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Andreessen's Corollary: Ethical Dilemmas in Software Engineering - Bryan Cantrill | Craft 2019

CraftHub Events · 26.7K views · 2019-05-17 · 46:24

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Bryan Cantrill's Craft 2019 talk on the ethical dilemmas software engineers face as software eats the world. He explores cases where engineering thinking conflicts with the law or personal morals, including Facebook's news feed experiments.

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HN commenters recommend it as a good talk on ethics in software engineering, and Cantrill himself cites it as capturing his views.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2019–2025

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What people said

earleybird · 2021-12 · Recommendation

Bryan Cantrill (DTrace etc) has a good talk on ethics in software engineering[0]. Skip to 12:29 where he recalls Facebook in 2011 experimenting with users news feeds. [0] [VIDEO]

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Bayart · 2020-12 · Recommendation

Bryan Cantrill has a talk on YT on ethics in software [1]. And as I remember it the take away is that the way we think about problems isn't very conducive to obeying the law, or being good to people in general. And I've got to say the amount of people I see thinking of regulations, social norms or morals as « cruft » is pretty alarming. [1] [VIDEO]

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bitofhope · 2019-12 · Recommendation

This year's Cantrill talks include one on Ethical Dilemmas [0] and another on the "Moore's Law" paper [1]. Highly recommend both. [0] [VIDEO] [1] [LINK]

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