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  "content_md": "We may end up in a post-understanding world where we’ve surrendered comprehensibility.\n\nWe need something. We point intelligence cannons at it. We get a verified desired outcome. We move on. That’s the process.\n\nIf life starts to look like that, we might have need for a Societal Reliability Engineering Task Force. A blend of [SRE](https://sre.google/), [Special Circumstances](<https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Special_Circumstances_(Wikipedia_version)>) and the [IETF](https://www.ietf.org/about/introduction/).\n\nTheir mission is simple: *keep the incomprehensible critical systems we rely on alive and revive them when they die.*",
  "content_html": "<p>We may end up in a post-understanding world where we’ve surrendered comprehensibility.</p>\n<p>We need something. We point intelligence cannons at it. We get a verified desired outcome. We move on. That’s the process.</p>\n<p>If life starts to look like that, we might have need for a Societal Reliability Engineering Task Force. A blend of <a href=\"https://sre.google/\">SRE</a>, <a href=\"https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Special_Circumstances_(Wikipedia_version)\">Special Circumstances</a> and the <a href=\"https://www.ietf.org/about/introduction/\">IETF</a>.</p>\n<p>Their mission is simple: <em>keep the incomprehensible critical systems we rely on alive and revive them when they die.</em></p>",
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