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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Ethereum Is Not Turing Complete, but With the Gas Limit?

Christian: Bitcoin is not Turing complete, but close enough. With the gas limit, what's the gas limit? The sources? Yeah, I mean, no computers actually Turing complete. You buy gas with ether to prevent people from basically de-dossing the network. Christian: What were they trying to do to scale this whole process? So they were like, well, if we could run contracts elsewhere and then only save the results of that computation. It uses a different hash function from Bitcoin. That's more ASIC resistance, Christian, you'd ram.

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