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Critique isn't jealousy. Expect to grow out of that PoV in 5-10 years.
See my comment below.
George Hotz against the institutions
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Re: George Hotz against the institutions
#92Can we please stop lionizing the "maverick genius." It should be clear to everyone at this point that the Nth brilliant asshole with an untamed superiority complex who hates institutions and fixates on sci-fi tail risks is not going to be making the world a better place. We are facing unprecedented global challenges this century that will benefit from humble and cooperative thinking at institutional scales. Not more…
stay mad, lmao.
Re: George Hotz against the institutions
#93Can we please stop lionizing the "maverick genius." It should be clear to everyone at this point that the Nth brilliant asshole with an untamed superiority complex who hates institutions and fixates on sci-fi tail risks is not going to be making the world a better place. We are facing unprecedented global challenges this century that will benefit from humble and cooperative thinking at institutional scales. Not more…
I don't know. Can we resist the primitive instinct to knock maverick geniuses down a peg? Probably not.
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#94I generally like this dude and his antics…but becoming dependent on opiates as an “experiment” is the stupidest shit I’ve ever read. It sounds like he wanted some adversity to overcome and couldn’t find any so he manufactured his own. Hopefully George understands that premeditated physical opioid dependence is not the same kind of struggle which addicts face. The homeless dudes shooting smack under a bridge have terr…
i think this is rationalization on his part, he probably got addicted for whatever reason, stress, anxiety, ability to work longer hours and not get bored (yes opiates can do this in low doses). you even see he pairs quitting opiates with accepting he doesn't need infinite income
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#95I feel sorry for him. Spending your life trying to make it into a good story is sad. Most good stories have characters who are intentionally flawed in order to create conflict and plot. The best lives are fairly boring as far as narrative plot goes. It’s even a curse to live in interesting times.
Sounds a bit unfair and I'm not really sure how you arrived at that conclusion. Here's an excerpt from the article:
In the same way, he can’t define what a good story is, but he knows it’s a story he wants to read. “If you give a version of myself frozen in time the story of the rest of my life, and that version of me would rather read a different book… what am I doing wrong?”Re: George Hotz against the institutions
#96Hotz seems to be falling into the familiar pattern of those who gain fame at a younger age for doing something impressive to a wide audience - as they get ever older, they feel the need to recapture that feeling, and jump from trend to trend, trying to stay relevant. He's clearly an intelligent man, but he should try to understand that he no longer needs to prove himself, or outdo his previous famous achievements. It…
Hotz jumping from trend to trend? Have you noticed what this guy was doing all these years? Twitch is free and watching archives of him coding is publicly available. He's been on this thread since 2015
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That may be true, but during the coding videos on YouTube he's extremely smart. My favorite saying of him is that they don't have a cone guy because a self driving system shouldn't contain the knowledge of a cone explicitly. Guess what happened in the last Tesla update: the car went into a cone because it wasn't the usual color.
I think he's a bit out of his depth with the self-driving startup and bigger projects he's undertaken, but when it comes to CTFs and hacking competition, he's pretty damn good. Idk if he still does, but for a while he competed until tomcr00se and he'd always be at the top of the leaderboards for nearly every competition. I don't think that's just luck or plagiarism. You can see him in top10 of US [0] during 2013-2015…
He's usually on leaderboard (top 100) in Advent of Code. I don't know if he was this past year.
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#98The comma business model is built upon a car interface created by manufacturers for their own purposes.
Those manufacturers are working on their own autonomous driving programs in various stages.
None of those manufacturers want crash statistics for their vehicles being driven autonomously.
Comma is clearly the unwanted guest in the room... the only positive outcome for them is acquihire when one of the manufacturers realizes how hard FSD is. Their business model standing alone is built of kerosene and straw.
Re: George Hotz against the institutions
#99George Hotz has been on Lex Fridman’s podcast a few times https://lexfridman.com/george-hotz/
Hotz has an interesting take on life and tech. If you have time, listen to one of Lex’s conversations with Hotz while you are getting exercise, gardening, etc.
I like Hotz’s idea of generic equipment that works on multiple types of cars.
Off topic a little, but the Honda Pilot we bought a year ago has some driver assist technology, and we love it. I like driving myself, but having safety backups like monitoring blind spots, lane changes, staying inside lanes, etc. That said, I am willing to wait for full autonomous driving until they really get it right.
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Because you found a few buzzwords? It's curious dreamers are often mocked by others. Even more so in this case as many cars already drive around with his garage-built autonomous software. Openpilot is a really cool project, why the hate?
i think the commenter was referring to the absurd breadth of DEEP challenges he has picked. It reveals a level of naivety imo. The kind of naivety that usually gets sorted out after a few years in university.