Lex Fridman at the Joe Rogan Experience [audio]
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> Lex Fridman is a computer scientist and AI researcher at MIT, podcaster, and online public personality. His topics of research include artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, human-robot interaction and machine learning at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). [1][2][3]
Can anyone provide a summary of the discussion with Joe Rogan?
It was not my favorite discussion between the two, but they did touch on the Russian education system, which was kind of interesting. I enjoy Rogan when he has scientists and comedians on as he usually lets them talk on the subjects they are interested in, but Lex Fridman seemed to want to discuss the Topics that Rogan was interested in, which was a little disappointing.
Having tried the automated transcription services on my own podcast, I know that they suck. You have to pay someone to at least fix them up, if not just transcribe the whole thing from scratch. So I'm not blaming anyone for not having a transcript immediately.
How would having a transcript save you time? Wouldn't it take more or less the same amount of time (+/- 25%) to read through the transcript? Would you rather CTRL+F for a few terms? Or just quickly glance through it?
Asking, because I'm interested in the podcast space overall.
Thanks.
You can also quickly scan ahead, or reread a sentence. Navigating audio is harder.
Since I can see the whole thing, it's much easier to skip down to the more interesting stuff, or realize that there isn't any.
Maybe it's to appeal to a wider audience, however I think more likely it's just a negative consequence of fame. With a lack of honest feedback you start to buy into your own bullshit, thinking that every personal idea you have is some profound philosophical insight, rather than the type of affected navel-gazing done by people who fancy themselves public intellectuals.
Lex: vaccines are good
Rogan: maybe, but they are for weak unhealthy people. I'm healthy and fit. Also, long term side-effects
Lex: but we don't know the long-term side effects of covid either
Rogan: yeah. I'll just take it like a man. Also, why nobody speaks about vitamins, exercise, why they only speak about vaccines
Same with Joe, I tune into the show all the time but it’s never because I want to hear Joe’s take on the subject de jour, but because I learn a lot about the people he brings on
The thing is, I know that Joe Rogan is actually politically aligned more to the left. But his cult like fanbase can't deduce his actual stance because when he has weird guests on he cannot supply disclaimers warning about their insane ideas because otherwise he would lose those connections.
I guess he's doing what's most profitable but still... quite bothersome.
To give an example, when you have someone like Alex Jones on and you make it seem like their your best friend and also don't really call out and question them about their insane ideas... then your loyal fan base will actually believe that that's your friend and will start giving that person attention and consideration too, and now you've created a bunch of conspiracy theorists.
And anyone who wants to limit my freedom to listen to bloviating conspiracy theorists is no American in my book
But I agree with you, except that the audience for a podcast like this may be comprised of first time watchers, kids and young adults etc. who don't know the guest yet. The reach and influence is big enough that the podcast is mainstream, which means this is almost certainly the case. But yeah, maybe Alex Jones was a bad example, Rogan regularly platforms people who are much less known but have much more insane ideas too.
We just have to be aware that what is just entertainment to us might very well be dangerous in ways we haven't really explored. I'm not advocating for censorship, I just said that maybe certain "disclaimers" are needed.
I guess if someone grows up thinking that information is reliable just because they heard it on the radio, well, they missed out on some sage advice somewhere along the line.
I don't think it's about politics, Joe Rogan is just very low SNR unless you're tuning in to a particular guest.
Joe may be considered right-wing by the "new democrats", who are the most vocal portions of the democratic party (the "woke" folks, even if they aren't the majority of the party currently, but they are becoming the future of the party) - this is despite Joe's views not changing much from where they were a couple decades ago. It's the party that's shifted.
It's like comedian Tim Dillon said, "I woke up one day and was asked if we should still have police and borders, and I said yes we should. Now I'm apparently a nazi." He is a comedian and this is somewhat tongue and cheek but reflects the disaffected nature and cynicism many of these folks now have for the democratic party.
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