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I think there's an unfortunate convergence of format and questioning. He asks a lot of the same questions of almost every guest. "Are we living in a simulation?
by abeppu 6y ago
I think there's an unfortunate convergence of format and questioning. He asks a lot of the same questions of almost every guest. "Are we living in a simulation? What is consciousness? Etc." This feels like a waste of these guests if it's unrelated to their area of interest. In general, it smacks of lack of preparation.
But perhaps this creates the opportunity for someone to make a series of supercuts, where Lex doesn't need to appear, but we get the appearance of a series of luminaries discussing a recurring question, and the differences and similarities among responses can be more apparent. A virtual panel, smeared across time.
- 7373737373 6y agoThere's a Canadian interviewer named "Nardwuar the Human Serviette" who mainly does interviews with rappers/musicians. Before each interview, he conducts the most in-depth research on them that anyone has ever conducted, mentioning people, places, early inspirations from their childhood and musical career, things that only a handful of people, the rappers' parents or only themselves could know - which often astounds, confuses or even frightens them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZP8OwCdO1E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZP8OwCdO1E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RKbSi87J5Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RKbSi87J5Q I agree with the previous comments, Lex' guests are really great, maybe the above can serve as inspiration :)
- boulos 6y agoTyler Cowen (from Conversations with Tyler) does a variant of this, but a bit less creepy than that sounds :).
- AlchemistCamp 6y agoI love Tyler Cowen's podcast.