렉스 프리드먼: 오해의 소지가 있는 이미지와 논란의 여지가 있는 학계

### 논란의 여지가 있는 렉스 프리드먼의 페르소나: 비판적 고찰
* 🤔 연구원이자 팟캐스터인 렉스 프리드먼은 **조 로건, 엘론 머스크 등 저명한 인물과의 관계**를 통해 인기를 얻었지만 그의 진위 여부는 조사 중입니다.
* 🔍 많은 팬들이 그가 MIT의 교수라고 잘못 알고 있지만, 실제로는 **대학에서 누구나 개설할 수 있는 비학점 1월 학기 수업**을 가르쳤을 뿐입니다.
* 📉 그의 학력은 과장되었다는 비판을 받아왔으며, **드렉셀 대학교에서 공부하고 MIT에서 무급 연구원**으로 근무한 경력을 허위로 기재하기도 했습니다.
* 🚫 프리드먼은 **테슬라의 자율주행 기술에 대한 동료 검토를 거치지 않은 연구**로 인해 방법론적 결함과 테슬라의 홍보 도구라는 비판을 받으며 반발에 직면한 바 있습니다.
* 🧑 이 분야의 전문가들은 그가 **중요한 출판물이 부족**하고 건설적인 대화를 나누기보다는 소셜 미디어에서 비판적인 사람들을 차단하는 것으로 알려져 있다고 지적했습니다.
* 💬 프리드먼은 팟캐스트에서 **일론 머스크를 과도하게 언급**하는 경우가 많아 일부에서는 그를 '일론 광팬'으로 간주하며 학계에서 그의 동기와 진실성에 대한 의문을 제기하기도 합니다.
* 💔 나심 니콜라스 탈렙과 같은 비평가들은 **프리드먼이 명성과 유명인과의 인맥을 위해 학문적 엄격함을 타협**했다고 주장하며 공개적으로 불신을 표명했습니다.
* 🤷 결국 렉스 프리드먼에 대한 진지한 연구자라는 인식은 **그의 의심스러운 관행과 그가 구축한 페르소나**로 인해 흐려지고, 그가 사기꾼인지 아니면 단순히 오해인지 판단하는 것은 청중에게 맡겨지게 됩니다.

렉스 프리드먼은 자신의 학력을 허위로 기재하고 성실성보다 명성을 노리고 있어 그의 신뢰성에 의구심을 불러일으켰습니다.

like I'm a total bro in a sense like I may not look like it but I'm I'm very I have like a Rogan inside me I really am a man's man except for the times in like Harvard Square and Academia rubs off on

me but for the most part man's man what does a man's man mean may I there's just a list of stupid [ __ ] you do like I like lifting heavy things I like building stuff I like I love the idea of hunting

I love fishing I like knives and guns and risk he literally sounds like he's LARPing as a male oh yes I like lifting heavy things I also like knives and guns therefore I'm a man's man and you better respect Mario thoratai so as you know by

now this video is about Alexi Federov more commonly known as Lex Friedman Lex is a researcher and podcaster that has gained quite a bit of popularity in the last few years I came across Lex through social media clips of him with Joe Rogan

Elon Musk and a lot of other prominent folks so even before I knew anything about him he had an aura of legitimacy solely because he associated with widely successful people but ever since I saw this guy something just didn't feel right about him and I couldn't

pinpoint it so when I was digging around on topics for my next video I finally decided to dive into the Lex Friedman rabbit hole and there was a lot of questionable things I found about the guy for example he portrays himself to be someone more than he actually is he

has deliberately created an image that does not necessarily correspond to reality, and he is simply misleading people. Many of his fans believe that he is or was a professor at MIT or studied at MIT, which isn't true. A lot of his academic accolades are exaggerated or

misrepresented. He's also a Tesla shill and, more specifically, an Elon Musk show. He was kicked out of the MIT AgeLab group for his non-peer-reviewed report chilling for Tesla self-driving capabilities, but I think his biggest crime is that he's boring and cringy. He

robotically asks the same handful of naive questions and gets weirdly emotional and defensive about random topics from time to time. Like, he has this shtick where he talks slow in order to make himself seem more articulate, but all it does is make him seem

disingenuous. So sit tight and maybe buckle in while we discuss all things Lex, and if you do enjoy this video, please be sure to leave a like, comment, and subscribe. If you know anything about Lex, then you know that he always refers to himself as

