Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses | Lex Fridman Podcast #172

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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
1:48 - Librex
3:41 - Deep Fakes
7:48 - Silencing of ideas
18:42 - Building Librex
28:29 - How Librex took over Dartmouth
36:55 - Anonymity
39:46 - Private vs public life
49:13 - Building a sense of community
53:56 - Refusing to sell user data
1:00:46 - Moderation
1:07:35 - Freedom of speech
1:18:27 - Scaling
1:22:43 - Yik Yak
1:30:03 - AWS and Parler
1:35:07 - Safe spaces
1:38:04 - Jeffrey Epstein
1:47:31 - Chess and poker
1:58:11 - Advice for young people
2:09:03 - Book recommendations
2:14:57 - Mortality

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