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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?
https://youtu.be/lOz3wDhGA3Y
Mark Zuckerberg on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
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Re: Mark Zuckerberg on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
#62FYI: Lex Fridman mentioned on multiple podcasts how much he admires Putin, and how one of his life goals is to interview him. Which apparently will happen soon. He also didn't condemn the invasion, just basically said that "war is bad", as if both sides are equally to blame.
>Lex Fridman mentioned on multiple podcasts how much he admires Putin
I think that is a distortion of Lex's opinions.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
#63https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1496906468695724036 I’m not sure if he’s extremely naive or completely delusional.
Why do you say that? He managed to get Elon Musk and other heavy hitters on before hardly anyone was aware of who Lex was. Whose to say what the limits are.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
#64FYI: Lex Fridman mentioned on multiple podcasts how much he admires Putin, and how one of his life goals is to interview him. Which apparently will happen soon. He also didn't condemn the invasion, just basically said that "war is bad", as if both sides are equally to blame.
Admiration for Putin is frankly despicable.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
#65It 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'm also curious how Lex managed the get the calibre of guests he did right off the bat. I understand he was some kind of MIT whizkid, but I don't know much about him beyond that.
All his degrees are from Drexel University. He goes to lengths to hide, or at least obfuscate, that fact.
Source: went to school with him.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
#66Is there any video player which allow to blur some parts of the video in real time (I don't want go through editing). One hour is way too much for me (yes, 2x for me) and I'd still like to see Lex's reactions?
What do you mean blur?
If you’re watching in a web browser you can always open an inspector and add a css rule to the video player “filter: blur(2px)” but I feel like that’s not what you’re asking :)
Re: Mark Zuckerberg on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
#67It 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'm also curious how Lex managed the get the calibre of guests he did right off the bat. I understand he was some kind of MIT whizkid, but I don't know much about him beyond that.
"Right off the bat"? He started uploading interviews to Youtube 7 years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/c/lexfridman/videos?view=0&sort=da&f...
Re: Mark Zuckerberg on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
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I'm also curious how Lex managed the get the calibre of guests he did right off the bat. I understand he was some kind of MIT whizkid, but I don't know much about him beyond that.
All his degrees are from Drexel University. He goes to lengths to hide, or at least obfuscate, that fact. Source: went to school with him.
Then he got a postdoc at MIT.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
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All his degrees are from Drexel University. He goes to lengths to hide, or at least obfuscate, that fact. Source: went to school with him.
Then he got a postdoc at MIT.
you don't 'get a postdoc'. It's not a degree. It's a job you get that requires a PhD. It's a form a purgatory until you can get a real academic job.
The goal of a post doc is to continue to do research work where you're the first position on publications to pad your CV to the point where it looks impressive enough when you're out giving job talks for tenure track positions.
If you have a very strong PhD thesis, produced a lot of good work during your PhD and made enough connections, you can skip that step.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
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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.
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