<story><title>Interview with Scott Aaronson about philosophy and quantum computing [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX5t8EivCaM</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nabla9</author><text>His quest list is awesome. Stephen Kotkin interview was really good.&lt;p&gt;His  problem is the clear lack of preparation in several interviews. He gets thrown off and loses track just when the interview gets interesting. The momentum dies because he has no good followup questions and no idea where to go form there.&lt;p&gt;Instead of playing ignorant for the sake of the conversation like good host does, it seems that he tries genuinely to learn stuff during the interview. His backup strategy is to direct  interview  into the same set of overly generic questions where the quest has nothing interesting to say. It&amp;#x27;s kind of irritating.&lt;p&gt;If you compare Lex Friedman to Sean Carrol (they have had same quests in their program) its&amp;#x27; clear that Carrol is better prepared and better host.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.preposterousuniverse.com&amp;#x2F;podcast&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.preposterousuniverse.com&amp;#x2F;podcast&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>plesiv</author><text>Lex Fridman&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;AI Podcast&amp;quot; has quickly grown to have one of the best list of guests on any show ever [1] - extremely impressive!&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuK...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gambler</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;His backup strategy is to direct interview into the same set of overly generic questions where the quest has nothing interesting to say. It&amp;#x27;s kind of irritating.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Couldn&amp;#x27;t agree more. I want such people to comment on their fields, not wrestle with some faux-philosophical fluff thrown at them at random. They&amp;#x27;re not some generic celebrities or CEOs. Their perspective is interesting precisely because they do real work in interesting domains.</text></comment>
<story><title>Interview with Scott Aaronson about philosophy and quantum computing [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX5t8EivCaM</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nabla9</author><text>His quest list is awesome. Stephen Kotkin interview was really good.&lt;p&gt;His  problem is the clear lack of preparation in several interviews. He gets thrown off and loses track just when the interview gets interesting. The momentum dies because he has no good followup questions and no idea where to go form there.&lt;p&gt;Instead of playing ignorant for the sake of the conversation like good host does, it seems that he tries genuinely to learn stuff during the interview. His backup strategy is to direct  interview  into the same set of overly generic questions where the quest has nothing interesting to say. It&amp;#x27;s kind of irritating.&lt;p&gt;If you compare Lex Friedman to Sean Carrol (they have had same quests in their program) its&amp;#x27; clear that Carrol is better prepared and better host.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.preposterousuniverse.com&amp;#x2F;podcast&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.preposterousuniverse.com&amp;#x2F;podcast&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>plesiv</author><text>Lex Fridman&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;AI Podcast&amp;quot; has quickly grown to have one of the best list of guests on any show ever [1] - extremely impressive!&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuK...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcims</author><text>Is it a competition?  Sean is 20 years older than Lex, clearly loves talking and has way more experience across the table from other smart people.  I&amp;#x27;ve been subscribed to both for over a year now but end up listening to Lex&amp;#x27;s more for some reason.  They are fairly different experiences and it&amp;#x27;s obvious to me that some will like one more than the other.  That&amp;#x27;s ok.</text></comment>