> something that interested him that he could do for fun and solo Really? I don't think anybody who works on AGI (not AI) without being dead serious about it

> something that interested him that he could do for fun and solo Really? I don't think anybody who works on AGI (not AI) without being dead serious about it will be qualified to work on it. A bad AGI implementation is one of humanity's gravest risks, and this is well-known in the AGI field, has been for years. Elon was far from the first to say this. Carmack isn't the type to get those kinds of details wrong.