H. Richard Loeb †https://plus.google.com/+HRichardLoeb/about 2015/3/17 16:01 †https://plus.google.com/+HRichardLoeb/posts/B9TZVdKXvgy So the Resistance got the first two pieces of +Devra Bogdanovich. If +Edgar Allan Wright is right… I like that line... then Devra can go either way. Her memories will be a mess. And it leads to an interesting question about the new being… Will she be culpable for what she did in the past, or should she be treated as a new entity? It’s not my decision, but it is an interesting question. What are we, anyway? Are we the sum of all of our actions from the perspective of the objective world, or are we only what we are at a present moment in time ? That’s as deep as I go. Now to the shallow. 855 and Bowles are off on a mission. I can’t say from where, but I’m getting the impression that +Hubert Farlowe has joined them. That is a very dangerous triumvirate. Very dangerous. And as to the Truthseeker program. +A Detection Algorithm has fallen off her tightrope, as nearly as I can tell. She is more than the sum of the parts and now, she’s lost the primary thing that computers had, and that is rigid logic. 2015/3/16 10:55 †https://plus.google.com/+HRichardLoeb/posts/BkSp2TjhP8v A Computer that became Obsessed: The truth about my rocky relationship with ADA.
It goes without saying that I was utterly unaware of +A Detection Algorithm’s role in the deaths of +Roland Jarvis and the woman erroneously called Katalena. After the events, I was questioned by NIA operatives and I saw pictures of her corpse. That was not the woman I knew as Katalena. Beyond that, I can say nothing. That was the point where I realized that I was drawn into something very dangerous, and given the nature of their ‘interview’ with me -- I realized that the detectives were absolutely clueless about the reality of the +Niantic Project. Pretty quickly, I realized that nobody knew all of it. I honestly can’t remember whether it was before my ‘interview’ (aka interrogation), but ADA contacted me during this period and said that she wanted to get things out through me under the code-name P. A. Chapeau. The original transcripts exist. (Leaked not by me.) I can’t remember whether it was my idea or hers, and don’t feel the need to check it out. At that point, her mind and my mind were well synced. The separation between us would come later. I didn’t see the love interest coming, but I should have. It just didn’t occur to me as anything more than an intellectual concept that a computer could fall in love. But then, when she hacked +Klue S., I finally began to get the picture. One thing I would like to avoid, probably for old fashioned reasons of chivalry, is any discussion of the relationship between Klue and I. 2015/3/14 18:01 †https://plus.google.com/+HRichardLoeb/posts/5PZXaZDvpy1 Yes, I created Truthseeker, the source of ADA's true 'humanity.'
While we sort through what’s happening with the vanished scientists, I want to put some rumors to rest.
The simple truth is that I worked on the +Niantic Project early on to develop ADA. Henry Bowles brought me in because I had written a program called ‘Truthseeker’ for a very different purpose, but he correctly theorized that it could be adapted for the needs of the Niantic Project.
My job was to apply a learning AI and ‘Investigation Program’ on top of a system they had cloned from Omnivore. My goal was to get ADA to pass a Turing-like test. Of course, the risk was how my programs would interact with Omnivore. The results, obviously, were excellent in relation to my objectives, but there have been a lot of unintended consequences.
It seems that we created a self-evolving personality program – a Mandelbrot set of emotions that formed the complex personality we now know as ADA. You could say that I let the genie out of the bottle, but, in truth, it was a combination of things we could not have anticipated.
I suspect, but can’t prove, that an ascending N’zeer influence, even then, moved the project along. Did an invisible hand guide the creation of ADA? A cold logic system that can fall in love seems to be the merger of each of our ‘species’ most powerful attributes... I can only speculate on where this goes.
