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soulofmischief on Nov 14, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial gene...

I'm happy. Carmack has done a lot of good with Oculus, but it hurt seeing my hero working for Facebook. I understand the need to remain in a consulting position, but at least now he's no longer under the corporate leash.

If anyone can hack AI, it's Carmack, and so when I read this headline I had a moment of fright thinking this meant Carmack was working on AI for Facebook.

sailingparrot on Nov 14, 2019 [–]

> If anyone can hack AI, it's Carmack

Pretty sure you don't get to AGI with some hacks.

soulofmischief on Nov 14, 2019 | [–]

Don't be trite; You're well aware that hack in this context means to understand/make progress.

sailingparrot on Nov 14, 2019 | | [–]

No, I actually understand it as solving it with unexpected tricks.

soulofmischief on Nov 14, 2019 | | | [–]

Well, now you can understand it differently.

cma on Nov 14, 2019 | | | [–]

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