Lux Friedman, MIT research scientist, at every opportunity, but what he always fails to mention is that he wasn't even educated there or in any way employed by the university. What he did do there was that he taught a January term class, which isn't as impressive when you

realize anybody can give presentations at MIT, not just professors. A January term class is closer to a book club. Students have the option of taking one class that interests them during this term or staying home and coming back for the spring semester. It's basically a free-form month for knowledge sharing.

During that period, anyone can put together a call, and anyone who wishes to attend, MIT affiliated or not, can attend. Oh, and it's all not for credit. Here's a quote from an actual person from MIT. It states, "I've come across a handful of"

people in the last few years that figured out how easy it is to become vaguely affiliated with MIT. Then they use the University email and some spin to their affiliation, and all of a sudden they've gotten a bunch of new opportunities. And it only builds from

there. People within academic circles will know the difference, but outside, not necessarily. Lex definitely raises some red flags on this front. The dude randomly requested me on LinkedIn four or five years ago, and I saw we had a lot of MIT mutual connections at the time. He

was teaching. It's not difficult at all to organize a January term class. Many undergraduates even do this, but most don't use it to claim that they are a lecturer at MIT. Lex actually studied at Drexel University, which is a good but

lower-ranked university. His father is also a professor there, but he never mentions Drexel. And if you bring it up in his sub and ask him about it, you get banned. You will also get banned if you constructively criticize him or any of his guests. He is a research scientist at

MIT, but it is an unpaid position, and he has never been a professor. He purposefully allows the misconception to propagate because it benefits him to have people assume his science is better than it is. Another fun tidbit is that if you look at his LinkedIn profile, he has

math functions in the background which seems to be a theme like here's him standing in front of a classroom again with some math functions on the blackboard but here's the thing those functions have nothing to do with the class that he's teaching the things on the blackboard

were there from another class before his and I know this because you can watch some of his lectures on his YouTube channel but he keeps the math and purposefully includes them whenever he can to make himself seem smarter than he actually is even his LinkedIn page is

misleading he also claims on LinkedIn that he worked at Google for one year it reads Google researcher 2014-2015 however the truth is that he worked there as a visiting researcher for less than four months in 2019 Lex Friedman 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 for this next part I'll be referencing an Insider article written by Julia Black as it does well to capture the full picture of what happened and has

some great resources to back it up the article states though Friedman has touted affiliations with MIT and Google AI and machine learning experts who spoke with Insider said Friedman lacks the publications citations and conference appearances required to be taken seriously in the hyper-competitive

world of academia when AI professionals on Twitter challenge Friedman's research methods for the Tesla study he blocked them en masse soon after the study was published Friedman moved his prestigious MIT lab to an unpaid research role a former Age Lab staffer recalled Friedman telling him that he wanted to amass a

a giant amount of followers Phillip Pickniewski, a computer vision and AI researcher who became one of Friedman's most vocal critics, said it was clear from the very beginning that he's positioning himself to become one of the celebrities in the space. The MIT seal of

approval was like enormously valuable to Tesla. Its autopilot feature had come under intense scrutiny over several widely publicized fatal crashes involving Tesla vehicles. The company was hit with a class action lawsuit that described autopilot as essentially unusable and demonstrably dangerous, but

