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#132 – George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is Your Life Finite?

I'm okay with deceiving myself. Changing the code. If that's the problem, right? I'd like to have backup copies of myself. Which I check in with occasionally to make sure they're okay with the trajectory and they can kind of override it. But sometimes it's not reversible. Like, I've done this with video games. Once you figure out the cheat code or like you look up how to cheat old school like single player, it ruins the game for you. Absolutely. That just means our brain manipulation technology is not good enough yet. So that talk in your thinking here is not literally referring to a simulation in that our, our universe is a kind of computer program

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