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

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

Lex Fridman Podcast vor 4 Jahren

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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 of Oculus VR. Please support this podcast by
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John’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack

Books mentioned:

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Game Engine Black Book Wolfenstein 3D: https://amzn.to/3QlOqg8

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OUTLINE:

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(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