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Just as a point of pushback on the audience, I'm not a listener of any of the shows that you mentioned; my most listened to other podcasts include Tyler Cowen,

Just as a point of pushback on the audience, I'm not a listener of any of the shows that you mentioned; my most listened to other podcasts include Tyler Cowen, Vergecast, Trade Talks, Vox, and the Charter Cities Podcast

drc500free 4y ago
I think he's pivoting pretty sharply. If you look at the first podcasts he has listed on IMDb: * Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI * Michael I. Jordan: Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, and the Future of AI * Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI * John Hopfield: Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology * Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science * Ann Druyan: Cosmos, Carl Sagan, Voyager, and the Beauty of Science Compare to his last few episodes: * Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics * Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences * Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts and Loneliness * Douglas Murray: Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West * Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism That's a pretty hard pivot in topics that he's covering. If discussion about whether BLM is Marxism intent on destroying the West isn't the content you're looking for, I don't think you're the audience he's targeting anymore.
- atlasunshrugged 4y ago
  That's a good point, I do find myself just skipping over those episodes though rather than throwing out the podcast as a whole (I'm also trying to be better about that in general including with books which I would religiously read from beginning to end no matter the quality which is silly).
- suby 4y ago
  The pivot happened ages ago, his podcast was originally called something like the Artificial Intelligence Podcast, and then changed to the Lex Fridmin podcast along with a change in more general guests. I do wish he focused more on computer related topics, but his guests still tend to be very interesting.

drc500free 4y ago

I think he's pivoting pretty sharply. If you look at the first podcasts he has listed on IMDb: * Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI * Michael I. Jordan: Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, and the Future of AI * Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI * John Hopfield: Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology * Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science * Ann Druyan: Cosmos, Carl Sagan, Voyager, and the Beauty of Science Compare to his last few episodes: * Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics * Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences * Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts and Loneliness * Douglas Murray: Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West * Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism That's a pretty hard pivot in topics that he's covering. If discussion about whether BLM is Marxism intent on destroying the West isn't the content you're looking for, I don't think you're the audience he's targeting anymore.

atlasunshrugged 4y ago
That's a good point, I do find myself just skipping over those episodes though rather than throwing out the podcast as a whole (I'm also trying to be better about that in general including with books which I would religiously read from beginning to end no matter the quality which is silly).
suby 4y ago
The pivot happened ages ago, his podcast was originally called something like the Artificial Intelligence Podcast, and then changed to the Lex Fridmin podcast along with a change in more general guests. I do wish he focused more on computer related topics, but his guests still tend to be very interesting.