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

George Hotz (geohot) is a programmer, hacker, and the founder of Comma.ai. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Four Sigmatic: foursigmatic.com/lex and use code LexPod to get up to 40% & free shipping - Decoding Digital: appdirect.com/decoding-digital - ExpressVPN: expressvpn.com/lexpod and use code LexPod to get 3 months free EPISODE LINKS: Comma.ai's Twitter: twitter.com/comma_ai Comma.ai's Website: comma.ai/ George's Instagram: instagram.com/georgehotz George's Twitch: twitch.tv/georgehotz George's Twitter: twitter.com/realgeorgehotz Comma.ai YouTube (unofficial): youtube.com/channel/UCwgKmJM4ZJQRJ-U5NjvR2dg PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ YouTube Full Episodes: youtube.com/lexfridman YouTube Clips: youtube.com/lexclips SUPPORT & CONNECT: - Check out the sponsors above, it's the best way to support this podcast - Support on Patreon: patreon.com/lexfridman - Twitter: twitter.com/lexfridman - Instagram: instagram.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: facebook.com/LexFridmanPage - Medium: medium.com/@lexfridman OUTLINE: Here's the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. 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