Musk insisted that his technology did not require human intervention, going so far as to brand the feature autopilot instead of co-pilot. Academics and AI experts began to pick apart the study's methodology. They criticized the small sample size and suggested the participants likely performed

differently because they knew they were being observed, a phenomenon known as the Hawthorne effect. Missy Cummings, a former MIT professor who served as a senior advisor for safety at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, has called the report deeply flawed. What

happens is people like Elon Musk take this and then try to make a big deal about it and say 'I've got signs on my side.' I personally do not consider Lex a serious researcher. Cummings recently told Insider. When Anima Anandkumar, a

well-known AI expert, tweeted in 2019 that Friedman ought to submit his work for peer review before seeking press coverage, Friedman blocked her and many of her colleagues, some of whom had never even engaged in the discussion. Friedman did not respond to several interview requests and requests for comment. He

told a historian Dan Carlin during one episode, "Journalists annoy the hell out of me, so I understand from Putin's perspective that journalism, journalists can be seen as the Enemy of the State." Many of Friedman's peers had another reason to be suspicious of the study.

Friedman's admiration for Tesla CEO Elon Musk was well documented. He was an active participant in Tesla fan forums. He'd been photographed with Musk's Boring Company flamethrower, and in a 2018 tweet that's since been deleted, he asked Musk to collaborate on a fully autonomous

cross-country drive. Musk had even tweeted about Friedman's Tesla-friendly research in the past. One former MIT colleague of Friedman said, "Many people in our field believe that being closely associated with Musk could be a career boon." Lex was relatively excited

to get in touch with Elon Musk and get into his good graces," said the former colleague, who has to remain anonymous to avoid professional repercussions. "It's fair to say that his plan worked because two weeks after releasing the study, he got invited to do a podcast with Elon

Musk, and then later went on to be invited to Joe Rogan. Since then, his podcast has really boomed, so his career definitely benefited, but his academic integrity not so much because he was kicked out of the MIT AgeLab Group

after his non-peer-reviewed report showing for Tesla's self-driving capability. A trend that I noticed on Lex Fridman's podcast is how much he really talks about Elon. He will bring up Elon at the most random times and asks his guests weird-ass questions about Elon.

like here's a compilation I made of him saying Elon's name for one minute straight a guy named Elon Musk Elon Musk Elon Musk Elon Elon Musk Elon Elon Elon Elon Musk Elon Musk Elon Elon Elon Musk Elon Musk

Elon Musk Elon Elon Elon Musk Elon not sure if you were counting but he said Elon's name 125 times in that one minute and that's not even all the times he's mentioned his name I lost too many brain cells compiling that and couldn't

be bothered to go through the rest of his podcast but it's safe to say that he's an Elon groupie and if you still don't believe me here's him asking his guest about how much they also love Elon let's ask what do you admire most about

Elon okay you've uh you've talked to Elon quite a bit you've written about him quite a bit just it'd be cool to to hear you talk about what are your ideas of what you know the magic sauces you've written about about with Elon what what

makes him so successful his style of thinking his ambition his dreams his um the people he connects with the kind of problems he tackles is there kind of comments you can make about what makes him special uh what'd you think about Elon as an engineering leader having to

experience them in the most chaotic of spaces I would say can you analyze Elon in that aspect like is there is it just he can't help it he must see the change that he uh hopes for in the world how do we get more Elons what do you admire in the name of love a

body almost what do you admire in the Name of Love about Elon Musk you can tell he loves all the perks of being BFFs with Elon and will show so [ __ ] hard to not lose them all in all Lex Friedman just comes off as very fake to

me he attempts to cultivate the image of an intellectual Warrior slash philosopher poet but in the end he feels that all of them he misrepresents his role at MIT to make himself sound more accomplished than he really is he faked his paper on driver in attentiveness and

self-driving cars to curry favor with Musk he's overwhelmingly dull but is he a fraud I guess it's up to you to decide and I'd like to hear it let me know down in the comments what you think and before I sign off here's a couple

more excerpts from The Insider article that I felt were worth sharing an AI expert who knows Friedman thought that perhaps the podcast hosts abandoned academic rigor in pursuit of fame it's almost as if he sold his academic soul to get an interview with Musk the expert

said another quote States Nassim Nicholas Taleb the mathematical statistician known for writing the book The Black Swan blasted Friedman on Twitter in January sending mail with heading quick note from MIT when podcast has nothing to do with MIT is shoddy as

hell Caleb tweeted Philip said he turned down 10 invitations from Friedman to appear on his podcast I have been convinced that there is something that is not solid about the person Taleb told Insider in your [ __ ] because I hope

