JP18h ago
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.
Show threadJP17h ago
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.
Show threadJP
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.
Apr 6 at 5:19amWeb
Show threadRandom Geek17h ago
@jplebreton I stopped tracking Carmack when he went to Oculus. This update sounds exactly like where I expected him to go.
Show threadAdrian Marius16h ago

@randomgeek @jplebreton

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.

Show threadMichael Eggers 🇺🇦🇪🇺16h ago
@Groleo @randomgeek @jplebreton I don’t know. No one knew how to do 3d the “right way”. Let alone hw 3d accelerators for consumers. It seems only natural to change your mind in a field that was constantly changing.
Show threadAdrian Marius15h ago
@pythno @randomgeek @jplebreton
my point was to have the guts to say "i'm not totally sure about this".
instead, as seen over and over, it was: oh, this is the sh*t