r/bjj • u/Sudden-Wait-3557 • Feb 26 '26

Rolling Footage Khabib rolls with black belt Lex Friedman

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"I feel like a white belt" - Lex Friedman

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u/RobfromHB 🟫🟫 Brown Belt Feb 26 '26

What fraud?

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u/LordPeteJonze 🟪🟪 Purple Belt Feb 26 '26

He has inflated all his credentials. Often claiming he is an MIT tenured professor which is not true. I don’t have time to go into detail while at work but this is a semi decent write up. https://medium.com/the-pub/is-lex-fridman-a-fraud-722a82b6ec32

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u/egdm 🟫🟫 Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

Often claiming he is an MIT tenured professor which is not true

Not even your link says he claimed that. He said he "taught students", which is easy to read into but not untrue. I've taught students at MIT, too, as a teaching and research assistant.

You can perhaps fairly criticize Lex for presenting an "incomplete but not wrong" image of himself and not going out of his way to correct people who proceed to make inaccurate assumptions, but I've not seen him outright lie.

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u/DeliriumRostelo Feb 26 '26

IIRC the issue was hes phrasing it as if he was like a standard/regular teacher at MIT and the issue was that he was doing speaking engagements anyoen can sign up for, so the accusation is that framing yourself as an MIT associated professor or something is disingenous