Tech oligarchs are encouraging the creation of virtual worlds as a cheap way to avoid problems in the real one.

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    It is not possible, on Earth, to give everyone all that they would want. Not everyone can have Richard Branson’s private island,” Doom co-creator and former CTO of Oculus John Carmack told Joe Rogan during a 2020 interview.

    Yes, but we want no one to have private islands

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Sad to see Carmack have these brainworms. Back in his younger days, he threatened to quit if his boss made him patent a rendering technology he'd developed.