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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 * Michae
by 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 agoThat'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 agoThe 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.