#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets

John Carmack is a legendary programmer, co-founder of id Software,
and lead programmer of many revolutionary video games including
Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, and the Commander Keen series. He is
also the founder of Armadillo Aerospace, and for many years the CTO
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the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (09:49)
- Programming languages (40:53) - Modern programming (50:55) - Day
in the life (58:45) - Hard work (1:01:58) - Pizza and Diet Coke
(1:04:43) - Setup (1:30:01) - id Software (2:02:50) - Commander
Keen (2:09:36) - Hacker ethic (2:17:16) - Wolfenstein 3D (2:37:14)
- Doom (2:51:34) - Quake (3:15:55) - John Romero (3:23:42) -
Metaverse (3:52:04) - Elon Musk (3:57:59) - Mars (4:07:01) -
Nuclear energy (4:10:39) - AGI (4:57:51) - Andrej Karpathy
(5:00:50) - Martial arts (5:09:49) - Advice for young people
(5:18:49) - Meaning of life