>>12190991>I'll agree with you Lex's podcast is s tier in most ways, but I find Weinstein's to be too pretentious.Yes, Eric is unable to utter a single sentence without trying to compress information as densely as possible, whether or not it's comprehensible by 99% of people. I sometimes like it because it lets conversations move faster, but sometimes it's just way too abstruse. And there are times where I'll get what he's saying but the guest clearly doesn't and I'm kind of internally yelling "just use fucking words". I'm not even sure if he does it intentionally or is trying to sound smart. I think he's just kind of autistic.
Lex on the other hand kind of goes a bit too far in the opposite direction for me, trying to repeat and dumb down what the guest just said so that laymen who are watching it can understand it. But he keeps the questions pretty rapid-fire so it doesn't bother me that much. I like both podcasts.
>>12191236>But what's his excuse for being just as unknowledgeable in his own field when he talks to people in AI? You can easily tell he's out of his depth even by the way he talks about GPT3. It doesn't take a PhD in ML to realise why GPT3 struggles to sum 5 numbers.I don't agree. I think he fully understands it, but just is very frequently playing devil's advocate in interviews to get the guests to fully elaborate their positions with conviction. He's a bit of an ML optimist, but he's not ignorant.
>Compare him to Eric who holds his own with all of his guests on a large variety of topics.I agree, though the downside is sometimes Eric's guests aren't able to keep up with him. I think Eric is probably smarter and more of a polymath, but I think Lex is also smarter than he comes across on the podcast.
I actually coincidentally heard him just say this a few minutes ago while listening to his latest episode, where he pretty much addresses comments like this thread OP directly:
https://youtu.be/BIk1zUy8ehU?t=5728 
