From sandersson@u-tokyo.ac.jp Tue Aug 20 19:15:31 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!u-tokyo!sandersson From: sandersson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Sergei Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [FLAME] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1996Aug20.191531.3368@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 19:15:31 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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.' I'm keeping the original mimeograph in a fireproof safe. The truth cannot be un-seen. -- Sergei Andersson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Tokyo Department of Information Science. ------------------------------------------------------------ From eweber@kth.se Tue Aug 20 23:30:31 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!kth!eweber From: eweber@kth.se (Elaine Weber) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1996Aug20.233031.3707@kth.se> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 23:30:31 GMT References: <1996Aug20.191531.3368@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1996Aug20.191531.3368@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, sandersson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Sergei Andersson) 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. -- Elaine Weber -- Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm "They will send a copy in my place." From lmacdonald@cmu.edu Thu Aug 22 01:02:31 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cmu!lmacdonald From: lmacdonald@cmu.edu (Liam MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1996Aug22.010231.6640@cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 01:02:31 GMT References: <1996Aug20.191531.3368@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1996Aug20.233031.3707@kth.se> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Aug20.233031.3707@kth.se>, eweber@kth.se (Elaine Weber) writes: > This reads like science fiction fan fiction written by someone who watched Blade Runner too many times. They built an AI in 1981... Think about how much computing power that required! They must have had Cray mainframes dedicated to this. -- Liam MacDonald *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0 From mkim@earthlink.net Fri Aug 23 13:13:31 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!earthlink!mkim From: mkim@earthlink.net (Mikhail Kim) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1996Aug23.131331.9644@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 13:13:31 GMT References: <1996Aug20.191531.3368@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Aug20.191531.3368@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, sandersson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Sergei Andersson) writes: > A contact at a Los Angeles law firm handling Orion's bankruptcy liquidation leaked an internal memo from 1981. Neural networks in 1981 couldn't even recognize a picture of a cat, let alone synthesize an entire rock star. -- Mikhail Kim | mkim@earthlink.net PGP Key fingerprint: 0C8B A3F4 9F54 3441 "Keep the channels open."