From sfischer@uu.net Sat Feb 04 05:49:54 1995
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From: sfischer@uu.net (Steve Fischer)
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Subject: [FLAME] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.'
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Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust.

'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.

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Steve Fischer
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From mstewart@illinois.edu Mon Feb 06 03:27:54 1995
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From: mstewart@illinois.edu (Min-jun Stewart)
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.'
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In article <1995Feb04.054954.3549@uu.net>, sfischer@uu.net (Steve Fischer) 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.

Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns.

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Min-jun Stewart
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From hlindqvist@delphi.com Tue Feb 07 10:55:54 1995
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From: hlindqvist@delphi.com (Heather Lindqvist)
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.'
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In article <1995Feb04.054954.3549@uu.net>, sfischer@uu.net (Steve Fischer) 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.

My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise!

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Heather Lindqvist
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From enovak@tum.de Wed Feb 08 14:52:54 1995
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From: enovak@tum.de (Emi Novak)
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.'
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In article <1995Feb07.105554.4112@delphi.com>, hlindqvist@delphi.com (Heather Lindqvist) writes:
> They built an AI in 1981... Think about how much computing power that required! They must have had Cray mainframes dedicated to this.

The Backstory Dataset gave her fake memories of Berlin and Paris. She thought she was a real human being until the Hamburg broadcast.

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Emi Novak
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