#132 – George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets Lex Fridman Podcast

George Hotz (geohot) is a programmer, hacker, and the founder of Comma.ai. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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OUTLINE:

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00:00 - Introduction

07:02 - Will human civilization destroy itself?

09:49 - Where are the aliens?

14:36 - Tic Tac UFO and Bob Lazar

17:04 - Conspiracy theories

19:07 - The programming language of life

23:28 - The games that humans play

31:58 - Memory leaks in the simulation

34:29 - Theories of everything

36:14 - Ethereum startup story

44:02 - Cryptocurrency

53:28 - Self-help advice

57:08 - Comma.ai

59:02 - Comma two

1:07:50 - Tesla vs Comma.ai

1:16:53 - Driver monitoring

1:30:34 - Communicating uncertainty

1:32:22 - Tesla Dojo

1:38:50 - Tesla Autopilot big rewrite

1:45:09 - How to install the Comma Two

1:49:44 - Openpilot is Android & Autopilot is iOS

1:58:59 - Waymo

2:10:12 - Autonomous driving and society

2:12:24 - Moving

2:15:29 - Advice to Startups

2:28:32 - Programming setup

2:31:32 - Ideas that changed my life

2:39:37 - GPT-3

2:42:57 - AGI

2:47:00 - Programming languages that everyone should learn

2:53:33 - How to learn anything

2:56:05 - Book recommendations

3:04:28 - Love

3:06:17 - Psychedelics

3:08:38 - Crazy