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Mark Zuckerberg on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]

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Re: Mark Zuckerberg on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]

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Post by kaesar14 »

VirusNewbie wrote: post #18
kaesar14 wrote: post #4

It sucks that the Lex podcast has maybe the best guests of any podcast out there right now and he's such a terrible interviewer. Seriously, give me this guest list with Rogan on the other side any day of the week.

I used to get similarly frustrated at Lex’s interviewing style compared to say, Sean Carol’s (mindscape podcast). I realized that Lex isn’t really doing interviews; he’s having guests on to converse and shoot the shit with. He will regularly talk about his own ideas and bounce them off the guests, which is quite atypical. However if you think of it as getting to listen to two friends just chatting or having a beer, i…

Then I’m still frustrated that better interviewers don’t get to talk to these people.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]

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Post by VirusNewbie »

kaesar14 wrote: post #31
VirusNewbie wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to get similarly frustrated at Lex’s interviewing style compared to say, Sean Carol’s (mindscape podcast). I realized that Lex isn’t really doing interviews; he’s having guests on to converse and shoot the shit with. He will regularly talk about his own ideas and bounce them off the guests, which is quite atypical. However if you think of it as getting to listen to two friends just chatting or having a beer, i…

Then I’m still frustrated that better interviewers don’t get to talk to these people.

But it would be a totally different conversation. Sean Carrol and Lex have both interviewed Wolfram, same discussion but done in a different way. I quite like that sometimes you get to hear Lex actually work through the implications or understanding of what the interviewee claims, rather than just being a listener.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]

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Post by LinuxBender »

I can see value in the future of VR/AR but I am curious about a few things.

- Will there be a balance of open source self hosted VR/AR solutions or will Meta dominate all of this? Along that line do any of the hardware developers provide unrestricted open source SDK's that are easy for developers to integrate into their software?

- Will everyone have to be tied into Meta and tracked around everything they do and Meta tracking everything that everyone looks at with transcripts of every conversation everyone has?

- How will companies incentivize all people to adopt this? Will this be dominated by introverts? Will I see the same variety of personality types in VR that I see in real life? I ask because VRChat is dominated by a specific sub-set of personality types or at least that was my experience.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]

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Post by purple_ferret »

hatware wrote: post #13
kaesar14 wrote: post #4

It sucks that the Lex podcast has maybe the best guests of any podcast out there right now and he's such a terrible interviewer. Seriously, give me this guest list with Rogan on the other side any day of the week.

Apples and oranges. I think Lex is a fine interviewer considering his background, and short time podcasting. Can you provide examples of him being a terrible interviewer?

He asks the same questions and gets the same answers for half of every interview. People are going to give you a variation of the same answer for 'what is the meaning of life,' and it gets old after a couple interviews. He's also fairly opinionated and repeats the same opinions over and over.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]

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Post by emerged »

kaesar14 wrote: post #4

It sucks that the Lex podcast has maybe the best guests of any podcast out there right now and he's such a terrible interviewer. Seriously, give me this guest list with Rogan on the other side any day of the week.

I always have the sense that Lex thinks himself several tiers more intelligent than he actually is. So most of the interviews I have this cringe facepalm feeling which is distracting. Joe Rogan is super self deprecating which helps counter that feeling.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]

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Post by briHass »

kaesar14 wrote: post #4

It sucks that the Lex podcast has maybe the best guests of any podcast out there right now and he's such a terrible interviewer. Seriously, give me this guest list with Rogan on the other side any day of the week.

I hate to admit it, but I tend to agree. In my opinion, Lex has actually gotten worse as he has done more interviews. Now, he seems to feel comfortable taking up huge chunks of the conversation with incoherent non-sequiturs. He tends to do better when the topic is math/AI related (due to his knowledge) and does worse the farther the topic is from that narrow focus.

Rogan started off bad, but he became an excellent interviewer up until the last 2 years or so. I listened to a few podcasts of his from pre-2020 recently, and there's a clear difference in quality.

Rogan has annoying quirks, favorite anecdotes, and tangents, but as you said, his core interviewing skills are top-notch. Lex has always been robotic and socially awkward; forcing new questions or topic jumps just as the guest gets into an interesting flow.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]

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Post by mark_l_watson »

jarlab wrote: post #24

How does he even get all these people to come on his podcast?

Lex is a good interviewer. I started watching his MIT AI class videos years ago. He had a good skill of inviting interesting people to the classes. He also seems very media savvy. I often don’t have time for complete interviews so I sometimes look out for his shorter clips on YouTube.
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