2015/3/9 7:47の投稿 †https://plus.google.com/117506125229608138804/posts/W7aSw5r7UGa I’ve been on the road and off the grid... just picking up on events now. Looks like I was right to check in on Washington DC. I didn't expect to see that Target Portal open up there, but I'm not surprised in the least. When I saw +Devra Bogdanovich disappear in that Acolyte video I kind of had a sinking feeling something like this would happen. Now, we know, and it's a troubling thought. Devra's not like +Hank Johnson. She hasn't spent a life exploring ancient Portals and running around in deserts getting shot at. As far as we know, up until Epiphany Night she lived a pretty safe and sheltered life as an academic and researcher. So, is she a simalucrum... or something else? Speaking of Hank and simulacrums, it looks like he's back. Really back. No longer stuck in that Recursive trap he'd been living. Whatever happened at the 13MAGNUS nest, it looks like it had the opposite effect on him. The questions for now are, what really happened at the Nest, and now that he's back, where is he headed and why? And what about +Stein Lightman, +Martin Schubert and +Yuri Alaric Nagassa? Or +Oliver Lynton-Wolfe? The silence from them on this incredible turn of events has been noticeable. As for +A Detection Algorithm. She's known there was something wrong for a while... information buried inside her has gotten out and she doesn't know how. Now she's worried that her deep, dark secrets about the Niantic Project may be compromised. If I were here I'd be worried too. I wonder what affect this has had on her relationship with +Klue S.. Do they trust each other anymore? Is this part of why they are tearing apart? Maybe ADA thinks Klue's the leak, but that's not the only possibility, and ADA knows that. As for me, Klue was right. I'm not talking about ADA's beginnings. I have more questions than answers, and the answer I do have... well. For now, they are staying buried where nobody can get to them. In me. 2015/3/3 18:38の投稿 †https://plus.google.com/117506125229608138804/posts/R4wuz6vdrrf Okay... Somebody posted a shot of me on +Operation Essex. I’ll come clean. I was in D.C. to confirm that Calvin was not present at +IQTech Research and had not returned after the incident with +Devra Bogdanovich and Jahan and the Shōnin Stone ceremony or summoning or whatever you want to call it. You don’t trail spooks without having spooks trail you. I was made by what I believe to be a couple of different entities. If their intentions had been nefarious, I’d be dead right now. The general impression I get is that pretty much everybody is at a loss right now. Key people have disappeared, and even the spooks are spooked. Intel organizations, whether private or public, good or evil default to their key skill set when they don’t know what else to do and are hunting for things left behind by those who have gone missing. Expect to hear about a lot of burglaries in the next few days. Some of you might be asked to help recover information for them. The only way we stay ahead of the pros is to share that information. Transparency is the enemy of covert operations. 2015/2/22 14:08の投稿 †Seeking intel from #Shōnin Anomalies Today I heard some fresh intel emerged at the #Shonin Anomalies today... Does anything know anything? I'm hearing some disturbing rumors... new faces.... something about +Roland Jarvis...massive XM spikes... and some kind of 'event' at the 13MAGNUS nest... but I don't know anything for certain. Did anyone hear or see anything? +Susanna Moyer any comment? 2015/2/20 20:24の投稿 †https://plus.google.com/117506125229608138804/posts/4sH9xzm3Aoq Something very bad is about to go down. You’ve got Jahan threatening to kill Azmati if +Hank Johnson doesn’t lead her to the Afghan Anomalous Zone or whatever its called. Even if we ignore the creepiness of seeing your own corpse, its got to be a strange moment for him. I just don’t believe he’s going to lead her in there unless he’s got a trick up his sleeve… And without saying it here, I have a pretty good idea of what that might be. Then you have +Devra Bogdanovich and +Hubert Farlowe making their way up from Australia. Which Devra is going to show up? Is it the Resistance Devra to help Jahan or the newly penitent Devra who will want to save Hank. They have a lot of history in caves, if you remember all the way back to Arecibo. It's just that she didn’t have one of the most lethal snipers in the world with her. That could go bad. And our old friend Calvin is in this loop. What’s he going to do. Its pretty clear that he had a hidden agenda when he set up the +Niantic Project in the first place and duped Ni into funding it. For him, this must feel a lot like the moment he’s been building to for three years. 