Page and Brin appear to have empirically demonstrated that not terribly advanced machines can satisfy their own preferences fairly well today—by acting as a money maximiser with fairly basic constraints to do with obeying the law and not being too nasty.
Actually, I think the ‘don’t be evil’ injunction is meant to apply to the human employees. I’m sorry to disappoint you but I doubt that its actually written into any of their algorithms ;)
Their algorithms fairly evidently do all kinds of non-nasty things, including separating out ads before presenting them to the user, being fair to different sites—and so on.
Of course, it is Google that does the preference satisfaction, not just some algorithms—though obviously, the algorithms are important.
Page and Brin appear to have empirically demonstrated that not terribly advanced machines can satisfy their own preferences fairly well today—by acting as a money maximiser with fairly basic constraints to do with obeying the law and not being too nasty.
Actually, I think the ‘don’t be evil’ injunction is meant to apply to the human employees. I’m sorry to disappoint you but I doubt that its actually written into any of their algorithms ;)
Their algorithms fairly evidently do all kinds of non-nasty things, including separating out ads before presenting them to the user, being fair to different sites—and so on.
Of course, it is Google that does the preference satisfaction, not just some algorithms—though obviously, the algorithms are important.