Beatles in the 60's. It's mind-blowing and fun to watch. But most importantly, through all the interactions and all my conversations with him, he remained the same humble, kind, thoughtful, funny guy he always was, even as a kid who went to these same night markets many years ago.

Btw, we tried a crazy amount of different street food. It's legit some of the most delicious food I've ever had. I can't wait to share video of it, including a ton of our conversations and hangout. When I can pause for a moment from all the travel to edit the video, I'll post it.

Can't wait to continue talking to Jensen and engineers at Computex this week, and exploring more of Taiwan, and of course roaming the night markets for some more delicious street food.

Days like these, even more than usual, I feel like the luckiest kid in the world.

Love you all! ❤️

CC: NVIDIA, Jensen Huang, NVIDIA Taiwan

I've been watching this video over & over.

I gives me so much hope for the future of humanity.

Humans are awesome ❤

This happened. Podcast out tomorrow (Tue) at 1pm EDT.

The band is back together again! 🤣 Two of my favorite humans on Earth.

Human interaction is complicated.

I did an impromptu training session with Elon Musk for a few hours yesterday. I'm extremely impressed with his strength, power, and skill, on the feet and on the ground. It was epic. It's really inspiring to see Elon and Mark doing martial arts, but I think the world is served far better if they train martial arts but not fight in the cage. That said, as Elon says, the most entertaining outcome is the most likely... I'm there for them, no matter what.

“The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts.“ – Marcus Aurelius

School should teach HOW to think more than WHAT to think.

I'm grateful to be alive ❤️

I got to train with Khabib Nurmagomedov yesterday. This was an honor of a lifetime for me. He's a great fighter & leader and a great human being.

From a grappling perspective, I don't think I've ever experienced this much top pressure in my life.

I'll post the footage of the training in a few days. And also we'll do a long podcast (and dub it in multiple languages).

In general, it was an incredible experience to train with the team and get to know many of the fighters from Dagestan. All are great people.

For me, it's never okay to betray a friend. Not for any amount of money, power, sex, or fame.

Great lifelong friendships is one of the most awesome aspects of our time here on Earth.

I meditate on my mortality every day when I wake up. I imagine that this is the last day I get to live on this Earth, because one day it will be, and that day could be today. It helps bring clarity about what matters.

I'm grateful to be alive. Life is beautiful.

I love you all.

I'm slowly learning that some people who are intelligent & kind in real-life can be real assholes online.

I hope this changes as social media algorithms improve. But in the mean time, I'll just take stuff said online less seriously.

Love you all ❤

It's on!

I'm traveling the world for a bit, starting with China but then hopping around the globe, anywhere. Open to any adventure. No plans, only a backpack. Hoping to meet & get to know humans from all walks of life. The pic is from a long hike on the Great Wall. For me, as a fan of history, this was an epic experience.

In China, first I'm visiting a few big cities & talking to engineers at the heart of China's AI revolution. After that, if feeling crazy enough, I'm hitchhiking (first time) across rural China for a few weeks. Hitchhiking because I think it's the best way to meet rural folks who I would otherwise never get the chance to meet. I hope to do the same in US and other places.

I have a request, if you have a travel recommendation, fill out the form(s) below if you feel like it. Or share with folks who might have advice about such travel.

Form 1 - travel recommendation:
If you can, recommend to me an interesting place I should visit anywhere in the world. For this, fill out form 1. Not touristy stuff, but something off the beaten path, that tourists may not know about, but is legendary. It could be as remote as meeting a herder in the mountains who is a local legend. Asia, Middle East, Europe, India, South/North America, Africa, Australia, anywhere. In China, I'm hoping to visit maybe Heibei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan, etc, so recommendations for spots to visit are helpful.

Form 2 - coffee:
If you want to grab a coffee with me anywhere in the world, fill out form 2 (please don't use form 1 for that).

Anyway, I hectically tossed stuff in backpack. Realizing I don't have a clear plan of any kind, which is probably the only way to do it. LFG.

