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Re: Kanye 'Ye' West – Lex Fridman Podcast

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Post by jackosdev » Tue, Oct 25, 2022, 9:30 PM UTC

EdwardKrayer wrote: post #40

pathartl wrote: post #37

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I've only watched Lex's episode with Carmack and I just don't understand the appeal. It was like listening to a junior frontend dev stumble around programming topics with buzzwords. Maybe I just watched one episode and got a bad taste, but the questions weren't great and somehow Carmack still was able to give interesting answers.

I assume approaching his guests as a layman allows his viewers to scratch the surface of tech/science/topics potentially inaccessible to people outside of the normal scope.

I like Lex, he's very open and wears his heart on his sleeve, he gets good answers sometimes because he's fearless with the questions he asks. His first intrview with Jim Keller is my fav ever and changed my life perspective after some of the gold Lex gets out of him. But yeah his programming knowledge seems very limited, same level as most Machine Learning engineers with science backgrounds.

Re: Kanye 'Ye' West – Lex Fridman Podcast

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Post by flodcw » Wed, Oct 26, 2022, 8:30 PM UTC

hunglee2 wrote: post #3

the difference in how Ye comes across between the Champs, Piers Morgan and Lex Fridman interviews is stark. Champs was way too comfortable, Morgan way too hostile, Fridman plays it as he usually does, neutral listener and Ye seems reasonable most of the time. We have individual personalities, but how they are expressed is determined as much by who we are with

I really enjoyed the Pierce Morgan interview. Lex’s was pretty incoherent. At least in the beginning

Re: Kanye 'Ye' West – Lex Fridman Podcast

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Post by baby » Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 4:49 AM UTC

pathartl wrote: post #37

maegul wrote: post #22

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As a casual listener of Lex's podcasts, my position is now to ignore him unless a good reason for this guest right now can be made clear. I can imagine Lex himself talking about openness and diversity etc but this just reeks of opportunism.

I've only watched Lex's episode with Carmack and I just don't understand the appeal. It was like listening to a junior frontend dev stumble around programming topics with buzzwords. Maybe I just watched one episode and got a bad taste, but the questions weren't great and somehow Carmack still was able to give interesting answers.

That wasn’t a great one, but there are better ones

Re: Kanye 'Ye' West – Lex Fridman Podcast

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Post by gjvc » Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 7:44 PM UTC

gjvc wrote: post #8

timonoko wrote: post #6

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I was blocked beforehand without ever subscribing Lex. Also any comment of Youtube disappears immediately. Reason was somebody retweeted my tweet of about the Finnish volunteer Panzer-group liberating Ukraine 1943. In spite of jovial appearance, Lex is quite humorless person. He sticking to the world-view he learned in Soviet schools, without ability to learn anything new about history.

Lex Fridman's constant schtick of telling everyone to think and act lovingly is getting old and tired and this point.

("while sounding completely miserable in the process" being the key missing point, making the whole act feel really contrived)

Re: Kanye 'Ye' West – Lex Fridman Podcast

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Post by Rapzid » Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 6:53 AM UTC

AzzieElbab wrote: post #5

hunglee2 wrote: post #3

the difference in how Ye comes across between the Champs, Piers Morgan and Lex Fridman interviews is stark. Champs was way too comfortable, Morgan way too hostile, Fridman plays it as he usually does, neutral listener and Ye seems reasonable most of the time. We have individual personalities, but how they are expressed is determined as much by who we are with

The guy still came out as a psychopath. Just listen how he explains love for his ex in terms of gene pool.

Yeah, I'm still trying to figure out which part he came across as reasonable. Maybe the part where he and George Soros are fighting for control of the world? Wasn't the least reasonable part anyway haha.

Re: Kanye 'Ye' West – Lex Fridman Podcast

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Post by Rapzid » Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 7:03 AM UTC

throwaway24424 wrote: post #21

This interview was the final straw for me where I came to the conclusion that calls for Kanye to be de-platformed, at least temporarily are reasonable and necessary. If not for the victims of his comments but for himself. I don't want to go all armchair psychologist on this but I think spiralling is an apt word here. FYI: I didn't make it through even 50% of the podcast because of the sheer incoherence on Kanye's par…

Light is the best disinfectant.

People are saying Lex was exploiting West, but I viewed this as a public service; shinning a light on the depths of West's antisemitic thinking.

Lex was calling him out and pushing back constantly. Yes, also pulling back and keeping things going.