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

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Lex Fridman

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 323 minutes

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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 checking out our sponsors: – InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/lex to get 20% off – Indeed: https://indeed.com/lex to get $75 credit – Blinkist: https://blinkist.com/lex and use code LEX to get 25% off premium – Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/lex and use code LEX to get special savings – Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.com/lex and use code LEX

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with John Carmack, widely considered to be one of the greatest
0:05.4	programmers ever.
0:06.8	He was the co-founder of It Software and the lead programmer on several games that revolutionized
0:13.0	the technology, the experience, and the role of gaming in our society, including Commander
0:18.7	Keen, Wolfstein 3D, Doom, and Quake.
0:23.6	He spent many years as the CTO of Oculus VR, helping to create portals into virtual worlds,
0:30.9	and to define the technological path to the metaverse and meta.
0:36.0	And now he has been shifting some of his attention to the problem of artificial general intelligence.
0:42.7	This was the longest conversation on this podcast at over five hours, and still I could
0:48.9	talk to John many, many more times, and we hope to do just that.
0:55.1	And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor.
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1:13.3	And now onto the full letter reads, as always no ads in the middle, I try to make this
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1:21.2	stuff, maybe you will too.
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1:34.5	By the way, I'm not one of those people that tries to optimize every single aspect of my
1:39.6	life.
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