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skokage on Nov 13, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial gene...

>Runner up for next project was cost effective nuclear fission reactors, which wouldn’t have been as suitable for that style of work.

I can't tell if he was serious about that comment or not... Considering he builds rockets with free time, it could go either way.

the_watcher on Nov 14, 2019 | [–]

I took it as "not even I would experiment with nuclear fission reactors from my house".

sailingparrot on Nov 14, 2019 | [–]

> I can't tell if he was serious about that comment or not... Considering he builds rockets with free time, it could go either way.

Nuclear fission shocks you but not AGI?

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