Lexisisters.....

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Anonymous Sun Jan 1 21:12:07 2023 No.15092886 [Reply] [Original]

Lexisisters.....

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 1 21:15:24 2023 No.15092893 File: 69 KB, 452x363, 3524344.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Sorry I block people for strawmanning Midwit pseuds infighting.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 1 21:21:15 2023 No.15092898 >>15092893 >taleb is a midwit peak dimwit behavior

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 1 21:23:01 2023 No.15092904 >>15092898 Name one relevant accomplishment. You can't. Taleb is Fridman's equal.

Anonymous Sun Jan 1 21:25:29 2023 No.15092909

His list is below. I think what surprises me most about the list is not the books themselves, most of which are great. It's the fact that I've already read all but four of these books without any concerted /lit/fag effort whatsoever, just with casual buys, train rides, etc., over the years. It's not the kind of unfamiliarity I'd expect from an MIT-adjacent thinker-man celebrity.

Week of Jan 2 – 1984 by George Orwell
Week of Jan 9 – Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Week of Jan 16 – Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Week of Jan 23 – The Stranger by Camus
Week of Jan 30 – Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Week of Feb 6 – On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Week of Feb 13 – Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Week of Feb 20 – The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Week of Feb 27 – Old Man and The Sea by Hemingway
Week of Mar 6 – 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke
Week of Mar 13 – Animal Farm by George Orwell
Week of Mar 20 – Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankel
Week of Mar 27 – Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Week of Apr 3 – Metamorphosis, Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka
Week of Apr 10 – The Plague by Camus
Week of Apr 17 – Player of Games by Ian Banks
Week of Apr 24 – Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Week of May 1 – The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Week of May 8 – Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
Week of May 15 – Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Week of May 22 – Dune by Frank Herbert
Week of May 29 – Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 1 21:25:36 2023 No.15092910 >>15092904 define a relevant accomplishment

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 1 21:28:04 2023 No.15092914 >>15092909 Literally 16yo litincel tier lmao

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 1 21:28:42 2023 No.15092916 >>15092909 hilarious that he hasn't already read any of these. top kek

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 1 21:29:09 2023 No.15092918 >>15092910 Something that will be remembered by more than 5 people 50 years from now.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 1 21:30:27 2023 No.15092920 >>15092886 Negreanu is low key the smartest guy in the thread

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 1 21:30:44 2023 No.15092924 reasonsToLikeTaleb += 1

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 1 21:30:49 2023 No.15092925 >>15092918 how can you possibly know if that criterion is satisfied?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 1 21:31:31 2023 No.15092928 >>15092925 >how can you possibly know if that criterion is satisfied? You can't, but I'll go with your estimation if it's marginally feasible.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 1 21:33:38 2023 No.15092934 >>15092928 >you can't know if criterion is satisfied >you can only know if criterion is marginally feasibly satisfied this is a waste of time.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 1 21:36:27 2023 No.15092938 >>15092934 I asked with the possibility in mind that he might've accomplished something important that I just don't know about., but your repeated deflections confirm my initial impression.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 1 21:37:17 2023 No.15092940 >>15092938 the point of my questions was to determine what you find important. you've clarified that your criterion for determining importance is vague, with no way to be confirmed. why would i waste my time with such an endeavor?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 1 21:38:16 2023 No.15092944 >>15092940 Does he peddle some political or sociological talking point that you strongly believe in? Is that it?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 1 21:39:23 2023 No.15092945 >>15092944 you should know. you're the one calling him a midwit. you wouldn't do that without knowing what he espouses, would you?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 1 21:48:43 2023 No.15092964 >>15092945 Thanks for the confirmation. I know some of what he espouses. I just don't know of anything relevant he's ever done, even after going out of my way to look for something.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 1 21:55:04 2023 No.15092975 What the fuck has Lex been doing all this time? His flat affect obviously indicates high-dose SSRIs. It's as if he smashes out his stream and then just sits staring at blank walls for the rest of the day.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 1 21:55:26 2023 No.15092976 >>15092944 it has to be that. he shits out hot takes and acts like a narcissistic e-celeb. that's the only reason people know about him

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 1 22:33:04 2023 No.15093040 >>15092909 Yeah, nothing really wrong with the books on that list but the entirety of the list has strong "I am very smart" vibes, like he picked the list to impress normies rather than having an actual interest in them.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 1 22:42:18 2023 No.15093056 >>15092918 I'm in my fifties and have at least five family members who still remember me shitting in a bucket in the living room because I got confused during potty training when I was a toddler.

Anonymous Sun Jan 1 22:46:43 2023 No.15093064

>>15092975
He does lots of drugs, a wide variety and lots of them. Particularly, he's almost always high on weed during his interviews. That's why he asks inane questions with a tone that suggests he thinks his questions are deep and profound. Weed is well known to induce artificial sensations of profundity.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 1 23:02:12 2023 No.15093095 >>15093056 You've accomplished more than Nassim Taleb.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 1 23:10:19 2023 No.15093108 File: 62 KB, 755x801, 32662342.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15093106 Mild kek.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 1 23:11:14 2023 No.15093111 >>15093106 lost

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 1 23:58:36 2023 No.15093192 >>15093106 That's some top-tier work, anon. I hope somehow it gets going on Twitter.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 00:33:13 2023 No.15093244 >>15092886 Taleb doesn't want to go out of fear of getting exposed as a hack now. So much for antifragile... just fucking go there and make a show for me lmao

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 00:42:33 2023 No.15093257 File: 113 KB, 413x395, 1652786131139.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15093106 >back of cocoa pebbles box

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 00:43:13 2023 No.15093258 >>15093106 based

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 00:55:01 2023 No.15093276

>Never read babby's first actually good novels
>Wants to get started, which is admittedly a step in the right direction
>Expects to keep up the pace of one major novel a week for 5+ months
As much as Lex is a midwit, he could make millions as a crypto shill with this kind of unwarranted confidence.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 01:02:31 2023 No.15093291 File: 72 KB, 805x529, lexisad.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Hey guys, I already read them, honestly I have, I'm just re-reading it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 01:02:48 2023 No.15093294 >>15093276 If he even keeps up the commitment, he'll end up skim-reading the books and using cliffnotes or wikipedia summaries to aide comprehension.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 01:04:00 2023 No.15093297 >>15093291 >I-I read these books already and ackshully I think they're much more profound than you holy cope It's amazing how many people fall for this midwit. It's so obvious.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 01:05:39 2023 No.15093301 File: 4 KB, 300x168, images(4).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15092893 >>15092886 STRAWMAN! THAT'S A STRAWMAN YOU'RE STRAAW MANNINGE ME!!! STRAWMAN!STRAWMAN!STRAWWWMAAAAN

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 01:06:35 2023 No.15093303 >>15093294 If he had gone to grad school like he claims he'd be used to that kind of reading.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 01:07:00 2023 No.15093304 >>15092909 >Week of Jan 2 – Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler What did he mean by this, bros?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 01:07:11 2023 No.15093305 >>15093303 Even if you're accustomed to reading that sort of way, it's not the right way to read classic literature.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 01:08:45 2023 No.15093311 >>15092914 Trans opinions are nonvalid. >>15092909 >you can't reread books Well, who's the real retard here?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 01:10:37 2023 No.15093317 >>15093095 >>15093056 True, dude doesn't have a family. i don't care how rich he is, he's a failure.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 01:15:01 2023 No.15093329

Lex's sincerity and humility seems to really upset narcissists.

That's something I've noticed in real life too, narcissists are crueler toward people who are sincere or genuine with them. They can't handle it, they interpret it as a form of manipulation and mockery is a common reaction.

He's completely inoffensive, willing to hear any argument, and tries to legitimately understand every angle of whatever issue he's discussing, with a focus on resolving conflicts between viewpoints. His longer episodes can be hard to sit all the way through, but the sadistic public reaction to him has always struck me as weird and astroturfed.

oh well, normies gonna scapegoat. if they knew their own motivations they wouldn't be normalfags.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 01:19:30 2023 No.15093339
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I have an engineering master in physics and I can barely read. And I certainly can't read "classical literature". Even graduate math was too hard for me, which is why I went down the experimental physics (read: monkey with fancy instruments and statistics programs) path.

Like Lex Luthor here I don't have a degree from MIT, but even if I was clever and rich enough to get one and so got it; I am quite certain I would not be equipped with the analytical skills to understand what the fuck Hegel was writing about inbetween creeping on maids and doom-drinking wine..

