https://xcancel.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1961172409920491849
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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.
John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta
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#32Re: John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta
#33Did they have people who have built an OS before? I’ve seen this firsthand. These giant tech companies try to just jump into a massive new project thinking that because they have built such an impressive website and have so much experience at scale they should just be able to handle building a new OS. In my case it wasn’t even a new OS it was just building around an existing platform and even that was massively probl…
They have contributors to the linux kernel.
Pretty sure all the big tech companies have the right people to create a new OS that is better than Linux, the hard part is getting that new OS to be adopted.
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#34Re: John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta
#35Was at Oculus post acquisition and can say that the whole XROS was an annoyance and distraction the core technology teams didn’t need. There were so many issues with multiple tech stacks that needed fixing first.
Mind you, this XROS idea came after Oculus reorged into FB proper. It felt to me like there were FB teams (or individuals) that wanted get on the ARVR train. Carmack was absolutely right, and after the reorg his influence slowly waned for the worse.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
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The platform is still usable, just block anyone who posts politics in your timeline, eventually it all becomes technical stuff.
It still normalizes use of what has effectively become a far-right propaganda machine and thus the purposeful destruction of democratic institutions.
Re: John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta
#37And yet, Sony did it, Nintendo did it, both have been pretty succeesful. We also need to be clear what an OS is. Is it "darwin" or "macOS" - they have different scopes. Things I'd want from an OS for an XR device. 1. Fast boot. I don't want to have to wait 2-3-4-5 minutes to reboot for those times I need to reboot. I feel like Nintendo figured this out? It updates the OS in the background somehow and reboot is nearly…
You mean for the PlayStation? That is a FreeBSD fork, probably chosen over Linux because of the license.
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#38https://xcancel.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1961172409920491849
Neat website, thanks for posting. Basically necessary to avoid the twitter “paywall”
Re: John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta
#39I think people have forgotten about Google Fuchsia which I guess is a good sign for a new OS. They’ve done quite well in deploying it seamlessly to their consumer devices.
The reviews I've seen of its stability and usefulness have not been good.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
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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.
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.