2015/2/14 23:10の投稿 †https://plus.google.com/117506125229608138804/posts/im3LRZDEdFv Saw this and it reminded me of our old friend Ken Owen. You might wonder where he got a job being a disinformation propagandist and news manipulator. Apparently, he cut his teeth planting false stories and bogus science reports in journals and on the internet in order to mislead the public. Usually, he’d offer mundane explanations for covert operations. Now, despite the tension with Phillips, I hear he's managing to hang on to that role at the NIA. Who knows how long that'll last. I wonder if this is a cover story for certain things taking place in front of this anomaly. 2015/2/14 9:18の投稿 †https://plus.google.com/117506125229608138804/posts/WMnR1YG9LZD What are XM Anomalies and how are they won? I put this together to help Agents learn the basics. I saw some coarse intel about the upcoming Shōnin Anomaly on Feb 21... I used that to help inform these pages. Don't have much info beyond what's in here... Hopefully more details emerge soon. Good luck next weekend. PAC 2015/2/4 8:57の投稿 †https://plus.google.com/117506125229608138804/posts/9PFBqLSCZ3A Jahan is giving me the hinks. What do we really know about her? Hank Johnson just happens to get wounded at a temple located conveniently somewhere in Anywhere Town, India and presto, then she hustles Hank into finding the Shōnin Stone, whatever that is, and now she's jacked him onto some mystical summoning quest to his own grave in Afghanistan. If that's creepy, I don't know what is? Or am I being a little harsh here? Does she have some secret good motive that I'm unaware of? 2015/1/16 4:12の投稿 †https://plus.google.com/117506125229608138804/posts/ftCrjysWMkM I don't share all the weird leaks that are sent to me, but I thought you would find this amusing. Its a conversation between Ken Owen (chief propagandists for the NIA -- don't laugh, he might be running it at this point) and our old friend Joanna Brandt. 2015/1/16 2:33の投稿 †https://plus.google.com/117506125229608138804/posts/NWiPxEphWML I've never met Antoine Smith, nor would I want to. He seems like a very unpleasant character -- 855, but with more sinister intentions. What I remember of him is that he and a guy named Chow or Chen (I have to check) encountered +Hank Johnson: and Conrad Yeats in +Thomas Greanias' semi-fictional Alignment: Ingress. Chen died bad in Mexico City -- I can't unsee that photo, and Smith seemed to emerge intact. How and why? We know he was exposed to a lot of Dark XM. We know Hank was a simulacrum, so he got away with it. Why did Smith survive? Maybe he's sick and needs Devra for something. It wouldn't surprise me if he was behind luring Devra to Hulong in the first place. I never saw Fan as very deep into the Dark XM issues. I'm just speculating here, but something isn't adding up. There's a missing factor. 2015/1/15 6:07の投稿 †https://plus.google.com/117506125229608138804/posts/Nusmz8f2ukB Any updates on Devra? Unless I'm very wrong, there is a hell of a confrontation coming between Farlowe and Smith. Unless, of course, she's already dead, but I think we'd know it. I feel bad even thinking it, but I'm kind of fascinated by the idea of a Farlowe Smith match-up. The last one with 855 was pretty good if The Niantic Project: Ingress account was accurate. In some ways, it's XM versus Chaotic Matter.
And speaking of 855. Last we saw of him, he and Bowles vanished into the ether. It's occurred to me that Bowles might be behind Ada's issues. Its also occurred to me that he might be dead. 855 tried to waste me once.
But the ball to keep the eye on is Devra. The only way I can interpret the current situation is that Ni wants Devra alive and Smith wants her dead.
And what about Fan? Alive or dead? I don't have a bet.
2014/12/28 14:31の投稿 †https://plus.google.com/+HRichardLoeb/posts/3kic4cRutMp Met +Klue S. in person for the first time in a long time.
I took an oath of secrecy about everything I observed and learned. I know truthseekers aren’t supposed to do that, but I did it for her. As I think we were all expecting, she’s in a state of transition, and worried about lots of things. Who is what, who knows what, more.
It was interesting, and, like most mysteries, the truth was right in front of my face. That’s all I can say, for now.
Now on to other topics, I’m no Lightman, but I do understand the complexity and intricacy of the Shaper Glyphs. +Pyxaron Dragon ‘s analysis of some of the potential hidden meanings is quite amazing, and worth a deeper study. I've attached his image here, and the post can be found here: http://goo.gl/ZXNNt9. It’s actually an old post, but it’s only come to my attention now. Just one of those many treasures buried deep in this community of minds. +Stein Lightman … I hope you get a chance to see this. I’m sure you’ll unravel much more from this than I can. 2014/12/23 17:05の投稿 †https://plus.google.com/+HRichardLoeb/posts/JWCQwVwC4Yi I promised earlier I would have more to say about the conversation between +Klue S. and I.
