Lex Fridman Podcast

#128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling

Oct 2, 2020

03:24:34

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Richard Stallman defending against false accusations

01:29

The Philosophy of Selfishness and the Importance of Happiness

00:57

The Role of Anti-Racism and University Endowments in Social Dynamics

01:22

Do You Have to Play by the Rules?

01:14

Introduction

2min

Podcast Sponsors: SEMrush, Masterclass, and Masterclass

1min

Podcast Review - Is This a Good Podcast?

2min

How to Optimize Your Online Presence With DoorDash

2min

DoorDash Show Review - Michael Malice

2min

You're Russian Is OK?

2min

Is This Really Russian? Is It Just Me?

2min

Is There a Moat of Trust?

2min

You're Not Receptive to That Person

2min

10.

How to Increase Love on the Internet?

3min

11.

Is There Someone Coming After What I Love?

2min

12.

The Best Way to Diffuse That Is Through Mockery

2min

13.

The White Pill Is Not Cohesive

2min

14.

The Common Humanities Highlighted

2min

15.

How Do We Put More Love Out in the World?

5min

16.

Government Is the People, Right?

2min

17.

Citizenship Based on Geography

2min

18.

Anarchism Is a Utopian Worldview

2min

19.

Do You Recognize the Value of Offloading Your Own Effort?

2min

20.

Ants Are the Worst Example of Anarchy

2min

21.

The Most Beautiful Example of Anarchism

4min

22.

Corruption in an Anarchist System

2min

23.

Do You Think Sociopaths Can Get More Power in a Free Society?

2min

24.

Is Every Critique of Anarchism a Description?

4min

25.

Isn't the Mob Have More Power Under Anarchy?

2min

26.

Is There a Practical Political Direction?

1min

27.

You and I Disagree, I'm Saying There's No Mind There

2min

28.

Do You Have the Capacity to Be Thoughtful?

2min

29.

Are You a Dog Person?

2min

30.

What Would You Be Impressed by About Twitter?

2min

31.

What Is Fun?

3min

32.

Do Not Fear the Erection, Right?

3min

33.

Do You Troll?

2min

34.

Trolling Is a Sinister Thing

2min

35.

I Don't Think That's a Function of Conspiracy Theories

2min

36.

Is There a Conspiracy Theory?

2min

37.

Jeffrey Epstein - Is There a Confederation?

4min

38.

Is That Really Intelligence?

3min

39.

I've Been Listening to Two Episodes of Alex Jones's Show

2min

40.

Is the Idea That Russians Hacked the Election Dangerous?

2min

41.

What's Your Favorite Trump Tweet?

2min

42.

I'm Broken, Lex. That's Love

2min

43.

I Believe in the Value of People Voting

2min

44.

Donald Trump's Never Going to Be Chancellor

2min

45.

Is Donald Trump Playing Politics?

2min

46.

Biden Trump Debates - What's Your Prediction?

2min

47.

Joe Biden Will Be the Mike Tyson

2min

48.

The Sleepy Joe, I'm a Master Counter Puncher.

2min

49.

You Mean Like Robespierre?

2min

50.

Is Twitter the Right Way to Do It?

2min

51.

The Truth Is Unobstructed on Social Media

2min

52.

We Got Our Ways to Go Before Hitler

2min

53.

What's the Difference Between Hitler and the Holocaust?

2min

54.

Communists Versus Stalin?

2min

55.

What Is Your Thoughts About Socialism?

2min

56.

Is There a Candidate in the System?

2min

57.

Andrew Yang, You Don't Have to Run for President to Generate Excitement

2min

58.

What Do You Like About Andrew Yang?

3min

59.

What's Your Take on the 2020?

2min

60.

Is Donald Trump a Centrist?

2min

61.

What I Like About You in D20, 20

2min

62.

The Libertarian Party

5min

63.

Libertarians and Libertarianism Is a Place of Ideas, Yeah

2min

64.

Libertarians Are the Most Rationalistic of All the Groups

4min

65.

I Like en Rand, but That's One Criticism

2min

66.

I'm Friends Like UFOs. Oh, No, No

6min

67.

The Best of Trolling Is Not the Eye Roll

2min

68.

You're Gonna Go Farther Than People Expect You To, Right?

2min

69.

Love Is the Way to Experience Like Every Moment of Everyday

2min

70.

How to Be Witty on the Internet Without Communicating Kindness

2min

71.

Twitter

2min

72.

Are You a Martial Artist?

2min

73.

The Little Engine That Could but Shouldn't

2min

74.

How Does the Alt-Right Connect to the Right?

2min

75.

Are Tits or Get the Fuck Out?

2min

76.

What's the Difference Between 4chan and 8chan?

2min

77.

The 4chan Alt-Right

3min

78.

Cancel Culture?

1min

79.

Is Gender Studies a Systemic Organized Movement?

2min

80.

Do You Want to Dismantle Broken Institutions?

2min

81.

Is MIT Broken?

1min

82.

The One Kid Who Hurt Theirself on the Glass

2min

83.

Is MIT the Outlier in the Humanities?

2min

84.

I'm Not Even Having This Podcast

2min

85.

I'm Seeing the House on Fire. You See the Tanks Coming?

2min

86.

MIT Is an Educational Establishment, Not a Research Institution

2min

87.

I'm Sorry to the Lowest Most Despicable Disgusting People

2min

88.

Is Marvin Minsky a Rapist?

2min

89.

Isn't It Close to Home?

2min

90.

Trump's a Hacker, Right?

2min

91.

What's the Sticky Thing About the Word Rape?

3min

92.

The Issue of Sexual Assault

2min

93.

Untrolling - I'm Not Good With These Attacks

2min

94.

Is Elon Musk a Fraud?

2min

95.

The Machiavellians by James Burnham

2min

96.

What Do You Agree With?

2min

97.

Is That the Most Controversial Viewpoint?

2min

98.

Are You Afraid of Death?

2min

99.

You Just Have to Move the Need a Little

2min

100.

You Make the World Not Everyone

3min

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OUTLINE:
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00:00 – Introduction
04:15 – Sponsors
07:58 – Putin and the Russian soul
15:01 – Love and trolling
25:31 – Problem with government
31:03 – Anarchism
53:07 – Politics
54:59 – Are most people capable of thinking deeply?
1:02:08 – Willy Wonka and Albert Camus view of life
1:08:08 – Trolling
1:12:26 – Conspiracy theories
1:29:43 – Donald Trump and the Election
1:36:58 – Trump Biden presidential debates
1:41:15 – Journalism is broken
1:47:56 – Communism
1:54:02 – Presidential candidates
2:04:34 – Libertarian party
2:14:56 – Objectivism
2:24:17 – Trolling
2:35:21 – The New Right
2:43:29 – Cancel culture
3:13:17 – Book recommendations
3:18:08 – Fear of mortality
3:21:08 – Meaning of life

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Lex Fridman Podcast

#128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling

Richard Stallman defending against false accusations

The Philosophy of Selfishness and the Importance of Happiness

The Role of Anti-Racism and University Endowments in Social Dynamics

Do You Have to Play by the Rules?

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