202208131431 Everybody loves an existence proof
Everybody loves an existence proof.
– John Carmack1
There is nothing that spurs progress more quickly and easily than an existing, working thing.
If you want to get funding, clearance, approval, investment, adoption, etc. for something, there is undoubtedly no better way to go about it than to show the thing does what you say it will and already works.
If you want to change the world’s energy supply, build a small, cheap, working fission reactor, power your company with it, and then the world will change.
If you want to code a new system, build part of it and show that it works and is solving a real problem. Prove through its existence that it’s not only doable, but already so near to being fully realized that there’s no conceivable reason not to continue with it.
The benefits of something are obvious to anyone if they already exist.
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lexteam. (2022, August 4). Ep. 309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets | Lex Fridman Podcast. Lex Fridman. https://lexfridman.com/john-carmack/ ↩