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Aaron Smith-Levin

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

So they still create this, they try to create this unfalsifiable loop where unless you are personally doing it, you don't have correct information.

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

And you go, well, what about the people who did personally do it, got the correct information?

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

and are now sharing that with others.

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

Well, no, those are lies.

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

Well, okay, so just anything you don't like is a lie then.

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

You go, yeah, pretty much.

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

That's kind of how it works.

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

Well, these days, they've pretty much, I think, thrown in the towel.

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

But Scientology middle management

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

was editing Wikipedia so often from IP addresses that were traced back to the Scientology buildings that Wikipedia locked them out from any IP addresses associated with Scientology from being able to edit it.

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

It's like Scientology was so infatuated with trying to control the information.

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

And in the early days of the internet, they had a certain degree of success with that.

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

It's just hopeless these days.

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

And I gotta tell you, it's one of the reasons I do my YouTube channel.

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

It's one of the reasons I decided to upload every day.

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

I've uploaded every day for the last six months.

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

I just wanted there to be a nonstop flow of information of any kind and any variety, as long as it's fair and balanced, intelligent, interesting, that Scientologists who stumble upon the internet will go, oh, look, someone's talking about my thing.

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

Let's see what they got going on.

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

And, and I know this guy, the fact that Scientology crushes so much information before, before YouTube, before, like I have the only like big Scientology channel and that only got big in the last six months.

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

Okay.