John Carmack quits Meta
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Diversity hires and adult children in Silicon Valley not holding up to par?!
The whole tech sector, hell ALL companies, need to get twittered, i.e. they need to shed the unproductives that make up the majority of their workforces.
We could have flying cars and jetpacks by now if it weren't for all the diversity and political dead weight holding us back.
Remember HR departments exist only because of good sounding government legislation that had the opposite effect of helping employees.
I always envisioned the future with the flying cars and all that jazz. The reason I don't see them now is because I didn't expect the technology sector to be taken over by parasitic ideologues and rainbow hairs.
twittered? as in ran by a famous based billiorino so people willfully enslave themselves to create the very tech that will enslave them even more?
yes, tie this to surface political spectrum and ignore the real power behind it all...
I hate parroting cliched narratives, but John Carmack has always been focused on the engineering side of products, to the partial neglect of workplace dynamics or market awareness. I could recall interview/presentation examples from him and other ID ID founders if anyone is interested.
John characterizes the Meta/Realitylabs failure as a workplace efficiency problem, when he knew full well that the company was antithetical to the hacker/hobbyist ethic when they bought out Occulus. VR is much more enthusiast than a smartphone or social-media site, thus the FAANG post-startup mentality doomed their VR venture just as with Amazon's games and high budget TV shows. Valve and GabeN have had much more success paying some respect to the hacker mentality or otherwise respecting the userbase when applicable.
I wonder if the Zenimax lawsuit was the reason for Carmack sticking around after the acquisition.
He should work on AI next, or get back into rocketry.
His new venture is in AGI.
What's AGI?
Ouch.
From an 'Insider' article. Sounds like the PS3, PS4, PS5, Steam experience.
Sincerely glad to hear that one of the smartest men on Earth is not working for Facebook anymore.
The man that probably kept the lights on at Facebook has left. Yep sounds good.