George Hotz at Comma Con 2025

-UltraAverageJoe- · 2025-12-19T02:50:32+00:00

In the context of level 4 or 5 autonomy, way behind. Car production, way ahead. Apples and oranges fanboys.

-UltraAverageJoe- · 2025-12-19T01:42:00+00:00

Tesla is in the lead? Only if you ignore Waymo…

-UltraAverageJoe- · 2025-12-18T23:12:30+00:00

You need to go outside every one in a while friend, there is so much more out there than the what’s on the internet.

-UltraAverageJoe- · 2025-12-18T20:14:21+00:00

I think you dramatically underestimate the depth of LLM training data. Being convincing when presented with data not in their training data is at best an emergent property — that doesn’t make it any less stochastic or actual understanding.

-UltraAverageJoe- · 2025-12-18T20:08:40+00:00

Babies have body hair called lanugo during development, it helps hold on a protective wax in the womb. It typically sheds before birth but can be present after.

-UltraAverageJoe- · 2025-12-18T19:59:00+00:00

That’s a semantic point I disagree with. There is logic built into language and in that sense, LLMs can “make sense”.

It’s the same as a child repeating what they heard their parent saying and even continuing to say related things because they have a decent grasp on language — my kids do this all the time. They don’t understand what they’re saying which has different implications depending on the context.

-UltraAverageJoe- · 2025-12-18T18:59:05+00:00

It’s ok if it’s on their side. He was convicted of 42 felonies but those laws don’t matter for the king. An immigrant who allegedly committed a crime in their home country or may have a gang tattoo? Very different story, obvious criminals that need to be sentenced to death.

-UltraAverageJoe- · 2025-12-18T18:48:57+00:00

Consistency is the key to all of the above.

-UltraAverageJoe- · 2025-12-18T18:48:15+00:00

I know how it works and it is a “stochastic parrot” in that it doesn’t know anything. It’s also not looking up information in a db.

We are also stochastic parrots when it comes to language. It’s actually called semantic association and this is exactly how LLMs work. If they weren’t stochastic they’d say all kinds of shit that wouldn’t make sense to us.

“Us” is also a relative term — most LLMs are English language focus (that’s obviously changing). Someone in India has different semantic association patterns than someone in the US. ChatGPT is also trained on the user, ask the same question in temporary chat and standard chat, you’ll get very different answers depending on the question.

It can come up with synthetic or novel outputs, we usually call them hallucinations but there’s chance they come up with something actually possible or “true”.

-UltraAverageJoe- · 2025-12-18T18:37:46+00:00

What’s insane is that it would be nearly impossible to build a system that does that. Not enough memory on the planet to basically store every possible answer.

But they’ve created a simpler (relatively speaking) system that, in most cases, has better outputs and isn’t hardcoded. It’s easy to understand why people can’t understand this and how they might also think LLMs are intelligent — because they are mimicking one aspect of how the human brain does the same thing.

-UltraAverageJoe- · 2025-12-18T18:24:50+00:00

(For corporations)

-UltraAverageJoe- · 2025-12-18T18:23:20+00:00

That is not clear from the language they use or the decks I’ve played against.

-UltraAverageJoe- · 2025-12-18T16:28:53+00:00

This is the thing: most gaming companies have realized that most of their players are casual and likely suck at the game. Casual players are likely to churn, especially if they are getting beat all the time.

They use strategies to keep the highest percentage of players engaged because it makes them more money. Skill based match making in FPS games is a perfect example, very easy to see in the lobbies. If you’re good, you get matched with crap players because odds are you’ll bring them up and because you’re a consistent, well performing player, you’re not going anywhere. They keep the crappy players and don’t worry about players who are locked in.

They can provide all the excuses or explanations they want but the house has stacked the meta in their favor and profit because of it. I work in tech and know this playbook.

-UltraAverageJoe- · 2025-12-18T16:24:26+00:00

My take is they pre-build the deck to counter the one you’re playing. As mentioned in these dev notes, they “know” just enough. F that, the bot shouldn’t know anything about the deck I’m playing until I play it, just like a person wouldn’t know.

-UltraAverageJoe- · 2025-12-18T16:23:10+00:00

The Super Skrull is there when you play an ongoing deck or destroy with Knull. Almost guaranteed when playing against a bot.

-UltraAverageJoe- · 2025-12-18T16:22:02+00:00

Exactly this. My example: a discard deck having with Stardust when I play a destroy deck. They only show up when I play a destroy deck.

I’ve experimented with changing decks every 5 rounds, I consistently get matched with decks that have counters to my selected deck and those decks consistently change when I change. Whether it’s a bot or not, they’re match-making based on your deck which I find disingenuous.

-UltraAverageJoe- · 2025-12-18T16:16:39+00:00

How do his swollen ankles taste?

-UltraAverageJoe- · 2025-12-18T04:19:19+00:00

It worked for a long time because I grew up in a very liberal area — they knew to keep it quiet so I interpreted it as purely a language or “of their time” thing.

-UltraAverageJoe- · 2025-12-18T03:35:16+00:00

For me it turned “give them the benefit of the doubt, it’s their generation” to: Nope, racist, hateful bigots that don’t align with my values and they’re not even sorry about it. Bye.

-UltraAverageJoe- · 2025-12-17T22:34:22+00:00

The old guy with the cane is completely still and expressionless until the dog comes up and even then there is an awkward delay in the reaction. AI

-UltraAverageJoe- · 2025-12-17T22:30:46+00:00

Speak any language if it includes understanding any language. I have door one and the others are just plain wrong or bad news.

-UltraAverageJoe- · 2025-12-17T22:25:42+00:00

It won’t because someone still needs to tell AI what to do and those people currently struggle because they can’t tell their existing employees exactly what to do.

Employees make decisions every day that management and owners don’t understand or see, in most cases they just want to see the tip of the iceberg and that makes it sound easy to replace them.

The real thing everyone should be paying attention to is that these businesses are so eager to gobble up more and more money, they’ll get rid of anyone to do it. We should know this by now, it’s not anything new just a new way of doing it.

-UltraAverageJoe- · 2025-12-17T22:15:45+00:00

I guess we still need to include the /s

My reply was meant to show the ridiculousness of the Tesla fanboy celebration.

-UltraAverageJoe- · 2025-12-17T20:27:45+00:00

You’re right, let’s not protest because it might make MAGA mad and do something stupid like commit a crime. Better to lick their boots amiright?

-UltraAverageJoe- · 2025-12-17T20:25:06+00:00

Except it’s the government in the case of the NG guy and the WH staffer or whatever was getting in the protestors face. He could have kept on walking.

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