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George Hotz's mental models

2 claims George Hotz made fit 2 mental models. Most often: Incentives, The map is not the territory. Everything they said here.

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Incentives

Look at what people are rewarded for; it explains more behaviour than what they say, your own included.

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Charging users money is the fix for social media, because a paying user is the customer rather than the product.

  1. George Hotz American programmer and hacker As soon as you charge people money, they’re no longer the product, they’re the customer. And then they can start building something that’s good for the customer, and not good for the other customer, which is the ad agencies. George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387youtube.com · 29 Jun 2023 · 1:55:18 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    Their wordsAs soon as you charge people money, they’re no longer the product, they’re the customer. And then they can start building something that’s good for the customer, and not good for the other customer, which is the ad agencies.

    Where this was said

    Watch from 1:55:18 plays here

    ↗George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387youtube.com

    29 Jun 2023 · video · 3h 08m · spoken · official transcript

The map is not the territory

Every model, word or plan is a simplified map of reality; useful when its structure matches, misleading when mistaken for the thing itself.

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Whether time really exists does not matter; what matters is that time is a useful model for describing reality.

  1. George Hotz American programmer and hacker I think time is a useful model, whether it exists or not. Right. Does quantum physics exist? Well, it doesn’t matter. It’s about whether it’s a useful model to describe reality. George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387youtube.com · 29 Jun 2023 · 0:01:47 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    Their wordsI think time is a useful model, whether it exists or not. Right. Does quantum physics exist? Well, it doesn’t matter. It’s about whether it’s a useful model to describe reality.

    Where this was said

    Watch from 0:01:47 plays here

    ↗George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387youtube.com

    29 Jun 2023 · video · 3h 08m · spoken · official transcript