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Lex Fridman: belief

31 Dec 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #488 – Infinity, Paradoxes that Broke Mathematics, Gödel Incompleteness & the Multiverse – Joel David Hamkins

“Oh, man. Well, that’s the only way to judge a person, I think. That’s, I think, objectively correct.”

— Lex Fridman

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Lex Fridman
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belief
Recorded
31 Dec 2025
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Lex Fridman Podcast

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…I wanted to know, first of all, what is his chess rating, and secondly, what is his MathOverflow score? Oh, man. Well, that’s the only way to judge a person, I think. That’s, I think, objectively correct. Yeah. I mean, since you bring up chess, I’ve got to ask you about infinite chess. I can’t let you go. You’ve, I mean, you’ve worked on a million things, but infinite chess is one of them. Somebody asked on MathOverflow for the mathematical definition of chess. Right.…

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