How did I only recently find the @lexfridman podcast? It is rich with science, deep emotion, he speaks to the deepest thinkers of our time. Guests like Wolfram, Dorsey, Rogan, Musk, Penrose, Eich. My first episode was this one with Richard Dawkins. Enjoy! youtube.com/5f-JlzBuUUU
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It's a great podcast, though I was really disappointed in his recent defense of Joe Rogan (who's not a deep thinker at all, IMHO, just a contrarian & agitator). You might also like Andrew Huberman, who's a good friend of Fridman. Tons of fascinating/actionable neurobiology stuff
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I'm laughing about Joe Rogan but that's one of the reasons I really enjoy the podcast because he talks to everybody! As for Rogan he's such an efficient contrarian he contradicts himself LOL. I have found him to be amusing at times because of this, despite his thorny shell. 馃槉
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Haha. And I try to see the best in people - I don't think Rogan's an unrepentant bigot or anything, but he tries to evade responsibility for his words via self-deprecation while the sheer size of his platform gives him some moral obligations that he's clearly not ready to accept
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Like it's fine if he wants to have anti-vax guests to explore different viewpoints, but by giving them equal (or greater!) weight than scientific consensus, he's thus tacitly endorsed anti-vax viewpoints that will hurt his audience. He can't just shrug & say, "I'm just an idiot!"
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Replying to @TroyWarr @lexfridman
Actually being very anti-censorship I think he can I just worry about how we as a society responded to that. Spotify would have been much smarter had they offered an option to Counterpoint and expand the conversation instead of making a big kerfuffle

Feb 18, 2022 路 10:50 AM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag @lexfridman
Well, part of it was the anti-vax stuff and part was the constant use of the n-word and other racial slurs. Spotify awkwardly/transparently tried to frame it as a "silencing" issue, but... de-platforming for that kind of stuff is just consequences/morals, IMO, not censorship
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Absolutely. slurs are harmful and inappropriate. As for misinformation people spread it everyday all day long LOL! we all do it even when we don't mean to. Discourse, debate, different voices in an open forum is downright Socratic and the source of critical analysis and thinking.
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