Joe Rogan Experience #1342 - John Carmack

Interview with John Carmack

I'm an idiot. I wrote John Cusack when I wanted to write John Carmack. I don't know how I could even confuse the two names. Here's the Carmack podcast where he talks about it. Fantastic listen for anyone honestly. Carmack is a fascinating guy. link to this video

Interesting perspective on work-life balance, certainly contrary to the usual discussion online on these issues link to this video

On open sourcing Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake: link to this video Neuralink: link to this video Artificial General Intelligence: link to this video Quantum Computing: link to this video “Engineering is figuring out how to do what you want with what you’ve actually got”: link to this video End of Moore’s Law / On CPU architecture: link to this video 5G and streaming (games & video): link to this video edit: like already mentioned there are a lot of topics covered, some even for just a few sentences, the conversation flows, worth watching the whole thing

He talks about AGI at link to this video I wonder if all the really smart people who think AGI is around the corner know something I don't. Well, clearly they know a lot of things that I don't, but I wonder if there's some decisive piece of information I'm missing. I'm a "strict materialist" too, but that doesn't mean I think we can build a brain or a sun or a planet or etc within X years, it just means that I think it's technically possible to build those things. I don't see how we get from "neural net that's really good at identifying objects" to "general intelligence". The emphasis on computational power also makes no sense to me. If we had infinite compute today , what steps would you take to build…

John Carmack is practically a machine. He's openly talked about his work ethic in a bunch of places. He's the type of guy who after a life time of coding calculated he's 100% efficient up until 13 hour work days and then he drops off0. Although he did mention working those long hours is often best working on multiple things instead of 1 topic but maybe with AGI there's a bunch of different avenues to explore. 0: link to this video

…oices that involved trying to do too much. He regrets his old standard line and approach that it'll be done when it's done. He wishes they had made compromises instead and shipped Rage several years earlier. That's a pretty classic storyline in all of tech, taking on far too much when 85% good enough would have worked just as well most likely. 1 link to this video…