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Also out of the loop, my current opinion is that Fridman himself and his interviews are always really great and interesting.
by lfkdev 4y ago
Also out of the loop, my current opinion is that Fridman himself and his interviews are always really great and interesting.
- ShamelessC 4y agoFind an episode on a topic you’re a subject matter expert in - you’ll quickly realize how overconfident and misinformed he is more generally.
- tough 4y agoI find his style suffocating, he mostly likes to talk about himself, and hear himself say bullshit, and same with the interviewed person, some times even cutting 'em off
- Conasg 4y agoAgreed, although normally the focus is on the interviewee, and they will quickly correct him.
- ShamelessC 4y agoUh yeah I mean I know what you’re talking about - he does defer to the interviewee (and they are often wrong as well, like in the Elon interview). Moreso I’m referring to the LessWrong/Reddit/HN/Twitter internet-lore format which he borrows from and leans into. Many of his questions are deep on the surface but ultimately more about sensationalism (even if that means a bad faith read of the problem). Also, at times I suspect interviewees pre-negotiate certain things for him to see in a positive manner. Like in this last episode, thanking Sam for open sourcing GPT eval - ignoring that GPT-4’s basic architecture description wasn’t even released; a big “fuck you” to researchers hoping to do any sort of replication or peer review.
- secondcoming 4y agoYou can't expect an interviewer to be expert in every topic they cover. Isn't the whole point of an interview to let the interviewee get their point across and clear up any misinformation?
- meindnoch 4y agoTo put it succintly, he's the Joe Rogan of IQ 100-115 people.
- theropost 4y agoAny one you can suggest for the 116-130 people?
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- keiferski 4y agoIt's not a tech podcast, but I enjoy Hermitix. They are mostly interviews with authors of philosophy/literary studies books. Probably the only "podcaster" that I will listen to on a regular basis. https://www.youtube.com/@hermitixpodcast https://www.youtube.com/@hermitixpodcast
- malborodog 4y ago+1 for hermitix -- funny to see it come up on HN!
- sambapa 4y agoJoe Rogan
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoThe extensive archive of BBC's "In Our Tine" covers a lot of interesting ground. Not sure exactly how that maps to IQ ranges, but worth checking out anyway. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2Dw1c7rxs6DmyK0pMRwpMq1/archive https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2Dw1c7rxs6DmyK0pMR...
- username_my1 4y agonot really, Joe Rogan pre pandamic was still the best interviewer in my openion of smart people. the problem with smart people is that they know that they're smart and so they won't stop talking or driving the conversation. Joe Rogan, pre pandamic / spotify deal was humble enough and would just invite people and let them talk, it was way more informative and less echo champery style of conversation ... I can't stand listening to this guy.
- gambiting 4y agoI watched his interview with John Carmack and I couldn't stand him. Carmack was super knowledgeable and professional, Friedman looked almost bored and not really interested - also wasn't able to follow up on some of the things Carmack was saying. Just struck me as not the best interviewer for that interview - I'm impressed Carmack decided to sit through the whole thing.
- Eisenstein 4y agoCarmack is just really good at talking about things he knows about/cares about, it doesn't matter what the venue is.