What does Datalounge think of Lex Fridman?

That’s a shame he might be uncircumcised. We need more peen info.

No, he is not smart. He's a credulous fool, actually. He platforms the same stupid people and ideas as Joe Rogan, Bret Weinstein, et al. and his fans are mostly young basic bros who think they're intellectual.

Yeah, he's kind of handsome. Nothing special though.

He claims to be a virgin, so is probably a closet case.

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I guess the most important information OP wants discussed is Lex's circumcision status.

He's a sweet, very smart guy. Very sincere and kind hearted.

I can't stand his podcast and find him dull yet cloying after a few minutes of listening.

Good stuff, r3.

There's a subreddit about Lex where any remote criticism of him gets instantly deleted by the moderators, which are actually Lex himself even though he pretends to not be involved in the sub.

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I like his interviews with chess players.

I think he's gay.

Lex Fridman claiming to be a virgin makes me speculate that he's only had sexual experiences with men, but they didn't involve any penetration. This way he can feasibly call himself a "virgin" and pretend to be above sex instead of admitting that he's ***GAY*** and likes french kissing and scissoring with other dudes.

As long as his audience remains mostly young males who also follow the likes of Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson, Lex Fridman will stay deep in the closet.

That's what I think of Lex Fridman.

Making an awkward gay compliment to Joe Rogan.

If Lex Friedman is a virgin, then some day, he’ll have kids via surrogacy.

R2, when and where did he claim to be a virgin?

I didn’t realize that Mark Zuckerburg was gay too.

R13, He mentions never having been with a woman on his podcast when he interviewed Mark Normand.

He's another George Santos type.

Lex Fridman (real name Alexei Fedotov) is a fake, fraudulent, boot-licking shill. He has already been exposed multiple times by AI researchers (the ones who've bothered to read his garbage) but has somehow still managed to convince enough people to drink his Kool-Aid. So here is some of his bullshit and lies.

Lex, Tesla shill Lex devotes a ton of effort portraying himself as a humble dude who hates negativity, but he is really an unscrupulous prick who hates negative press. Here's a quick summary of an incident a while back.

Lex Fridman, a research scientist at MIT released a study in which he claimed that contrary to a mountain of literature about human machine interaction, drivers using autopilot remain vigilant and attentive. The release of the study itself was surrounded by some controversy - first Fridman started soliciting journalists to cover this upcoming release. Some scientists such as Anima Anandkumar (research director at Nvidia) tried to encourage him to submit this research to peer review before making any flashy splashes, for which she got famously blocked by Lex on Twitter along with everyone even remotely critical of his approach. Once the study made the headlines (let's emphasize: an unreviewed study), Fridman (who is a quite open Tesla fanboy) tweeted that neither Tesla nor Musk had anything to do with this (positive for Tesla) study, subsequently deleted those tweets and then tweeted something about integrity (perhaps because he rightfully felt that it is being questioned), while two weeks later he got invited to do a podcast with Elon Musk and then he himself got invited to Joe Rogan. He used both of these occasions to shamelessly promote himself, which is what he does all the time anyway.

. And here is another article criticising Lex's lectures on autonomous vehicles, 'Lex Fridman, MIT Deep Learning Research Scientist, is Misleading his Students and putting them at Risk, with similar sorts of criticisms. You can find a lot of this stuff discussing his dishonesty.

What's worth pointing out here is that whenever someone even questions these things, Lex will 1 block you and 2 go whine on Twitter about trolls and mean people. The strategy of playing the victim seems to have worked well, because his viewers totally bought the idea that Lex is a Good Guy and the internet is full of Nasty People. If you mention his name anywhere on the internet he will appear out of nowhere and start talking about how toxic people are but as soon as you bring up his questionable ethics he disappears just as quickly

Lex, MIT research scientist As I'm sure you've noticed, Lex refers to himself as "Lex Fridman, MIT research scientist" at every opportunity. But what he always fails to mention is that he wasn't educated there, or in any way employed by the university. He "taught" a "class" (shilled Tesla and his sponsors) there, which isn't as impressive when you realise anyone can give evening presentations at MIT, not just professors.

The truth is that Lex actually went to Drexel University. He graduated there in computer science, which is a little suspect, since Lex can't write code to save his life and his "lectures" are completely devoid of any technical or academic rigor (more like hour long adverts for Tesla). But get this, his father is a professor at the university. Also if you watch Lex's podcast you'll notice he is completely out of his depth whenever the conversation gets even remotely technical. I'm starting to think he actually studied marketing because that's one thing he seems to have excelled at.

Lex, bootlicker Since leaving MIT, Lex splits his time between nuthugging Joe Rogan, dickriding Elon Musk, and asslicking anyone in a higher position than himself.

R15, are you sure he wasn’t joking there?

From the Reddit analysis: "Oh and let's not forget, this dude is 5'4" and thinks it's cool to dress like Agent Smith from The Matrix."

To my eyes it IS cool. His fitted black suit, skinny tie and crew cut straight out of 1963 gives me a boner every time.

Anyone who gives an audience to Elon Musk and Kanye West is a rancid cunt who's off my radar.

He's now shilling Cybertruck for Elon. A bought soul.