On this episode, we cover the Joe Rogan Experience 2260 with guest Lex Friedman.

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Thank you. Welcome back to the show. This is a show where two podcasters with no previous Rogan experience, get to know Joe Rogan.

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Rogan, his guests, and their claims, as well as anyone who just wants to understand Joe's

ever-growing media influence. I'm Cecil Cicero, and I'm joined by Michael Marshall,

and today we're going to be covering Joe's January 23rd interview with Lex Friedman.

So far, on YouTube alone, this video has 2.5 million views.

So, Marsh, how did Joe introduce Lex in the show notes?

So according to Joe, Lex Friedman is a computer scientist and researcher in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics, and he's the host of the Lex Friedman podcast.

All right. And is there anything else we should know about Lex?

Yeah, there is. There is. So Lex Friedman, he was a computer scientist at MIT, and he rose to prominence in 2019

when he published a study that suggested that drivers using Tesla's autopilot semi-autonomous

features remained fully focused on the road. And this study was massively praised by Elon Musk,

you know, the owner of Tesla and the man most likely to profit from studies on how great his

tech is. Except the problem was other AI experts pointed out that his study wasn't peer

reviewed, so it hadn't been checked by other experts in the field to see if it was legitimate or not.

Seems important. Even though his study completely, well, appeared to at least, completely

contradict what other established peer-reviewed research in that

field had found. And it was later the study removed from MIT's website. But the whole affair

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