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George Hotz has been on Lex Fridman’s podcast a few times https://lexfridman.com/george-hotz/ https://lexfridman.com/george-hotz/ Hotz has an interesting take

George Hotz has been on Lex Fridman’s podcast a few times https://lexfridman.com/george-hotz/ https://lexfridman.com/george-hotz/ Hotz has an interesting take on life and tech. If you have time, listen to one of Lex’s conversations with Hotz while you are getting exercise, gardening, etc. I like Hotz’s idea of generic equipment that works on multiple types of cars. Off topic a little, but the Honda Pilot we bought a year ago has some driver assist technology, and we love it. I like driving myself, but having safety backups like monitoring blind spots, lane changes, staying inside lanes, etc. That said, I am willing to wait for full autonomous driving until they really get it right.

flatiron 5y ago
I’m more excited for self driving cars when I’m not physically in the car. Why park at the train station when I can ge dropped off. Kids on a play date? Sure I can drop off and pick up it’s a couple taps on my phone. Having small kids and a public transit commute is certainly a demographic for this.
- javiramos 5y ago
  The experience you are talking about sounds like Lyft and Uber.
  - flatiron 5y ago
    I don’t believe Lyft and Uber would drive a 3 year old to a play date. That and I don’t trust people.
    - 14 5y ago
      You and I both don't trust people. The second I read your comment I questioned if I would trust my kids alone in a car without me. We know some people are evil. What if you can take over a car and it's destination by hacking the car, something we have seen many times over, and then kidnap a child without going near the house. Or maybe it isn't kids but maybe one day a dictatorship decides all of it's political opposition will be redirected to the detention center. I wonder how long it will be before we see hostile take over of a cars destination and how we can prevent that from happening.
      - trompetenaccoun 5y ago
        Tech enabling injustice and authoritarianism is a problem as old as tools themself. Get yourself a bunch of spears and your group can terrorize the neighboring tribe. With ever increasing globalization, the entire planet might one day become unified under a dictatorship. So with this fear in mind, we could categorically reject any sort of tech and social progress. But will that prevent it from happening? How are isolation and traditionalism going for the uncontacted indigenous peoples of the Amazon? The way I see it, but please correct me if wrong, we need to have the biggest spear, we need to have all the latest tech including self-driving, while simultaneously making sure we have political checks and balances in place and debate the risks as a society. The people have to be aware of what can happen when they aren't vigilant. Free societies are constantly threatened not just by outsiders but also from within. More often than not from within. Currently I'm rather pessimistic about the state of consciousness in supposed liberal democracies, the populace isn't paying attention and isn't involved enough and that's very dangerous. Don't need autonomous vehicles to establish a fascist rule, it would just be an added bonus.
PragmaticPulp 5y ago
> If you have time, listen to one of Lex’s conversations with Hotz while you are getting exercise, gardening, etc. That’s a good way to do it. I really wanted to like Lex’s podcast based on the hype and his impressive guest list, but I walk away from every episode feeling like it was full of good vibes but empty calories. It seems his trademark is softball questions delivered in the gentlest possible format, which I suppose is disappointing given his positioning as a hard-hitting intellectual. The Hotz episode was great for getting a sense of his energy and ambition, which are both impressive and hard to match. However, it’s lacking if you’re expecting more serious discussion, as is typical for Lex’s podcasts. Go in with the right expectations and it’s still enjoyable, though.
- YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
  Lex Fridma's podcasts are as good as his guests. If you want "hard-hitting" listent to his interviews with Vladimir Vapnik (two of them), Yoshua Bengio, Peter Norvig, Judea Pearl, Juergen Schmidhuber, Francois Chollet, Rodney Brooks, Michael I. Jordan, Stuart Russel - people who are in a position to speak and think critically and whose salaries and reputation do not depend on saying what everyone wants to hear. And who know a thing or two, of course. Most of the rest is unfortunately a bit like guest show TV. Fridman is a likeable guy but he's as hard hitting as a fluffy kitten. Also, he takes forever to ask a question sometimes.
  - ge96 5y ago
    > people who are in a position to speak and think critically and whose salaries and reputation do not depend on saying what everyone wants to hear. Yeah that must be a nice place to be. The one be did with Jim Keller was a good one.
    - YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
      Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check it out.
  - WaffleIronMaker 5y ago