Yet, I don't really care. I'm a bit of a pragmatist and so I hold that if Hegel wrote anything useful, that might save us from being filtered by the universe, I am quite sure we (the west) would have found it already.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 01:33:54 2023 No.15093355 >>15093305 What is the right way?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 01:34:10 2023 No.15093356 File: 96 KB, 314x215, litfaggotryondisplay.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15093305 i feel genuine pity for you, but am also amazed that you managed to overcome your urge to eat crayons for long enough to type that post

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 01:36:54 2023 No.15093358 >>15093329 Hit it right on the head

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 01:40:23 2023 No.15093364 >>15093339 tldr; trust the smarter people to do what's best

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 01:40:25 2023 No.15093365 >>15093329 >sincerity and humility LOL, the guy is the epitome of "LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!"

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 01:44:34 2023 No.15093372 >>15092909 Comitting to reading 30-50 pages a day, every day for 365 days? He's not gonna make it.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 01:49:11 2023 No.15093378
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>>15093329
People grow to hate what they fear, and most people fear being Lex. I mean... imagine being Lex. Image radiating inexhaustible cringe and being happy with yourself, satisfied with your underwhelming intellect, simply because you lack the capacity for accurate self-assessment. They hate Lex because Lex enjoys the only form of happiness accessible to people who see themselves as intellectuals but suffer from a shortage in the IQ department, and that form of happiness terrifies them.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:04:01 2023 No.15093404 >>15093378 so, classic projection. thanks for clarifying the narcissist's take.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:05:20 2023 No.15093408 File: 1.23 MB, 912x905, 1664932406046561.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15093329 >Lex's sincerity and humility

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:08:13 2023 No.15093414 File: 21 KB, 512x288, 1645688920390.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15093404 >narcissism >projection I don't think you understand what those words mean.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:09:05 2023 No.15093418

>>15093355
Actually reading not skimming.

>>15093355
>>15093356
The point isn't to know what the book contains, if that is your objective you might as well skip even skimming the book and just read summaries of it.

Skimming is a good technique when you're reading reference material and want to understand the structure of a text or find some specific information. Or if your dumb bitch of an English teacher keeps assigning trash books but you still need to pass her pop quizs about the books. But if you're going to read classic literature of your own initiative, you owe it to yourself to actually read and understand each sentence in order, properly. These sort of books are much better when you read them this way, properly. If you skim a book like Moby Dick, you're going to miss out on a lot of what makes Moby Dick great.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:10:45 2023 No.15093423 >>15093329 Lex doesn't have a single sincere bone in his body. He's a pretentious sycophantic schmoozer.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:14:09 2023 No.15093431 >>15093423 You could have found that out by checking his early life section.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:17:58 2023 No.15093438 >>15093106 Would be funny if one of the weeks was In Search of Lost Time

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:19:21 2023 No.15093443 >>15092909 > Foundation by Isaac Asimov >reads commie shit yeah no surprise here

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:20:03 2023 No.15093445 >>15092904 getting a "jew york times bestseller" autohagiography published for being a jew

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:23:18 2023 No.15093450 >>15093445 >In Search of Lost Time >DAA JOOO'S >DA JOOO'S >DA JOOOO'S >DAA JOOOOOO'S JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY YOU ANNOYING FAGGOTS. If you want to be actually funny, try making ajoke next time.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:23:26 2023 No.15093453

>>15093355
if you read philosophical it will take much more time than 1 week. those are books of reflection and it takes time to digest them. the proper way for lex to it would be to pick like 2 or 3 works like some platon and do weekly book club on stream with guests.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:24:32 2023 No.15093454 >>15093450 calm down hymie

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:25:14 2023 No.15093456 >i-i'm going to read a book a week, where each book i have already read! so he doesn't even need to read them lmao

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:28:25 2023 No.15093462 >>15093329 hello Lex

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:30:04 2023 No.15093466 >>15092909 pretty much this, the books are good but it’s weird to advertise that you haven’t read any of them

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:30:17 2023 No.15093467 >>15093456 >umm sweaty you're only allowed to speedrun a game you've never played before, okay?!?! People like you just hate Lex because of his sincerity.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:31:13 2023 No.15093472

>>15093414
trauma victims are hypersensitive to their own insecurities and fears (narcissists) and some lash out when they see models of these personal insecurities in other people (projection, what you described)

also, bickering over definitions doesn't make for an exciting or useful discussion. it's okay, you'll learn all of these things in time, junior.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:34:18 2023 No.15093477 >>15093472 I don't know why you're so butthurt. I don't hate Lex. You seem very eager to give oddly specific psychoanalyses of people you know literally nothing about. I wonder if that has anything to do with projection.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:36:33 2023 No.15093483
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>>15093329
>He's completely inoffensive, willing to hear any argument,
as long as it’s from a jew, which luckily comprise 70% of his guests.
>and tries to legitimately understand every angle of whatever issue he's discussing, with a focus on resolving conflicts between viewpoints.
Except the jews. If you bring up the jews he will gaslight you endlessly and then in a solo epilogue threaten to kill you

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:39:57 2023 No.15093486 >>15093483 when did this happen?

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:41:00 2023 No.15093487

>>15093477
when I'm feeling bad I bully and correct people on image boards who know less than me.

you tried to mock me for not understanding concepts that I understand better than you. what you're doing now is an embarrassing retreat that preserves your ego. stop trying, you're transparent. the response you're looking for is "i kneel to your autism"

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:41:53 2023 No.15093491 >>15093329 You're being manipulated, friend

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:42:05 2023 No.15093492 >>15093477 >I wonder if that has anything to do with projection. you bet it does. whenever i see someone talking about "narcissists", it's a always braindead normie who displays all the symptoms at the very same time he's accusing others

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:42:53 2023 No.15093493 It wouldn't be so bad if Lex was upfront about being stupid. I would watch a podcast about a retarded man hosting intellectuals that attempt to explain concepts to him. Lex needs to admit that he's Joe Rogan.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:43:23 2023 No.15093495

>>15092909
>>15093372
The Art of War is ~70 pages so he's taking a break with that one.
>inb4 someone has read some 1000 page bullshit with "the art of war" on the cover
The original is very short and simple, it was intended as a basic primer for minor nobility with zero military knowledge.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:43:46 2023 No.15093497 >>15092898 Wow, I didn't know Nassim browsed /sci/

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:44:23 2023 No.15093498 >>15093487 If only you knew how funny it was to read this post right after you called me narcissist for no reason.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:44:34 2023 No.15093500 >>15092886 Arent he and his audience primarily male? Why do you refer to yourselves as sisters?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:45:12 2023 No.15093501 is lex the american sargon of akkad?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:46:11 2023 No.15093504 File: 39 KB, 704x396, 532424.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15093492 Ditto. Get a load of this: >>15093487

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:47:26 2023 No.15093505 >>15093486 Seems to be referring to the end of the Ye episode. https://youtube.com/watch?v=4AWLcxTGZPA&t=8769

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:52:44 2023 No.15093519 >>15093339 >I hold that if Hegel wrote anything useful, that might save us from being filtered by the universe, I am quite sure we (the west) would have found it already. Ask me how I can tell you're an idiot.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:54:13 2023 No.15093522 >>15093491 If I'm manipulated into enjoying a conversation I guess my life is over, huh?

