What George Hotz thinks about social media

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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 dated positions, 2023, in their own words. Our reading of what George Hotz has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 29 Jun 2023

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

   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.

   ↗George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387youtube.com 20th of 30 in this recording

3. 29 Jun 2023

   Our readingRecommendation algorithms are not sinister; they simply predict engagement, and what humans engage with most is outrage.

   Their wordsIt just predicts what you are likely to re-Tweet and like, and linger on. That’s what all these algorithms do. It’s what Tik-Tok does, it’s what all these recommendation engines do. And it turns out that the thing that you are most likely to interact with is outrage. And that’s a quirk of the human condition.

   ↗George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387youtube.com 21st of 30 in this recording