Lex episode is released (Gurometer coming shortly)
Added 2022-07-08 08:39:48 +0000 UTCThe episode is out at last!
Thoughts, comments, criticisms welcome!
Comments
I appreciate I am late to the party on this but this whole a DITL thing suggests that Lex Friedman is really Sascha Baron Cohen doing a 'character'. Should Lex ever wrestle a bear btw I would bet on the bear.
Andrew Mac
2022-08-08 15:48:20 +0000 UTCNot sure what age Lex is but his 'my day' seems like the sort of journal people write when they are adolescent. How convenient Lex did the day of the week video in the week he read TEAFOTTR. The week before he was reading The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman!
Andrew Mac
2022-08-08 15:41:48 +0000 UTCYeah, maybe he needs to make that really clear when talking. Sometimes it sounds like he is just talking about US and other times like he thinks this applies to (at least) the rest of the West. Gurometer is not a white male academic -o-meter, otherwise, he would indeed be off the chart!
Christopher Kavanagh
2022-07-12 03:38:52 +0000 UTCOh, and the U.S. (and occasional Euro-)centrism of Haidt's work and commentary is just... so irritating. I'm American living in Europe for the past 25 years and raised two kids here and he's just so off on so many of his findings! Kids over here play outside most of the time and are extremely active in sports, etc. We do not worry about our kids getting snatched off the streets or playgrounds nearly as much as U.S. parents do, not even in the cities. That's not to say bad things never happen here - they do an they're shocking when they do, but there doesn't tend to be this overreaction like in the U.S. And way less hyperbole. I could criticize a lot of things about being here but the things Haidt mentions just aren't nearly as concerning anywhere else than the U.S. and you can hardly apply the findings to the whole of adolescents and young people everywhere. He's typically older white male academic myopic in that way (which somehow didn't get reflected in the guro-meter score for him).
Suzan Lemont
2022-07-11 11:19:37 +0000 UTCI had no idea of anything to do with Lex Fridman but enjoyed this episode immensely nonetheless. I hate to say it but he's probably exactly the kind of guy I would have fallen for in my 20s. It's kind of cute how naive and awkward he is. The "if I had a girlfriend" line was delivered with perfect heartrending dorkiness and pathos which would have activated all my rescue urges immediately! Now, as a 61 year old definitely not into 'cougar-dom' I just find it equal parts cute and exasperating, and if one of my daughters brought this guy home I think he'd be leaving with his tail tucked between his legs. After giving him a big hug and assuring him that he IS loved. :-D And I'm probably a bad listener because I don't know where else to post this, but I just came across a critique of Yuval Noah Harari's work (Sapiens, Homo Deus) by another evolutionary biologist, but this one seems pretty sane. I don't think you guys have ever mentioned or looked into Harari, but I think you *definitely* should! https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/07/the-dangerous-populist-science-of-yuval-noah-harari/?fs=e&s=cl&fbclid=IwAR2uTRmd0zD4wz-xfNUkqmajM6RTeg3r00gxUJUSvZOoB4ovfFId5CglyAE
Suzan Lemont
2022-07-11 11:08:57 +0000 UTCGreat episode! Loved it. I've never come across Lex before. What a strange character. It's like if an awkward computer nerd 20 year old guy who still lives with his mum was also an overpaid egomaniac middle aged white collar biohacker dude bro (who would probably also be a MAMIL). So one minute you feel sorry for him and the next moment you want to shake him!
Emma
2022-07-10 11:07:39 +0000 UTCSo true. Actually Lex reminds me tonnes of Michael from Season 1.
Emma
2022-07-10 10:59:49 +0000 UTCThis Day in the Life part of the show is hilarious if you imagine Dirk Digler from Boogie Nights saying those things in that “biopic” part of the movie.
Evan
2022-07-09 00:37:42 +0000 UTCBloody hell. €1.46 of my hard-earned cash and no shout out.
Shane 26+6=1
2022-07-08 20:31:19 +0000 UTCHi DTG! So...I Listen to both your podcast and Lex pretty religiously, and while I am not yet done the episode, I did want to note that Lex's favorite book is The Idiot. He says it in other episodes.
Bronwyn Snefjella
2022-07-08 17:46:47 +0000 UTCRegarding Haidt’s comment about “sensitive” students on college campuses, I was on the UC Berkeley campus in 2014 when Milo Yannopoulos was invited to speak, and which brought on protests that turned violent. While I agree that it would have been far better to just let him speak and seed the audience with students and faculty who could have pressed him with challenging questions and watch him fall on his face, Haidt neglects to mention the provocative gesture of the Campus Republicans to even invite a speaker like Milo who, for anyone intellectually honest, does zero to advance a meaningful conservative agenda (assuming such a thing exists anymore). They were going out of their way to invite the worst people, on purpose, to stoke this sort of unrest (“triggering the libs”)
Jennifer Nelson
2022-07-08 17:32:22 +0000 UTCI agree with the observation at the beginning of this podcast that members of the manosphere such as Lex, Rogan, etc are basically going through a delayed adolescence. What were these guys doing in their teens and 20s which is when the rest of us were sitting around in our rooms or dorm rooms at college reflecting on this sort of pseudo-profound stuff. If we wait for them to grow up like we did, if they’re now in their 40s and 50s, maybe they’ll speak with more nuance in their 60s, 70s or 80s (if they don’t die of heart disease from their all-meat diets)
Jennifer Nelson
2022-07-08 17:13:44 +0000 UTCI just finished A Day In The Life. I think much of the personality quirks you discussed can be explained by being on the spectrum. I watched Love On The Spectrum on Netflix ( just watched, no chill 😉) and I saw so much of Lex in the personality quirks of the people in the show. The sincerity, the thinking and speaking in clichés, the hyper focus, the need for routine, The idealization of others. Certainly he is a special snowflake however he must be viewed through the lens of someone on the spectrum
jill leslie
2022-07-08 11:29:00 +0000 UTC
