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Dmitri Dolgov: Waymo and the Future of Self-Driving Cars | Lex Fridman Podcast #147

Dmitri Dolgov: Waymo and the Future of Self-Driving Cars | Lex Fridman Podcast #147

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The Elder Scrolls

Bethesda (inferred)

“probably my favorite set of games that was a magical experience”
“there's like an elder scroll series which is probably my favorite set of games that was a magical experience”— Lex Fridman
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Rev.com

Rev

“it's all effortless and like i remember when i first started using them it was like life is good”
“there's a company called rev rev.com where i like for this podcast for example i can drag and drop a video and then they do all the captioning”— Lex Fridman
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iZotope RX

iZotope

“i use for cleaning up audio... it just cleans everything up very nicely”
“something called izotope rx this company i use for cleaning up audio like the sound cleanup they do it's like drag and drop”— Lex Fridman
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The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

“one of actually my favorite books... it's a great book and it's one of those books that you can like reread your entire life”
“the master and margarita it's one of actually my favorite books it is you know by a russian it's a novel by russian author mikhail bulgakov”— Dmitri Dolgov
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Roadside Picnic

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

“i enjoy all of their books”
“roadside picnic hard to be a god beetle in an ant hill monday starts on saturday like it's it's not just science fiction”— Dmitri Dolgov
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Hard to Be a God

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

“i enjoy all of their books”
“roadside picnic hard to be a god beetle in an ant hill monday starts on saturday like it's it's not just science fiction”— Dmitri Dolgov
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Beetle in the Anthill

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

“i enjoy all of their books”
“roadside picnic hard to be a god beetle in an ant hill monday starts on saturday like it's it's not just science fiction”— Dmitri Dolgov
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Monday Starts on Saturday

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

“some of the language is just completely hilarious”
“monday starts on saturday like it's it's not just science fiction it's also like has very interesting interpersonal and societal questions”— Dmitri Dolgov
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1984

George Orwell

“books that people should read that one... there's lessons there people should not ignore”
“orwell's 1984 you asked what made an impression on me and books that people should read that one i think falls in the category of both”— Dmitri Dolgov
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Animal Farm

George Orwell

“i'm a huge fan of animal farm”
“i'm a huge fan of animal farm which is a kind of friendly as a friend of 1984 by orwell”— Lex Fridman

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Golden Axe

Sega (inferred)

“i used to play this game called golden axe and the simplicity of the graphics and something about the simplicity of the music”— Lex Fridman
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Call of Duty

Activision (inferred)

“i don't know if that's the same thing for call of duty these days for young kids”— Lex Fridman
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Flappy Bird

Dong Nguyen (inferred)

“i don't know flippy bird yeah i don't know if the imagination gets closed”— Lex Fridman
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Tetris

Alexey Pajitnov (inferred)

“that's more like tetris world where they optimally masterfully like create a fun short-term dopamine experience”— Lex Fridman
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Minecraft

Mojang (inferred)

“minecraft right minecraft is a great example you create like it's not the fancy graphics but it's the creation of your own worlds”— Dmitri Dolgov
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SimCity

Maxis (inferred)

“there's like fact like simcity and factory building games all those kinds of things kind of speak to that engineering mindset”— Lex Fridman
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The Snail on the Slope

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

“one i think that they consider their most important work i think it's the snail on an on a a hill i tried reading a couple of times i still don't get it”— Dmitri Dolgov
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Brave New World

Aldous Huxley (inferred)

“i mean i think 1984 in these books brave new world they they're helpful in thinking like stuff can go wrong in non-obvious ways”— Lex Fridman
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The Last Question

Isaac Asimov

“one of the stories by isaac asimov actually titled appropriately titled the last question a short story where humans build this super computer”— Dmitri Dolgov