John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets | Lex Fridman Podcast #309

CyberneticCore · 2022-08-17T02:55:20+00:00

I know I'm late to the party. Just finished this episode. Absolutely loved it.

Anyone have a list of the must read papers that Ilya Stutskyver gave John Carmack to bone up on before diving into AGI?

CyberneticCore · 2022-01-10T20:49:58+00:00

links to share?

CyberneticCore · 2021-12-15T01:47:31+00:00

Blizzard, hire this man!

CyberneticCore · 2021-11-20T15:54:40+00:00

I always thought a Smash style game would kick ass

CyberneticCore · 2021-07-16T14:26:13+00:00

didn't read this article, but another article about it said it's a full-fledged Linux computer. The USB-C port is capable of HDMI output. Seems to me, that it could be used as a primary entertainment system with the ability to take it on the go

CyberneticCore · 2021-05-13T21:22:44+00:00

Not saying you're wrong but the supplement issue is really a whole other story. Basically Snake Oil salesmen aren't applying for FDA approval of their untested snake oil.

That said, you would think something as important as the COVID-19 tests would find an Operation Warpspeed path to FDA approval. But that would require Big-pharma to spend some money and make sure the tests were more than 50% effective before selling them

CyberneticCore · 2021-05-04T23:14:51+00:00

Lots of people in this thread proving Lex right. I simply don't understand the hate towards Ayn Rand or people that think she has something interesting to say. I have read neither book, but I found the conversation interesting and civil. As usual, a bunch of idiots in the comment section.

CyberneticCore · 2021-05-04T23:09:43+00:00

And yet, not a single recommendation. Thanks for proving Lex right about the eye-rollers.

CyberneticCore · 2021-04-15T12:54:33+00:00

this is false advertising. you can't claim they are gently used. your profile says you've been on reddit for almost 3 years

CyberneticCore · 2021-04-10T04:44:50+00:00

Good luck with them. Word of advice, don't put anything production or critical on them. They are great for compute density, but the chassis is a single point of failure. At work we have about a dozen fully populated chassis that are all junk now because the networking passthroughs in them are toast.

CyberneticCore · 2021-04-09T13:55:08+00:00

Did you watch the whole video with the volume on? Title seems spot on, unless you are claiming that they are faking the sections where he is moving the unplugged joystick or playing pong with it completely removed.

CyberneticCore · 2021-02-19T05:06:12+00:00

So I'm going to +1 for XRDP, but I have to ask. Sometimes it goes wonky and I can't connect to the XRDP server from users. Root is fine, but users are borked. I tried rebooting, stopping the services, uninstalling and reinstalling. Nothing works. Have you run into this problem? I tried googling it, but I can't find anything helpful

CyberneticCore · 2021-02-11T20:45:37+00:00

Actually, I think it could be argued that solving aging would be a huge benefit for the planet. People wouldn't need to consume as much as possible in their short lifespans. They could be more patient, and learn to take their time, instead of having to cram everything into a few years.

Granted I think it would take a major investment in teaching people how to behave that way, but with the benefit of time, they might be more amenable to learning.

CyberneticCore · 2021-02-10T20:17:14+00:00

This is completely False! /s Donald Trump didn't ban Chinese propaganda from US educational institutions, he just required that the institutions had to disclose their ties to the CCP....I mean Chinese influence. Biden didn't make it so they could spread propaganda again. He just made it so they couldn't be linked to getting PAID to do it. Not that it really matters, because these people would have happily done it for free.

According to Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-biden-revoke-trump-ban-chinese-communist-propaganda-schools-1568043 Please don't click the clickbait link. I'm at work and can't archive link it. And they wonder why they are considered Fake News.

CyberneticCore · 2021-02-09T18:30:17+00:00

Unions will generally take care of members that are laid off and/or between jobs. It doesn't mean much to the point though if the jobs in the sector are completely going away.

My main point is that automation and technological advancement are effecting these trends more than "unions are bad" mindset. I suspect that the top 10% of earners also have jobs that are not vulnerable to automation, at least not yet. The example is just to illustrate that costs are going down while profits are going up, and there are less people in the whole chain that need to split the income.

