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wow. an amazing 325 page google strategy document quietly unsealed buried in google antitrust docket. It's gonna take a long thread but I have pulled out the gems. It's from 2017 planning, no doubt Google will just say these were only ideas but many will look very familiar. /1 https://t.co/aQzSlKQQlU

So today, Google is truly an all-seeing surveillance machine. When a person uses Google’s search engine, maps, email, YouTube, Android, and Chrome operating systems, or any of the dozens of other services and products it owns, Google stores a complete record of those interactions. Google then aggregates all this personal data to allow marketers to ... See more

The engineers at Google were wonderful to work with up to 2010. It was like a switch flipped mid-2011 and they became actively hostile to any third party efforts to monitor what they were doing. To put it another way, this would like NBC trying to sue Nielsen from gathering ratings data. Absurd.

Sam Altman is out at OpenAI, this seem to be the most convincing theory so far. https://t.co/hhU9fi9GXp