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

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521 points OlympicMarmoto | 2 comments | 29 Aug 25 16:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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procaryote ◴[30 Aug 25 07:25 UTC] No.45072629[source]▶
The problem when working for Meta is that if you do a good job, you've helped make the world worse... so the real heroes are the people wasting money and reducing efficiency

If you're at all competent, go work somewhere else

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wolvesechoes ◴[30 Aug 25 07:53 UTC] No.45072763[source]▶
But isn't that true for every big corp, or even every public company? Even if founders may had some other goals in addition to making money, as the time passes profit becomes the only goal, and usually more profit is being generated while doing bad and malicious things.

Problem is systemic.

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anttiharju ◴[30 Aug 25 08:01 UTC] No.45072810[source]▶
Nokia (mostly networking-related things nowadays) touts - or at least used to, haven't kept up to date - itself as one of the most ethical companies around.

> But isn't that true for every big corp, or even every public company?

So I suppose not really, no.

Additionally companies working on carbon-free energy might also serve as evidence. There are some big ones around.

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1. sylware ◴[30 Aug 25 08:39 UTC] No.45072999[source]▶
I remember, nokia about to release the first smartphone, full linux with a clean plain and simple C written OS/platform... and... then nothing happened. I recall the user groups being puzzled on what was waiting nokia, they were ready, had it all super open source and LEAN open source, and the iphone happened and they were bought by msft... ??????????
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2. sim7c00 ◴[30 Aug 25 09:23 UTC] No.45073222[source]▶
the most ethical company still goes for profit and earn shittons.... the most fragrant turd still smells of shit