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https://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.
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.
I just listened to the Zuckerberg interview. It got so much better in the last third when both of them seemed more relaxed. Too bad they didn’t break through to something more like friendship earlier. I have never seen Zuckerberg look so relaxed as in the last 20 minutes.
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.
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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.
https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1496906468695724036 I’m not sure if he’s extremely naive or completely delusional.
dude has a wonderful habit of blocking anyone he deems remotely "negative" on Twitter
The first 30 minutes are exhausting corp speech it’s like Facebook is his only character trait.
Does it stop being like that? I turned it off and stopped watching because I got tired of hearing about how great the "metaverse" will be.
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I think it's perhaps possible that Ballmer, as CEO of a major competitor, was not engaging in dispassionate analysis and in fact there was a non-zero chance that the iPhone would gain significant market share.
I think it’s usually better to accept someone’s words at face value than to attempt to infer deeper meaning. Ballmer has gone on to say that was one of his biggest mistakes and history agrees. Regardless, there’s many examples of people throughout history finding no value in seemingly pointless technologies only to be proven wrong so I believe the point the quote still stands. I suppose I could always just link to th…
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…
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…
> Also saying people will spend as much on virtual clothes as real clothes feels offbase, but maybe I'm wrong. As a gamedev I can absolutely believe this. You don't have to spend much time googling the breakdown of consumer spend in the games industry to see that this is absolutely, sadly, true. But they don't need to spend all their time in those metaverse to do that.
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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, produ…
and that discredits him somehow?
It's almost as if he was there just long enough to associate his name with the school as an ends to impress dumb people.