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

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Episode: #132 – George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets
Pub date: 2020-10-22

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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

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