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George Hotz: prediction

30 Jun 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast #387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God

“I think accelerationism is the only thing that’s ever lifted people out of poverty.”

— George Hotz

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Speaker
George Hotz
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Recorded
30 Jun 2023
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Yeah. No, but the problem is teaching amount how to fish might be harder. Starting a company might be harder than allocating money that you already have. I like the flip side of effective altruism; effective accelerationism. I think accelerationism is the only thing that’s ever lifted people out of poverty. The fact that food is cheap. Not, “We’re giving food away because we are kindhearted people.” No, food is cheap. And that’s the world you want to live in. UBI, what a scary idea. What a scary idea. All your power now? If money is power, your only source of power is granted to you by the goodwill of the government. What a scary idea. So you even think long term, even-…

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