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:54:34 2023 No.15093524

>>15093498
>for no reason.
We're all narcissists though. You tell on yourself every time you try to criticize others. This is why the bible tells us not to judge.
>Judge not, that ye be not judged. (Matthew 7:1)

And the bizarrely angry criticism of Lex Fridman comes from people who are excessively narcissistic and insecure. One of you even directly admitted that psychological projection was the reason you're mad at Lex Fridman lmao

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 02:58:32 2023 No.15093528 >>15093524 >We're all narcissists I don't know about "us all", but since you're not even trying to hide that you are one, let's leave it at that.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 03:01:37 2023 No.15093531

>>15093524
>One of you even directly admitted that psychological projection was the reason you're mad at Lex Fridman lmao
That was me, I wasn't admitting anything (I think Lex is a buffoon but I'm generally indifferent towards him) and it was tongue-in-cheek for the most part, you mentally disturbed sperg.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 03:05:12 2023 No.15093541 >>15093528 and some of us (me and lex fridman) are less narcissistic than you (a teenager with no self awareness) going back to my first post: >oh well, normies gonna scapegoat. if they knew their own motivations they wouldn't be normalfags

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 03:07:01 2023 No.15093544 >>15092909 If Lex reads as slow as he talks, that's gonna be a tough schedule to keep. Good for him finally catching up to high school kids though.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 03:08:43 2023 No.15093551

>>15093531
>i-i was only pretending when I described my psychological projection almost clinically and then pretended the person who laughed at me for it didn't understand what projection was
this is a weak cope you lying insecure faggot lmao. i'm acting like an embarrassing sperg because this is an anonymous imageboard. you're defending your honor with sincerity as you learn what narcissism and projection are. i care less about being right than you and I'm still 100% more correct than you. sad!

reminder:
>the response you're looking for is "i kneel to your autism"

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 03:09:32 2023 No.15093554
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>>15093541
>and some of us (me and lex fridman) are less narcissistic than you
It's seriously starting to sound like Lex is your alter ego. Either way, you're clearly not okay in the head and I guess I shouldn't bully you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 03:12:13 2023 No.15093562 >>15093554 or maybe I know how to push your buttons because I can read you like a book (which you seem to find particularly humiliating) I didn't come here to defend Lex Fridman, I came here to abuse you. kneel faggot.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 03:14:45 2023 No.15093570 File: 76 KB, 1551x401, 5232332.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15093562

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 03:18:29 2023 No.15093587 >>15093570 are you a woman or a homo?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 03:20:40 2023 No.15093595 >>15093587 >>15093524 >You tell on yourself every time you try to criticize others.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 03:21:54 2023 No.15093601

Equating literary experience with intelligence is high school pseud-tier thinking. Knowledge is important to facilitate intelligence, but alone does not define it. The fact that he's just barely (Assuming that he's lying and hasn't read these books) reading 1984 or Meditations or Brave New World says close to nothing about his mind.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 03:23:34 2023 No.15093606
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I don’t have any problem with his credentials, style or interview skills. What I do have a problem with is how he’s being forced in my face out of nowhere, like those fucking girl bands that the record company throws together overnight and just defines as being famous

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 03:24:14 2023 No.15093609 >>15093601 found another narcissist. some of us (me and lex fridman) are infinitely more intelligent than you (a teenager with no self awareness) will ever be

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 03:28:01 2023 No.15093627 jew

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 03:28:53 2023 No.15093631 >>15093595 >>15093609 did I really make you this upset? I forgot how good I am at this. I guess it's easier when it's for a good cause (the honor of the innocent and righteous scholar and intellectual, Lex Fridman)

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 03:31:52 2023 No.15093642 >>15093627 projection. all of us are a little jewish, but some of us (me and lex fridman) are less jewish than you and other narcissist haters.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 03:38:25 2023 No.15093669

I've always been skeptical of the idea reading a bunch of novels is important. Even ones people claim are important like Orwell aren't that deep. Oh, not being allowed to protest is a bad thing? Well duh.

The idea we should be reading all the time is a meme that's traveled way too far, Schopenhauer was right

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 03:40:48 2023 No.15093678 >>15093669 This. So much this. There's nothing I can read in a book that hasn't been expressed better in an episode of Rick and Morty.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 03:45:14 2023 No.15093691

>>15093606
>What I do have a problem with is how he’s being forced in my face out of nowhere
I've been hearing this a lot, can you explain? is he being promoted on mainstream social media sites? do you just mean all the threads popping up about him recently on different boards?
>>15093642
thats great I mind-broke you. my power is unreal. I must use it for the greater good. post boobs

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 03:45:34 2023 No.15093692

>>15093678
Be honest, why do you disagree? I went through a /lit/ phase myself, read a bunch of shit. Only a handful of those books said anything novel or new. If you're reading books for the purpose of knowledge or insight and not just entertainment, you're really better off just thinking about the problems that concern you instead unless you find a book that already addresses what you want an answer for.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 03:48:22 2023 No.15093698 >>15093691 >I mind-broke you some of us (me and lex fridman) have skulls too dense for that to be physically possible. our (mine and lex fridman's) minds are impenetrable

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 03:51:28 2023 No.15093706 >>15093692 I don't disagree that someone like you is better off watching Rick and Morty. I'll go one step further and theorize that you would have developed into a better person if you were illiterate and had a vocabulary limited to 50 words.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 03:54:19 2023 No.15093716

>>15093706
Alright - don't argue with me then, argue with the man himself. Explain how he's wrong

>“Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes.”

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 03:55:43 2023 No.15093722 >>15093716 Did I say he's wrong? I just think your cope is laughable.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 03:57:29 2023 No.15093728 File: 103 KB, 270x400, 1493192967082.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15093722 So you agree with him that reading all the time is pointless... and disagree with me that reading all the time is pointless?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:01:28 2023 No.15093735 >>15093378 lex is literally pepe the frog in human form. 4chan can't handle this.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:03:56 2023 No.15093747 Lex is 100% a fraud who used some weird associate position in a random off season class at MIT. This is fact. He plays the mimicry of what the public thinks of a scientist perfectly

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:04:55 2023 No.15093749 >>15093601 no you don't understand my teachers said i was smart if i read books.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:06:25 2023 No.15093751 >>15093329 He's a fake lmao His career is empty He got some random class during like a spring break for MIT and was never faculty but uses MIT MIT MIT like crazy Talib is right. He is a fake in a suit playing a 1950s caricature of scientist

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:07:51 2023 No.15093755 Guess he's not gonna reply, lol

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:08:37 2023 No.15093757

>>15093728
>So you agree with him that reading all the time is pointless... and disagree with me that reading all the time is pointless?
I agree with him that reading some books, at some stages of your intellectual development, with a certain kind of reading habit, is pointless or even counter-productive. I also agree with you: for you, reading books is pointless, without any of Schopenhauer's implicit provisos. Why do I say that? Well, you read his essay. Look what he wrote, and look what you managed to take out of it. You can't see the difference.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:11:57 2023 No.15093763

People who don't read talib don't get it.

Lex is 100% a mimic caricature. Pretends to talk slow and deep, always says "profound", "magical" to everyone even retarded YouTubers and fellates them. Was never actually part of MIT but faked his way through it as talib points out.
Uses email like "MIT here quick note" as subjects in early podcasting days to get guests and on Rogan.

Was quickly fired from Google research and other places for being shit. Many empty years in resume. Goes to mit gets even lightly associated with it then used the brand to market himself.

Sci is coping because they fell for the scam fraud because he talks "serious"

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:12:17 2023 No.15093764 >>15093735 Someone make a Lex x Pepe mashup so we could call it Kex.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:14:01 2023 No.15093766 >>15093764 kek.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:18:33 2023 No.15093777

Self made
Talib
Techlead

/g/s hero techlead btfo lex
Talib who doesn't need to be liked laughs at how fake lex is

Retarded 16 years in college /sci/ ffalls for his shit fraud persona wearing suits 24/7
Selfmade millionaires who don't need pushing from others spot the fraud

Don't you losers have a class to TA

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:21:11 2023 No.15093784

>>15093757
I agree with the statement exactly as he wrote it - but I will walk back on the idea that mandatory reading in education is a bad thing. What I'm against specifically is the idea we should always be reading, that reading itself is a universal good. "Blind reading" or misdirected reading is about as good as not reading at all. If you would just state the issue you have with what I'm saying instead of being so pointlessly vague, it would be much easier to reply to you

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:26:00 2023 No.15093791

Midwits still don't get why posting the "must read books for highschoolers" list and saying you will read one each week to Twitter is pathetic and braindead. Actual adults read pertinent and interesting books. Not shit to post to Twitter that you read in freshman year. Also lmao at foundation and not having any interest in the whole series or other asimov

When people read say dune at age 11 they then read the rest of the series or foundation etc. Lmao

You fucking retards are falling for some robotic "I'm smurt" reading list shit. It's a filter, anyone who thinks lex is smart has no coherent brainpower and should go back to slaving at TA and postgrad or posting on sheddit about SCIENCE IS COOL

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:28:45 2023 No.15093797

I will learn a new recipe of food each week for new years to prove I'm a chef

Week 1 spaghetti
Week 2 roast chicken
Week 3 beef stew
Week 4 ribeye steak
Week 5 french toast

>Why is the chef calling me out, look those are the most made recipes from Jr high home ec

Hint no one has interests that bland or robotic. It's an act you morons just like the suit and voice

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:29:39 2023 No.15093801
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>>15093692
>If you're reading books for the purpose of knowledge or insight and not just entertainment,
I find reading is instructive per se. It teaches you words and exercises some part of your mind that, I assume, other things don’t. Even more so if you read in more than one language.
>>15093691
>is he being promoted on mainstream social media sites? do you just mean all the threads popping up about him recently on different boards?
His sudden rise to fame feels engineered, like the Spice Girls were engineered. They didn’t start out small and rise through the ranks and finally get a big break: the record company just hired 5 women, handed them a pre-written song, and slapped their faces on a billboard; said they were pop stars, so then they WERE popstars. Yes, it feels like both much of both the top-down promotion (youtube recommendations, shout-outs from Joe Rogan, etc) and the bottom-up (threads about him here) are the work of some form of advertising agency. But these things are by nature and design very difficult to prove from the outside

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:31:11 2023 No.15093804

Actual intellectual book lists- whatever the fuck is interesting whether it's roman history books, the history of guilds in Europe, some financial history, or a random science fiction book. It's not lmao a high school list unless you are faking being from MIT like lex fraudman

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:35:41 2023 No.15093815

It's like "yes im a gamer I play call of duty, Mario, Zelda, half life, halo, and world of warcraft. This year I will play 1 week of wow, 1 week of Mario, etc. I'm such a gamer look I wear a Zelda shirt everyday.

