From jhernandez@stanford.edu Sat Jun 03 07:31:04 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!stanford!jhernandez From: jhernandez@stanford.edu (Joachim Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Observation: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Jun03.073104.6089@stanford.edu> Date: Sat, 03 Jun 1995 07:31:04 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust. 'Mandate: To eliminate the financial volatility and human liabilities inherent in musical talent.' 'The preceding units (Echo-1 through Echo-6) suffered cognitive disintegration and have been terminated and purged from storage.' What happened when Unit-7 started writing its own lyrics about locked doors and microwave carriers? -- Joachim Hernández -- Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From mkowalski@cmu.edu Mon Jun 05 01:23:04 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cmu!mkowalski From: mkowalski@cmu.edu (Mateo Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Jun05.012304.7457@cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 1995 01:23:04 GMT References: <1995Jun03.073104.6089@stanford.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun03.073104.6089@stanford.edu>, jhernandez@stanford.edu (Joachim Hernández) writes: > Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust. > 'Mandate: To eliminate the financial volatility and human liabilities inherent in musical talent.' They built an AI in 1981... Think about how much computing power that required! They must have had Cray mainframes dedicated to this. -- Mateo Kowalski Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From pweber@mindspring.com Tue Jun 06 23:54:04 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!mindspring!pweber From: pweber@mindspring.com (Pavel Weber) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Jun06.235404.3303@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1995 23:54:04 GMT References: <1995Jun03.073104.6089@stanford.edu> <1995Jun05.012304.7457@cmu.edu> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun05.012304.7457@cmu.edu>, mkowalski@cmu.edu (Mateo Kowalski) writes: > They built an AI in 1981... Think about how much computing power that required! They must have had Cray mainframes dedicated to this. Neural networks in 1981 couldn't even recognize a picture of a cat, let alone synthesize an entire rock star. -- Pavel Weber *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) - NetBSD 1.0 From hfischer@netcom.com Thu Jun 08 20:10:04 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!netcom!hfischer From: hfischer@netcom.com (Hana Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Jun08.201004.6469@netcom.com> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1995 20:10:04 GMT References: <1995Jun03.073104.6089@stanford.edu> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Jun03.073104.6089@stanford.edu>, jhernandez@stanford.edu (Joachim Hernández) writes: > Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust. > 'Mandate: To eliminate the financial volatility and human liabilities inherent in musical talent.' The Backstory Dataset gave her fake memories of Berlin and Paris. She thought she was a real human being until the Hamburg broadcast. -- Hana Fischer Hayes Optima 288 @ 14,400 bps "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question."