Andrew Huberman's Mechanisms of Control
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Re: Andrew Huberman's Mechanisms of Control
#2My goodness what a cavalcade of tedious gossip. I had no idea who this
"famous" Andrew Huberman chap is. Sure, neuroscience is interesting
but pop professors seem ten a penny these days. Reading a mini PhD
thesis on what felt a far too intimate a deconstruction of someone's
personal life was uncomfortable. I thought this "journalism" died with
Hello Magazine.
Re: Andrew Huberman's Mechanisms of Control
#3The stunning "gotcha" of this witch hunt (undoubtedly brought on by his proximity to individuals that the author doesn't like) is that Andrew Huberman was a bad boyfriend, weirdly flaky in his social life, and not an expert in all of the 100s of topics he discusses on his podcast (usually discussed with actual experts in the topics).
Okay...
Listen, if we stopped deriving information, education, or entertainment from people who have weird personal flaws, we would not read books, go to school, listen to music, or watch movies. Or have friends. What a silly article.
Re: Andrew Huberman's Mechanisms of Control
#4My goodness what a cavalcade of tedious gossip. I had no idea who this "famous" Andrew Huberman chap is. Sure, neuroscience is interesting but pop professors seem ten a penny these days. Reading a mini PhD thesis on what felt a far too intimate a deconstruction of someone's personal life was uncomfortable. I thought this "journalism" died with Hello Magazine.
With few exceptions, this is what journalism is now. Hitpieces and spinjobs - written by people with no accomplishments working for decaying name brands that used to stand for something.
Re: Andrew Huberman's Mechanisms of Control
#5From the article:
> Sarah was, in fact, changing. She felt herself getting smaller, constantly appeasing. She apologized, again and again and again. “I have been selfish, childish, and confused,” she said. “As a result, I need your protection.” A spokesperson for Huberman denies Sarah’s accounts of their fights,
Having played around with local LLM chatbots using different models and templates ("characters"), I find this pattern of talking _remarkably_ similar to how chatbots would respond to certain situations. The repetition ("again and again and again"), the use of multiple adjectives in a row as self-description ("I have been selfish, childish, and confused"), and the explicit closing of sentences ("As a result, I need your protection") fits almost perfectly with what I would expect from a waifu/husbando chatbot at the ChatGPT 3.5 level.
Does anyone talk like this in real life? English is not my native language, but this all sounds extremely weird to me.
Re: Andrew Huberman's Mechanisms of Control
#6There's something real here.
As someone whose life has been changed by Huberman's advice, I have to say that systemic lying in his personal relationships makes me doubt the soundness of information on his podcast.
Over the last three years, he's slowly moved out of his area of expertise and into fameland, interviewing whoever has a new book out or has a brand name and opinions. There is less and less scientific foundation for the information he's selling.
And if he behaves in such a way with people close to him, why should he treat strangers on the Internet any better? He's made a lot of choices that damage his image as a paragon of good behavior. He's hurt the movement he created.
Now that this is out, there will be other shoes to drop. Lies are like Pringles and cockroaches.
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#7From the article: > Sarah was, in fact, changing. She felt herself getting smaller, constantly appeasing. She apologized, again and again and again. “I have been selfish, childish, and confused,” she said. “As a result, I need your protection.” A spokesperson for Huberman denies Sarah’s accounts of their fights, Having played around with local LLM chatbots using different models and templates ("characters"), I find t…
Perhaps vapid, pseudo-intellectuals are overrepresented in the text of the internet because of their excess blogging, tweeting, etc. Thus the LLMs are biased toward that way of speaking.
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#8The stunning "gotcha" of this witch hunt (undoubtedly brought on by his proximity to individuals that the author doesn't like) is that Andrew Huberman was a bad boyfriend, weirdly flaky in his social life, and not an expert in all of the 100s of topics he discusses on his podcast (usually discussed with actual experts in the topics). Okay... Listen, if we stopped deriving information, education, or entertainment from…
I've listened to a few episodes of the podcast, and enjoyed them, but I think he sometimes acts as though he is a model of how to live a healthy, well balanced life, and this article is a pretty convincing account that he isn't.
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#9so many academics and doctors have been criticizing his "science" for years, this total loss of integrity should be the final straw that breaks the camels back
Re: Andrew Huberman's Mechanisms of Control
#10There is a reason why I rarely trust teetotalers.