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Re: Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?

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I can't find the link but there was a podcast earlier in the year, around February I think, with Bob Iger and the strategy for Disney and Disney+. It's stayed with me as the timing for the launch was almost perfect with the lockdown 1 starting here in the UK.

The Coffee with the Greats episode?

https://castbox.fm/vb/334490959

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?

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I loved this interview Lex Fridman had with George Hotz. He's very opinionated original thinker with the credentials to back it up. He runs comma.ai, sellers of a device that can plug into many cars and drive for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwcYp-XT7UI&list=PLrAXtmErZg...

I really enjoyed the ones with Manolis Kellis, particularly number 2: https://youtu.be/t06rkOOUa7g Manolis seems such a genuinely nice person, who's also super clever

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?

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https://computingup.com/ episode Artificial death was a good one.

Thanks for the recommendation--I'm listening to it now and enjoying it. It's inspiring me to want to create my own simulation in R. This was a good quote: "if you think things are static, you aren't looking big enough".

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?

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I'm listening now and enjoying it. Very relatable as I have an 80s horror movie I saw one scene of when I was a kid and I still have not been able to find it. Haunts me to this day. A family is outside all afraid and some force is tugging a chain into the sky.

I had a scene that haunted me as a kid and I thought there was no way I'd ever find it (literally had little more than the fading scenes from the dreams). And this year I found it. I'd always remembered it wasn't a cartoon or live action - but something in between. So it turns out it was the scenes of 'death' from Jim Henson's "The Storyteller". Just something about the creepy face that did it as a kid. Was definitel…

Wow and yes that must have been a surreal moment. Your anticdote gives me hope that I'll find my missing scene!

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?

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1. Tiny Habits for Behavior Change with BJ Fogg - The One You Feed Podcast

https://www.oneyoufeed.net/tiny-habits/

I'm a big fan of BG Fogg and his Fogg Behavioural Model for understanding behaviour change.

2. Jim Collins on The Value of Small Gestures, Unseen Sources of Power, and More - The Tim Ferris Show

https://tim.blog/2020/11/30/jim-collins-returns/

I also recommend Jim Collins' earlier episode on Tim's podcast.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?

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Credentials? Lex has no such thing. Hes an imposter leveraging his association with MIT. His work was never peer reviewed and he shills for tesla. When he was called out on this he started to sensor people on twitter for highlighting these facts. Lex is a fraud. I can't believe how easily some people are duped into belief. But then I remember Joe rogan probably has the biggest podcast flowing on earth.

Forgive my ignorance, but why do you believe he is a fraud? There are a lot of public 'scientists' who have never been peer-reviewed. I have enjoyed listening to quite a bit of Lex's content and to say 'Lex is a fraud' without any proof strikes me as unfair. I did a quick search to try to check your assertions but didn't find anything troubling. My only gripe about Lex is that he is annoyingly good at SEO and I find…

He is shilling for the tesla. Non of his research is worth the paper it's written on. He has no solid acediemia and he oversells his weak ties to MIT via marketing which is build on lies. Do the research, there's plenty of content online about this guy, and the rest of the Rogan network shilling people out of their cash.

https://amp.reddit.com/r/thefighterandthekid/comments/jinaos...

Lex kisses rogans ass hard because he knows its going to get him more followers he can exploit.

On a personal level, I find lex to be dull and offer little to no insight in the tech realm. Just another dude who got on board the AI hype train and is trying to ride it into dollar bill land at the expense of people who lack critical thinking abilities when it comes to this kind of stuff. An endorsement is not always a true seal of quality.

Edit - let's not forget the censorship an blocking people on twitter. Lex is a shill.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?

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Credentials? Lex has no such thing. Hes an imposter leveraging his association with MIT. His work was never peer reviewed and he shills for tesla. When he was called out on this he started to sensor people on twitter for highlighting these facts. Lex is a fraud. I can't believe how easily some people are duped into belief. But then I remember Joe rogan probably has the biggest podcast flowing on earth.

I think OP meant to speak about George Hotz's credentials.

No I meant Lex Fraudman. Hotz is good in my book, the guy can actuary write code an has pulled sonys pants Down in a major embarsment for them. Kudos to hotz

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?

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Credentials? Lex has no such thing. Hes an imposter leveraging his association with MIT. His work was never peer reviewed and he shills for tesla. When he was called out on this he started to sensor people on twitter for highlighting these facts. Lex is a fraud. I can't believe how easily some people are duped into belief. But then I remember Joe rogan probably has the biggest podcast flowing on earth.

Wow, I sense some serious hate there, but I'm still wondering what your actual issue with people making podcasts is.

I have no issue with people whom create podcasts. You're asking the wrong questions and making the wrong assumptions. One has to wonder about your own shortcomings and sidestep this discourse. Thanks for your (lack of) input.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Credentials? Lex has no such thing. Hes an imposter leveraging his association with MIT. His work was never peer reviewed and he shills for tesla. When he was called out on this he started to sensor people on twitter for highlighting these facts. Lex is a fraud. I can't believe how easily some people are duped into belief. But then I remember Joe rogan probably has the biggest podcast flowing on earth.

What fraud are podcast hosts committing? I listen to him for the guest, they look real enough and not AI generated.

Is this a poor attempt at humor? I hope for your sake you're autistic because you've a long road ahead if you're not getting additional support

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?

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You're Wrong About episode [0] about Disco Demolition Night [1] 0: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1112270/4815227-disco-demolition-... 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Demolition_Night

You're Wrong About is probably my favorite podcast discovery of the last year. I generally dislike shows with the format of "the host reads a few articles and pretends to be an expert on it." But they do an above-average job on this show.

I haven't listened to the Disco Demolition Night episode. There was a good treatment of it years ago on the short-lived Gimlet podcast Undone: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/undone

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