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I think he very clearly has an amoral attitude towards technology development -- "you can't stop progress." He does describe his own "hacker ethic" and whatever

I think he very clearly has an amoral attitude towards technology development -- "you can't stop progress." He does describe his own "hacker ethic" and whatever he develops he may make more open than OpenAI. though I think he has some moral compass around what he believes people should do or not do with technology. For example, he has publicly expressed admiration for electric cars / cleantech and SpaceX's decision to prioritize Mars over other areas with higher ROI.

falcrist 4y ago
He also has a vastly different take on privacy than most of us seem to have. He thinks it'll eventually go away and it won't be bad when it does. I believe he talked about it in one of his quakecon keynotes. As a LONG time admirer of Carmack (I got my EE degree and went into embedded systems and firmware design due in no small part to his influence), I feel like he's honest and forthright about his stances, but also disconnected from most average people (both due to his wealth and his personality) in such a way that he's out of touch. He's not egotistical like Elon Musk. In fact he seems humble. He also seems to approach the topics in good faith... but some of his conclusions are... distressing.
- bitcurious 4y ago
  He recently described his love of computers as rooted in realizing that “they won’t talk back to you.” The job he wanted at Meta was “Dictator of VR.” When someone talks AI ethics to him, he just tunes out because he doesn’t think it’s worth even considering until they are fully sentient as the level of a human toddler, at which point you can turn them on and off and modify their development until you have a perfect worker. His reason for working in AI is that he thinks it’s where a single human can have the largest leverage on history. All that paraphrased from the Lex interview. I see him as the guy who builds the “be anything do anything” singularity, but then adds a personal “god mode” to use whenever the vote goes the wrong way. Straight out of a Stephenson novel. On the other hand, he’s not boring!
- phatfish 4y ago
  He is a workaholic, in a positive way. But i get the feeling as long as he has a problem he enjoys "grinding out" the solution to, not much else matters -- apart from the obvious of family and close friends. Still, I can't fault his honesty. He doesn't seem to hold anything back in the interviews I've seen.
bsenftner 4y ago
I think there is a point to be made that if one could do the work, is offered the work, but thinks it's ethically questionable: go there and be an ethical voice.

falcrist 4y ago

He also has a vastly different take on privacy than most of us seem to have. He thinks it'll eventually go away and it won't be bad when it does. I believe he talked about it in one of his quakecon keynotes. As a LONG time admirer of Carmack (I got my EE degree and went into embedded systems and firmware design due in no small part to his influence), I feel like he's honest and forthright about his stances, but also disconnected from most average people (both due to his wealth and his personality) in such a way that he's out of touch. He's not egotistical like Elon Musk. In fact he seems humble. He also seems to approach the topics in good faith... but some of his conclusions are... distressing.

bitcurious 4y ago
He recently described his love of computers as rooted in realizing that “they won’t talk back to you.” The job he wanted at Meta was “Dictator of VR.” When someone talks AI ethics to him, he just tunes out because he doesn’t think it’s worth even considering until they are fully sentient as the level of a human toddler, at which point you can turn them on and off and modify their development until you have a perfect worker. His reason for working in AI is that he thinks it’s where a single human can have the largest leverage on history. All that paraphrased from the Lex interview. I see him as the guy who builds the “be anything do anything” singularity, but then adds a personal “god mode” to use whenever the vote goes the wrong way. Straight out of a Stephenson novel. On the other hand, he’s not boring!
phatfish 4y ago
He is a workaholic, in a positive way. But i get the feeling as long as he has a problem he enjoys "grinding out" the solution to, not much else matters -- apart from the obvious of family and close friends. Still, I can't fault his honesty. He doesn't seem to hold anything back in the interviews I've seen.

bsenftner 4y ago

I think there is a point to be made that if one could do the work, is offered the work, but thinks it's ethically questionable: go there and be an ethical voice.