Video: John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets | Lex Fridman Podcast #309

Channel: Lex Fridman

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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:

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Books mentioned:

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OUTLINE:

0:00 - Introduction

1:57 - Programming languages

33:01 - Modern programming

43:03 - Day in the life

50:53 - Hard work

54:06 - Pizza and Diet Coke

56:50 - Setup

1:22:08 - id Software

1:54:58 - Commander Keen

2:01:44 - Hacker ethic

2:09:24 - Wolfenstein 3D

2:29:21 - Doom

2:43:42 - Quake

3:08:02 - John Romero

3:15:49 - Metaverse

3:44:11 - Elon Musk

3:50:06 - Mars

3:59:09 - Nuclear energy

4:02:47 - AGI

4:49:59 - Andrej Karpathy

4:52:57 - Martial arts

5:01:57 - Advice for young people

5:10:57 - Meaning of life

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