Off topic, but I really can’t stand Friedman. I would much prefer a more intelligent interviewer asking many of those CS giants he interviewed.
(If I hear the randomly brought up, completely unrelated musk hype question again...)
(If I hear the randomly brought up, completely unrelated musk hype question again...)
He speaks slowly (listen on 2x for regular person speed) and he’s trite, but he interviews people and lets them talk.
That’s good enough. And it’s especially good enough in that he gets big names to come talk.
He doesn’t need to be a genius or to ask clever questions. Merely letting Chris Lattner geek out for 2 hours on audio about his project is a win.
His podcast is alright for people who aren't in any of the domains and therefore just want overviews. Anything else, and it's about as useful as listening to an actor repeat the summary for the movie they're promoting for the millionth time.
It's pretty clear he's playing up some kind of "rainman autistic AI savant" persona, and also, he exaggerates his credentials. On his website he describes himself as:
>AI researcher working on autonomous vehicles, human-robot interaction, and machine learning at MIT and beyond
Which could lead one to erroneously assume that he attended MIT, or even has a degree from MIT, when neither of which are true.
He had John Carmack on his show which piqued my interest, but he was asking questions like "what's the best programming language" and "what's the best IDE." Such a blown opportunity to be asking useless first year CS student questions like that when interviewing a great mind like Carmack.
It makes sense to get touchy-feely with Bert Kreischer, who’s basically an alcoholic gigantic third grader. Or with Michael Malice because they’re goofy best buds.
Still it’s nice when a serious guest kind of shrugs and sticks to the topic.
I can’t listen to Neil Degrasse Tyson talk because of that same kind of “the wonder of the poetry of the cosmic ballet” nonsense.
Fyi... CL said he likes being interviewed by Lex Fridman: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24831157
So for your wish of someone else instead of Lex to be granted... (1) the hypothetical "more intelligent interviewer" you'd prefer has to ask CL to be interviewed -- and -- (2) in turn, CL has to say "yes" to the interviewer.
So far, Lex got (1) and (2) to happen. (Three times.) So here we are. Any suggestions on who else should interview CL and would CL grant the interview?
The More You Know...
[0] <https://lexfriedman.com/> [1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Friedman> [2] <https://www.youtube.com/c/lexfriedman>
[3] <https://lexfridman.com/> [4] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Fridman> [5] <https://youtube.com/c/lexfridman>