Bryan and Adam offer a rebuttal to the AI doomerism that has been gaining volume. And--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!

On this episode Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal were on a rant; but we welcome others on-stage!

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

How we got here: Tweet from Liron Shapira
Comet Hale-Bopp
Heaven's Gate
Cross price supply elasticity of copper and molybdenum markets
Ceteris paribus -- Bryan's exit from economics
Chris Dixon's book releasing in March 2024 (NOT AN ENDORSEMENT)
British to American translation guide
"It's not just human-level extinction... it's like potential destruction of all value in the light cone" - Emmett Shear
Vingian Singularity
Oxide and Friends: Tales from the bringup lab
Oxide and Friends: More tales from the bringup lab
Bullying self-driving cars
AI Resistance Reservists: "For the Lightcone!"
Samsung security robots
Oxide and Friends: Does a GPT future need software engineers?
"I for one welcome our new AI overlords"

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Episode 15797: LOCKED IN - 4-1-26