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He mentioned, in his Lex Friedman interview, that accepting investor money was a way to keep himself serious and motivated. He feels an obligation to those put
by tux1968 4y ago
He mentioned, in his Lex Friedman interview, that accepting investor money was a way to keep himself serious and motivated. He feels an obligation to those putting their money in.
- mywittyname 4y agoAh, I was thinking that $20MM doesn't seem like a lot of money for someone like Carmack. Surely he could have self-funded a business himself. This explains why he didn't.
- nighthawk454 4y agoyeah, his follow up tweet is pretty clear: > This is explicitly a focusing effort for me. I could write a $20M check myself, but knowing that other people's money is on the line engenders a greater sense of discipline and determination. I had talked about that as a possibility for a while, and I am glad Nat pushed me on it.
- sytelus 4y agoIt seems like bad logic. If he gets bored/throw in towel, he can just pay back with his money and move on. Also, if you need to create such artificial constraints in order to go to work, a main ingredient called “drive” is missing. I respect Carmack a lot but I don’t trust old centi-millionaires to work with same passion as their younger poorer selves. Finally, $20M is too low. AGI is not a solo endeavor and doesn’t fit in Carmack’s legendary work style. Just to train a large model once will eat up 20% of this money.
- leetrout 4y ago> Just to train a large model once will eat up 20% of this money. Fascinating point. It has seemed like AI could produce a sort of arms race by players with the most resources because it is so compute intensive upfront.
- randartie 4y ago> " If he gets bored/throw in towel, he can just pay back with his money and move on." > "Just to train a large model once will eat up 20% of this money." Aren't these 2 statements conflicting?
- solarkraft 4y agoNo, because he has that amount of money on hand himself.
- dataangel 4y ago"I want other people's skin in the game instead of mine" is not necessarily virtuous.
- nlitened 4y agoCarmack’s goal is not to become the most virtuous person in the world. His goal is to make the AGI
- dataangel 4y agoHas nothing to do with being virtuous, has everything to do with the fact that if I was an investor and he had less skin in the game than I did I would suspect I was getting conned.