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So let me get this straight, you have some cynicism towards the future of VR, which is a new platform. But you are an engineer at Valve, in on the ground floor

by gfodor 12y ago

So let me get this straight, you have some cynicism towards the future of VR, which is a new platform. But you are an engineer at Valve, in on the ground floor of the platform, putting you in the top 0.001% of people who could possibly have an impact on the long term way it plays out. And you quit? Seems like you have given up before the battle has even started.

psykotic 12y ago
Fabian isn't a Valve engineer. He's an engineer at RAD who was contracted out to Valve. His beliefs are utterly sincere. He once threatened to quit RAD on the spot when he found out the main sales guy had gone to a predominantly military-oriented simulation conference. If you accept his sincerity as a premise, your suggestion is akin to saying that someone should continue working on an engineering project with inevitable and uniquely terrible military applications because they are in on the ground floor and should be able to influence future directions. Has that ever worked? I share some of his concerns but not all his conclusions. Where I agree with him unanimously is in being extremely concerned about amoral engineers who are blithely pro-technology. The only thing scarier to me than an amoral engineer is an evangelical engineer for whom technological progress is not morally neutral but morally good.