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Aaron Smith-Levin

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Almost all auditing employs the use of an e-meter.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

What's an e-meter?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

So an e-meter is a device that just measures the resistance to a small electrical flow, except Scientologists believe that this e-meter can be used to simply direct the progress of an auditing session to determine whether the auditing has reached a good, satisfactory conclusion.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

All auditing sessions have to end on a satisfactory conclusion.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Like that's the job of the auditor.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

You don't just, it's not like, sorry, the session sucked.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

See you next week.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

It's not like that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Every auditing session has to end on a positive note.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

And if it doesn't, there's corrections to be made.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

So the e-meter.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Oh, you can pull it up.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Pull up mark eight, e-meter mark eight.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

No, literally in the beginning of an auditing session, when you're calibrating the sensitivity of the emitter, you do a can squeeze.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

So I go, squeeze the cans, please.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Okay.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

So I'm just like squeezing the cans.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

And I'm just changing the sensitivity because when you squeeze the cans, I want to get about a one third of a dial drop on the needle.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

The idea is you don't want, if the needle's too sensitive, then every time you shift around in your chair, the needle's going to bounce all over the place.