What's the point of being human if you're not at least as smart as this guy?
What's the point of being smart?
>>108518724if he's so smart, why is it that I don't know who he is?
>>108518724>stand on the shoulders of giants>larp as a geniusthe codemonkey curse
>>108518724>make one video game>worshipped as a god by brainlets
>>108518724> John Carmack joined Oculus as CTO in 2013> transitioned to Consulting CTO in 2019 > left Meta entirely in late 2022Name 1 (one) good thing that came out of this, compare to what people from HTC and Valve achieved.
>>108518738It's like unlocking DLC. you can't use/do certain things without reaching a certain minimum of it.you're stuck playing vanilla humanity, AKA "eat, shit, banter, sleep". with no higher aspirations.you can't write a good novel (or any novel, really)you can't build technology (or even maintain it)you can't even write a shitty video game (without some help)the most fun in life you can have is sex (presuming you're not like 99% of incel men) which is basically what all animals have access to.so most of humanity is not even human by the very definition. we're just subhumans at best.
>>108518796Your definition of higher aspirations is purely subjective and doesn't mean shit.>You can't write a novelCool, I don't give a fuck about novels
>>108518879regardless if those higher aspirations were subjective or not. it does not mean that within those subjective aspirations that you can reach your subjective goals.my subjective goals:build a rocketwrite softwarewrite a good story drive video gamemy IQ is probably something like 90, plus I have dyslexia and severe ADHD. so I have no higher aspirations for my life. my life has no meaning to my self. it is null and void therefore, both objectively and subjectively.this is true for lot's of people even within their subjective aspirations.
>>108518724>not as smart as carmack>not as handsome as carmack>not as buff as carmackthis is what peak performance looks like
>>108518918Dude, you are a human being just as much as Carmack. Do what you love to do and that's about it. You are not in some race for greatness, don't beat yourself up. And set more realistic goals probably idk
>>108518796Is this a joke? Usecase for writing a novel? Usecase for writing a fucking video game? These are your "higher" aspirations? In any case>It's like unlocking DLC. you can't use/do certain things without reaching a certain minimum of it.You're thinking of money, not being smart.
>>108519011No, im not thinking of money. if all I wanted was money I would either work hard or rob a bank or something.I have these goals, they give me pleasure and meaning, but I can't pursue them properly. I would do them even if it meant that I would be dirt poor for the rest of my life.if you gave me a 10 million dollars, sure I would feel comfortable, but I would still be suicidal because my life would lack meaning.also, you're probably a retarded communist, they tend to dismiss personal values despite arguing against any sense of objectivity. and all they argue about is the material value of people or some shit like this. you should be impaled either way.
>>108519005it's not about a fucking race you dumbass.I want to have/do certain things that I am incapable of having or doing. that's all there is to it.
>>108519074>I can't build a rocket that even people with unlimited amount of resources struggle to build>Therefore my life is meaningless Yeah I can see your IQ is two digits
>>108518796Intelligence makes things easier, that's it. It doesn't account for inherent ability or behavior. A lot of very intelligent people do absolutely nothing with heir lives, probably the majority.
>>108519095wowza, you totally got me dude!
>>108518724He got vaxxed
>>108519112Okay, but what I'm saying is that, I don't have the minimum of intelligence to pursue the things I want in life.
>>108519138What were these things you want to do anon?
>>108519122Is this why they stopped releasing the source code for the new id tech engines?
>>108519203id was bought by micro soft
The cult of John Carmack overstates his accomplishments>didn't invent BSPs (AT&T did decades before)>his "inhuman work ethic" is just a 20 year old who never learned proper diet or hygiene refusing to sleep>his major innovation wasn't 3D BSPs, but baked Visible Surface Determination encoded as bits on a 128-bit string for each sector within a quake map>also didn't invent fast inverse square root, he just got credit because his name was on the code repohttps://www.bluesnews.com/abrash/chap64.shtml>the problem John faced was how to keep overdraw down to a manageable level, preferably drawing each pixel exactly once [...]>a raw, uncompressed potentially visible set (PVS) was several megabytes in size. However, the PVS could be stored as a bit vector, with 1 bit per leaf, a structure that shrunk a great deal with simple zero-byte compression.The man is obviously of above-average intelligence but he had 2 other god-tier programmers at his disposal (Michael Abrash on graphics and John Cash on networking) so he was able to narrowly focus on optimizing potentially visible sets while the other engineers worked on other parts of the engine.Because of his refusal to take care of himself, he started lashing out at his coworkers, leaving them report cards based on his perception of their level of effort. They decided to ignore the report cards because they felt that it a non-serious thing to do. After Romero was forced to resign, more than half the company quit within the next year or so because Carmack was a really terrible boss.Now he's an AI grifter
>>108519160Write a BSP --> to OBJ/FBX crossconverter plugin for Blender.but generally, im unable to write anything more complicated than fizzbuzz. also, im insanely impatient due to severe ADHD and mental fatigue from GAD (generalized anxiety disorder)
>>108519260Yeah I think Carmack worship is kinda dumb and cringe. It’s obvious what he was doing at the time wasn’t all that special, as everyone from Looking Glass to Bungie to Epic was just as if not more capable of creating cutting-edge 3D engines. The real star of the show was always Romero.
>>108518724Ai mogs him
>>108519339That would be Gabe and crew.Quake and Doom had 0 creativity in them.
>>108519281I don't know what bsp is bu cant be that hard. Aside from that you get all the AI tools that at least can explain the basic concept of the solution.Anyways you sound like whiny bitch and you indeed will achieve nothing with this mindset
>>108519349Half-Life would not have existed without the blockbuster culture-defining success of Doom and Quake
>>108519415>because being a whiny bitch has nothing to do with your hardwired mind same as intelligence.
>>108519430It wouldn't have existed without the engine, yes.but not necessarily without the game.>we made this FPS engine with networking>we made the most basic bitch game mode: shoot moving target>be Valve>thanks for the engine suckers>makes the best singleplayer title of the past two decades
>>108519415It's a 3D file format. Conceptually it's not as complicated as you make it out to be mostly converting headers between binary 3D formats and maybe some matrix math. In theory it's straightforward, but actually sitting down and implementing it is where the difficulty lies. I'm really frustrated every day I stare at my monitor wishing I could just get the damn software written.But im too:dumblazyneurotic
>>108518724>smart guy who stole everything people attributed to himNothing new under the sun
This chart explains my life.my current life is at (0,0) therefore I am not a real entity since I don't have a meaning in my life.
>>108519874The worst part is that there is no catharsis in this either. It's just nonsatisfaction.
