The H.Richard Loeb - Truthseeker Puzzle


The H.Richard Loeb - Truthseeker Puzzle

There was quite a bit of information about H. Richard Loeb, A Detection Algorithm, the Truthseeker program and Verity Seke recently.

The big problem: Things don't seem to fit together

So I've tried to gather some fragments in order to get a better picture:

(1) https://plus.google.com/+SusannaMoyer/posts/hsNxJiczymk
According to the NSA report obtained by Susanna Moyer:
a) HRL had never written any real software code until that night
b) How did they know it was him? Because his access code was used. Surveillance video is old b&w.

(2) https://plus.google.com/+SusannaMoyer/posts/WnFuosPUbyQ
When Henry Bowles suggested Loeb to Phillips, Ni and Calvin, he mentions HRL's exceptional skills when developing truthseeker.
He also mentioned that they have worked together for years.
(Bowles inviting Loeb to the project: http://www.nianticproject.com/?id=sowo3)

(3) https://plus.google.com/+HRichardLoeb/posts/5PZXaZDvpy1
HRL claims that he has written Truthseeker and that it is the core of ADA's humanity, a "learning AI and 'Investigation Program'" as he calls it.

(4) https://plus.google.com/+HRichardLoeb/posts/BkSp2TjhP8v
Some interesting information in this post from HRL
a) He claims he knew Katalena, but that was a different person
b) ADA contacted him, requesting him to spread information about Niantic using the pseudonym PAC
(Calvin asking ADA about PAC, ADA denying to know who PAC is: http://www.nianticproject.com/?id=sc113a)

(5) http://www.nianticproject.com/?id=sc313a
Audio surveillance of ADA and HRL, where HRL asks ADA to remove his name from all files and replace it with PAC instead.

(6) https://plus.google.com/110289508116377658380/posts/5T8zRqA9Xz8
Edgar Allan Wright contacting HRL personally, referencing (1). Reveals that Verity Seke is the truthseeker program inside ADA.
HRL claims that he does not remember where the code entered at the NSA came from, nor does he remember typing it.

Observations, conclusions, ideas, questions:

(1b) & (6) If someone was able to get HRLs access code for the NSA system, that someone would have been able to enter the code. Which would explain why HRL does not remember typing code for 16 hours straight.
So maybe someone else disguised as HRL and used his access code for the programming. Depending on the quality of the surveillance video, that someone might pass off as HRL.

(1a) & (2) Either HRL learned programming in between his time at the NSA and joining the Niantic Project, or the skills Bowles speaks about do not directly involve programming.
But (3) would indicate obtaining programming skills ... and quite good ones.
What was it that Bowles worked on together with HRL before Niantic?
Was Katalena (4a) involved in this?

(3) & (6) So if HRL does not remember what happened at the NSA, but knows he wrote Truthseeker, then what was programmed at the NSA was not Truthseeker?

(4b) & (5) are, at first glance, a clear contradiction in regard to the origin of the PAC pseudonym.
But at the time of that post, it was not known that Truthseeker/Verity Seke was a part of ADA.
So maybe it was actually VS who contacted HRL, suggested to use PAC as a name and asked him to publish information about Niantic?
And then HRL went back to the "real" ADA (who was unaware of the VS part inside her) to suggest the name change?
The ADA-Calvin conversation was either before that, or ADA was simply keeping PAC's secret?  Not sure whether she would really keep secrets from Calvin.

All in all this still looks quite confusing. Pieces of the puzzle may still be missing, or some pieces may actually be misinformation.

Comments

  1. Regarding Secret Lovers audio where he picks the name, I always wondered about that audio, when he asked her to change all the references and she was trying to do that was there a glitch and something happened so some documents became tainted

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  2. Xelonir (1) The problem is NOT if the code has been written by HRL. No human could be able to write that much MACHINE code without single error. Not even to copy it from any source by typing it trough console. That is clear. 

    Even if it was HRL, he had to be manipulated (or to use less offensive word, inspired) by some higher entity.

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  3. JoJo Stratton just a quick&dirty compilation of images I could grab ;)

    Post-Lunchbreak Thoughts:
    (7) https://plus.google.com/+NianticProject/posts/FGwpsrJ4kfk
    Conversation between ADA and Bowles, HB telling ADA that there is more to her codebase than just Omnivore.

    Seeing that Bowles brought HRL into Niantic plus his knowledge about HRL's previous work I guess it is clear how HB came to know about Truthseeker.

    How deep is/was Bowles really involved in making Truthseeker a part of ADA? Maybe he even was involved in the programming at the NSA?

    Glyphologic Thoughts:
    Glyphs are considered to be able to program the human mind. And in the conversation with Edgar Allan Wright, H. Richard Loeb suggests that maybe the information about the programming is locked away in his head.

    So maybe HRL was somehow Glyph-programmed into doing that 16h programming session? Then another Glyph sequence was used to lock that knowledge away?
    But who would have had sufficient knowledge about Glyphs back in 1994?
    (The memory-lock-away could of course have been done at a later time, maybe even after the programming of ADA).

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  4. Geo Walter​ that is a concept I am worried about and focused on... what caused the "inspiration" and is he able to be compromised once again? Also, whatever lead to his inspiration, are we all susceptible to that.

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  5. Xelonir​ I like the glyph thought potential think about it a little more

    Also this is kind of a little out there but I'm going to throw it in here. Richard and Ada talk about memories and how forgetting was an important part of being human. I have always wondered did ADA intentionally try to mimic human forgetting and that's we had inconsistencies just like humans have inconsistency.

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  6. JoJo Stratton wasn't there an incident where ADA actually rewrote her own memory? So intentionally erasing memory might also be possible.
    Even if she only did it to test if it was really possible. Just like a child trying out new things.

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  7. Well, if Verity is Truthseeker, it does explain the "leaks" from ADA that she doesn't know the origin of.

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  8. Verity is then like an older sister to ADA?

    ADA reformatted her own memory in the wake of the massive ZIpcar passcode leaks.

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  9. The First & Foremost I'm actually not sure whether Katalena fits in here. Her connection to Loeb, the reason why he thinks he knows the Katalena that should(?) have been there,  why he thinks that she is the wrong Katalena, is still a mystery.

    But on the other side, what is the reason for ADA picking this woman to meet Jarvis? Maybe she knows something about the Katalena from Loeb's (or Bowle's and Loeb's) past.

    So she might be a part of the puzzle, or she might not. Only H. Richard Loeb knows. Care to enlighten us, Richard?

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  10. Maybe she just needed a name for cover, so that Devra would not reject to answer the message right away. Katalena might simply have been the first thing that came to ADA's mind.
    Or she wanted to create a connection from Dr. Christie to the dead woman just in case she needed something to put pressure on Devra's old friend.

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