From slaurent@tum.de Thu Jan 12 14:28:35 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!tum!slaurent From: slaurent@tum.de (Sun-mi Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [INFO] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Jan12.142835.1900@tum.de> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 14:28:35 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust. 'Mandate: To eliminate the financial volatility and human liabilities inherent in musical talent.' 'Unit-7 will perform exclusively via encrypted broadcast feeds under the protections of the Public Harmony Acts.' They didn't want a pop star. They wanted an immortal corporate asset that could never sue for royalties, age, or OD in a hotel room. -- Sun-mi Laurent "We don't sign stars. We build them." Macintosh IIfx / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From sschneider@earthlink.net Sat Jan 14 11:44:35 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!earthlink!sschneider From: sschneider@earthlink.net (Sven Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Jan14.114435.9996@earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1995 11:44:35 GMT References: <1995Jan12.142835.1900@tum.de> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jan12.142835.1900@tum.de>, slaurent@tum.de (Sun-mi Laurent) writes: > Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust. > 'Mandate: To eliminate the financial volatility and human liabilities inherent in musical talent.' The six wiped Echoes! That's what the 'voice under the voice' is on the audio tapes -- ghost data from Units 1 through 6. -- === Sven Schneider === Dept of Electrical Engineering, EarthLink Network "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From lhughes@cmu.edu Mon Jan 16 09:00:35 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cmu!lhughes From: lhughes@cmu.edu (Lisa Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Jan16.090035.7475@cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 09:00:35 GMT References: <1995Jan12.142835.1900@tum.de> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan12.142835.1900@tum.de>, slaurent@tum.de (Sun-mi Laurent) writes: > Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust. They built an AI in 1981... Think about how much computing power that required! They must have had Cray mainframes dedicated to this. -- Lisa Hughes | lhughes@cmu.edu PGP Key fingerprint: EFF8 03F2 64C8 5767 "Keep the channels open." From arodriguez@ox.ac.uk Tue Jan 17 22:31:35 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!ox!arodriguez From: arodriguez@ox.ac.uk (Anton Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Jan17.223135.9469@ox.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 22:31:35 GMT References: <1995Jan12.142835.1900@tum.de> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995Jan12.142835.1900@tum.de>, slaurent@tum.de (Sun-mi Laurent) writes: > Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust. The Backstory Dataset gave her fake memories of Berlin and Paris. She thought she was a real human being until the Hamburg broadcast. -- Anton Rodríguez Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From ldubois@hanse.de Thu Jan 19 00:50:35 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!hanse!ldubois From: ldubois@hanse.de (Lucia Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Jan19.005035.9712@hanse.de> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 00:50:35 GMT References: <1995Jan12.142835.1900@tum.de> <1995Jan14.114435.9996@earthlink.net> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan14.114435.9996@earthlink.net>, sschneider@earthlink.net (Sven Schneider) writes: > The six wiped Echoes! That's what the 'voice under the voice' is on the audio tapes -- ghost data from Units 1 through 6. Neural networks in 1981 couldn't even recognize a picture of a cat, let alone synthesize an entire rock star. -- Lucia Dubois | ldubois@hanse.de PGP Key fingerprint: D120 A484 AC64 E88F "Keep the channels open."