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George Hotz Quotes

born 1989 United States

George Hotz (born October 2, 1989), alias geohot, is an American security hacker, entrepreneur, and software engineer.

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If there's two great evils in the world, it's centralization and complexity.

The incentive for politicians to move up in the political structure is to add laws.

Sam Altman won't tell you that GPT-4 has 220 billion parameters and is a 16 weight mixture-model with 8 sets of weights.

The fundamental limitation of [computer] cloud is who owns the off-switch.

I'm hoping that games can get out of this whole mobile gaming dopamine pump thing [...] and create worlds.

Half of these AI alignment problems are just human alignment problems. And that's what's also so scary about the language that they use. It's not the machines you want to align; it's me.

Intelligence is so dangerous; be it human intelligence or machine intelligence. Intelligence is dangerous.

It struck me one day how just silly atheism is. Of course we were created by God. It's the most obvious thing.

For the longest time at Comma I asked "Why did start a company? Why did I do this?" But, you know, what else was I going to do?

Just dumping the code on GitHub is not open source. Open source is a culture. Open source means that your issues are not all one year old stale issues. Open source means developing in public.

My central thesis about the world is there are things that centralize power and they're bad, and there are things that decentralize power and they're good. Everything I can do to help decentralice power I'd like to do.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Hotz (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.