Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
Yesterday @bcantrill and I offered a rebuttal to the AI doomerism that has been gaining volume. Hoo-boy, this one had some range! Heaven’s Gate, ceteris paribus, WWII, derpy security robots, press-fit DIMM sockets, async Rust, etc. And optimistic as always: the hardware and systems AI doomers imagine are incredibly hard to get right; let’s see AIs help us before we worry about our own obsolescence!