George Hotz

1989– · American hacker

Topics: artificial intelligence, complexity, open source, distributed systems

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

  — George Hotz

• 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.

  — George Hotz

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

  — George Hotz

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

  — George Hotz

• 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.

  — George Hotz