John Carmack at Upper Bound 2025 (slides and notes)

Re:John Carmack at Upper Bound 2025 (slides and notes) by MrLeap on Friday May 23, 2025 @10:08AM (#44073040)

I wouldn't bet against him. "The Bitter Lesson" may imply an advantage to someone who historically has been at the tip of the spear for squeezing the most juice out of GPU hosted parallel computation.

Graphics rendering and AI live on the same pyramid of technology. A pyramid with a lot of bricks with the initials "JC" carved into them, as it turns out.

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Re:John Carmack at Upper Bound 2025 (slides and notes) by kadushka on Friday May 23, 2025 @11:09AM (#44073565)

Only if computation is the bottleneck. GPT-4.5 shows it’s not.

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Re:John Carmack at Upper Bound 2025 (slides and notes) by mhh__ on Friday May 23, 2025 @02:27PM (#44075209)

I would be long carmack in the sense that I think he will have good judgement and taste running a business but I really don't see anything in common between AI and graphics.

Maybe someone better at aphorisms than me can say it better but I really don't see it. There are definitely mid-level low hanging fruits that would look like the kinds of things he did in graphics but the game just seems completely different.

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Re:John Carmack at Upper Bound 2025 (slides and notes) by KerrAvon on Friday May 23, 2025 @04:37PM (#44076395)

I think people would do well to read about Philo Farnsworth in this context.

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