| ▲ | camillomiller 11 hours ago |
| Fridman is a morally broken grifter, who just built a persona and a brand on proven lies, claiming an association with MIT that was de facto non-existent. Not wanting to give the guy recognition is not a matter of being liberal or conservative, but just interested in truthfulness. |
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| ▲ | throwaway2037 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > claiming an association with MIT that was de facto non-existent
Google search: "lex fridman and mit"Second hit: https://cces.mit.edu/team/lex-fridman/ > Lex conducts research in AI, human-robot interaction, autonomous vehicles, and machine learning at MIT.
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| ▲ | wahnfrieden 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | To qualify what “conducts research” means: > Lex does not teach any for-credit class at MIT, is not listed in the teaching faculty, and his last published research paper was published in 2018. For community outreach, Lex Fridman HAS taught classes in MIT’s IAP program, which are non-credit bearing. > The most recent documented instance of Lex Fridman teaching an IAP class was in January 2022, when he co-instructed a series of lectures on deep learning, robotics, and AI-specialized computing hardware as part of MIT’s Independent Activities Period, scheduled from January 10 to January 14. His profile photo btw is in front of an actual lecturer’s chalk board from a class he wasn’t involved with. The chalkboard writing is just an aesthetic. In that picture he was teaching an introductory level powerpoint about AI trends in a one-time, unpaid IAP session. That’s as authentic as it gets |
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| ▲ | cedws 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The episode with Zelensky exposed him as a complete idiot. I can maybe tolerate grifters but fuck the whole 'love and peace bro' act while implying Ukraine should make peace with invaders who have ruthlessly killed civilian men, women, and children. I wish we stopped giving airtime to grifters. Maybe then things would start looking up in the world. |
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| ▲ | wahnfrieden 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Patel takes anticommunism to such an extreme that he repeatedly brings up and speculates (despite being met with repudiation by even the staunchest anticommunist of guests) whether naziism is preferable, that Hitler should have the war against Soviets, that the US should have collaborated with Hitler to defeat communism, and that the enduring spread of naziism would have been a good tradeoff to make. |
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| ▲ | pxc 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I don't remember all of the details so I can't remember if that came up in the episode I listened to. But I did listen to an episode where he talked to a (Chinese) guest about China. I discussed it with a Chinese friend at the time, and we both thought the guest was very interesting and well-informed, but the interviewer's questions were sometimes fantastical in a paranoid way, naively ideological, and often even a bit stupid. It being the first (and so far only) interview of his I'd seen, between that and the AI boosterism, I was left thinking he was just some overblown hack. Is this a blind spot for him so that he's sometimes worth listening to on other topics? Or is he in fact an overblown hack? | | |
| ▲ | bugglebeetle 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | No, he’s an overblown hack who is pandering to the elements of his audience that would share those views about Nazism and China. Should many someday see through the veil of his bullshit or simply grow tired of his pablum, he can then pivot to being a far right influencer and continue raking in the dough, having previously demonstrated the proper bona fides. |
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| ▲ | bluecheese452 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | He also has the classic government is bad and inefficient take with zero to back it up. Just lazy pandering. | |
| ▲ | chermi 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Where does he say this? | | |
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