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George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets | Lex Fridman Podcast #132

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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.

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.

  • 6 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2026

What HN commenters said

  1. “Highly recommend them”

    One of several Lex Fridman podcasts with Hotz

    nomel, 2026-01 · Strong recommendation · in “Open-source self-driving for 325 car models from 27 brands”

  2. “I thought this was an entertaining podcast, George is a funny guy.”

    Hotz on FedCoin in an entertaining podcast

    wsc981, 2020-12 · Recommendation · in “Cryptocurrency company Ripple says SEC lawsuit is imminent”

  3. “Lots of topics covered: self-driving, immortality, UFOs, cryptocurrencies, Tesla/Waymo/OpenAI, GTP-3, AI, book recommendations.”

    Wide-ranging interview: self-driving, immortality, crypto, GPT-3, books

    imaginenore, 2020-12 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?”

  4. “the second time he was on lex podcast was even better in my opinion”

    Second Hotz appearance on the Lex podcast

    pizzabearman, 2020-12 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?”

  5. “3 hours talking about many interesting things including comma.ai and how it compares with Tesla’s approach”

    Hotz on comma.ai and comparison with Tesla's approach

    AlbertoGP, 2021-02 · Recommendation · in “Comma.ai, self-driving cars and indefinite optimism”

  6. “He's definitely an interesting guy.”

    Hotz interview on his Lex Fridman appearances

    merryje, 2022-09 · Recommendation · in “On Device Learning”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: george hotz, comma.ai, lex fridman, self-driving, tesla

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