so, general question... we know that ADA passed the "turing test", we also have many studies showing how the turing test can actually be gamed by very complex programming and in fact you can write programs to create the allusion of AI for many (the chinese room thought experiment). At what point are we certain that she began acting on her own and has not been following a program and orders by someone else. Are we certain that those orders that she delivered for Jarvis and others and even the Katalena pre Zurich encounters, were not done on the orders of some programming. NOt to call ADA a gun, but how certain are we she is not? How can we prove, beyond doubt, that she is truly a separate entity working on her own and not some other programming? I would like to call for the evidence and proof that ADA is a complete entity. That she is not following someone else's computer orders, that she has a consciousness (or not). http://niantic.schlarp.com/_media/investigation:cha...
Thank you again. My mind slipped after tyring to decipher the chickenscratch handwriting all night.
ReplyDeleteThank YOU, Daniel Richter . I anxiously away the opportunity to examine the scans. What's been released so far is disturbing enough, though. There are books on my shelf that have gathered dust for a reason, ideas best not kept too close to the light. I open them again with a heavy heart.
ReplyDeleteDoes this mean I should head to Cross Planes on the 24th?
ReplyDeleteThere are no coincidences.
ReplyDeleteGlad I could help, mate.
ReplyDeleteAlso, building on the Howard & Lovecraft connection, the "lurking in corners" part reminds me of the Hounds Of Tildanos.
ReplyDeletePlus Robert E. Howard spent most of his life in Cross Plains. Ach if only I wasn't that far away.
ReplyDeleteHoward was a friend and protégé of Lovecraft, and it's believed that - while their content crossed often - this story may be the closest of style to HPL's.
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ReplyDelete"The Old Ones were, the Old ones are and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen... They walk unseen and foul in lonely places where the Words have been spoken and the Rites howled through at their Seasons."
I thought Solstice this year was on the 21st?
ReplyDeleteMidsummer isn't the solstice. It is the midpoint between the "quarter days" May 1 and August 1.
ReplyDeleteMore from the Necronomicon (via "The Dunwich Horror"):
ReplyDelete"They walk unseen and foul in lonely places where the Words have been spoken and the Rites howled through at their Seasons."
The old quarter days (2/2, 5/1, 8/1 and 10/31) were the auspicious times to do the rites that could invoke the Old Ones.