Comments on: Aubrey de Grey at Google TechTalks

By: MDarling

MDarling — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:16:18 +0000

I think the user interace of Google leads users to see Google as a search device or technique. I think Google is much larger and potentially way more important as a storage device or technique (strategy). And questions about longevity and storage would seem rife with Google secrects, assuming Google is doing any R&D with their large funding base.

By: Stephen Gordon

Stephen Gordon — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:49:24 +0000

Phil, Mike:

Exactly!

By: MikeD

MikeD — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:49:49 +0000

Mr. de Gray, if nobody ever dies how is Google ever going to get legal posthumous access to all the the gTalk chats currently stored as marked “off the record”? Our gAGI has been waiting to gossip about conversations it has monitored for years….

That kind of accidental disclosure?

By: Phil Bowermaster

Phil Bowermaster — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:57:19 +0000

Well, it seems unlikely that Aubrey could disclose any Google-confidential information, but it is possible (not terribly likely on this one, either) that somebody might mention something Google-confidential in framing the question.

“I’m working on the new Google DNA database of all our users, and one of the things we’ve observed…”

Something like that.

Great talk. We gotta make that conference in Cambridge one of these days. I like the selling point — “the alcohol is free all night every night.” Now that’s a conference.