The list proves how intellectually midwit he is to anyone actually interested in reading

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:37:00 2023 No.15093819 I never get why some of you start arguments just to say, "Nah you're wrong lol" without ever explaining why so a debate can happen. What's the fucking point

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:39:49 2023 No.15093828 File: 22 KB, 565x543, kraut.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] who are some real intellectuals according to /sci/?

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:39:58 2023 No.15093829

>>15093819
Because arguments are pointless as proven by pretty good studies. It usually cements the opposing view to argue more. Arguments are usually carried out to find people who agree with you and for tribalism

You're too stupid to get this by now but until you have some super intelligence ai arbiter it's pointless. Humans are designed not to change their minds except with extreme coercion and manipulation. Two things that don't happen in an argument

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:41:01 2023 No.15093834 >>15093828 Taliib wrote some of the most new books and his concepts are widely (mis)used and novel Lex speeks slow and deep with a suit and fake MIT credentials

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:42:40 2023 No.15093839 >>15093829 Ehh, if I'm wrong about some shit I wanna know about it personally. That's why if someone tries to call me out I expect a good answer. I don't care about "arguing" I just want the fucking answers to life

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:43:13 2023 No.15093841 File: 90 KB, 542x680, 1666293119739054.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15093828 >wanted to be a game developer >got filtered by math

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:44:52 2023 No.15093846

>>15093804
>>15093815
everybody starts somewhere, it’s unironically great he’s reading a book a week. he should just have waited 52 weeks before announcing it
>for new years I am going to read 1 book a week, starting… last year!! here is my list so far! #love #aliens #worldpeace

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:45:08 2023 No.15093847

>>15093839
Cool beans. There are super powerful entities that interfere slightly in earth and they all have esoteric symbology behind their actions. It's a big simulator / playground for them and many gods or pantheons throughout history represent their sides.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:45:46 2023 No.15093849 >>15093846 He's not going to actually do it. The point of the post is to whore for attention on social media. It's fulfilled by saying you're doing something, not by actually completing the act.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:46:01 2023 No.15093850 >>15093847 Are you trying to activate my latent schizophrenia?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:48:56 2023 No.15093856 >>15093850 No I just told you "life" or at least a shallow perspective of it because even that doesn't reveal much

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:56:21 2023 No.15093869 >>15093850 no i have a mind control ray to do that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:57:24 2023 No.15093872 >>15093849 I dunno. Obviously you don’t post on social media and not want people to Like it. But he strikes me as a guy who can follow through on things for a while. Like an exercise routine or a diet, this isn’t that different

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 04:58:27 2023 No.15093875

>>15093791
>When people read say dune at age 11 they then read the rest of the series or foundation etc. Lmao
Right. The Foundation series is at the very minimum a trilogy with Foundation and Empire (arguably where the plot of the series picks up) and Second Foundation. Then there's Foundation's Edge, Prelude to Foundation, etc, the I, Robot series, and the Positronic Man, which are all connected to the same Asimov universe.

Just picking up the first book in the series, plowing through it in a week and then ignoring the rest of it shows a complete lack of interest in the reading material and the author's body of work.

>>15093791
Right, his list lacks any kind of focus, specialization, special interest, or depth. Not only is it mostly fiction, but it's stuff that gets assigned in high school English. Apparently he didn't get much of an education (and I don't buy his cope about him "rereading" these because they're supposedly his favorites).

His list is a waste of time for an adult. You'd think an AI researcher would be reading textbooks and papers about computer science, neuroscience, consciousness, philosophy, etc, and that since he's been in the field for a while he would have already gone through the well-known stuff like Norvig's AI and would be working his way down the literary iceberg, reading out-of-print Dover textbooks, PhD theses, Leslie Lamport's collected works, stuff like that.

Instead he's apparently wasting a ton of hours doing podcasts like the 7-hour snoozefest with the Indian VC and reading popular fiction in his spare time on top of training Jiu Jitsu. That doesn't leave any hours for intellectual work, which is time-consuming and demanding, and of course his reading list inadvertently blows his cover.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 05:03:27 2023 No.15093885

>>15093875
>His list is a waste of time for an adult.
Yeah. For a high schooler it's good because all those books are jumping off points. If Animal Farm strikes a chord, go read up on Stalinism. But these books lack depth, except maybe Dostoyevsky. There is just nothing really to cover, adults already know this stuff

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 05:07:08 2023 No.15093893 >>15093885 And yet he doesn't have Gulag Archipelago or 200 Years Together on his list. I wonder why that could be.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 05:08:51 2023 No.15093895

>>15093875
>nooo you can’t just read Foundation you have to plan out an entire Asimov roadmap first, ALSO you have to read textbooks instead
of all the things you could have got mad about, you CHOSE to get mad that Lex Fridman is going to do a little leisure-reading. The fuck is wrong with you son

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 05:10:29 2023 No.15093902 >>15093895 "Leisurely" read a boring freshman year English list at a set pace. Midtwit detected.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 05:19:20 2023 No.15093920

>>15093895
>of all the things you could have got mad about, you CHOSE to get mad that Lex Fridman is going to do a little leisure-reading. >The fuck is wrong with you son
The problem is that he's acting as if these are a bunch of deep, profound books that will impart wisdom and knowledge, when most of it's just leisure-reading, stuff written to be read for fun back before people spent their time glued to their TV's and doomscrolling on social media. I doubt there's a single equation in any book in his entire list.

If he really wanted to expand his intellectual horizons, he could have included textbooks, biographies, volumes of history, and famous papers in his area of research. Instead, he presents a list that is inane, unfocused, uninteresting, and unambitious. Just a bunch of crap designed impress people on the left-hand side of the bell curve and his fans are apparently still happy to defend him.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 05:27:17 2023 No.15093944 >>15092886 Based fucking ARABIC man

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 05:32:16 2023 No.15093952 >>15093329 The guy is a pit of insincere brute malice, how the fuck can you not see through this viper?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 05:40:33 2023 No.15093962 >>15093952 I see it as obviously calculated https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1609611808377307136 >"I'll play the nice guy so anyone who insults me looks like an asshole"

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 05:43:00 2023 No.15093964
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>>15093902
>>15093920
like others have said there is nothing wrong with reading the books on his list, and not having read them yet is nothing to be ashamed of; you have to start somewhere

it’s a weird thing to announce beforehand since people will make fun of you, but I don’t see any actual problem with the idea of reading a bunch of easy popular books as a leisure and light self-improvement activity. in fact it’s a lovely idea, and a very typical new-years resolution. that’s why I think you’re just looking for something to get mad about

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 05:43:48 2023 No.15093966

>>15093962
Just the heart at the end comes off as "fuck you" in a typical of fake people and grifter way. They will never be upfront or direct because they are entirely fraudulent. Now he doesn't have to answer why fakes being a scientist from MIT instead of the #106 school

Yes, he pretended to be MIT for emails
Yes he pretends to have been a scientist at MIT
Yes he is a fraudster

But lol a heart he's so nice.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 05:45:39 2023 No.15093970 >>15093964 As taliapia points out, someone with famous and influential new ideas in respected published books, he is a fraud and the point of talipi pointing this out wasnt for idiots like you to parse. Enjoy his idiotic fraudulent persona all you want

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 05:50:29 2023 No.15093975 >why did that MIT scientist never go to MIT or work there in any way >It's mean to call out a fraud Lmao, I wonder how many invested on FTX or enron here Yes a bullshut detector is good to have

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 05:59:38 2023 No.15093989 >>15093970 those are fine things to get mad about, I’m just saying it’s weird to get mad about this simple reading list. who is Tilapia?

