Tyler Cowen is a much better interviewer than Lex Fridman imo

Cowen is not very flexible and clearly just is running through a list of questions, but I would take that over Fridman’s relatively shallow and boring questions like “what is love” any day

I'm probably in the minority here but I don't really care a lot for Fridman's podcasts unless maybe it's a guest I'm really really interested in hearing. For a 1:1 conversation/interview, I personally find 1 hr. is about the limit--and when I had a podcast, I usually kept it to more like 30 minutes.

Minority, but not alone.

What annoys me most about Fridman is that he manages to snag a number of truly excellent guests ... and then produces truly mediocre interviews of them.

That and ... a three-hour ramble is simply too long. Either edit it down or break it up, or both.

I don't know if it's possible to build an audience as large as Fridman’s without superficial treatment of wide ranging topics.

(I appreciate his efforts but I don't consider him a geek of any discipline or field, limiting his depth overall.)

He is not a professor, and you would be surprised how little being an MIT affiliate means

Lex is Rogans little brother who’s into Dostoyevsky and existentialism and computers instead of comedy, MMA and psychedelics

Also, teenager-level philosophy.