Love you all ❤️

Form 1 - travel recommendation:
https://lnkd.in/gKf9drJw

Form 2 - coffee:
https://lnkd.in/g-QwKcmG

General contact:
https://lnkd.in/gn4fXa2K

LLMs have made learning a lot more fun for me. It hasn't made me lazier (yet) as I might've expected. I find myself being more curious, and learning a lot more per day. This is a bit surprising to me, and awesome.

Same goes for programming. Removing all the code I generate with LLMs from consideration (which is a lot), the amount of code I write on top of that has also increased. Again, to me, this is surprising.

I think it's because I'm more energized and excited by the overall productivity boost.

Anyway, we live in exciting times!

It was an honor to hang out with Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, and do a long-form podcast with him. Really fun & fascinating technical deep-dive conversation on & off the mic. One of the most brilliant & thoughtful human beings I've ever met. NVIDIA is the most valuable company in the world by market cap and is the engine powering the AI revolution.

Podcast probably out tomorrow (Monday), unless I get stuck in too many interesting conversations while running around in SF ;-)

PS: I haven't checked my messages in days. Sorry for slow replies 🙏 Trying to stay deeply focused in an overwhelmingly intense time & barely hanging on. Love you all! ❤️

I stand with Joe Rogan. It is not a coincidence that the attacks calling him racist come as pressure on Spotify to censor builds.

Politicians & the media profit on division & outrage. They fuel the extremes that make us believe we're divided. We're not. We're in this together.

Nobody has life figured out.

People need love more than they need advice. Most people know the right thing to do, they just need someone to believe in them.

Forgive people who did you wrong. Forgiveness is liberating.

I was just made aware that the last two podcasts I did with George Hotz are exactly the same duration, to the second 🤯 Notice how the topics include:
- Hacking the simulation
- AGI & God

This universe is full of strange coincidences 👀

Love and truth will win in the end.

Simplify everything down to the essential.

It was great meeting a fellow Texan Tim Kennedy here in Ukraine. I'm inspired by his never-ending willingness to help people in need, even in the most dangerous situations.

Kyiv is beautiful. I'm spending my days here in Kyiv talking with Ukrainian people about life, love, war, and hope. Some of it is recorded, most is not. I'm trying to understand things that can only be understood by being here. Love you all.

Vladimir Putin, Elon Musk, and me as moderator & translator would be a good conversation.

I'm learning to STFU until I understand deeply.

It's better to read, learn, think, before speaking.

My brain's LLM has a latency of days, weeks, and sometimes years.

Here's my conversation with Mark Zuckerberg, his 2nd time on the podcast. We talk about the future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, both near-term open source development of AI and the journey of human civilization toward building AGI.

“Some lose all mind and become soul: insane. Some lose all soul and become mind: intellectual. Some lose both and become accepted.“ - Charles Bukowski

Keep both, and hold on 🤣❤

There are a lot of hours in a day, plenty to get stuff done if you focus.

Python 2 is now officially retired. Python 3 was released 11 years ago. Watching companies and research communities transition for way longer than expected is yet another reminder that change is hard, especially change that breaks backward compatibility.
>>> print “Goodbye World“

I got a chance to witness the Neuralink demo in person today & chat with brilliant folks from all over including Elon Musk. I'm really impressed by the visit. The Neuralink team is taking on some of the most exciting challenges in engineering & science today.

The brain is the only organ that named itself.

I'll be doing a podcast at the end of the month with ThePrimeagen all about programming. He is a great programmer and hilarious human being 🔥

In general, I have a bunch of super-technical podcasts coming up on programming… probably with @dhh (creator of rails), @taylorotwell (creator of laravel), @rough__sea (creator of node & deno), @rauchg (creator of next.js), @ashtom (ceo of github) and many more (sorry if I forgot people, going off the top of my head).