flatiron 5y ago

I’m more excited for self driving cars when I’m not physically in the car. Why park at the train station when I can ge dropped off. Kids on a play date? Sure I can drop off and pick up it’s a couple taps on my phone. Having small kids and a public transit commute is certainly a demographic for this.

javiramos 5y ago
The experience you are talking about sounds like Lyft and Uber.
- flatiron 5y ago
  I don’t believe Lyft and Uber would drive a 3 year old to a play date. That and I don’t trust people.
  - 14 5y ago
    You and I both don't trust people. The second I read your comment I questioned if I would trust my kids alone in a car without me. We know some people are evil. What if you can take over a car and it's destination by hacking the car, something we have seen many times over, and then kidnap a child without going near the house. Or maybe it isn't kids but maybe one day a dictatorship decides all of it's political opposition will be redirected to the detention center. I wonder how long it will be before we see hostile take over of a cars destination and how we can prevent that from happening.
    - trompetenaccoun 5y ago
      Tech enabling injustice and authoritarianism is a problem as old as tools themself. Get yourself a bunch of spears and your group can terrorize the neighboring tribe. With ever increasing globalization, the entire planet might one day become unified under a dictatorship. So with this fear in mind, we could categorically reject any sort of tech and social progress. But will that prevent it from happening? How are isolation and traditionalism going for the uncontacted indigenous peoples of the Amazon? The way I see it, but please correct me if wrong, we need to have the biggest spear, we need to have all the latest tech including self-driving, while simultaneously making sure we have political checks and balances in place and debate the risks as a society. The people have to be aware of what can happen when they aren't vigilant. Free societies are constantly threatened not just by outsiders but also from within. More often than not from within. Currently I'm rather pessimistic about the state of consciousness in supposed liberal democracies, the populace isn't paying attention and isn't involved enough and that's very dangerous. Don't need autonomous vehicles to establish a fascist rule, it would just be an added bonus.

PragmaticPulp 5y ago

> If you have time, listen to one of Lex’s conversations with Hotz while you are getting exercise, gardening, etc. That’s a good way to do it. I really wanted to like Lex’s podcast based on the hype and his impressive guest list, but I walk away from every episode feeling like it was full of good vibes but empty calories. It seems his trademark is softball questions delivered in the gentlest possible format, which I suppose is disappointing given his positioning as a hard-hitting intellectual. The Hotz episode was great for getting a sense of his energy and ambition, which are both impressive and hard to match. However, it’s lacking if you’re expecting more serious discussion, as is typical for Lex’s podcasts. Go in with the right expectations and it’s still enjoyable, though.

YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
Lex Fridma's podcasts are as good as his guests. If you want "hard-hitting" listent to his interviews with Vladimir Vapnik (two of them), Yoshua Bengio, Peter Norvig, Judea Pearl, Juergen Schmidhuber, Francois Chollet, Rodney Brooks, Michael I. Jordan, Stuart Russel - people who are in a position to speak and think critically and whose salaries and reputation do not depend on saying what everyone wants to hear. And who know a thing or two, of course. Most of the rest is unfortunately a bit like guest show TV. Fridman is a likeable guy but he's as hard hitting as a fluffy kitten. Also, he takes forever to ask a question sometimes.
- ge96 5y ago
  > people who are in a position to speak and think critically and whose salaries and reputation do not depend on saying what everyone wants to hear. Yeah that must be a nice place to be. The one be did with Jim Keller was a good one.
  - YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
    Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check it out.
- WaffleIronMaker 5y ago