[Part of a new Collection for Cybernetics as I explore this fascinating discipline..]

Hey there, it's the trolly problem again...

_Ethics modules can be treated like *ethical device drivers*, so that to be fully operational, a hypothetical gun-carrying, tax-advising robot that can drive on roads requires valid ethics modules for gun-law, tax-code, and traffic-rules. Without all necessary modules for the appropriate legal jurisdiction, the robot’s gun, tax advising, or driving capabilities are automatically disabled._

http://ashby.de/

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Not strictly "social" per-se, but there were a number of cross overs from iGoogle. Also relevant as Now is undergoing some historical changes of it's own..

- Pixie Labs ended up moving their games to Google+ Games (remember Farmville?)
- The gadget infrastructure from iGoogle (GGS) was used heavily for the +1 button, OpenSocial, PeopleSense and others. +103390686048441232976 might even still carry a pager for this old infrastructure...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XS9u1D-pFSxTcrbTZRa43CV7VKHztHzWLDCzrj0csJ4/edit?_escaped_fragme...

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Google is both a particle (consumer) and a wave (enterprise). We need some kind of general product relativity instead of a newtonian model...

... or quantum mechanics vs classical physics, you get the idea...

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cc: Joseph Smarr

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s/Blockchain/Beyoncé/g

Better than replacing Cloud with Butt.

https://gizmodo.com/the-best-of-cloud-to-butt-the-only-extension-youll-eve-1685863609

https://twitter.com/blkchninstitute

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Hired to work on web protocols. Immediately detoured to the needful work of building a social network. Learned a lot along the way.

I don't have a lot of sage wisdom to offer other than be humble, humane, and empathic. That goes a long way.

That and banjo. Always have banjo.

Looking forward to 7 more years of causing trouble with you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmLINm2bchY

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Maps and GBUS work pretty well split-screen, especially useful to know if you're going to get to the stop on time.

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Google Assistant as envisioned from 1973's "Designing Freedom"

https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=8pOruwSkOisC

Much of what we implement today was predicted then. We also forget that people once derided and feared "The Computer".

This work is quite accessible and reading it gave me a better understanding of complex dynamic systems, relaxation time, variety, Ashby's Law and the nature of bureaucracy. Also originally broadcast on the CBC as a lecture series:

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1973-cbc-massey-lectures-designing-freedom-1.2946819

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I hope we've made a breakthrough in user follicle detection for these maps notifications...

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It's such a simple concept that makes sense.

_...for every factor outside of your own control that can have a positive or negative influence on your ability to meet your goals, you need to put a compensatory control in place to allow you to respond._

Gaia service bits, D3 policies, gSuite vs Identity only -- the number of states for an account is dizzying. But by Ashby's law if we don't have mechanisms to absorb that variety bad things will befall the control software and we'll be unable to achieve homeostatis or even viability.

http://talesoftheenterprise.com/2013/06/mr-ashbys-bright-idea/

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World's worst SEO choice for a band name. Second only to the musician named dash-M-dash -M- which g+ cannot even render.

I guess I'm supposed to use Archie to find this...

http://ftp-band.com/

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Found some research around measuring User-Trust.

• First, developers can learn that trust concepts can be operationalized into specific attributes or questions that can be examined in research and designs.
• Second, one of the key findings is that trust seems to be related to beliefs about another’s ability, integrity, and benevolence.
• Third, trust and risk are related concepts, and factors that reduce risk perceptions, such as reducing uncertainty, can be beneficial for increasing trust or decreasing the need for trust.
• Fourth, ease-of-use characteristics, such as the ease of finding information and completing transactions, can affect trust.
• Fifth, external factors or context that may seem to be unrelated to the situation can affect trust, such as the characteristics of the truster and the type of risk involved in the transaction.
• Finally, trust probably develops in stages. In the first stage, superficial interface properties, such as colors and designs, can have a large effect on initial trust decisions. Later, users may make trust decisions based on more reasoned analysis of information. Eventually, long-term trust decisions are based on direct experience and personal service.

https://www.researchgate.net/

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Looks like we once had an Ethnographer on staff. This is the only notable mention of Complex Adaptive Systems I found. But it is interesting reading back from 2011....

https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/google-culture/home/google-at-the-edge-of-chaos

https://www.google.com/a/google.com/ServiceLogin2?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fa%2Fgoog...

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Doing Perf and listening to some lectures on VSM and it finally all starts to make sense.

I can see organizational patterns now in ways I could not before. Still grappling with the math though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viable_system_model#__sid=rd0

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Greetings Area 120. Google Forever has also made it to the final pitch round.

