• PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Stop looking to talking heads on podcasts to tell you how you should think about the world.

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    6 months ago

    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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    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.

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    6 months ago

    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.

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      6 months ago

      I experienced the same thing. Thankfully it eventually stopped automatically feeding up his vids.

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    6 months ago

    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

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    6 months ago

    This is the first, and hopefully the last, time I’ve ever seen that name.

    But successful grifts will inspire cheap knockoffs.