John Carmack is the man who programmed Doom and Quake back in the day. He's also responsible for numerous programming techniques that are still used today. Pretty much every 3D game made is made using techniques he invented and developed. That's ALL 3D games. . . not just FPS games. What Shigeru Miyamoto is to game DESIGN John Carmack is to game PROGRAMMING. Dude is a legend. He also gave away a Ferrari once as a grand prize for a Quake tournament.
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He told the Ferrari story in this podcast. Dudes crazy
alexanderbretta he has quit his job at oculus and is working on agi now i believe, and i dont think hes a sellout, and if he is he is less of a sellout than he is obsessed with software
@@sergeysmelnik any good hacker will tell you it’s all about black magic. Sometimes you accidentally summon eldritch monsters from Hell so a good hacker like Carmack has countermeasures to kill otherworldly demons and restore balance to nature (at some level, obviously in cases like q3invsqrt you have to weaken the fabric of reality a little bit).
For those of you who don't know this guy, Carmack was basically the Steve Jobs of the 90's video game world. He made Quake but more importantly, he made Commander Keen.
Cool......I’m the Steve Jobs of the 2000’s getting Blown by slutty broads with low self esteem and daddy issues world. I made a lot of regretful memories for ladies but more importantly, no babies.
@J. Milton Jeffreys That was when he was 14 years old. He’s since said that he used to be an angry, arrogant, unfulfilled person as a kid and that he had one really bad psychiatric review that messed up things in his life for a time. Do more research than just a Wikipedia search next time and you’ll find that there’s more to the story, that he’s actually a pretty kind and humble guy now.
@J. Milton Jeffreys He doesn't act, or talk, like a sociopath so I'm not even sure why you'd trust the psychiatric ward's assessment in the first place. Rich sociopaths don't usually consider the perspective of less fortunate people like Carmack does.
"Engineering is figuring out how to do what you want with what you've actually got". If you don't love John Carmack already for his groundbreaking work and his amazing abilities now you have to.
That's exactly what I thought about quantum computing too. John Carmack is one of the most intelligent persons I've seen, and he's very honest too, not pretending to know everything. If he did, not many people in the world would ever question him.
I truly prefer interviews with scientists/technical people, rather than rappers, famous people, influencers and so on. Because here we can actually hear the answers and not just "Oh, I mean, like, yeah, well I think, I really think that universe is actually infinite, yeah, like really."
I mean, I like most of Joe's host, but I prefer when they talk about stuff they understand and talk about their life experience. It's really counter-productive to talk about physics with a rapper who knows just how to tweet his breakfast.
When Joe responded with the question about quantum computing/Moore's law I was taken aback. It was super relevant to what John Carmack said and shows he was not only listening but also did his research before the interview.
I feel like most people don't give Joe enough credit. I believe these topics interest him enough to listen and he does know at least the basics to carry a conversation. But when someone like John Carmack explains on an answer he gave, you betcha he's going to listen.
It is impossible to overstate how truly great and intelligent this man is; the human race is lucky that his expertise is in video game software and not something more diabolical.
As a software engineer it’s amazing to finally see a a high caliber programmer on joes show breaking down things in an explicit and cohesive manner on joes show, most of the time it’s only abstract ideas on this show which can get super annoying
He is a very intelligent person. His comments about quantum computing were spot on. Whichever nation-state figures it out first will own the internet. I mean that literally, and that should be a scary statement.
It's just his uh he says I instead... Or it might just be that he just loves talking about himself so much his brain automatically says I Same as how gamer fingers land on WSAD By default
does anyone know of an interview where he talks more in depth about the Comp Sci stuff? Maybe where he talks about how many threads are needed to get an actual performance boost from a supercomputer and what kind of applications require that many?
Yeah, I have to admit, as soon as I read about "qubits" and that they "can be a coherent superposition of both 0 and 1 simultaneously" I thought, "Fuck this, there's no way I'm writing software for this."
The emergence of an AGI and a belief in a non-local consciousness aren't the same thing. An AGI could emerge that would be totally unconscious and think very differently than we do (like AlphaGo, for instance) but it wouldn't know what it was. The discovery of actual consciousness, however, or the so-called 'hard problem' - that could be centuries away.
Nice to see somebody make the distinction. Considering that we know next nothing about consciousness I think you are being optimistic about centuries prognosis. And I really don't see the problem ever being solved by science.
Well, it could be solved in the same way as black holes have been 'solved' thus far - we know lots of stuff about black holes, but nothing about the black hole itself. So, for instance, we could explain how consciousness exists with one of the various theories out there, but not 'what' it is.
@@squamish4244 the problem is that the scientific model only works within it's own assumptions. And I don't see consciousness necessarily being completely materialistic and deterministic.
Consciousness tends to include influences from primal driving forces such as hunger.. I don't think AGI or non-local consciousness can ever exist, applying those rules.
He said in the earlier part of the video that he is a strict materialist. So he would equate consciousness to a physical process like neurons firing in the brain. Since he believes everything is physical he dose not look at the mind(consciousness) as something separate to the body. Consciousness is just a byproduct of a lot of neurons firing. So if you hold the position “ our minds are not just body in action” you two have a completely different outlook on life. Moreover you have the harder position defend since yours will be appealing more to a subjective defence while he would be pointing to something objective in the world for his proofs. I gather this just from what he tells us in the video about his positions.
What pathetic arrogance to think your own "consciousness" is special to anyone other than yourself. Have some self awareness for fucks sake. It's stupidity the level of "if the earth is round, why don't people fall off the bottom"?
@@Gibson1961SG you're demonstrating it right now to communicate! the protocols used across the internet are virtual, they are not in any particular place or time. another thing that is immaterial are your dreams, you do dream don't you? by definition something immaterial can never be "shown" to you by someone else in spacetime, but that doesn't mean they don't exist of course. forms are immaterial by definition. To say the immaterial doesn't exist means your thoughts don't exist, which means you put no thought into your comment. even material has an edge case: Light/EMR is also not bound by spacetime, it is instead what creates/binds spacetime.
@@crazyeyes8962 nobody said that anywhere, only you, you're calling yourself daft. a materialist is someone who thinks matter is the primary substance, an immaterialist thinks matter is a secondary substance. secondary substances still exist as substances, so are you daft?
Working for Exxon Eutec they had a Cray T3D. I have a picture of it with my stepson standing in front of it. It had a LDC that with a graphic box and with something spinning around it. That is all the LCD did.... like a hood ornament. One day the President of Eutec was doing a tour and someone asked he he can open it. He was not sure so he did and the system crashed. It is safe to say he never did that again.