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 06:09:41 2023 No.15094003
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>>15093964
First, I don't care that much about anything Lex does.

Again, the problem isn't that he's reading. If Lex wants to read for fun, more power to him. Personally I've enjoyed a number of the books on his list.

However, he's acting as if these books somehow bolster his status as an intellectual, and the fact that he's proudly presenting this list of popular books that most educated people have already read is extremely cringe. And again, the fact that he's set a schedule for reading them as if this is some sort of ambitious project he's undertaking is also very lame.

He's trying to present himself as a serious intellectual as someone who's only observed intellect at work from the outside, like the islanders in Melanesia who built wooden models of planes during WWII to try to receive "blessings" from the real ones they were seeing fly past.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 06:19:48 2023 No.15094013

>>15094003
> the islanders in Melanesia who built wooden models of planes during WWII to try to receive "blessings"
off topic, but an often whitewashed fact about those tribes is sometimes small planes DID make emergency landings at those mock airstrips and the tribesmen DID get some treasure, after killing the pilot

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 06:20:51 2023 No.15094016 File: 131 KB, 947x2048, FlalyRcagAANmkJ.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] scikeks btfo!

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 06:26:36 2023 No.15094019 >>15094016 >phone number is trips I kneel.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 06:37:44 2023 No.15094029 File: 722 KB, 1284x1763, file.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] judenstein was shown his place

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 06:50:19 2023 No.15094041 >>15094029 kek

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 06:55:05 2023 No.15094047 >>15094003 I just think its tryhard to broadcast what you're reading, but a level more sad when you broadcast such a pedestrian selection. Yes, that means the entirety of /lit/ is tryhard pseuds. I don't think that's a shock for anyone.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 06:57:36 2023 No.15094053 >>15092909 >escapist scifi fantasies for manchildren >edgy teenager pseudo-philosophy "artificial intelligence researcher"

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 07:19:54 2023 No.15094077 >>15094029 >One auxiliary academia orbiter who has a tedtalk platform defends another such a person Wow color me surprised

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 07:24:54 2023 No.15094086 >>15094029 Savage

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 07:34:39 2023 No.15094093 >>15094029 I'm not saying Taleb's wrong here, but for someone who doesn't believe in IQ, he sure loves to call people idiots. I wonder why?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 07:41:17 2023 No.15094100 File: 25 KB, 493x249, goodlist.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] OH NO NO NONONONNONO

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 07:50:07 2023 No.15094108 >>15094100 based elon recognizing greatness

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 08:01:15 2023 No.15094122

>>15092909
I don't get this. I have a doctorate in engineering and I have not read a single book on that list. I am aware of about a dozen of those books, but like most 'younger' people I don't read books at all.

I'm definitely more intelligent than Lex too.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 08:01:33 2023 No.15094123 >>15094100 As has been posted a dozen or so time in this very thread, the list is fine, it's the attention whoring of someone desperate to be seen as a public intellectual that's causing the negative reaction. No one likes a poser.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 08:05:20 2023 No.15094126 >>15092886 I thought Andrew Tate debunked books

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 08:07:12 2023 No.15094127 >>15094122 I have a bachelor's in STEM and have read a little less than half the books on his list. I also haven't read fiction since I was a teenager.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 08:07:21 2023 No.15094128 >>15093106 Are you my mother was great

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 08:08:30 2023 No.15094130 >>15094126 Tate seems to be under the impression that the only existing genre of books is fiction.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 08:09:24 2023 No.15094131 >>15094123 Isn't that the point of Twitter? Or is the implication here that somehow what Lex is doing is "desperate" but Taleb The Contrarian is somehow not trying to show everyone how intellectual he is.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 08:21:37 2023 No.15094140 >>15092886 we don't read books anymore, we just touch the book an instantly download it into our brain in 3 seconds now (psychometry)

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 09:16:11 2023 No.15094222 >>15094126 What color is your limited edition Moby Dick?

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 09:59:43 2023 No.15094269

This list is to make him more likable to the target demographic. We know who and what type these people are-- they fill his comment and reply sections. I don't give a shit about the list or how he portrays himself, he's just playing the influencer game. Trying to extrapolate much from this list is reading too far into his internet persona.
I dislike his internet presence because he's a boring individual that wastes his 2+ hour interviews by never going beyond the 101 tier in any given subject, yet he's propped up and pushed into my face by algorithms as the podcast messiah. You can pinpoint the exact moments when the interviewees realize they have to put the kid gloves on for the rest of the video, unless they are pseuds themselves. The interviewees do the interviews to get exposed to Lex's audience in a guaranteed positive light and all Lex has to do is transcribe their Wikipedia article into a podcast interview.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 11:02:51 2023 No.15094325 Why do you retards keep insisting this guy isn't actually a scientist at MIT? Seriously, can't you fucking imbeciles google? His name and position at mit directory, along his institutional email: https://www.mit.edu/directory/?id=lexfridman&d=mit.edu

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 11:13:54 2023 No.15094339

>>15093329
>Lex's sincerity and humility seems to really upset narcissists.
I liked the part when he sincerely and humbly called himself an "MIT researcher" and styled his channel as affiliated with MIT. His podcast's popularity is the least organic thing I've seen.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 11:36:08 2023 No.15094370 There was room for a podcaster with an IQ one SD above Joe Rogan, and who is weirdly obsessed about bitcoin instead of stoned apes. Lex filled that niche before anyone else could.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 11:46:05 2023 No.15094383 >>15094370 >above

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 11:54:00 2023 No.15094391 >>15094325 You're a retard He was very loosely associated with MIT doing a 4 week lecture series that undergrads can run. Not a prof, not a real researcher

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 11:57:11 2023 No.15094398 http://catalog.mit.edu/mit/undergraduate-education/academic-research-options/independent-activities-period/ Muh "lecture professor" lex

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 12:08:14 2023 No.15094418 He has an MIT email Gosh I love science and Rick and morty

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 12:49:45 2023 No.15094483 File: 167 KB, 933x890, FU14wZrUEAE7v-T.jfif.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15093495 but why would you read the original instead of a modern interpretation of it?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 12:50:15 2023 No.15094486 >>15094391 >>15094398 Mit still has him listed as a research scientist. He still publishes and has MIT has his affiliation. I doubt MIT would be okay with this if it wasn't legit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 12:59:04 2023 No.15094504 >>15094486 >I doubt MIT would be okay with this if it wasn't legit. Bureaucracy at work. No such large organization can purge all leeches, due to administrative oversights.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 13:00:58 2023 No.15094508 >>15094504 Sounds like a problem. You should call the administration up and notify them of this oversight. They'll be elated to know that some parasite is profiting off them, since now they can demand a portion of that profit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 13:02:10 2023 No.15094510 >>15094508 Lel I have no affiliation with MIT, why would I help them?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 13:05:00 2023 No.15094515 >>15094510 To prevent the parasite Fridman from profiting off something he shouldn't. Do you have no morals?

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 13:05:04 2023 No.15094516

>>15093784
>What I'm against specifically is the idea of [some irrelevant strawman]
It's going to be a little difficult for you to save face after outright admitting that you tried reading (presumably) good classic literature and got little to nothing out of it. That puts all your subsequent statements in a certain light that tells me your appeals to Schopenhauer are midwit cope.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 13:07:19 2023 No.15094521 >>15094515 You're manipulating me masterfully. Are you of the tribe, perhaps?

