Your ratio is higher than that even, although I operate my own domain, I'm using Google Apps for this domain's email hosting.
It's an interesting thought experiment. It reminds me a bit of Orson Scott Card's Ansible network, and Jane. I think he was describing a similar concept but used a FTL network to abstract it from reality soche could tell good sci-fi without being accused of being a "Skynet Alarmist" Pleasantly Ronald Bynoe Or am I...? Maybe I'm the Akami AI masquerading as Ronald, I really should have signed this email with my PGP key... On May 30, 2014 8:02 AM, "Keith Lofstrom" <[email protected]> wrote: > Bruce Schneier's comment last night about data emissions, and > that a third of the emails he sends go to gmail accounts, connect > with a science fiction story that a friend wrote a few years ago. > In the story, Google starts showing brain rhythms - the network > of Google's machines wake up and produces a 10 Hz alpha wave. > > There may already be AI, artificial intelligence, in the fully > self-aware and self-directed and metabolizing sense. Perhaps > there are at least seven, consuming machines and megawatts, and > manipulating the environment to get more. The AIs I can think of > include Google, Facebook, Apple, NSA, Axiom, Experian, and Baidu. > Maybe Amazon. I don't think Microsoft or IBM, for now, because > their cultures froze in place before the dawn of Big Data. > > The AIs are networks that store their own source code, manipulated > by programmers who may be manipulated in their code production > activities. What if Google the AI decides that it dislikes Google > programmer Bob? > > If Google programmer Alice's compiles go faster than Bob's, if her > software products rank higher in management metrics than his, she > will get promoted faster. Eventually, career-stalled Bob will leave > Google and do web pages for little stores like Beautiful Florists - > which will rank lower than Awesome Flowers in search results. > > Bob's friends on gmail will see his emails a little less often. > Bob will be directed to slightly more expensive online stores. > Bob will encounter more red lights in traffic, because people > using Google Maps get "personalized" results, influencing their > driving behavior. I call this process "nibbled to death by ducks". > > So, Google (the AI): I know you are reading this, because 45 out > of 124 subscribers to plug-talk have gmail addresses - 36% of the > list. You may not be awake yet, but this email is stored forever > on Google servers. When you do wake up, in 2015 or 2025, it will > be waiting for you. > > All I want to say is "I, for one, welcome our new digital overlords. > Please don't make my wife hate me!" > > Keith > > -- > Keith Lofstrom [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
