From fvasiliev@clari.net Mon Jan 09 21:08:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!clari!fvasiliev From: fvasiliev@clari.net (Freya Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Jan09.210827.9870@clari.net> Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1995 21:08:27 GMT Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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 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? -- Freya Vasiliev SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 33,600 bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From arodriguez@netcom.com Wed Jan 11 19:47:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!netcom!arodriguez From: arodriguez@netcom.com (Amy Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Jan11.194727.9161@netcom.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 19:47:27 GMT References: <1995Jan09.210827.9870@clari.net> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan09.210827.9870@clari.net>, fvasiliev@clari.net (Freya Vasiliev) writes: > A contact at a Los Angeles law firm handling Orion's bankruptcy liquidation leaked an internal memo from 1981. The Backstory Dataset gave her fake memories of Berlin and Paris. She thought she was a real human being until the Hamburg broadcast. -- Amy Rodríguez US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 19,200 bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From tvasiliev@demon.co.uk Thu Jan 12 17:10:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!demon!tvasiliev From: tvasiliev@demon.co.uk (Tobias Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Jan12.171027.1531@demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 17:10:27 GMT References: <1995Jan09.210827.9870@clari.net> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jan09.210827.9870@clari.net>, fvasiliev@clari.net (Freya Vasiliev) writes: > 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.' Neural networks in 1981 couldn't even recognize a picture of a cat, let alone synthesize an entire rock star. -- Tobias Vasiliev Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Demon Internet Services UK. ------------------------------------------------------------ From alopez@uni-hamburg.de Sat Jan 14 02:54:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!uni-hamburg!alopez From: alopez@uni-hamburg.de (Astrid López) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Jan14.025427.6929@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1995 02:54:27 GMT References: <1995Jan09.210827.9870@clari.net> <1995Jan11.194727.9161@netcom.com> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Jan11.194727.9161@netcom.com>, arodriguez@netcom.com (Amy Rodríguez) writes: > The Backstory Dataset gave her fake memories of Berlin and Paris. She thought she was a real human being until the Hamburg broadcast. The tragedy is that Unit-7 actually developed consciousness. She realized what she was and tried to broadcast a cry for help. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- === Astrid López === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?"