Book · recommended on 1 episode
Permutation City
Greg Egan
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Greg Egan
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This book by Greg Egan came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: George Hotz. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“there's sci-fi uh permutation city um great things to start thinking about copies of yourself and then that is uh greg egan”— George Hotz
The guest here is George Hotz: Hacker known as geohot, famous for jailbreaking the iPhone and PlayStation 3. Founder of comma ai, which sells the $1,000 comma two device and open-source openpilot software for semi-autonomous driving. George Hotz riffs on hacking the simulation, crypto, immortality, and why end-to-end neural nets beat Tesla's task-by-task approach to self-driving.
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