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 threadMichael Eggers 🇺🇦🇪🇺16h ago
@jplebreton to be fair he was highly sceptical of the metaverse thing. But otherwise I fully agree. Very sad to see his trajectory.
Show threadBartosz Taudul13h ago

@pythno @jplebreton Hm? From what I recall, he was very fond of the Snow Crash book, from where the term sources?

I (tried to) read it, and jeez, the themes in that book are *ugly*. Another puzzle piece that fits, though.

Show threadAndre Weissflog10h ago

@wolfpld @pythno @jplebreton for being written in 1992 Snow Crash nailed the "trajectory" of the US as a future failed state pretty well though. I remember that when I read it first (around 2005 maybe?) that I found that aspect of the story quite unbelievable. In the last decade or so it got a lot more believable.

But yeah, shame about Carmack.

Show threadNazo

@floooh @wolfpld @pythno @jplebreton Snow Crash really was written with more than a small amount of tongue-in-cheek. I mean, heck, the main character's name is pronounced as "Hero." The biggest, strongest mafia arose around, of all things, pizza delivery services.

But yeah, that's it alright. Late stage capitalism gone out of control and government completely gone with businesses as rulers. The only difference is it seems we're going to get nazis instead.

Idiocracy is closer though.

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