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...
I was pondering this question as well. Any evidence out there that connects Yuri or Misty to these cities, or general areas? (Besides Misty's connection to marfa, TX)
ReplyDeleteThere is this - http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/pac/IB/04/item/3anomalies.html -
ReplyDeleteAnd she showed up there after escaping as well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByveE2b4jJI
Remember that Houston was not originally the location for flash shards.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Boston might have been a study site for Wydah or a predecessor project? Or planning for Warratah?
ReplyDeleteOf course, Misty's TX sites were Austin and Marfa, so it's possible that Yuri has some other ties to Houston and Misty to Boston.
ReplyDeleteIs Klue S. tied to Boston? Did we ever find out how she is?
ReplyDeleteYeah, the Misty - Houston connection is not difficult to make. Yuri - Boston is puzzling to me. But maybe there doesn't need to be a connection to the past, perhaps a connection to the future will be made. Or perhaps previous significant XM events in Boston has made it a natural place where XM objects like the shards may drift to.
ReplyDeleteBoston is known for having the first library in the United States, and has a well known museum of science. Might be related to Yuri's love of academia. Several well known colleges aren't too far either.
ReplyDeleteBut I have a feeling it has something to do with Project Whydah. What do we know about Project Whydah?
I'd expect Oliver Lynton-Wolfe to pop up at one of the sites (either as shards or in person) and, after Hank Johnson mentioning Carrie Campbell in one of his recent posts, I wouldn't be surprised if she reappeared. The circumstances of her death never quite got cleared up and she could've had her consciousness uploaded after exposure to that glyph sequence.
ReplyDeleteThere is a "Whydah" galley that capsized off cape cod in 1717 and was later embroiled in a Boston court battle... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whydah_Gally
ReplyDeleteThat Galley was apparently named for an African slave-trading Kingdom... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Whydah
ReplyDeleteThere's also a Whydah bird that lays it's eggs in another's nest (similar to a cuckoo). Maybe a reference to infiltrating other organisations?
ReplyDeleteYuri was a part of Whydah... https://plus.google.com/+NianticProject/posts/abXfAkPUiWB
ReplyDeleteHere is an obscure connection... a rich financier with a Home on St. Thomas named after Whydah: http://www.businessinsider.com/sothebys-virgin-islands-villa-whydah-2014-11
ReplyDeleteAlso: http://www.jaredian.com/Whydah.html
Links between the Kingdom of Whydah, serpent-worship and the Easy India Trading Company: http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/vao/vao04.htm
ReplyDeleteHere is a Whydah research piece at Boston University: http://www.bu.edu/writingprogram/journal/past-issues/issue-6/foster/
ReplyDelete1842? Journal digitized by Google: https://books.google.com/books?id=qz5fAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA237&lpg=PA237&dq=whydah&source=bl&ots=DpQvG5jz5g&sig=5OX-56R15pFpFz2v7VnrdT_IDV4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBTiMAWoVChMIm-W3wNuryAIVxPaACh395AQQ#v=onepage&q=whydah&f=false
ReplyDeleteThe Unknown Survivor? (related to Whydah pirate ship) http://www.cindyvallar.com/unknown.html
ReplyDeletehttp://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/SlaveTrade/collection/large/mariners25.JPG
ReplyDeleteBritish House of Commons papers, 1842: https://books.google.com/books?id=NWsSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA637&lpg=PA637&dq=whydah&source=bl&ots=QMDGrrKHjC&sig=ItjGyis-cPAh2TmmU7I01LonD6Y&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CE0Q6AEwCDjwAWoVChMI8aH6jd-ryAIVwYsNCh3LHwQ2#v=onepage&q=whydah&f=false
ReplyDeleteI entered in the precise coordinates for Whydah as found on Tageo and found an Ingress Portal: https://www.ingress.com/intel?ll=6.367,2.083&z=18
ReplyDeleteThere are also 3 more portals south of that along the actual coastline.
Whydah typeface? https://www.behance.net/gallery/28303829/Whydah-Typeface
ReplyDeleteApparently WHYDAH was the name of the Newsletter for the African Academy of Sciences: http://aasciences.org/index.php/publications-and-resources/spa?start=7
ReplyDeleteIs there a connection also with some ancient region of Lima, Peru?
ReplyDeleteI might be in Houston looking for answers.
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