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by cma 1763 days ago
> If the most legendary game developer of all time thinks Roblox is fine, are you sure he's mistaken?

FWIW, he's the CTO of a 30% app store trying to also break into the Roblox business (their Metaverse talk/Facebook Horizon).

So rather than Roblox only taking 40% and giving 30% to Apple, Facebook will potentially be in position to take the full 70% (or more due to getting children to pay for ad spend) of the child labor.

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Carmack is a full time AI developer. He's working on AI in the most hardcore sense: aiming at full AGI. I've DM'ed with him for months about it. I was skeptical, and then his ideas turned out to be some of the most innovative I've seen.

When Carmack tweets something, it's because he believes what he's saying is true.

Searching for the most charitable interpretation of your argument, the only thing I can think of is "Maybe Carmack's view was contaminated by his time spent as CTO of Oculus." But he joined Oculus long before Facebook acquired it, and before the policies you mention. Carmack may be legendary, but he likely had no say in those policies.

> Carmack is a full time AI developer.

He's still simultaneously the CTO of Facebook's Oculus division, which runs their 30% app store and is building the Roblox-aesthetic Facebook Horizon "metaverse":

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Facebook-W...

https://roadtovrlive-5ea0.kxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/...

https://roadtovrlive-5ea0.kxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/...

He's separated out his AI work as his own thing.

I don’t think Oculus is courting amateur kiddie devs.