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that's why he gets the best guests. He doesn't make it about him. It's like "here, I'm giving you a platform and I will interject only occasionally. "
That's a part of his facade. He is good at listening, which he has picked up from Rogan
How so? I stopped listening to his podcasts because he often does not listen very closely and completely misjudges what a guest says.
I’m stoked for VR to gain more adoption so I can hang with my friends who live across the country. That’s the killer app for me - a platform that all my friends use so we can have spontaneous casual hang outs!
that's a great idea! let's call it something simple, like just "Hangouts" Then to solve adoption, let's make it a website so people can visit it without installing anything! And maybe if it could be spearheaded by a large company like Google, that'd be even better! Personally I'd love a service where I could drop in and out of one of these "Google Hangouts" throughout the day, maybe even made accessible by removing t…
There needs to be a reason to hang out. Maybe I’m playing a game or watching sports front row or working on my golf swing in VR, then I see a friend come online and voila we link up!
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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.
He is also one of the most boring interviewers on youtubes, he's great to listen if you have insomnia and want to fall asleep. To be fair Lex deserves some lenience because English isn't his native language, but I'm still surprised that his podcast got so popular that it has.
I don't want to hear him tell jokes or try to be a comedian.
One robot interviews another. Who will pass the Turing Test? Lex has access like no other. Such a great interviewer.
Zelensky seems more likely.
1 - Zuck really, really is all in on the metaverse thing. I was never sure if it was his idea, or he sees a trend, etc, but now I'm convinced it's all his idea. I find it odd but interesting someone with essentially unlimited real life resources seeks such escape.
1.5 - I think he also overestimates its success. He pretty much sees everyone using it for work, gaming, friend interactions, etc. I just can't see it being so ubiquitous. Also saying people will spend as much on virtual clothes as real clothes feels offbase, but maybe I'm wrong.
2 - I was a little frustrated because he seemed so... unemotional. Being asked about bullying, suicides... most things that would make people stop, think, or even choke up...Zuck just started into his spiels never really answering the questions well. Unsure if it's perhaps just because he's been asked so many times he has it loaded. Seems very inauthentic.
3 - The negative sum thing was interesting. He basically said any choice they make lowers people's opinions on FB, because the side that agrees just thinks 'about time' or 'at least they didn't screw this one up', whereas the side that disagrees gets angry. May sound basic to some, but I never really considered it before.
4 - It was nice to see Zuck -finally- show emotion toward the end, talking about family time and death. A side of him I don't think many people have ever seen. For the first time, he actually looked pensive and even perhaps distraught before answering. Though I did kinda laugh when he said it's weird he used to care about his company most before he had a family, but now it's probably his family. Something so obvious being presented as an aha moment felt...weird.
How does he even get all these people to come on his podcast?
Low risk (due to him not challenging people in ways that could expose them), and high impact, I'd say.
Sometimes it works well (e.g. the Jim Keller eps), often not. I have a feeling this will be one of those times where it doesn't work.
FYI: 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.
Having finally watched the whole thing, just writing some thoughts below...for those who maybe didn't or can't watch. 1 - Zuck really, really is all in on the metaverse thing. I was never sure if it was his idea, or he sees a trend, etc, but now I'm convinced it's all his idea. I find it odd but interesting someone with essentially unlimited real life resources seeks such escape. 1.5 - I think he also overestimates i…
Wow! He said he's going to interview putin! that made my heart skip.... Fuck zuck, i wanna watch that one.
I like Lex but his awe for Putin turns me off big time, Putin is intelligent (to leverage and maintain power), no doubt, but he’s a thug after all, a thug who became one of the world’s richest men by embezzlement pretty much.
Russia was a super power with some of the best engineers in the world. Today it needs to use war to keep another Slav country on its side. Even the UK keeps the commonwealth in place even with very diverse countries that used to be forced colonies.
To not have a conscience does not make you intelligent. Russia should be economically and socially way more developed that it currently is. To sell gas is not high tech.
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This is interesting. There was a time when I became aware of Eric Weinstein via Joe Rogan and Eric seemed to be pointing to things I'd recognized and couldn't name, and other things I hadn't recognized but could see when he pointed them out to me. It felt enlightening: here's a concealed underlying pattern that I have now unconcealed for you. Then after that, and after starting his own podcast, and after coming out w…
Thanks for putting it so well. There are certainly some concepts that haven't been talked about in the public discourse and are true, the most important probably being the Russel-conjugation. And he's always been a bit whacky, but that was his thing, that we should be more tolerant towards whacky people and I still think this is true. But at some point Eric went from whacky to crazy and it kind of breaks my heart.
https://tomdehnel.com/what-is-russell-conjugation/
> Russel used the following examples to describe the phenomenon:
> • I am firm, you are obstinate, he is a pig-headed fool.
> • I am righteously indignant, you are annoyed, he is making a fuss over nothing.
> • I have reconsidered the matter, you have changed your mind, he has gone back on his word.
> Russell Conjugations don’t always have to follow the “I, you, they” formula either. In fact, you’re more likely to encounter them in more subtle ways:
> • A politician you support reconsidered the matter in light of new evidence, but the politician you don’t support flip-flopped.
> • You negotiated boldly, but your coworker wasn’t being a team player.
> • Your own child is self-assured, but the neighbor’s son is a brat.