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

Ryan Schiller is the creator of Librex, an anonymous discussion feed for college communities. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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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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