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Re:Exclusive Q&A John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artifici... by HWR_14 on Friday February 03, 2023 @03:55AM (#34638872)
I assume Carmack can pick up a lot about a new technical topic in a few years, similarly to how Bill Gates could learn a lot about vaccines and healthcare in a few years. "Hi, I'm (rich and nerd famous person) calling for (expert in field)." Probably spending most of that time being tutored by that experts PhD students.
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Re:Exclusive Q&A John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artifici... by foldr on Friday February 03, 2023 @05:14AM (#34639389)
I'm sure he can, but has Bill gates done actual groundbreaking research into vaccines, or just made intelligent decisions about what kind of research to fund? I think the latter.
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Re:Exclusive Q&A John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artifici... by rplst8 on Friday February 03, 2023 @05:30AM (#34639482)
Sometimes real progress is made only by finding the proper place to "push" on an otherwise stubborn problem that won't budge.
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Re:Exclusive Q&A John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artifici... by foldr on Friday February 03, 2023 @05:47AM (#34639576)
Sure, I guess. My point is that Bill Gates is going something quite different from John Carmack (funding research outside his area of expertise, rather than doing the research himself), so that the comparison is not very illuminating.
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