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.