for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter"
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@jplebreton if anything could make me believe that 'neuro-linguistic programming' is actually real it's the way that becoming a billionaire or apparently spending any significant amount of time rubbing elbows with billionaires turns otherwise intelligent peoples' brains into useless mush.
@DKesserich the "magic" is out there in society, in the incentive structures, the leylines of capital and power and influence.
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for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter".
he's full fash at this point. totally gonna deliver AGI by 2030 though.
increasingly disgusting that he named his shitass company after Commander Keen, a joyful little video game from before he became a millionaire and was empowered to become his worst self.@jplebreton i admired this guy so much. he was part of making some things that were really beautiful, maybe more beautiful than most of the people making them really understood. anyway, fuck him. what a piece of shit.
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for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter".
he's full fash at this point. totally gonna deliver AGI by 2030 though.
increasingly disgusting that he named his shitass company after Commander Keen, a joyful little video game from before he became a millionaire and was empowered to become his worst self.if you see no value in having humanity or empathy or intellectual breadth, "being a powerful programmer" will just lead you to pour your talents down a hole, each decade more lost than the last. you'll pick bad collaborators and bad goals, you'll tolerate utter mediocrity outside your incredibly narrow notions of excellence, and ultimately you may just end up serving evil.
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if you see no value in having humanity or empathy or intellectual breadth, "being a powerful programmer" will just lead you to pour your talents down a hole, each decade more lost than the last. you'll pick bad collaborators and bad goals, you'll tolerate utter mediocrity outside your incredibly narrow notions of excellence, and ultimately you may just end up serving evil.
i really have no idea where his Atari stuff is headed, it might ultimately yield something interesting. but everything else about his work these days is so directionally rotten that i'm just assuming it'll go into missile guidance systems, concentration camp efficiency, etc.
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i really have no idea where his Atari stuff is headed, it might ultimately yield something interesting. but everything else about his work these days is so directionally rotten that i'm just assuming it'll go into missile guidance systems, concentration camp efficiency, etc.
@jplebreton I stopped tracking Carmack when he went to Oculus. This update sounds exactly like where I expected him to go.
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@jplebreton I stopped tracking Carmack when he went to Oculus. This update sounds exactly like where I expected him to go.
there was one red flag that made me reconsider his human side/moral backbone:
in the days of Quake-1, ID collaborated with Rendition to define what the hardware should look like; that's when
he did a 180*:<<... Quake is not going to do Z-buffering.” ... And then halfway through Quake I said, “Well I changed my mind. We are using Z-buffering...>>
Rendition V1100 not having (performant) z-buffering contributed to the company failure.
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@jplebreton This is particularly distressing to me. I rather liked both of them, personally. I guess people change.
@TomF @jplebreton big sigh.
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for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter".
he's full fash at this point. totally gonna deliver AGI by 2030 though.
increasingly disgusting that he named his shitass company after Commander Keen, a joyful little video game from before he became a millionaire and was empowered to become his worst self.@jplebreton here goes another idol. Thanks for sharing for those of us who aren't on Twitter anymore.
I'm starting to believe modesty is the greatest virtue in a man. As soon as a guy goes "why, I am actually smarter than everyone else", this happens ^.
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@jplebreton here goes another idol. Thanks for sharing for those of us who aren't on Twitter anymore.
I'm starting to believe modesty is the greatest virtue in a man. As soon as a guy goes "why, I am actually smarter than everyone else", this happens ^.
@isagalaev on one level i don't think the problem is with his faculties of self-assessment at all, i think he's still probably relatively humble and self-critical. on another, yeah he believes in the bell curve and that inequality is natural and fine, and with that comes the deep glaring inhumane vanity of the 20something millionaire. his axioms about humanity and society are so flawed it invalidates practically every well-formed thought that's ever come into his head.
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for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter".
he's full fash at this point. totally gonna deliver AGI by 2030 though.
increasingly disgusting that he named his shitass company after Commander Keen, a joyful little video game from before he became a millionaire and was empowered to become his worst self.@jplebreton not unexpected. Every talk by him is/was choke full of arrogance and ignorance. As a VR veteran i could even attest him scientific misunderstanding. I don’t get why people worship him.
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