2026-08-25 11:58 UTC
@mxchara@cyberpunk.lol I'm glad that someone else (you) also talks about how very far on the right Lex Fridman is.
Maybe it's just my social circles and others don't really watch or even know Fridman, but among my co-workers many watch Lex Fridman. I don't even live near Silicon Valley, I live in Germany.
I must admit, I watched his podcast myself until 2023 when I finally became disillusioned.
When he platformed more and more political guests, including JFK Jr., Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Balaji Srinivasan, Narendra Modi, Javier Milei, etc. and no longer "just":
- scientists and "scientists",
- Effective Altruists (of which most people hadn't heard of yet in 2023),
- Elon Musk (whom most people still considered a genius at the time of him being interviewed),
- cultists (like Aella),
- AGI boosters
it should have become obvious even to the more oblivious folks what the agenda of Fridman is.
But strangely many people still watch him (and grifter Andrew Huberman) in 2026, and when I point out the problems with these "celebrities", people get weirdly defensive.
#LexFridman #AndrewHuberman
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@mxchara@cyberpunk.lol 2026-08-25 16:58
@davidculley@hachyderm.io yeah it's pretty obvious but only if you pay attention to what he's like on Twitter and who wants to do that? and he tries sometimes to make a joke of his flat affect and weirdness. one time he "joked" about having a body in the boot of his car, and I had to ask myself, Lex, are you "joking" about this because it's true? He also used to try to uphold the claim that he was affiliated with MIT but apparently that's not true, though he may have had a job with them or been attached to a research group