From mgonzalez@kiae.su Tue Jan 02 01:20:38 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kiae!mgonzalez From: mgonzalez@kiae.su (Marta González) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1996Jan02.012038.7646@kiae.su> Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 01:20:38 GMT Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 A contact at a Los Angeles law firm handling Orion's bankruptcy liquidation leaked an internal memo from 1981. '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.' What happened when Unit-7 started writing its own lyrics about locked doors and microwave carriers? -- Marta González *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0 From cmartinez@ox.ac.uk Tue Jan 02 03:39:38 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!ox!cmartinez From: cmartinez@ox.ac.uk (Camila Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1996Jan02.033938.8716@ox.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 03:39:38 GMT References: <1996Jan02.012038.7646@kiae.su> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan02.012038.7646@kiae.su>, mgonzalez@kiae.su (Marta González) writes: > A contact at a Los Angeles law firm handling Orion's bankruptcy liquidation leaked an internal memo from 1981. This reads like science fiction fan fiction written by someone who watched Blade Runner too many times. -- Camila Martínez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari TT030 - NetBSD 1.0 From hlee@stanford.edu Wed Jan 03 11:23:38 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!stanford!hlee From: hlee@stanford.edu (Hana Lee) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1996Jan03.112338.6300@stanford.edu> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 11:23:38 GMT References: <1996Jan02.012038.7646@kiae.su> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1996Jan02.012038.7646@kiae.su>, mgonzalez@kiae.su (Marta González) writes: > A contact at a Los Angeles law firm handling Orion's bankruptcy liquidation leaked an internal memo from 1981. This reads like science fiction fan fiction written by someone who watched Blade Runner too many times. -- Hana Lee -- Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From mkang@ox.ac.uk Thu Jan 04 22:43:38 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!ox!mkang From: mkang@ox.ac.uk (Min-jun Kang) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1996Jan04.224338.4863@ox.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 22:43:38 GMT References: <1996Jan02.012038.7646@kiae.su> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1996Jan02.012038.7646@kiae.su>, mgonzalez@kiae.su (Marta González) writes: > A contact at a Los Angeles law firm handling Orion's bankruptcy liquidation leaked an internal memo from 1981. They built an AI in 1981... Think about how much computing power that required! They must have had Cray mainframes dedicated to this. -- Min-jun Kang Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.