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John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta

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520 points OlympicMarmoto | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 16:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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frereubu ◴[29 Aug 25 17:26 UTC] No.45066934[source]▶
https://xcancel.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1961172409920491849
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ypeterholmes[dead post] ◴[29 Aug 25 17:46 UTC] No.45067207[source]▶
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cubefox ◴[29 Aug 25 17:50 UTC] No.45067253[source]▶
The Twitter algorithm is open source, unlike the algorithm for Facebook, Instagram, TikTok etc. I'm not aware of any evidence for bias in the algorithm.
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thrance ◴[29 Aug 25 17:53 UTC] No.45067306[source]▶
It's not though. The GitHub repo was never updated once. Here's an experiment for you: open X in a new private tab and count political posts, see how many of them are far right. Bias is evident.
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cubefox ◴[29 Aug 25 17:57 UTC] No.45067354[source]▶
> The GitHub repo was never updated once.

Pretty sure that's false: I remember seeing the recent commit that made Grok misbehave.

> Here's an experiment for you: open X in a new private tab and count political posts, see how many of them are far right. Bias is evident.

Go to Bluesky and count far left posts. The result will be similar, because political bubbles form by themselves.

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1. thrance ◴[29 Aug 25 18:05 UTC] No.45067438[source]▶
https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm

Not updated in two years.

> Go to Bluesky...

At least people are not fantasizing about "race wars" or discussing the "jewsish question" there. Two subjects I saw multiple times on X's front page.