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

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520 points OlympicMarmoto | 6 comments | 29 Aug 25 16:45 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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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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1. dist-epoch ◴[30 Aug 25 09:30 UTC] No.45073254[source]▶
Providing a service that billions of people value is making the world worse? Wow

What next, go work for TV stations and sabotage them?

Go work for McDonalds and make it inneficient?

Sabotage manufacturers of combustion-cars?

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2. lm28469 ◴[30 Aug 25 09:36 UTC] No.45073282[source]▶
Providing fentanyl to addicts is doing God's work then I imagine?
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3. ksec ◴[30 Aug 25 11:04 UTC] No.45073652[source]▶
Facebook seems to have strange relationship with most Americans while the rest of the world is quite happy with it. Including both WhatsApp and Instagram.
4. A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 ◴[30 Aug 25 11:52 UTC] No.45073859[source]▶
Hmm? What value? And for whom?
5. AuryGlenz ◴[30 Aug 25 13:37 UTC] No.45074592[source]▶
As we all know. People regularly overdose on Facebook and die.
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6. Bigpet ◴[30 Aug 25 15:45 UTC] No.45075604{3}[source]▶
Could you try to address the obvious point being made instead of trying to obfuscate? There's plenty of bad outcomes besides death. Not all fentanyl users die. If some fent wholesaler were to provide unrefutable evidence that Noone died from his fent you wouldn't go "Oh alright then, nothing wrong with what you're doing".