Regarded as one of the greatest programmer in the world by many. He is the founder of id software now owned by Microsoft, responsible for games like Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, built game engines, founded an aerospace research company Armadillo Aerospace, CTO of worlds biggest VR company Oculus and consulting CTO at Facebook/Meta, and so much more. Now delving into AGI research and contributing his experience with a different angle than anybody in the AI space.
This post is a collection of talks, quotes and links to some things I found interesting about him.
Checkout this long deep conversation with John Carmack on this podcast by Lex Fridman
Checkout this talk by John Carmack on “Antifragile” idea generation
Some quotes from his conversations:
If you try to fix all the issues of UDP you end up reinventing TCP badly
The Sacrilegious Ferrari
Notorious among Ferrari owners for adding twin turbo to his Ferrari and then giving it away to one of the winners of Doom Contest, more here
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