Bryan Cantrill
Person on 4 sites
Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company; creator of DTrace at Sun Microsystems and a long-time systems-software blogger.
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19 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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A company that has become bored with the mechanics of running a business cannot succeed, regardless of its strategic success. (opens korrents.com)
“I remember thinking that a company that has become bored with the mechanics of running a business cannot succeed - no matter how successful its strategy might otherwise be.”
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Claims that AI has a greater than 10% chance of killing all humans within a decade are irresponsible fear-sowing. (opens korrents.com)
“I have never seen fear sown so irresponsibly by putative technologists as I have now with respect to AI and the threat of human extinction (!). Amazingly, that is not hyperbole: this week, ex-Anthropic employee Jacob…”
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Robots do not currently possess the capability to act in ways that justify extinction fears on a consistent time horizon. (opens korrents.com)
“Those who are resolute in their fear like to gloss over these bits ("robots will do this!"), but to do so is to ignore the physical reality that robots cannot do this today - and do not seem to be doing so on a…”
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A company that has become bored with the mechanics of running a business cannot succeed, regardless of its strategic success. (opens korrents.com)
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10 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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13th (opens rcmnd.app)
“I'm not going to spoil any more of it for you; if you haven't already seen it, you need to watch 13th – and you need to watch it now.”
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Selma (opens rcmnd.app)
“I had taken my kids to see DuVernay's superlative Selma years prior, and I had heard about 13th (and I had recalled my wife saying she wanted to watch it), but it was – like many things – "in the queue."”
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The Soul of a New Machine (opens rcmnd.app)
“Since reading it over two decades ago, I have recommended The Soul of a Machine at essentially every opportunity, believing that it is a part of computing's literary foundation – that it should be considered our Odyssey.”
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13th (opens rcmnd.app)