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Carmack's post in full: Starting this week, I’m moving to a "Consulting CTO” position with Oculus. I will still have a voice in the development work, but it w
by Jaruzel 7y ago
Carmack's post in full:
Starting this week, I’m moving to a "Consulting CTO” position with Oculus.
I will still have a voice in the development work, but it will only be consuming a modest slice of my time.
As for what I am going to be doing with the rest of my time: When I think back over everything I have done across games, aerospace, and VR, I have always felt that I had at least a vague “line of sight” to the solutions, even if they were unconventional or unproven. I have sometimes wondered how I would fare with a problem where the solution really isn’t in sight. I decided that I should give it a try before I get too old.
I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence (AGI).
I think it is possible, enormously valuable, and that I have a non-negligible chance of making a difference there, so by a Pascal’s Mugging sort of logic, I should be working on it.
For the time being at least, I am going to be going about it “Victorian Gentleman Scientist” style, pursuing my inquiries from home, and drafting my son into the work.
Runner up for next project was cost effective nuclear fission reactors, which wouldn’t have been as suitable for that style of work.
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We're at 500 comments at the time of posting this, and no-ones pasted his post in full to save us having to visit Facebook...
- arcturus17 7y agoThanks it didn’t so much save me as it enabled me, since I have it blocked.
- bounded_agent 7y ago+1
- saiya-jin 7y agosame here, can't access it at work, at its damn interesting topic for many of us
- _hao 7y agoI have FB blocked so thanks for sharing!
- davidgrenier 7y agoI would like to block facebook but I'm on debian. Last thing I tried to block was reddit through /etc/hosts and it didn't work.
- kiney 7y agomight be easier to user your adblocker
- badocr 7y agoI have facebook main site and its CDNs blocked in uBlock. Works good for me, but I only use PCs to browse the web, so no idea how to go about blocking it if one uses mobile devices at home. Possibly a DNS caching server like `unbound` can help?
- Stevvo 7y agoYou can use the same method with uBlock on Firefox Android. For iOS I don't know any way.
- geogra4 7y agoToo bad he didn't go for his runner up. cost effective/mass produceable fission reactors could save humanity.
- shashankp 7y agoCarmack creates AI, AI is used to invent effective fission reactors. Check and mate.
- tomxor 7y ago- fusion reactors then used to power spaceX ships to go to Mars... wait what! As long as his next project is not teleportation gateways i guess we are safe. [edit] it's also 2019 :D > In the year 2019, the player character (an unnamed space marine) has been punitively posted to Mars after assaulting a superior officer, who ordered his unit to fire on civilians. The space marines act as security for the Union Aerospace Corporation's radioactive waste facilities, which are used by the military to perform secret experiments with teleportation by creating gateways between the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos. In 2022, Deimos disappears entirely and "something fraggin' evil" starts pouring out of the teleporter gateways, killing or possessing all personnel.
- tomxor 7y agohow come 90% of the time HN readers can't see the funny side in anything.
- ajmurmann 7y agoAI sees humans as thread, all humans die.
- MS90 7y ago> AI sees humans as thread We shall all be woven into the fabric of the new artificial reality.
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