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Re:John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS ... by kelipso on Saturday August 30, 2025 @09:33AM (#45074550)
Ugh. Can we as an industry stop blowing people up like this? It’s a clear sign that the community is filled with people with very little experience.

I remember this guy wanted $20 million to build AGI a year ago (did he get that money?), and people here thought he would go into isolation for a few weeks and come out with AGI because he made some games like that. It’s just embarrassing as a community.

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Re:John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS ... by bckr on Saturday August 30, 2025 @01:13PM (#45076300)
> $20 million

That’s a pittance for such a project. I wish we could see what he’d have come up with.

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Re:John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS ... by kelipso on Saturday August 30, 2025 @03:26PM (#45077287)
He is just a guy who can write game code well and has good PR skills online. I wouldn’t give him a cent if he promised anything in the AI field, no matter how much a bunch of online people gas him up.
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Re:John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS ... by spauldo on Saturday August 30, 2025 @09:55PM (#45079640)
He's a guy that knows a lot of math and how to turn that math into code. I don't know if he'd be able to come up with some brand new paradigm for AI but I'd want him on my team and I'd listen to what he has to say.
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Re:John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS ... by kelipso on Sunday August 31, 2025 @09:19AM (#45082953)
AI math is not game code math. There are plenty of actual experts in AI who know “how to turn math into code” with years of experience. I would not want this guy, his ego, his lack of social skills, his online fanbase, and his lack of experience in AI to be anywhere near my AI team.
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Re:John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS ... by dehrmann on Saturday August 30, 2025 @01:33PM (#45076461)
Carmack's best work was between Keen and Quake, and it was mostly optimizations that pushed the limit of what PC graphics could do. He's always been too in-the-weeds to have a C-level title.
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