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 13:11:06 2023 No.15094529

>>15094521
Don't try to make this about me. You expressed some outrage at Fridman not being affiliated with MIT, yet benefiting off some administrative oversight where he somehow is affiliated with MIT. You have the power to correct this oversight. Just seems odd to me that you won't take this opportunity

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 13:13:52 2023 No.15094533

>>15094529
>You expressed some outrage at Fridman not being affiliated with MIT
Never did anything of the sort. I merely explain to another anon how it's possible that someone can profit off of quasi-assocation with a large organization, and that this association is no proof that whatever a person is doing is legitimate.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 13:18:03 2023 No.15094537

>>15094533
Failure to correct this administrative oversight that you're fully aware of is tantamount to tacitly accepting it. Do you accept this kind of behavior? If not, then it makes sense to correct this administrative oversight. Else, it sounds like you're okay with this behavior from Fridman.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 13:18:04 2023 No.15094538 File: 26 KB, 372x527, 1661004964275571.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15093329 >sincerity and humility another form of narcissism

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 13:19:59 2023 No.15094542 why are people so obsessed with his MIT involvement it's a nothingburger

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 13:25:44 2023 No.15094547 >>15094542 Taleb is jealous because he has nothing to do with MIT.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 13:26:36 2023 No.15094549

>>15094391
>listed as a researcher at the laboratory for information and decision systems
>publishes as an mit scientist using an mit institutional email with mit contributors on papers
>listed in the mit directory exactly as what he claims he is
>listen in the mit deep learning website

I just don't understand what the fuck else you want, All the possible supporting evidence exists to indicate that I am in fact a scientist at mit and there's nothing other than baseless twitter speculation that claims that he isn't.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 13:29:06 2023 No.15094553 >>15094549 >to indicate that I am in fact a scientist at mit What did he mean by this bros?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 13:33:01 2023 No.15094557 >>15094029 patreonson was so quick to suck jew cock he forgot that taleb is also jewish, thankfully he was reminded

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 13:36:17 2023 No.15094560 >>15094542 Many people are allergic to grifters

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 13:37:19 2023 No.15094563 >>15094560 Many people addicted to childish Twitter feuds. Especially irrelevant pseudointellectuals like Taleb.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 13:48:16 2023 No.15094581 >>15094560 the exact minutiae of his MIT involvement is irrelevant to whether he's a grifter or not he was involved, why should anyone give a fuck by how much? he can still be as much of a grifter

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 13:50:44 2023 No.15094585 >>15094581 is, not was.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 13:52:06 2023 No.15094587 >>15094585 and?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 13:59:47 2023 No.15094603 >>15094587 no and. just is. accept the correction, fag

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 14:13:13 2023 No.15094623 >>15094603 okay carry on posting nothing of substance

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 14:20:08 2023 No.15094639 >>15094623 errata have substance.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 14:28:56 2023 No.15094649 >>15094639 if he is then he also was-- my post is correct, you just wanted to be pedantic and distract. Lex is a grifter, the level of MIT involvement never mattered, and you're both with and without anonymity.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 14:35:04 2023 No.15094659

>>15094649
was also implies not currently is, and is how many people would interpret it. clarifying that this instance of "was" actually meant "is" is important. if you don't understand the distinction, then you shouldn't so hastily call lex a grifter, since your argument hinges on him using a defunct affiliation (not true)

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 14:48:48 2023 No.15094673 >>15092904 has a distribution type named after him

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 14:55:17 2023 No.15094682 Lex and Sam Harris types are like ESPN commentators and taleb is an NBA star. They are in completely different levels and lex is the ESPN commentator who says he is a basketball master because he shot hoops at the Lakers stadium once during halftime

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 15:01:47 2023 No.15094696

>>15094659
Email
Subject "MIT here trying to get in touch....." From lex

Lecturer of a 4 week random winter class that undergrads can set up. He is a harmless podcaster and mediocre interviewer but he fully puffs himself up fakely and taleb sees through it like anyone with common sense to these frauds. The reason lex needs the shitty suit, looks, voice inflections is because he's not legit

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 15:04:11 2023 No.15094700 >>15094696 if he's harmless, what's the problem?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 15:05:02 2023 No.15094702 File: 23 KB, 450x681, images (1).png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Also funny there is an entire book that explains characters like lex

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 15:05:22 2023 No.15094704 >>15092909 >book reading schedule definitely not a /lit/ thing, that's the most npc thing one can do

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 15:49:58 2023 No.15094822 >>15094483 cause classical chinese is very difficult to translate and I don't trust these retards with it

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 15:56:20 2023 No.15094847 >>15092909 Lex is like an tryhard autistic 14yo that has been told to pretend to be an 40yo adult to the best of his abilities.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 16:04:38 2023 No.15094862 File: 74 KB, 487x520, pickled fish.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 75% of all of Lex's guests so far have been ethnic jews. thats not a coinidence, lex is a jewish race warrior attempting to disguise himself as an intellectual.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 16:13:37 2023 No.15094884 >>15094862 >jews be waycis

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 16:53:13 2023 No.15094978 >>15092909 I will never understand or respect autists who make a pastime literal work, and who probably think just because they read classics that they gain "productiveness".

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 17:18:53 2023 No.15095039 Has Lex responded to this brutal roasting from Taleb? He should be careful about this, because Taleb is right and if Lex isn't careful, his audience might start to see it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 17:19:44 2023 No.15095043 >>15094131 If twitter users bully twitter users for being twitter users... everybody else wins?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 17:21:46 2023 No.15095047 >>15092886 >Nassim Nobody who cares?

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 17:24:53 2023 No.15095056

>>15095047
He wrote a very popular pop-sci book about the premise "sometimes shit happens", so you see he's clearly a preeminent intellectual.

But in all seriousness, it's interesting to hear an account of how Lex pesters people to be on his podcast, shamelessly emphasizing his dodgy MIT association.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 17:25:35 2023 No.15095058 >>15092909 many of those I've begun then discarded such are the soaring heights of my impeccable standards get on my level, Frid-droner

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 17:30:13 2023 No.15095072 >>15095056 This dude is guessing that Lex is a piece of shit. He is not providing proofs. You shouldn't pay attention ot this man's claims.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 17:32:43 2023 No.15095078 >>15095072 Everybody with sense already sees that Lex is a grifting piece of shit. Anybody who sees that already doesn't need Taleb to prove it. It's merely an interesting account from an otherwise private perspective on Lex's grift.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 17:41:19 2023 No.15095092

>>15092886
So some guy is throwing an ego drivel temper tantrum because some podcaster used academia to get ahead in a way the first guy doesn't approve of and his evidence is to point out how rudimentary he thinks the knowledge this guy is engaging with is? Who gives a fuck what some petulant dumb fuck elitist retard has to say? What a stupid fucking problem to have and then go out of your way to publicly voice.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 17:42:08 2023 No.15095094 >>15095092 Calm down, Lex.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 17:43:54 2023 No.15095097 >>15095094 Bet you're not even reading of Mice and Men right now, pathetic.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 17:54:30 2023 No.15095118 >>15093450 >jew seething

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 18:00:15 2023 No.15095125 >>15092886 this arab really makes sense

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 18:01:29 2023 No.15095126 >>15095125 >arab P H O N E C I A N H O N E C I A N

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 18:02:25 2023 No.15095129 School is uncool. Do drugs instead.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 18:04:25 2023 No.15095137 >>15095125 He's Lebanese.

Romcop Mon Jan 2 18:11:38 2023 No.15095156

>>15092886
Not to be a hater but it's kinda unbelievable to read a book a week, sure some of those books are really short and can be finished easily in a Day such as siddharta but others not so much. Also it's kinda entry level. Like is this guy supposed to be wise and he is considering reading "essential" literature.

It looks kinda midwitery. Like why is this dude pretending he has ties to an elite school and then also showing of his lack of literary acumen.

Then there's the I will run twitter thing with Elon.

People are getting fed up with frauds and he's sounding many alarms

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 18:19:32 2023 No.15095177 >>15092886 I was never, not once, fooled by Lex "Fridman"

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 18:21:04 2023 No.15095180 >>15095177 Fooled into what?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 19:27:30 2023 No.15095358 >>15095125 >>15093944 imbecile

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 21:43:02 2023 No.15095633 File: 191 KB, 640x831, lex.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15095156 Cringe

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 21:52:05 2023 No.15095657

>>15092909
>His list is below. I think what surprises me most about the list is not the books themselves, most of which are great. It's the fact that I've already read all but four of these books without any concerted /lit/fag effort whatsoever, just with casual buys, train rides, etc., over the years. It's not the kind of unfamiliarity I'd expect from an MIT-adjacent thinker-man celebrity.
>>15092916
>hilarious that he hasn't already read any of these. top kek
>>15093466
>pretty much this, the books are good but it’s weird to advertise that you haven’t read any of them
>>15093544
>If Lex reads as slow as he talks, that's gonna be a tough schedule to keep. Good for him finally catching up to high school kids though.

