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#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
Lex Fridman Podcast
2 hours 54 minutes 1 second
1 month ago
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
Dan Houser is co-founder of Rockstar Games and is a legendary creative mind behind Grand Theft Auto (GTA) and Red Dead Redemption series of video games.
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) - Introduction
(01:29) - Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections
(11:32) - Greatest films of all time
(23:45) - Making video games
(26:36) - GTA 3
(29:55) - Open world video games
(32:42) - Character creation
(36:09) - Superintelligent AI in A Better Paradise
(45:21) - Can LLMs write video games?
(49:41) - Creating GTA 4 and GTA 5
(1:01:16) - Hard work and Rockstar's culture of excellence
(1:04:56) - GTA 6
(1:21:46) - Red Dead Redemption 2
(2:01:39) - DLCs for GTA and Red Dead Redemption
(2:07:58) - Leaving Rockstar Games
(2:17:22) - Greatest game of all time
(2:22:10) - Life lessons from father
(2:24:29) - Mortality
(2:41:47) - Advice for young people
(2:47:49) - Future of video games
Conversations about science, technology, history, philosophy and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power. Lex is an AI researcher at MIT and beyond.
