John Carmack's Approach to AGI
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He is from the old school programmer philosophy that required code to be as efficient and creative as possible to even run on the hardware of the day.
There are fewer and fewer opportunties to have rewarding work like that since more compute can just be added instead of spending the hours refactoring slow code.
Ah, the good ole days when the relationship between hardware and software wasnt given an easy mode for developing new software at the expense of performance.
Kids these days dont know how good they have it. Back in my day, every clock counted!
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I mean, he may be correct about there only being a few more steps required, but I still suspect he's overestimating his own capabilities while underestimating the scope of the problem.
I can't wait to see what we learn from him though.