American hacker Geohot, known worldwide as George Hotz, is known throughout the world as an iPhone hacker and the developer of the Comma.ai auto pilot. In addition, the talented programmer is famous for his unusual ideas, which he gladly shares with others. Recently, during the SXSW conference, Geohot stated that the world around us is a quality simulation.
In his short speech, Hotz said that he considers the world to be just a high-quality simulation program created by a higher extraterrestrial intelligence or artificial intelligence, which is so perfect that it cannot be understood by the human brain. George admitted that this thought haunts him for a long time.
The 29-year-old programmer and businessman called his speech "Escape from Simulation." According to a theory known as the "simulation hypothesis", not only the planet Earth and the solar system, but the entire universe is a computer simulation, like a high-quality computer game. The program can be both entertainment and a scientific experiment of the higher mind.
Many people believe that the world is ruled by artificial intelligence, including the creator of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk and transhumanist philosopher Nick Bostrom. George Hotz has not previously talked about his support for this theory, but as we can see, he also joined the "simulators".
Hotz became famous at the age of 17 after he hacked an iPhone and enabled millions of Apple gadget users to connect to any network, not just AT&T. The hacker also hacked the Sony PlayStation 3 game console, after which he was sued. The question, fortunately for Geohot, was resolved peacefully.
After the console story, George worked at Facebook, Google and Vicarious, and then, in 2015, founded his own startup Comma.ai. The development of a car autopilot was in full swing, but it had to be curtailed after a letter from the US Department of Transportation, in which department experts expressed doubts about the safety of the product.
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The hacker is a regular at SXSW conferences, at which he expresses the craziest ideas, shocking the public and the press. For example, in 2016, Hotz announced that he was going to end capitalism in one fell swoop. In his speech, he drew attention to the fact that the essence of any business is to maximize profit and any company either burns out or is sold. According to George, this makes commercial activities meaningless.
This time, the hacker talked about simulation theory, drew analogies between magic and programming, and described the ways in which he would like to die. In addition, Hotz announced his desire to create a new religion, in the churches of which the escape from the simulation will be preached. George believes that the singularity is close and it would not hurt for people to unite and think together about how to get out of the virtual prison. Speech by an eccentric hacker, whom not everyone takes seriously, as the audience and journalists always liked.