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Comment by pixl97

5 hours ago

Just searching it up in YouTube is a good starting place. He has visited a number of different podcasts. Then from there you can drill down into papers on the interesting things.

Thanks, I was more asking from your perspective.

I’m a working research biologist, and I’m genuinely curious how he became so well known among the hackernews slice of the public. He seems to have hit on some very effective combination of research interests and public communication strategy.

I suspected it was the Lex Fridman podcast appearances, but I wasn’t sure if that was how most people became aware of him.