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Jun 2023
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#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, ...

LEX FRIDMAN
About this episode

George Hotz is a programmer, hacker, and the founder of comma-ai and tiny corp. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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George’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/realgeorgehotz
George’s Twitch: https://twitch.tv/georgehotz
George’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/georgehotz
Tiny Corp’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/__tinygrad__
Tiny Corp’s Website: https://tinygrad.org/
Comma-ai’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/comma_ai
Comma-ai’s Website: https://comma.ai/
Comma-ai’s YouTube (unofficial): https://youtube.com/georgehotzarchive
Mentioned:
Learning a Driving Simulator (paper): https://bit.ly/42T6lAN

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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
(08:04) – Time is an illusion
(17:44) – Memes
(20:20) – Eliezer Yudkowsky
(32:45) – Virtual reality
(39:04) – AI friends
(46:29) – tiny corp
(59:50) – NVIDIA vs AMD
(1:02:47) – tinybox
(1:14:56) – Self-driving
(1:29:35) – Programming
(1:37:31) – AI safety
(2:02:29) – Working at Twitter
(2:40:12) – Prompt engineering
(2:46:08) – Video games
(3:02:23) – Andrej Karpathy
(3:12:28) – Meaning of life

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