This post is primarily about software, but in general, my goal is to celebrate great engineering and great engineers from all walks of life 🚀🔥

Oh and if anyone knows how to get in touch with Linus Torvalds, let me know. Obviously, I would love to talk to him. The link to contact me is: https://lnkd.in/gCvMseBF

As part of all this, here are the languages & frameworks I'm trying (for each, building something simple but sufficiently complicated to test its cool features):
- rust
- go
- zig
- elixir
- next.js & vercel
- laravel
- rails
- mojo
- deno
- jai
- odin

Also, I have to force myself to try neovim at some point 😭🤣

For context, I'm a python & c/c++ guy, plus php, js, sql (of all flavors) for webdev. I tend to favor focusing on building fast (and fun) vs the language/tool choice, but there is still a lot to learn from each of these technologies.

Outside of the podcast, one of my goals for 2025 is to ship some code (system, service, app) that will bring value to some number of people's lives (whether I do this solo or as part of a team). This makes me happy. I love talking to people and I love programming. I've been doing a lot of the former, and this year I hope to add to that a bit of the latter too ;-)

If you have questions or suggestions, for languages or for technical guests, please let me know.

I'm doing a podcast with the Cursor team. If you have questions / feature requests to discuss (including super-technical topics) let me know!

For those not familiar, Cursor is a code editor based on VSCode that adds a lot of powerful features for AI-assisted coding.

I've been using Cursor and love it, so I thought why not talk to the team. The founders are a bunch of brilliant folks from MIT.

This conversation will be bigger than just about Cursor, but more generally about the future of programming with AI.

Bitcoin is the future currency of Earth.
Dogecoin is the future currency of Mars.

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.“ - Aristotle

This month is insane for programming:
Fable 5
Grok 4.5
GPT-5.6
Gemini 3.5 Pro

What a time to be alive, and to build! Crazy how much programming has changed in 8 months.

PS: Grok 4.5 in Cursor is really fun to program with btw, probably because it's fast & token efficient, and is smart enough for most tasks. It does feel Opus-level. Amazing journey for Elon and xAI team.

PS2: I've been genuinely mind-blown by how smart Fable 5 in Claude Code has been. Probably best to use as planner & reviewer, not implementer, too expensive otherwise.

I'm excited to see what people build in the coming months 🔥

I wish the brain had a “configure settings“ menu where I could adjust various cognitive and behavioral aspects (ex: social anxiety levels) depending on situation. Then again, the challenge of dealing with the weirdness of the personality “cards“ I'm dealt is part of the fun 🤔

Me in 2nd grade. Not much changed.

Ensemble of neural networks:

I stand with the people of Iran ❤️

I have a lot of Iranian friends, including my childhood best friend. Amazing people.

It's one of the great cultures and peoples in the history of the world.

Stay strong ❤️

I was sent here by a distant alien civilization to study humans.

Here's my conversation with Kevin Spacey, a two-time Oscar winning actor, who has created powerful haunting performances of characters who often embody the dark side of human nature.

As I've said before, I will talk to everyone, with empathy and with backbone. I won't whitewash their sins, but I won't reduce them to a worst-possible-caricature of their sins either. This is what outrage mobs and click-bait journalists too often do, rushing to judgment before the facts are in. I will try to do better than that: to respect due process in service of the truth. And I hope to have the courage to always think independently, and to speak honestly and with compassion, even when the eyes of the outrage mob are on me.

We discuss the allegations in this conversation and reference further details. Briefly: 7 years ago, Kevin Spacey was canceled, when Anthony Rapp made a sexual allegation against him, and then filed a civil lawsuit seeking $40 million dollars. In this trial and all civil and criminal trials that followed, Kevin was acquitted. He has never been found guilty nor liable in the court of law.

Again, my goal is to understand human beings, at their best and at their worst. And the hope is such understanding leads to more compassion and wisdom in the world.

I will make mistakes, and when I do, I will work hard to improve.

I love you all.

The more I learn, the less I know. I've accepted this, and am now just enjoying the ride.