Lex Fridman Podcast / episode intelligence
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22 published records
01 / commitment
“If you don’t work for us, we will spread the rumor through our agents already in your organization that you are.”
02 / belief
“Therefore, they must always be treated with great suspicion. It goes back to something that I think the British observed was that countries don’t have friends, they have interests, and those interests can change over time.”
03 / belief
“In one of the killings, I think the one in Lake Berryessa, he does appear in this kind of weird hooded costume.”
04 / belief
“I think that’s probably one of the things that made human civilization what it is.”
05 / belief
“You can just imagine the possibilities that you can dream up. And again, it’s not, I think, the question is to whether that is possible or whether it was done, although I suspect that both of those are true, but that you would try to do it.”
06 / belief
“In fact, I think there was even a book written about him called Eminence Grise, Grey Eminence.”
07 / belief
“As the story is later relayed, I think by Susan Atkins, Hinman denied that there was anything wrong with his drugs and refused to pay up, which led to a interrogation torture session in which he was killed.”
08 / belief
“There is a composite drawing of his face, which I think is based upon the Stine killing, the cab driver killing, where there were people who saw him or who claimed that they saw him.”
09 / belief
“I think his partner in this, Ghislaine, and I’m hope I’m pronouncing her name correctly.”
10 / belief
“I think that Weishaupt gave them to him. I think he engineered the exposure of his order because it gave him publicity.”
11 / belief
“I think that’s why it caught on in East Germany so well, because it had come home.”
12 / observation
“Then if you go all the way to Florence, you’ve got murders who go on and off for a long period of time.”
13 / evaluation
“There was none in the Ottoman Empire, which was a fairly tumultuous place, because in 1908 and 1909, there was the Young Turk Revolution.”
14 / evaluation
“I’d defy you to make much sense out of it. But, in the early 20th century, there were different… One of the things that became fashionable, not terribly popular, these are small movements, was the idea that, well, Germany is a new upcoming country, and part of this I think was really trying to define who the Germans were, because remember, the German Empire, Germany as a political state, doesn’t come until existence until 1871.”
15 / prediction
“The person to look out at any kind of corporate organization is your immediate subordinate, the person who could move into your job, because more than likely, that’s exactly what they’re planning to do.”
16 / evaluation
“Hughes doesn’t like this because his defense for her is that she was under his influence and therefore not responsible for her own actions.”
17 / evaluation
“By the way, the guy that wanted Azef’s job so bad he could taste it, well, on the one level, he expressed absolute horror that his boss was a police agent, and well, he should, because Sevenkov was a police agent too.”
18 / evaluation
“To this day however, you will find people who will insist that it’s actually true because they desperately want it to be true. But this is, I think the milieu that, I like that word apparently that this comes out of, and this is this whole kind of unhealthy mix.”
19 / evaluation
“See, if Manson wasn’t Manson, if he hadn’t actually acted like the crazed hippie, psycho goofball that Bugliosi painted him as being, then Kasabian’s testimony wouldn’t have been as strong because you could… I mean, the first thing against her is you’ve got an immunity for telling the story the prosecution wants.”
20 / evaluation
“You have to have them there to tip it off. So that was one of the arguments as to why, within the church as to why Jews would not be forcibly converted beyond the fact that it’s just kind of bad policy to forcibly convert people because you don’t know whether it’s sincere, but they need to be preserved as a kind of artifact, which will then redeem itself at the end of time.”
21 / prediction
“The reason with the protocols were, I think widely bought then and why they still are in many ways is the same reason that the Taxil hoax I was talking about was.”
22 / prediction
“I mean, who does that? It’s sentence here, sentence there, which has led to a peculiar theory of mine, which of course I will have to expound upon, which is that I think that the original author of the protocols was the same Maurice Joly.”