I'm somebody you can trust I don't **really** trust you a few moments later but I gotta tell you I have to be honest um I don't this is silly because you don't know me but it hurt when you say you don't trust me you kind of lost me I

don't think anyone's ever said that to me I don't know man **I just** that I just thought you're one of the great greatest artists ever it'd be cool to talk to you and never had anyone say that to me I I

maybe I'm just being a mess about it I guess that's **what's** up though uh wouldn't that be interesting if like the entirety if we travel in time like multiple centuries where the entirety is a communication of the human species is

like humor like it's all just jokes like we're high on probably some really Advanced drugs and we're all just laughing non-stop it's a weird like dystopian future of just humor

Is Lex Fridman a FRAUD?

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렉스 프리드먼의 소개 및 첫인상

연사는 자신을 소개하고 성공한 사람들과의 관계로 인해 렉스 프리드먼에 대한 긍정적인 첫인상을 갖게 되었다고 소개합니다.

화자는 '남자의 남자'에 대한 자신의 개념을 정의하고 이를 프리드먼의 인식된 이미지와 대조합니다.

연사가 비디오의 주제인 렉스 프리드먼에 대한 분석을 소개합니다.

연사가 렉스 프리드먼을 발견하게 된 계기와 처음에 받은 긍정적인 인상을 설명합니다.

화자는 렉스 프리드먼에 대해 뭔가 잘못되었다고 느끼며 추가 조사를 하겠다고 말합니다.

렉스 프리드먼의 학력 및 소속에 대한 허위 진술에 대한 분석

연사는 렉스 프리드먼의 과장된 자신과 학력 묘사를 강조합니다.

연사는 프리드먼이 MIT와의 관계를 잘못 표현하고 자신의 학문적 업적을 과장하고 있다고 지적합니다.

연사는 프리드먼의 테슬라 실링과 그가 MIT 에이지랩 그룹에서 배제된 것에 대해 비판합니다.

화자는 프리드먼의 커뮤니케이션 스타일과 불성실한 태도를 비판합니다.

연사는 MIT 연구 과학자라는 프리드먼의 자기 설명과 이와 관련된 부정확성에 대해 자세히 설명합니다.

연사는 프리드먼이 MIT에 참여하게 된 배경을 설명하며, 전통적인 교수직이 아니었음을 강조합니다.

연사가 MIT의 1월 학기 수업의 특성과 접근성에 대해 설명합니다.

연사는 MIT 소속을 허위로 표시하는 것이 얼마나 쉬운지에 대한 MIT 개인의 관점을 인용합니다.

연사는 프리드먼과의 LinkedIn 연결에 대한 일화를 공유하며 모호한 MIT 소속을 얻는 것이 얼마나 쉬운지를 강조합니다.

연사는 프리드먼의 실제 드렉셀 대학교 학력과 온라인에서 그를 비판했을 때의 결과를 밝힙니다.

연사는 프리드먼이 MIT에서 무급 연구직을 맡고 있다는 점과 드렉셀 대학에 대한 언급을 피한 점을 강조합니다.

연사는 프리드먼이 자신의 학문적 지위에 대한 오해를 의도적으로 퍼뜨린 것에 대해 이야기합니다.

연사는 프리드먼의 LinkedIn 프로필과 강의에서 수학 함수가 잘못 사용되었다고 지적합니다.

연사는 프리드먼의 강의에서 보여준 수학 함수가 이전 수업에서 나온 것이라고 밝힙니다.

발표자는 프리드먼의 LinkedIn 프로필에 있는 구글 근무 시절에 관한 잘못된 정보를 강조합니다.

