#386 – Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI

06/22/23 • 195 min

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Marc Andreessen is the co-creator of Mosaic, co-founder of Netscape, and co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/marc-andreessen-transcript

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Why AI will save the world (essay): https://a16z.com/2023/06/06/ai-will-save-the-world
Books mentioned:
1. When Reason Goes on Holiday (book): https://amzn.to/3p80b1K
2. Superintelligence (book): https://amzn.to/3N7sc1A
3. Lenin (book): https://amzn.to/43L8YWD
4. The Ancient City (book): https://amzn.to/43GzReb

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OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(05:01) – Google Search
(12:49) – LLM training
(25:20) – Truth
(31:32) – Journalism
(41:24) – AI startups
(46:46) – Future of browsers
(53:09) – History of browsers
(59:10) – Steve Jobs
(1:13:45) – Software engineering
(1:21:00) – JavaScript
(1:25:18) – Netscape
(1:30:22) – Why AI will save the world
(1:38:20) – Dangers of AI
(2:08:40) – Nuclear energy
(2:20:37) – Misinformation
(2:35:57) – AI and the economy
(2:42:05) – China
(2:46:17) – Evolution of technology
(2:55:35) – How to learn
(3:03:45) – Advice for young people
(3:06:35) – Balance and happiness
(3:13:11) – Meaning of life

Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/marc-andreessen-transcript

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#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/jimmy-wales-transcript

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WT.Social: https://wt.social/

OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(05:10) – Origin story of Wikipedia
(11:14) – Design of Wikipedia
(18:07) – Number of articles on Wikipedia
(24:18) – Wikipedia pages for living persons
(45:11) – ChatGPT
(58:42) – Wikipedia’s political bias
(1:04:46) – Conspiracy theories
(1:17:51) – Facebook
(1:26:09) – Twitter
(1:46:45) – Building Wikipedia
(2:01:18) – Wikipedia funding
(2:12:38) – ChatGPT vs Wikipedia
(2:17:19) – Larry Sanger
(2:22:51) – Twitter files
(2:25:43) – Government and censorship
(2:40:07) – Adolf Hitler’s Wikipedia page
(2:51:49) – Future of Wikipedia
(3:03:51) – Advice for young people
(3:11:13) – Meaning of life

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#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God

George Hotz is a programmer, hacker, and the founder of comma-ai and tiny corp. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Comma-ai’s YouTube (unofficial): https://youtube.com/georgehotzarchive
Mentioned:
Learning a Driving Simulator (paper): https://bit.ly/42T6lAN

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(08:04) – Time is an illusion
(17:44) – Memes
(20:20) – Eliezer Yudkowsky
(32:45) – Virtual reality
(39:04) – AI friends
(46:29) – tiny corp
(59:50) – NVIDIA vs AMD
(1:02:47) – tinybox
(1:14:56) – Self-driving
(1:29:35) – Programming
(1:37:31) – AI safety
(2:02:29) – Working at Twitter
(2:40:12) – Prompt engineering
(2:46:08) – Video games
(3:02:23) – Andrej Karpathy
(3:12:28) – Meaning of life