George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets | Lex Fridman Podcast #132
Why Hacker News recommends it
Commenters recommend it as an entertaining, wide-ranging interview, and cite it for Hotz's views on end-to-end neural-net driving.
What it is
Lex Fridman interviews George Hotz, founder of Comma.ai, in a three-hour conversation. Topics include self-driving, Tesla and Waymo, crypto, GPT-3, immortality and book recommendations.
Recommended by 6 HN commenters across 4 different months, 2020 to 2026.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec nomel · 2026-01 · on “Open-source self-driving for 325 car models from 27 brands”
There's a few Lex Fridman podcasts with George Hotz, the founder. Highly recommend them: #31 [LINK] #132 [this video] #387 [LINK]
Recommends wsc981 · 2020-12 · on “Cryptocurrency company Ripple says SEC lawsuit is imminent”
> US e-Dollar. Or FedCoin as George Hotz called it recently in a Lex Friendman podcast [0]. P.S.: I thought this was an entertaining podcast, George is a funny guy. --- [0]: [this video]
Recommends imaginenore · 2020-12 · on “Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?”
George Hots interview by Lex. [this video] Lots of topics covered: self-driving, immortality, UFOs, cryptocurrencies, Tesla/Waymo/OpenAI, GTP-3, AI, book recommendations.
Recommends pizzabearman · 2020-12 · on “Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?”
First episode is really good but the second time he was on lex podcast was even better in my opinion: [this video]
Recommends AlbertoGP · 2021-02 · on “Comma.ai, self-driving cars and indefinite optimism”
Just watched today George Hotz’s interview in Lex Fridman’s podcast from last October, 3 hours talking about many interesting things including comma.ai and how it compares with Tesla’s approach. He even mentions HN a couple of times: [this video] [this video]
Recommends merryje · 2022-09 · on “On Device Learning”
He was on the Lex Fridman podcast twice. He's definitely an interesting guy. I've been following comma.ai for some time now it's really cool seeing how much they've accomplished. August 2019 - [LINK] October 2020 - [this video]
Cites ZeroSync · 2020-11 · on “The blockchain/cryptocurrency space is mostly fraudulent”
Yeah, HN ironically has a deep hate for any Crypto. Quite frankly a lot of HN probs missed out/dismissed BTC earlier years and now it just continues to trend up whilst the best money managers in the world/companies are adding it to their portfolio...the denial is real. [this video] Describes HN comments and attitude towards next level/pushing boundaries tech. Enjoy the sidelines.
Cites etherael · 2021-04 · on “Ethereum Fork Fails on OpenEthereum”
Congratulations, you made me come out of retirement purely to disagree with you. No chain more richly deserves death than BTC and BCH is one of the best chains in existence. I'm prepared to sign this message with a Bitcoin key from 2011 if you doubt the fact I've been active that long. It's the unfortunate and poorly informed post 2017 split BTC adherents who have no idea what's going on. I watched the entire thing unfold first hand and the BCH camp simply has it correct. The fact that the market is largely completely ignorant of this is one of the most glaring indications of just how irrational it presently is. Until BTC dies, the entire cryptosphere is little more than a joke. Witness the