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Lex Fridman

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

And he also, the full description of that is really powerful, which is the line moves from day to day, from month to month, throughout the life of the person as they understand better and better, and as the perspective shifts, as you evolve, as the world around you evolves,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

You gain deeper and deeper understanding.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

And as the flaws in this combinatorial way affect your own understanding of your own flaws and self-reflection.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

So yeah, it's a beautiful mess.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

And all of us have that line.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

And it's funny that Nigel Dave, by the way, I liked him, he grew on me very quickly, has that line and is struggling with it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

It's fascinating to watch.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

It's really, as a character, and there's also going to be a video game of A Better Paradise, potentially?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

Okay.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

I mean, it would be so great and I suppose new for you because it's kind of near-term future.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

And it would be incredible to create a sort of AI video game as the world is developing smarter and smarter AIs.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

It allows us as humans to play the game and to reflect on the thing that we humans are creating.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

It's a real commentary as the thing is happening.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

So I have to ask as a person, you as a person who loves literature, and one of, if not the greatest writer in video game history, Kurt,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

in the book, A Better Paradise, has this nice line that I think is thoughtful.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

At one point in college, I even wanted to be a writer.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

How ridiculous is that, a writer?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

Language models ended that fantasy for me and millions of others, so instead I decided to get a master's in marketing and started to sell language models.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

So you as a writer and creator of some of the most legendary narratives in recent history, how do you feel about LLMs being able to write in a way that looks awfully human?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

Yeah, I agree with you totally, actually.