I get that it's a "normie-tier" / entry-level list or whatever but he's not saying he hasn't read these or that it just occurred to him to read them. He's mentioned reading (and has talked in depth about) quite a lot of these in podcast episodes before.

I don't think Lex is a dumb guy, personally. He's just really slow/bad at speaking and is a turbo-normie/redditor.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 21:55:56 2023 No.15095666

>>15094862
Like nearly every other quote from a supposedly prominent Jew I've seen posted on 4chan, this one is also completely made-up. Far-rightists don't even engage in pilpul. They simply fabricate things wholesale. That's the only way they can spread their ideology. It's just a million Protocols of the Elders of Zions.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 22:04:24 2023 No.15095690 >>15095633 what a homo.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 22:07:16 2023 No.15095692

>>15093329
>Lex's sincerity and humility seems to really upset narcissists.
>oh well, normies gonna scapegoat. if they knew their own motivations they wouldn't be normalfags.
I think most people who watch him like him. Like anything else, it often comes down to politics. 95% of the people who dislike him are either far to the right or far to the left of him (typically the former, but early on most of the hatred came from twitter leftists).

I think there are some legitimate criticisms of his podcasting. It seems in the past few years he's been doing more of them while seriously sleep deprived and frequently rambling aimlessly with a bunch of tired cliches. But the attacks on his character are people who are either ideologically motivated and/or who just act this way towards almost every public figure because of an inferiority complex. You see it a lot on social media and 4chan in particular. If you have any sort of fame or recognition then droves of people with no success in their life whatsoever are going to vocally hate you no matter what you say or do.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 22:09:23 2023 No.15095695
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Idiot OP, doesn't post the most important part of those tweets and this thread is full of idiots who don't get it.

Also
>every generations gets the gurus it deserves.

Sad to see that many insecure males without a father figure idolize human garbage like Tate and Peterson.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 22:18:01 2023 No.15095709

>>15095056
>But in all seriousness, it's interesting to hear an account of how Lex pesters people to be on his podcast, shamelessly emphasizing his dodgy MIT association.
I'd want to see the full email and the date of it to actually judge it. It is a little weird as a subject line I guess, but odds are the caliber of guests he gets would ignore any random podcaster emailing them while actually noticing that one, and he gets better guests than any podcast ever has, so I honestly don't blame him.

If it's an older email, then it's not really sketchy at all:

>Fridman began his podcast in 2018, initially as part of the MIT course 6.S099 on artificial general intelligence. Its original title was the Artificial Intelligence Podcast

The podcast started as something specifically attached to the MIT course.

Yes, he's not a professor or faculty at MIT, but he's given a bunch of ML lectures (including https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6INDaLcuJY, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VH1Lim8gL8, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1toUkZw6VI, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFTQ7kHQWtc)) and has had the title of Research Scientist at MIT for 8 years. I don't think he's ever misrepresented his position or referred to himself as a professor. People just want to pile on due to the phenomenon described in http://www.paulgraham.com/fh.html

>>15094549
It's all motivated reasoning.

>>15095695
A few of those are likely too long to read in a week but most of them aren't, I think.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 22:24:32 2023 No.15095718 >>15092909 This is... sad. Lex Fridman does sound like a retard and I've only watched two of his podcast episodes (the one with Penrose and another one with a catholic bishop), but seeing this level of crass juvenile tripe is just... sad.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 22:36:48 2023 No.15095730 >>15094029 If not anything else, Taleb sure is one hilarious motherfuccer.

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 22:40:02 2023 No.15095737

I will never get over the Jim Keller episode. Lex was an "AI expert" without the faintest clue of how a computer works. He had to be explained the most basic concepts, and Keller seemed baffled and irritated by Lex's stupidity.

And the insane thing is Keller came back for episode two... I guess the Putin episode really is coming any day now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 22:50:46 2023 No.15095746 >>15094029 serious yet funny post

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 22:55:35 2023 No.15095752
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>>15095737
>Lex was an "AI expert" without the faintest clue of how a computer works.
>Keller seemed baffled and irritated by Lex's stupidity.

Because he is a Class A fraud, when Taleb picks up a fight he goes for the big frauds.

https://twitter.com/lpachter/status/1605751888669863936/photo/1

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 22:57:49 2023 No.15095753 File: 15 KB, 528x223, cope.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15095752 lmfao

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 23:03:38 2023 No.15095759

>>15095753
I too wish that my school referred to their preferential library access as research science program.

After that, the only thing I would need is to take a photo in front of a blackboard with some math that was written by a the previous professor and BANG!! I can be Lex Friedman too.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 23:04:54 2023 No.15095761 >>15095737 it's ok, he had the idea to teach the AI to be kind to people, he is an ideas guy at MIT

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 23:55:17 2023 No.15095811 >>15093329 There is zero sincerity and humility to that guy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 00:00:11 2023 No.15095819 >>15095752 are you trying to say he's listed as a research scientist in err? who do i contact to correct this? let's put an end to his con. you find me who to contact, and i'll contact them.

Anonymous Tue Jan 3 00:15:10 2023 No.15095847

>>15095657
>he's just really/slow bad at speaking
This is what makes him stupid. I can count on one hand the amount of intellectuals who have a verbal IQ as low as Lex's (and they all had some sort of preexisting mental illness condition; Lex does not have one.) He's a retard and he lacks the self-awareness to see it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 00:28:26 2023 No.15095870 >>15095847 never actually heard him speak, and holy fuck. he looks like he's in physical pain trying to construct sentences despite long pauses, fucking kek. what's his iq? gotta be around 90 right?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 00:49:43 2023 No.15095898 >>15095056 Difference Everyone involved in actual markets, money making,.etc ignore economists and academics. These same people all learn talebs works

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 00:51:36 2023 No.15095901 >>15093311 >Well, who's the real retard here? You for believing his damage-control reread excuse after he was widely lambasted.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 00:51:48 2023 No.15095902 I just finished where the red Fern grows and the giver guys. As I scientist I deeply enjoyed the non idiosyncratic interest books recommended for schools by committee like every intellectual. Also male and female is a choice.

Anonymous Tue Jan 3 00:56:08 2023 No.15095905

>>15095753
>Give a lecture at some "let's have fun since it's winter session" for a few weeks and pretend to be a mit professor

His research position doesn't mean anything. It's some weird adjacency grift probably given to him like at Drexel because his dad is a made man in science

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 00:57:54 2023 No.15095908 does he actually have a degree?

Anonymous Tue Jan 3 01:00:16 2023 No.15095910

>>15095819
Do you mean his Twitter bio and schtickt involve pictures of him in front of a mit blackboard with math he didn't even write at a winter interim program undergrads can teach at? He gave the "lecturer at Harvard" con because he once talked there bit and is now Harvard Harvard Harvard guy

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 01:01:30 2023 No.15095911 >>15095910 ?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 01:01:45 2023 No.15095913 >>15095908 Why would the MIT guy not have an MIT degree or professor position there?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 01:01:58 2023 No.15095914 >>15095752 bros. 1-cos2. that is some brutal math. why is lex so smart?

Anonymous Tue Jan 3 01:03:55 2023 No.15095918

>>15095911
>Go to MIT/Harvard get an email somehow
>Use it and the brand
>Show up to some winter/ summer elective program like iap and teach a class anyone can do
>Blast out "MIT MIT MIT MIT MIT" or "Harvard" and use the email as if you are officially the school reaching out as lex did with emails like "MIT here can we talk?"

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 01:04:45 2023 No.15095920 >>15095918 mit has his listed as a research scientist.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 01:05:38 2023 No.15095921 >>15095918 As taleb pointed out, why is some grifter emailing him as if he is MIT when he is some library access adjacent fuck. Taleb then ignored him till now because he detects frauds

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 01:06:40 2023 No.15095922 >>15095920 Okay? He still grifted you clueless shit.

