This film or show by Blizzard Entertainment 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: Duncan Trussell, George Hotz. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2022-08-16 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.
Every time it came up
George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387
“I'm gonna say World of Warcraft and I remember in 2005 when it came out how it opened my mind to ideas”— 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.
Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man | Lex Fridman Podcast #312
“one of my favorite video game memories was like i started playing world of warcraft in its original incarnation”— Duncan Trussell
The guest here is Duncan Trussell: Stand-up comedian and host of the long-running Duncan Trussell Family Hour podcast. Co-creator (with Pendleton Ward) of the Netflix animated series The Midnight Gospel, and a frequent Joe Rogan guest known for blending comedy with spirituality and psychedelics. Comedian Duncan Trussell and Lex Fridman wander through AI sentience, Buddhism, death, war, depression, friendship, and Burning Man.
