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George Hotz

George Hotz

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American programmer and hacker, founder of the self-driving company Comma.ai and of the tiny corp, which builds the tinygrad neural network framework.

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2 of George Hotz's claims fit 2 mental models. Most often: Incentives, The map is not the territory.

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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
    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.

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
    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.