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> But he still owns it, so who will he put in his place? Lex Fridman just volunteered https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1604627087385661440 https://twitte

> But he still owns it, so who will he put in his place? Lex Fridman just volunteered https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1604627087385661440 https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1604627087385661440

JumpinJack_Cash 4y ago
Amazing this guy was ready to get on his knees for Putin up until January. Lots of stuff are known about Putin since 2000 till January 2022, some perhaps even worse than Ukraine invasion For sure he has a soft spot for Autocrats both in Moscow and in San Francisco
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- LudwigNagasena 4y ago
  > Amazing this guy was ready to get on his knees for Putin up until January. What do you mean exactly? > For sure he has a soft spot for Autocrats both in Moscow and in San Francisco The West establishment has a soft spot for autocrats: whitewashing the wealth of oligarchs, buying cheap oil stolen from common people, selling anti-protest crowd control gear and tear gas, etc, etc; even though "lots of stuff are known about Putin since 2000 till January 2022, some perhaps even worse than Ukraine invasion". I don't think Lex has done or has expressed a wish to do anything comparable to that.
  - JumpinJack_Cash 4y ago
    > > I don't think Lex has done or has expressed a wish to do anything comparable to that. Every video of his that YT pushes in my feed I see Putin in the thumbnail with sunglasses and behind a huge explosion Like it’s cool or something that an autocrat with a cult of personality controls 5000 nukes
    - LarryMullins 4y ago
      > Every video of his that YT pushes in my feed I see Putin in the thumbnail with sunglasses and behind a huge explosion I just scrolled through the past 8 years of thumbnails on his main channel and the past year of thumbnails on his clips channel. The thumbnail you describe doesn't exist. What I found is that he has several thumbnails of Putin looking stern, but without any sunglasses or nuclear blasts. (He also has thumbnails of Hitler and Stalin looking stern, but I don't take that to suggest he's simultaneously a communist and a nazi.) Additionally he has several videos with nuclear blast thumbnails, but none of them have anybody superimposed on front of the explosion. And he doesn't have any meme-like photoshopped sunglasses thumbnails. That sort of meme thumbnail doesn't seem to be his style. (I didn't watch any of these videos because I can't stand Lex, so I can't comment on what he actually says. But the sort of thumbnail you're describing just isn't his style.)
      - ajmurmann 4y ago
        Having watched a lot of Lex, I know that his family is Ukrainian and he recently visited Ukraine. It's very clear that he is by no means in support of Putin. However, he is clearly interested in Putin and other dictators as a historical and psychological phenomenon and seems fascinated by the idea of interviewing someone like that and the ethical aspects of it.
        LarryMullins 4y ago
        He does seem like a sycophant to me, his interviewing personality grates on my nerves for several reasons and this is one of them. But I'm about 90% sure he's not been trying to make Putin look cool. At least, not in the thumbnails.
PragmaticPulp 4y ago
Lex Fridman’s subreddit is notoriously trigger-happy with bans and post removals. Lex is a mod, but it’s not clear who is doing the heavy-handed moderation. It’s well-known on Reddit that you don’t post anything less than glowing agreement with Lex on his subreddit, unless you want your post removed and to risk getting banned. I know his podcast personality is popular, but this is not the guy you want calling the shots on social media governance. OTOH, Elon picking Lex as the fall guy to take the blame wouldn’t entirely surprise me.
- bavila 4y ago
  Heh, I was permanently banned from /r/lexfridman in a thread about his Duncan Trussell interview. My comment was basically: "Oh, great, another 'podcaster interviews another podcaster for reciprocal exposure' episode?" Snarky, sure, but still unfortunate he can't handle some rib jabbing about interviewing a clown like Trussell compared to the more intellectual guests he (used to) interview. :)

JumpinJack_Cash 4y ago

Amazing this guy was ready to get on his knees for Putin up until January. Lots of stuff are known about Putin since 2000 till January 2022, some perhaps even worse than Ukraine invasion For sure he has a soft spot for Autocrats both in Moscow and in San Francisco

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LudwigNagasena 4y ago
> Amazing this guy was ready to get on his knees for Putin up until January. What do you mean exactly? > For sure he has a soft spot for Autocrats both in Moscow and in San Francisco The West establishment has a soft spot for autocrats: whitewashing the wealth of oligarchs, buying cheap oil stolen from common people, selling anti-protest crowd control gear and tear gas, etc, etc; even though "lots of stuff are known about Putin since 2000 till January 2022, some perhaps even worse than Ukraine invasion". I don't think Lex has done or has expressed a wish to do anything comparable to that.
- JumpinJack_Cash 4y ago
  > > I don't think Lex has done or has expressed a wish to do anything comparable to that. Every video of his that YT pushes in my feed I see Putin in the thumbnail with sunglasses and behind a huge explosion Like it’s cool or something that an autocrat with a cult of personality controls 5000 nukes
  - LarryMullins 4y ago
    > Every video of his that YT pushes in my feed I see Putin in the thumbnail with sunglasses and behind a huge explosion I just scrolled through the past 8 years of thumbnails on his main channel and the past year of thumbnails on his clips channel. The thumbnail you describe doesn't exist. What I found is that he has several thumbnails of Putin looking stern, but without any sunglasses or nuclear blasts. (He also has thumbnails of Hitler and Stalin looking stern, but I don't take that to suggest he's simultaneously a communist and a nazi.) Additionally he has several videos with nuclear blast thumbnails, but none of them have anybody superimposed on front of the explosion. And he doesn't have any meme-like photoshopped sunglasses thumbnails. That sort of meme thumbnail doesn't seem to be his style. (I didn't watch any of these videos because I can't stand Lex, so I can't comment on what he actually says. But the sort of thumbnail you're describing just isn't his style.)
    - ajmurmann 4y ago
      Having watched a lot of Lex, I know that his family is Ukrainian and he recently visited Ukraine. It's very clear that he is by no means in support of Putin. However, he is clearly interested in Putin and other dictators as a historical and psychological phenomenon and seems fascinated by the idea of interviewing someone like that and the ethical aspects of it.
      - LarryMullins 4y ago
        He does seem like a sycophant to me, his interviewing personality grates on my nerves for several reasons and this is one of them. But I'm about 90% sure he's not been trying to make Putin look cool. At least, not in the thumbnails.

PragmaticPulp 4y ago

Lex Fridman’s subreddit is notoriously trigger-happy with bans and post removals. Lex is a mod, but it’s not clear who is doing the heavy-handed moderation. It’s well-known on Reddit that you don’t post anything less than glowing agreement with Lex on his subreddit, unless you want your post removed and to risk getting banned. I know his podcast personality is popular, but this is not the guy you want calling the shots on social media governance. OTOH, Elon picking Lex as the fall guy to take the blame wouldn’t entirely surprise me.

bavila 4y ago
Heh, I was permanently banned from /r/lexfridman in a thread about his Duncan Trussell interview. My comment was basically: "Oh, great, another 'podcaster interviews another podcaster for reciprocal exposure' episode?" Snarky, sure, but still unfortunate he can't handle some rib jabbing about interviewing a clown like Trussell compared to the more intellectual guests he (used to) interview. :)