This show is trash are you going to recommend I get medical advice from Joe Rogan next?

Non domain expert sitting there making Pikachu face while deeply questionable alleged domain expert rambles on and on for hours is such a low form of information.

Like please stop watching this. It's the same trash format the guy just talks in a soft English accent so his mediocrity is less obvious. You can do better.

What happened to debates? What's up with soft ball interviews and people going on and on for hours unchallenged? What's the point of listening to someone not willing to subject themselves to cross examination?

▲ Zambyte 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You said:

> I haven't seen one convincing model of AI existential risk. Can anyone offer one?

I apologize for answering. This is the only episode of this podcast I have ever watched, and I have watched it four times now. The person being interviewed knows what they're talking about. You would learn from them.

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kortilla an hour ago | parent [-]

But why do you think they know what they’re talking about? That’s the problem with that show. It platforms people with no guardrails to stop quacks.

	▲	ipaddr an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Sometimes the most interesting people are people with ideas outside of the same groupthink circle. Everyone who has changed society has been called a quack by a square.

▲ ipaddr an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

In the end Joe Rogan was more correct than Fauci's advice.

Most podcasts are not debates but conversations with people who ask open ended questions and get guests to talk and share what they know. The debate gotcha format creates little depth.

	▲	watwut an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Joe Rogan was more correct than Fauci's advice. No he was not
	▲	godwinson__4-8 an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Debates can be better than CNN gotcha questions, you know that right? At the end of the day a debate is only as good as the interlocutors. I wouldn't advocate spectating two people screaming at each other either. It's just sad that I can't even point to an instructive example here. This is part of my frustration. I don't think I've seen a good contemporary debate in a long time.
	▲	guelo 33 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I think the reason covid became politicized is the same individualistic vs communitarian tension in all other american politics. `Individualistic: vaccines don't help the young Communitarian: vaccinating everybody creates herd immunity that protects the community Individualistic: Masks don't protect the wearer Communitarian: Masks reduce the virus the wearer breathes out reducing the harm to others` On ivermectin Rogan was just wrong. On lab-leak, Rogan pushed it hard based only on circumstantial evidence while Fauci thought natural spillover was more likely but didn't rule out lab leak. I don't think we'll ever know for certain.