From trodriguez@stanford.edu Tue May 23 05:01:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!stanford!trodriguez From: trodriguez@stanford.edu (Takeshi Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [FLAME] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995May23.050156.2967@stanford.edu> Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 05:01:56 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 The smoking gun document that proves Nova Hart was synthetic from day one. 'Mandate: To eliminate the financial volatility and human liabilities inherent in musical talent.' 'The asset designated Unit-7 represents a synthesis of demographic data modeling and neural linguistic generation.' 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. -- === Takeshi Rodríguez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From nokonkwo@tum.de Tue May 23 10:00:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!tum!nokonkwo From: nokonkwo@tum.de (Nadine Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995May23.100056.9706@tum.de> Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 10:00:56 GMT References: <1995May23.050156.2967@stanford.edu> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995May23.050156.2967@stanford.edu>, trodriguez@stanford.edu (Takeshi Rodríguez) writes: > The smoking gun document that proves Nova Hart was synthetic from day one. Neural networks in 1981 couldn't even recognize a picture of a cat, let alone synthesize an entire rock star. -- Nadine Okonkwo *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0