I have a routine that runs every 15 minutes on my home machine and polls other of my servers and collates the results. Once or twice a day one of my machines, at linode, was refusing to talk. It wasn’t causing a problem since the data is replicated and the system catches up, but it was annoying. Digging around, the machine looked like it was working normally. But I found, in one log, that the machine had a load average of over 30 when the problem happens.
This post contains a lot of code, presented as close as possible to the code ChatGPT gave me. I’m including it here so people can see how good or bad they think it is. Where necessary I modified the code to make it work, but it’s as close as possible. All this code makes the post look longer than it is. If you’re not interested in the code then you can just skip over it and just read my words :-)
This blog post is gonna be a little different; it’s more philosophical than most of what I write. It rose out a question a friend asked: “When does a biological AI become life?” My friend asked me this because he felt that SciFi must have covered this topic, and I’ve read and watched more than my fair share :-) Remove the limitations Now, I found the restriction to “biological AI” is unnecessary limiting.
