Carmack, like Western Civilization itself, is tragically naive.
It isn’t just that big organizations are inefficient. It is that the the world reserve currency’s structural bias toward centralization of positive network externalities emits a smell wafting globally into ancient cultures drained of vitality by their own highly evolved rentiers. Awakened to the aroma of the world reserve currency, they emerge like xenomorphs to demolish whatever protections more naive cultures have against them so as to capture and lock in centralization in ways that are traumatically inconceivable to the naive cultures of the West.
Musk almost escaped the mind parasites but his recent “Absolutely” tweet in response to a thread advocating radically increasing immigration indicates he’s been impregnated.
Short of massive violent uprising against the centralization of positive network externalities of civilization (and its likely fall), the thing that most-threatens the mind-huggers is their exposure, as such, by a principled Algorithmic Information Criterion approach to macrosocial models of causality: genuine social science. The resources (data, machine and human) available, hence the potential for this are absolutely enormous but require a rigorously grounded definition of Artificial General Intelligence so that is (science) can be factored out from ought as with AIXI’s definition of AGI.
Watch for Carmack mentioning “AIXI” or the Hutter Prize. If he does, watch then for him to be cancelled by the xenomorphs.