Book · recommended on 2 episodes
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
Roger Williams ISBN 1411602196
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Roger Williams ISBN 1411602196
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This book by Roger Williams has come up 2 times on Lex Fridman. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: George Hotz. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-10-22 and the most recent from 2023-06-29. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“I recommended Metamorphosis Prime Intellect last time, there is a sequel called A Casino Odyssey in cyberspace”— George Hotz
The guest here is George Hotz: Hacker famous for jailbreaking the iPhone and PS3; founder of comma.ai (self-driving) and tiny corp (tinygrad neural-network framework). Briefly an 'intern' at Twitter under Elon Musk. George Hotz returns for a wide-ranging, contrarian talk on AI doom, open-source as the only safe path, tinygrad, decentralizing compute, and standing eye to eye with God.
“it's called the metamorphosis of prime intellect it's a story set in a post-singularity world it's 50 pages everyone should go read it”— 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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