Lex Fridman Podcast / episode intelligence
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27 published records
01 / evaluation
“What they’re getting is actually just income, and should be taxed at the highest rate. But it’s because of this loophole, it’s taxed at a much lower rate, at around 20%.”
02 / belief
“I mean, George Washington, to walk away from power is I think universally respected, especially if you got a good speech to go with it and you do it really well, not in some kind of cynical or calculated or some kind of transactional way, but just as a great leader.”
03 / belief
“Now, this is something you’ve been a bit controversial about. But the general sort of standard belief is that there’s a left-leaning bias in the mainstream media, because as I think studies show a large majority of journalists are left-leaning.”
04 / belief
“If the technique is backed, you don’t have to be a tough guy to win debates if you’re just fucking good at debates. So I think people just don’t understand the value in sport and especially in combat of technique.”
05 / observation
“The only way you believe that is you got mainstream media to get you to believe that the minute the phrase conspiracy theory is mentioned, you have to shut off your mind.”
06 / uncertainty
“” I don’t know that there’s anybody in the country who instinctually dislikes Bernie more than Barack Obama.”
07 / belief
“See, I think most people have integrity. Okay, hold on. So, what I’m more worried about is when you take corporate-backed money, it’s not that you are immediately sold.”
08 / disagreement
“I’ve gotten kicked out of every… I might be the most attacked man in internet history, partly because we’ve been around forever. And partly because I disagree with every part of the political spectrum, because I believe in independent thought.”
09 / belief
“Now you could say that billionaires are avoiding taxes and they’re not getting taxed enough. But I think under that flag of criticizing billionaires is criticizing all companies that do epic shit.”
10 / belief
“Yeah, I get it. But I wonder if the integrity that I think most people have can withstand the gradual slippery slope of the effect of corporate money, which if what I’m saying is true that most people have integrity, one of the ways to solve the effect of corporate money is term limits, because it takes time to corrupt people.”
11 / belief
“Look, I’ll give the same fairness. I think I got an 8% chance of being beating Rogan.”
12 / belief
“I think Trump sees themselves and wants to be a great negotiator, and I personally want the death of people to end.”
13 / belief
“If you do any other rockets, and Israel does the barbaric thing they just did, even I would say, “Hey, brother, we had a peace deal.”
14 / belief
“You said some positive things for a while about RFK Jr. and I think you said you would even consider voting for him given the slate of people.”
15 / belief
“There’s some degree to which you want to sometimes bide your time and just rest a bit. And I think from my perspective, maybe you can educate me, she seems like a legit, progressive, legit even populist, charismatic, young, a lot of time to develop the game of politics, how to play it well enough to avoid the bullshit.”
16 / belief
“I think generally speaking, they’re usually the worst of us, especially in this corporatist structure.”
17 / belief
“I think the whole point is not that you can beat them, but you are willing to fight if you need to.”
18 / evaluation
“At the time, I used to yell all the time because mainstream media would gaslight the fuck out of us.”
19 / recommendation
“If you say no, I like Biden, or I think Biden’s the best candidate, or even if he isn’t, we’re not going to be able to win on this, so don’t do it.”
20 / prediction
“Because if you can’t certify the election, they wanted general confusion and chaos so that the Republicans in Congress could say, “Well, we don’t know who won, so we’re going to have to kick it back to the states.”
21 / evaluation
“I grew up Muslim, I’m an atheist now, but generally speaking, a Muslim is certainly a minority in America and pretty much a hated one overall. But I didn’t check off Muslim or Turkish or any ethnicity when I applied to college because I believe in a meritocracy as we were talking about.”
22 / evaluation
“Whether I agree with him or disagree with him on policy, I get that the brother is actually doing it based on principles.”
23 / evaluation
“Normally the Democrats would all endorse her, and would all say she’s anointed, shut up everybody.”
24 / recommendation
“I think Biden should have done the same thing as Obama and Pelosi and not endorse, and say, “Hey, we’d love to have a process where we figure out who the right nominee is.”
25 / preference
“I think my ratings went up whenever I went off prompter, but because they couldn’t pre-approve the script.”
26 / evaluation
“The second reason you need balance, other than independent thought, is because the answer is almost never black and white. And that gets into a really interesting nuance because mainstream media, in my opinion, is the matrix, and its job is to delude you into thinking corporate rule is great for you and we should never change it and the status quo is wonderful.”
27 / preference
“Why I like capitalism and why I love democracy is because it’s the wisdom of the crowd.”