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by criddell 2406 days ago
> If by "techie" you mean, professional software engineer, that's fine

No, I mean technologist. He has a pretty solid history with software, physics, aerospace, optics, etc...

> might know enough right now to be in a PhD program

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. The frontier in AGI or even just AI is enormous and I think I would be more surprised if Carmack were not able to find some place he could expand the border of what we know.