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> Dick Cavett vs. Lex Friedman, the regression in interview style is horrible. I really don't like Friedman's interview style, it tends to sound like he's been
by UncleOxidant 4y ago
> Dick Cavett vs. Lex Friedman, the regression in interview style is horrible.
I really don't like Friedman's interview style, it tends to sound like he's been smoking weed prior to the interview.
Cavett was at a completely different level. I think the closest living interviewer (OK, I see Cavett is still alive, but I don't think he's been doing interviews lately) to that level might be Terry Gross but she doesn't do the kind of open-ended interviews that Cavett did that could go on for hours.
- drewcoo 4y ago> I think the closest living interviewer might be Terry Gross. Well don't tell Dick that. Not dead yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cavett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cavett
- imbnwa 4y agoFridman is the worse species of pseudo-intellectual. Almost without fail he asks in every interview "why can't we base things on love?" like it isn't the shallow takeaway of Judaeo-Christian discussion that it is. Then there's his obsession with aliens, to the point of obnoxiousness: see his insistence on debating panspermia theory with Betül Kaçar, who'd just spent five minutes describing why that probably is highly unlikely, with strong scientific basis, to the point of being offensively dismissive. EDIT - he literally starts telling her something along the lines of "that's just your perspective", like she didn't just lay down a bunch of qualified reasoning. It'd be one thing if he just said 'this is just my take' and left it at that, but he didn't.
- mcbishop 4y agoThe alien focus and love platitudes can be annoying. But overall I really enjoy Lex's interviews. His basic questions help me not be hopelessly lost when he's talking with nuclear physicists and the like.