We have plenty of opportunities for people to pitch in on sustainable bizdev models, decentralized engineering and more. But one role we'd love to fill is a UX/Design/Frontend leader. Here's our job listing. Please reach out if you're interested!

https://grow.googleplex.com/opportunity/job/2000000020689

Are you interested in building user experiences and critical user journeys that work for generations? Do you want to help people preserve their most important digital memories?

Consider joining the Google Forever Project. We're a proposed Area 120 project that's already made it to the final pitch round and we need you!

Our project is creating the software that will power a business and ecosystem that will last for decades and centuries. We're starting with a way to preserve the world's most valued Photos in an easy, simple sustainable way.

As a lead/founding frontend member of the team you will have considerably freedom to set the direction and tech stack while working with our passionate engineering and business teams. You will also be able to explore experimental user interfaces and user experiences that might be used in the far future.

If accepted to Area 120 you will have the chance to work on this full time. We also will accept any and all people who want to help us achieve our vision!

See http://go/google-forever or contact Paul Lindner to discuss how you can contribute.

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Public profile, private profile actually map pretty well to human psychology, at least to non-millenials...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/stories-the-self/200812/the-conflation-public-and-private-ident...

https://thenextweb.com/facebook/2017/09/11/facebook-testing-private-profile-closest-friends/

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Federated social networking is relatable to dasher...

Seems like it might be interesting to provision following for new users.

_5. To improve the experience of brand new users, we’ve added something in the old tradition of MySpace Tom — except instead of following some central Tom, new accounts will start off following their local admins (this can be adjusted by the administrator). That way, on your first login you are greeted with a populated home timeline instead of an empty one._

https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-and-the-w3c-f75f376f422?gi=5de3cfdbd29f

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GoogleCloud asks: *What was the first program you wrote that you were proud of?*

_Please include what language it was written in and a brief description. Feel free to go out of bounds if you have a creative answer!_

My response:

At age 17 I was published in Compute!'s Gazette. The small utility, named ML Runner, is tool written in Commodore 64 Basic and 6502 Assembly. It converted machine language binaries into easy to use BASIC programs. The result was a better, easier way for users to execute code.

You can see the actual short code on page 98 in the June 1987 Issue here:
https://archive.org/details/1987-06-compute-magazine

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdTVpBafCZghSvaYi6sf8JRbncaOqh153gwtxJE00D0pCcB7g/viewform?...

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60 days isn't a long time for people with lots of data. I have a feeling it's going to take legislation to get companies to do the right thing here (and that includes us too, Google Drive notice is 60 days as well...)

Also facepalm on the earnest CEO video at:
https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/consumer/nextsteps/

https://twitter.com/crashplan/status/899995190852820994

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Amazing to think how far we've come from the 2003 iTunes launch.

... and they started out with only 200k tracks.

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The memo damage has been done and now we're left with the mess. Here are some ideas on how to make amends:

- Everyone ever interviewed by Damore is offered an onsite interview.
- Everyone peer-reviewed for promo is given an automatic appeal.
- Everyone peer-reviewed gets their previous calibrations revisited, and comp retroactively adjusted.

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_Just move on up_
_Toward your destination_
_Though you may find, from time to time, complication_

Complicated week eh? Just remember we have each other and when we work together we can make the world a better place!

And thanks to the brave souls that communicate wisdom. (especially since I've been a bit absent from these discussions)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z66wVo7uNw

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So decided to finish "Kill all Normies" to get my head around "what hath the internet wrought" and how technology has affected society.

The book is a little shallow, especially if you were paying attention during gamergate. Read on if you want a sickening tour of the worst that's out there.

Given Techs great power I believe it behooves us to expand our concern to the outsized level of influence we have. We all built this platform. Behold. (Including what may be the weirdest set of recommended books from Play.)

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If you could save *one* digital object forever, what would it be? Leave it in the comments.

Oh and have we planned a DiRT test for nuclear war? I couldn't find our classified secret list of bunkers on moma.

And a pity that we never built that moon-based datacenter....

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tired: drone delivery
wired: missile delivery

If you look back you'll see the parallels between Google and the Postal Service....

http://99percentinvisible.org/article/firing-off-letters-u-s-postal-services-cold-war-missile-mail-p...

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Question for Jungle Gym -- how does it stack up against the Q&A feature in Groups? It seems that there's some overlap here that needs to be shaken loose. Maybe something for Daniel when he returns from his travels..

https://support.google.com/a/answer/126169?hl=en#__sid=md0

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