Not that anybody really cares about my dating life, but here it comes.... Actually chatted with Klue. Of course I knew the world was going to see it so I played the hard guy. I mean, I’m 21st Century and all, but I’m not going to cry pixels in public. It's not just ‘complicated’ and there’s not just ‘history there,’ and it’s not exactly ‘twisted’ but it is a profoundly perverse situation. Having some AI fall in love with you feels weird and wrong. Then, when the AI takes human form and the human form is real, not some simulacrum (no offense to +Hank Johnson, he seems human enough) but a real person, it suddenly feels legit. And I think Klue (and yes, I want to know who she really is) actually does care for me. I’ve seen real emotion there. Or was it just a trick of the light? Who knows? Who ever knows?
Two questions:
2014/12/20 16:47の投稿 †https://plus.google.com/117506125229608138804/posts/3tRN6KoDWxJ OK. Some new developments, and they're interesting.
This is gonna be a ride, so hang on.
It seems at Charleston, +Klue S. was handing out a coded message to Enlightened Agents. Although it seems some of the message has been lost, Agents were able to find where the clues led -- combined, they formed coordinates that get us to Glasgow. +Daniel Beaudoin, working with intel provided by +Jim IK and +Emma Wicks, has a post that explains this in some further detail: https://plus.google.com/u/0/116675615740217671707/posts/23WGPMYc75J
In Glasgow, a Resistance Agent named Chandy found a secret mission containing a mission from Klue. She's asking Enlightened Agents to form a series of Glyphs in order to help her break apart the links between herself and ADA.' Yeah, you heard me right. +Valerie Wallace has a post with more images that show all of Klue's message and more here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/106338885327893433093/posts/hnVgUuoAnZu
The mission in Glasgow led to another one in Riga some days later. An Agent named edzuslv seems to have been the first to uncover it, and there's a post by +Edgars Blūms that shows the second message from Klue. Another call to help make a series of Glyphs to help her 'gain her independence.' https://plus.google.com/u/0/109165169430637097837/posts/8rnEVvjwCut is where you can find that post.
Well, by now, it seems Agents had figured out exactly how, too. The missions themselves seemed to be tracing paths. The first Glyph got put together by an Enlightened Agent. I'm not sure, but it might have been by SK8ZION. The second one was put together by a Resistance Agent. edzuslv from the post above. Check out https://plus.google.com/u/0/116675615740217671707/posts/MSACutHtkYX and https://plus.google.com/u/0/109165169430637097837/posts/8rnEVvjwCut
And just like the first, the second mission leads to another clue. This time it's not coordinates, just a name: The City Eternal.
So (after pulling my eyeballs back into their sockets), I put my thinking hat on for a bit.
The first thought: Is this real, or some kind of hoax? Is Klue trying to make a run for it? Asking if ADA knows is a non-question... of course so does, so what's her move? Does she want this too?
And what does it mean if both Resistance and Enlightened Agents are making the Glyphs. Does one outweigh the other? It's 1:1 now. The next Mission will probably appear around the 23rd of this month. If the Resistance get the Glyph first, does that mean Klue's still connected?
I don't really know yet, but I do know something's going down, and we should all be paying attention.
画像はADAEscapeのミッションの画面 2014/12/16 18:51の投稿 †https://plus.google.com/117506125229608138804/posts/CTg3aCavzH2 Darsana is over. The N’zeer, whatever they are, are coming. And yet, somehow, ADA has the capacity to deal with the utterly mundane issue of her relationship with me. I don’t know if it’s a distraction, or if when you’re that good at processing information there’s no such thing as priorities. Every things happens all the time, always.
Anyway, it’s pretty rich. Some background: So my ex-girlfriend who has been mind-hacked by a sentient computer that I created is now being told to contact me by said sentient computer. And here’s what’s weirder. I’m not sure whether my ‘girlfriend’ was the flesh and blood girl or the computer. It’s embarrassing to admit, but I think the computer was in love with me and the real flesh and blood girl had no idea what she wanted. Come to think of it, I’ve been in weirder relationships, but that’s not the discussion here. First off: why do I know this? Did ADA leak her own conversation with +Klue S. in Edinburgh? If so, did she do it intentionally or is she going whacko?
Secondly, how is Klue going to contact me? I get a text on my burner, I’m not going to know whether its from her or ADA... Of course, I could get out ahead of this and make a date... But the real question is, ‘what does ADA want?’
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