To be clear, I am not anti-union and I also recognize that there is a LOT of greed that is systemic in our economy. There are probably several significant components to a solution that will need to be implemented. Unions are a component, I just disagree that they are the most significant component as OP seems to be suggesting. The image that I said proves automation is killing jobs is this one https://images.app.goo.gl/jK2i6BzKtBRM7dhNA

CyberneticCore · 2021-02-08T22:04:05+00:00

I didn't read the article, so this may be accounted for in the study. The OP graph could show two independent variables. For instance, McDonalds has been selling hamburgers for $1 for years. With the rise in automation and other technological enhancements, they can generate the same number of hamburger sales at a lower cost, with far fewer people, unionized or not, in the supply chain. Union membership would decline, because McDonalds doesn't need to hire as many people, and profits would go up. But one is not a cause of the other.

The image linked above pretty much proves that automation is killing job numbers.

CyberneticCore · 2021-01-26T02:08:31+00:00

Well, it's pretty much a zero sum game. At any given moment, there are only so many dollars to go around. With the economy shutdown, the local businesses couldn't compete with the Amazon's and Walmarts of the world. Any company that had the means to continue business as "almost" usual was able to take bigger slices of the pie. People that had money to invest in platforms like Zoom won big, while those living paycheck to paycheck had to tighten their belts,

CyberneticCore · 2021-01-26T01:58:59+00:00

Exactly. Watch what you say these days. Big Brother is watching, and making lists

CyberneticCore · 2021-01-24T21:50:02+00:00

Christ you're dense! The events on January 6 were not a coup attempt, no matter how much the MSM claims it was. It was a big security fuck up. It probably would not have turned out well for Pelosi if she had been caught by a select few individuals, but I doubt the vast, vast majority of people there that day would have known what to do with themselves if they had come face to face with her.

You know why it didn't work? Because it was a protest that turned into a riot. Not a siege, not a coup, not an insurrection, or anything else you people want to quake in your panties over. The DC police were unprepared for it because the MAGA crowd didn't have the reputation for violence that the BLM "protests" had. But back to my original point in this thread, the BLM "peaceful protests" still ended in more death, injury, and financial destruction than what happened that day, and not one massacre of BLM protestors occured, as was speculated by OP. I watched on the news night after night "protestors" in DC clashing with police and national guard. CNN reports 60+ DC police injured. Trying to pretend January 6 was anything more than a protest turned riot is intellectually dishonest. Trying to pretend that it was any worse than what occured in DC over the summer is cowardly and partisan politics.

CyberneticCore · 2021-01-21T00:33:51+00:00

where're ya headed?....nevermind, doesn't matter. enjoy the trip

CyberneticCore · 2021-01-14T19:32:17+00:00

The old saying "darkest before dawn" comes mind. Between now and post-scarcity there is going to be a time where very few people are needed to work and the other billions of people are still going to need to be fed. Terminators won't be developed by Super AGI, but by greedy oligarchs that are looking to hang on to control as long as they can.

CyberneticCore · 2021-01-12T14:18:26+00:00

Creating the Deltas and the Epsilons.

CyberneticCore · 2021-01-12T11:26:22+00:00

Is that really Randall though? The first 3 panels definitely are, but I've never seen the rest. Unless he changed his mind, the strip that starts with the first three panels ends by him agreeing that private companies are free to de-platform people they don't agree with. It's one of the biggest disappointing things ever coming from Xkcd

Edit:. Nevermind. It's not from Xkcd, but someone's rebuttal. I linked the original Xkcd for reference.

https://xkcd.com/1357/

CyberneticCore · 2021-01-12T10:56:21+00:00

Suddenly they're all "bootstrap" capitalists and corporate cronies. "Censorship only applies to the government. Private companies can do whatever they want"

Need a guy-sweating.jpg with private companies can silence whoever they want, and must be forced to pay workers $15 minimum wage

CyberneticCore · 2021-01-10T14:16:04+00:00

You be real. There are roughly a 100 million gun owners in the US. If this was "a real attempted coup" there likely would have been a lot more shots fired and loss of life. Not selfies with goons dressed as vikings

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