Google Thinks I’m Dead – The New York Times
jesus, Google, this is a shambles
(tags: google data correctness bugs errors data-cleanliness accuracy)
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‘Simple uptime monitoring: distributed, self-hosted health checks and status pages’ — stores in S3
(tags: go ops monitoring uptime health-checks status-pages status golang s3)
The Real Danger To Civilization Isn’t AI. It’s Runaway Capitalism
The idea of superintelligence is such a poorly defined notion that one could envision it taking almost any form with equal justification: a benevolent genie that solves all the world’s problems, or a mathematician that spends all its time proving theorems so abstract that humans can’t even understand them. But when Silicon Valley tries to imagine superintelligence, what it comes up with is no-holds-barred capitalism. [….] I realized that we are already surrounded by machines that demonstrate a complete lack of insight, we just call them corporations. Corporations don’t operate autonomously, of course, and the humans in charge of them are presumably capable of insight, but capitalism doesn’t reward them for using it. On the contrary, capitalism actively erodes this capacity in people by demanding that they replace their own judgment of what “good” means with “whatever the market decides.”
(tags: capitalism silicon-valley ai superintelligence future ted-chiang sf)