Not sure if John Carmack is taking interviews right now, but he has also just begun AGI research and would love to hear him chat about his progress so far..,(reply>), Big YES!<br>Please Lex, get Carmack on the podcast!,(reply>), John Carmack has the perfect trifecta of Software Development which most programmers starting out aspire to work on. Video games, Virtual Reality, and Artificial General Intelligence. Web, Phone, or Desktop application development seem boring compared to those three topics.