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Re:John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists on Friday March 13, 2026 @05:06PM (#47369908)
Posts the user clinging to a 15 year old HN login.

Meanwhile I only use social media throwaways, correctly understanding this is all ephemeral gibberish that will be effectively rm -Rf'd when the next generations accept there is no knowledge of value to them stored in the database that backs this site.

Just the vanity of a whole lot of Millennials, GenXers, a few Boomers, who latched onto an economic meme of the day; software engineering!

Oh noes; a social credit score meaningful to a bunch of nobodies lack of a social safety net keeps me off the hook for! You can die penniless in the streets and I don't have to lift a finger! I don't have to value your life itself to say nothing of your rhetorical positions. Lmao out of touch terminally online Americans. What an unserious joke of a people

Re:John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists on Friday March 13, 2026 @03:57PM (#47369030)
The argument ignores the mans privilege