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by thorncorona 1175 days ago
I’m not going to rehash countless internet arguments but you may take this Reddit thread and look into it yourself for the first two:

https://old.reddit.com/r/DecodingTheGurus/comments/zaeztd/_/...

If you see his Youtube profile picture it’s pretty obvious he wants to present himself as a lecturer or professor staff, which he is not.

For the latter 2 I’m sure the other comments on this thread are helpful.
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mtlynch 1175 days ago
Thanks for sharing the link!

I personally didn't find the claims in that reddit thread persuasive, but I understand how others might interpret them differently.

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CommitSyn 1175 days ago
There are countless examples of people being blocked by Lex for harmless tweets and extremely minor criticism. I only skimmed it but here's the Twitter search for 'lex Fridman blocked' https://twitter.com/search?q=lex%20Fridman%20blocked&src=typ...
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mtlynch 1175 days ago
I can believe that, but I also have to take those claims with a grain of salt.

Aside from Taleb, I don't recognize any of the people who claim Fridman blocked them, so for all I know, they tweeted obnoxious stuff at him and then complained about being blocked. Taleb is extremely abrasive, so I can't fault anyone for blocking him.

If it was like Yann LeCun and Andrej Karpathy complaining that Lex blocked them, then I'd question how aggressively Fridman blocks people, but if it's random Twitter accounts that seem to just shitpost all day, why do they have a right to communicate with Fridman?

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CommitSyn 1175 days ago
Sure, without making an entire Medium article for you, which I don't have the time to do, I can't prove they weren't all shitposters, although there are some notable names, but that would be a lot of them.

I'll also direct you to the moderator list of the /r/lexfridman sub. No real people, none of them ever comment, and his subreddit is one of the most [deleted] I have ever experienced. If you look at reveddit, also check the comments. Quite telling. https://www.reveddit.com/v/lexfridman/?localSort=num_comment...

If your response is "maybe he just likes a heavily curated subreddit" then all I can say is keep coming back.

For being so open minded, he sure does have an incredibly tight grip on information control. This is coming from someone that used to think Lex was the cream of the crop.

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