John Carmack on Musashi's Book of Five Rings and the fate of once-pragmatic skills
tekbog · x · 2026-09-12
John Carmack shared takeaways from reading a translation of Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings: swordsmanship evolved from pragmatic battlefield necessity into sport, historical curiosity, and hobby — including how Judo was rebranded as equivalent to Western wrestling when martial arts were banned during the post-WW2 occupation. The thread draws an analogy to AI's trajectory.
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