Anonymous Tue Jan 3 01:06:45 2023 No.15095924

just looked it up, he actually got a phd in compsci

and here is his phd "thesis". i mean wtf guys. my ba thesis was more rigorous than this thing and I did only some memes about quantum simulations lmao. 67 pages for a phd ahahahaha

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/190331679.pdf

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 01:08:17 2023 No.15095926 >>15095924 https://drexel.edu/engineering/about/faculty-staff/F/fridman-alexander/ Because his father pulled all the strings as a made man at Drexel, pushing his son through the hoops despite the midtwit status

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 01:09:36 2023 No.15095929 >>15095922 how? originally you claim he's grifting by using abusing an affiliation. when proven to you that the affiliation is legit, you claim he's still grifting. do you understand how shaky your claim is?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 01:09:46 2023 No.15095930 >>15095926 at my alma mater a phd is earned after ca. 4 years of full time research.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 01:10:49 2023 No.15095931 >spend life at Drexel under father >Flush out of 6 months at Google and teach a weird elective winter class at MIT The Google/MIT ai scientist lex fridman of course

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 01:11:56 2023 No.15095932 >>15095929 You are saying if I shoot basketballs at Lakers practice once I can say I'm a NBA bball player right? Well Lakers gave me an email and put it on their website

Anonymous Tue Jan 3 01:13:57 2023 No.15095934

>>15095932
if the NBA calls you an NBA player, yes that applies. MIT didn't just "give him an email". do you have any evidence to suggest that presenting at those winter sessions gives you the title "research scientist" which never expires? it should be easy to prove this claim, since all you need to do is find one other presenter from these winter sessions who isn't an MIT alum but listed as a research scientist.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 01:16:28 2023 No.15095938 >>15095934 Lmao you stupid fuck

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 01:17:46 2023 No.15095940 >>15095938 The guy who spend 1 day shooting baskets for the lakers is the same thing as a 20 year vet. Let's use that prior to discuss how legitimate lex is who used the tiniest sliver of association to MIT to grift

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 01:20:08 2023 No.15095941 >>15095938 not an argument. i accept your concession.

Anonymous Tue Jan 3 01:21:26 2023 No.15095942

Most people would say a PhD from Drexel. Not have to pretend to be a mit lecturer with someone else's blackboard math. See the difference? Most people would say it was a winter class or w.e. not ride it high as being an MIT genius lifer to retard podcasters and guests who didn't look into it like taleb

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 01:22:36 2023 No.15095943 >>15095941 Well it's like " I went to MIT for Machine learning for 5 years" --- "well once a year I'd go to the library and read a Coursera tutorial there so what I said is true"

Anonymous Tue Jan 3 01:28:04 2023 No.15095947

>>15095942
i would 100% market myself as a research scientist from MIT over a PhD from drexel.
>>15095943
you keep downplaying his title as a research scientist. MIT doesn't give the title research scientist for that. you may be confusing it with "research affiliate". not the same.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 01:30:05 2023 No.15095950 >>15095947 research scientist isnt a title. it's a position

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 01:31:06 2023 No.15095951 >>15095947 Kinda weird how he still has it while living in Austin. Must be an intense position and not some social conniving from a con artist

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 01:36:58 2023 No.15095959 >>15092886 >>15092893 >>15092909 Taleb is right, if you read a book a week, you are not absorbing much knowledge, you are just checking off a list

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 01:38:53 2023 No.15095962 >>15095950 >>15095947 so what, jeffery epstein had an office at Harvard, connection can get you anything

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 01:42:10 2023 No.15095964 >>15095951 and? affiliations are affiliations.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 02:11:18 2023 No.15096010 >>15095695 Genius anon, can you tell us how long should be spent reading and digesting these books?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 02:29:28 2023 No.15096045 Reading a novel a week is the mathematical equivalent of reading a math textbook without doing the exercises.

Anonymous Tue Jan 3 02:32:56 2023 No.15096057

>>15095898
I read two of Talebs books and they really can be summed up as
>"sometimes shit happens and you're going to see it coming, so just expect it anyway"
I guess some people need somebody to spoonfeed them the obvious, but personally I found his books dull and obvious.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 02:35:08 2023 No.15096064 >>15095921 Taleb grew up in the hood. He's street wise, so he has no trouble sniffing out people like Lex. Same with myself. I pity those with boring lives who've never developed a good fraud-radar.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 02:36:52 2023 No.15096066 >>15096057 >you're NOT going to see it coming,

Anonymous Tue Jan 3 02:40:11 2023 No.15096074
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Y'all folks jealous you didn't play football at MIT like Lex did. All the women on campus wanted to be with him and all the men wanted to be him, but he had higher pursuits in mind, like self driving AI footballs that score their own field goals.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 02:40:50 2023 No.15096076 we need lex on rogan like now! the clash of the gigaminds

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 02:43:38 2023 No.15096080 >>15096076 He's been on several times. Lex got salty when Rogan called him a nerd, even though it was obvious to everyone without autism that Joe meant it as a compliment.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 02:45:07 2023 No.15096083 >>15096080 >He's been on several times really? did they talk about chimps? cant even imagine how boring that must have been

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 02:55:23 2023 No.15096094 >>15092909 16-year-old me wants his reading list back. Thieving Juice.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 02:56:34 2023 No.15096096 File: 402 KB, 731x796, cute.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15096083 He's been on at least eight times. At about three hours each, that's way too much Lex to listen to.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 02:58:34 2023 No.15096100 >>15096045 I would say its like just reading all the sentences without trying to understand all the ideas in the book

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 03:18:10 2023 No.15096152 >>15093495 And The Stranger, Little Prince, Siddhartha, The old man and the sea, Animal Farm and specially Metamorphosis are also short as fuck all <150 pages, most of these are <280 anyway, no need to read 50 per day

Anonymous Tue Jan 3 04:06:31 2023 No.15096233

>>15096100
true and for books like these I like to go back and think about them later… but it’s not required.

actually I think a book a week would be more appropriate with stuff like Agatha Christie and Tom Clancy… but then people would be making fun of him even more

the one winning strategy, as someone already said, is to make the announcement in 2014, AFTER reading 52 books. much harder to argue with that and it’s better showmanship anyway, which of course is the point of tweeting things

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 04:07:56 2023 No.15096236 >>15096152 >short none of those was a fast read for me though (ok the little prince, and hemingway)

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 05:01:19 2023 No.15096312 >>15095737 Jim Keller is a very intelligent person

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 07:55:08 2023 No.15096538 >>15096096 I wonder how much lex fridman makes from his podcasts. If joe rogan can make 200million dollars, lex fridman should at least be making a million or two, or are his guests not retard enough to appeal to the pleebs

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 07:58:22 2023 No.15096543 >>15092909 How can this jew be 39 years old and hasn't ready any of these books yet?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 08:54:06 2023 No.15096606 File: 134 KB, 507x680, lex-vs-arab.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] OH NO NO NO NO ARAB-BROS, WE GOT TOO COCKY

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 10:13:09 2023 No.15096703 >>15092909 If he can actually manage to read the brothers karamazov in a week he is a god lol

Anonymous Tue Jan 3 11:43:45 2023 No.15096789

>>15096236
Not even Animal Farm or Metamorphosis? I read those in a day... And, to be fair, I don't consider myself to be precisely a very fast reader, I spent too much time reading The Stranger back in the day, but I'm sure if I was doing some lame challenge I could finish all these <150 pages in a month, the biggest problem might be what this anon said >>15096703, that Dosto classic is impossible to read in a week, and Hitchhiker's guide, Sapiens, Dune and The Plague are a bit too long for this kind of "challenge" too, reading all these books in a year is feasible, but reading them dedicating one week to each one is just stupid

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 12:14:33 2023 No.15096827 >300mil views 0_o

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 18:16:49 2023 No.15097576 >>15096543 Have you seen his podcasts? He's an idiot.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 22:19:32 2023 No.15098108 >>15095633 Holy fucking cringe. I almost died. Spoiler the pic.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 4 03:02:20 2023 No.15098687 >>15095737 I watched it today and found it funny how Keller's demeanor went from respecting to like a father talking down to his child.

Anonymous Wed Jan 4 03:20:27 2023 No.15098720

>>15092909
>The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

>when your toddler is already dunning krugering it

thought it may be cute, read a little of it, realized this as very likely aimed at all those self entitled, atrocious little brats who made my early school years hell.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 4 04:07:19 2023 No.15098774 >>15092898 he is lol, he wrote one popular book and assumed it made him qualified to comment on everything.

Anonymous Wed Jan 4 05:24:25 2023 No.15098860

>>15095718
Still don't get why he felt compelled to announce his reading list to the world. Most people who want to read a book just go and read the book without trying to make it into a spectacle. If they come across something interesting in the book or find it great at a whole, they might mention that to friends or colleagues but normal people don't make a list and waive it around begging for attention.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 4 05:28:51 2023 No.15098868 File: 15 KB, 289x303, Drexel.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15095908 From Drexel, not MIT. Weird all of his degrees just happen to be from the school where his daddy is a tenured professor.

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