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

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

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. 😊

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

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!"

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

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

Spotify being an independent actor in the private sphere, they can (and I'd argue should) choose to divest from a guy that says that kind of stuff. Rogan is free to go to any another venue that wants him and keep saying what he wants to say. He's not owed a platform by anyone