Stop looking to talking heads on podcasts to tell you how you should think about the world.
I enjoy Lex’s longform style but man he does nothing journalistic, which drives me crazy. He’ll ask a hard question but never pushes back on answer cause he’s concerned about being friends with everyone moreso than actually challenging someone’s PR answer that never exists in reality.
When your topic is AI, and it’s at the forefront of national attention you’re pretty useless if you don’t have the stones to actually challenge these pie in the sky type answers the regulars give on his show.
Altman “It’s going to make money useless and probably result in massive unemployment. But I think everyone should have some say in the development in AGI and how we handle it.”
Lex “Wow that’s so noble. Anyways, do you think we can have AI friends someday.”
Like you don’t have to be mean or rude but you gotta have the courage to press some of these guests on their bullshit.
I also don't like that he sometimes interrupts his guest or just starts talking about something about himself instead of asking follow-up questions.
He can't ask probing questions or he'd inadvertently expose the scam. These people are hucksters, plain and simple. Lex is getting that sweet ad revenue from rubes that think he's asking deep or meaningful questions, and the fact people haven't caught on to his scam blows my mind.
His subreddit is a massive echo chamber. I got insta-banned for daring to have any criticism of one of his opinions; a criticism so mild it shouldn't have attracted any attention at all.
Lemmy is an echo chamber too. Pro-Linux, anti-Google, pro-Socialism, anti-conservative. I'm still here because I happen to agree with the echo chamber, but let's not pretend that a diversity of ideas are allowed equal say on this platform.
A lot of ideas don't deserve a platform or airtime and people need to realize that. The world is getting more fucked every day because people think that conservatives, fundamentalists, corporations and their bootlickers, and all the other fascist scum have a right to spew their shitty ideas for everyone to hear. Those ideas are sorthless though and they need to be silenced.
I don't necessarily disagree with you but anyone is free to spin up their own instance for Google worship or conservative discourse. There's nothing standing in the way of that. I think your statement should be applied only to specific instances and not Lemmy/the Fediverse as a whole.
I'm reporting you for having an opinion.
So... like everywhere else on the internet?
He talked with some cool people, but oh god, oh fuck, his muskiemania is too strong to ignore: https://youtube.com/watch?v=oJHb5a3ggzE
I'd ask who tf that is, but I'm worried you'd tell me.
A very dull man indeed.
I swear, the moment I started subscribing to The Deprogram, and its hosts and some of the guests, YT started throwing Bencil Sharpener, Joe Brogan, and Lex into my feeds. I didn't dog into him too terribly much, but I just assumed I was seeing his videos pop up for the same reason I saw the other two.
I experienced the same thing. Thankfully it eventually stopped automatically feeding up his vids.
When you're right you're right
Oh great another Guy to learn about
I watched one episode of Huberman Lab and the next day my entire feed was Lex and Joe. Then I watched like ten more episodes of Huberman Lab and it went back to normal
Edit: I did like the Lex episode where he sparred with Mark Zuckerberg though that was cool
I mean he is a computer science researcher... so they are different.
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Joe Rogan is/could be a cult. He's got die-hard fanatics defending his image.
This is the first, and hopefully the last, time I’ve ever seen that name.
But successful grifts will inspire cheap knockoffs.
Joe has a personality. It might suck, but Lex sucks at everything.
Joke's on you: I hate em both.