프리드먼의 테슬라 연구에 대한 비판과 그 결과

연사는 운전자의 주의력과 오토파일럿에 관한 프리드먼의 연구를 소개합니다.

발표자는 Fridman의 연구 방법론의 결함을 자세히 설명하는 인사이더 기사를 언급합니다.

연사는 동료 검토와 출판물이 부족하다는 점을 강조하면서 프리드먼의 연구에 대한 AI 전문가들의 비판을 강조합니다.

연사는 프리드먼이 MIT에서 무급 연구직으로 전환한 과정과 AI 분야의 유명 인사가 되고자 하는 그의 야망에 대해 이야기합니다.

이 연사는 테슬라에 대한 MIT의 승인과 오토파일럿 기능을 둘러싼 엄격한 조사의 가치에 대해 설명합니다.

연사는 테슬라에 대한 집단 소송과 자동 운전 방법론에 대한 비판에 대해 언급합니다.

연사는 이 연구의 표본 크기가 작다는 점과 호손 효과에 대한 비판을 강조합니다.

연사는 보고서에 심각한 결함이 있다는 미시 커밍스의 평가를 인용합니다.

연사는 아니마 아난드쿠마르의 비판과 트위터에서 비평가를 차단한 프리드먼의 대응에 대해 논의합니다.

연사는 프리드먼의 인터뷰 요청에 대한 응답 부족과 언론인에 대한 그의 발언을 언급합니다.

연사는 일론 머스크에 대한 프리드먼의 존경심과 과거 상호작용에 대해 기록으로 남긴 내용을 강조합니다.

연사는 완전 자율주행 크로스 컨트리 드라이브에 대해 머스크와 협력한다는 프리드먼의 삭제된 트윗에 대해 이야기합니다.

연사는 프리드먼이 머스크와의 전략적 제휴를 추구한 것에 대해 전 MIT 동료의 말을 인용합니다.

연사는 프리드먼이 머스크와 맺은 인연이 경력에 미친 긍정적인 영향에 대해 설명하며, 이를 그의 학문적 성실성에 미친 부정적인 영향과 대조적으로 설명합니다.

일론 머스크에 대한 프리드먼의 과도한 집중에 대한 분석

연사는 프리드먼이 팟캐스트에서 엘론 머스크에 대해 자주 언급하는 것을 지적합니다.

연사는 프리드먼이 엘론 머스크의 이름을 과도하게 언급하는 장면을 편집하여 보여줍니다.

발표자는 엘론 머스크에 대한 과도한 언급과 모든 사례를 취합하는 어려움에 대해 언급합니다.

연사는 게스트에게 일론 머스크에 대한 존경심을 묻는 프리드먼의 영상을 보여줍니다.

연사는 일론 머스크에 대한 프리드먼의 질문을 게스트에게 더 자세히 설명합니다.

렉스 프리드먼에 대한 결론 및 전반적인 평가

연사는 렉스 프리드먼에 대한 그들의 인식을 가짜이고 진실하지 않다고 요약합니다.

연사는 프리드먼의 행동으로 MIT에서의 역할에 대한 허위 진술, 논문 위조, 무뚝뚝함 등을 나열합니다.

화자는 프리드먼의 캐릭터에 대한 최종 판단을 시청자에게 맡깁니다.

발표자는 프리드먼의 행동에 대한 The Insider 기사의 추가 인용문을 공유합니다.

연사는 트위터에서 나심 니콜라스 탈렙의 프리드먼에 대한 비판을 인용합니다.

화자는 프리드먼을 신뢰하지 않는다는 탈렙의 말을 공유합니다.

이 영상에는 신뢰할 수 없다는 말을 들은 프리드먼의 감정적 반응을 보여주는 짧은 클립이 포함되어 있습니다.

이 스피커에는 시간 여행과 유머에 대한 프리드먼의 짧은 생각이 담긴 짧은 클립이 포함되어 있습니다.