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speaking with beth right now!
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WingLess
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Location: the matrices of my mind...

 		ive been talking to her, but she hasnt responded for like 10 minutes. she is still logged on though. ill try a little longer, but its like 4.45 in the morning here right now Laughing
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 16, 2003 12:42 am
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WingLess wrote:
ive been talking to her, but she hasnt responded for like 10 minutes. she is still logged on though. ill try a little longer, but its like 4.45 in the morning here right now Laughing


I'm in exactly the same position!
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amiantos
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She hasn't replied to me for quite some time now and I've left some doozys on here. I'd suggest you all go to sleep if you need to, I'll be here trying to pump her for information in your abscence for many more hours. 9PM here on the west coast where she supposedly is. If she goes to bed this early it would be a definite flaw in her actor/actress! I don't care if she's had a long day, no one I know would ever go to bed that early.

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WingLess
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 		i wish i could, but my excitement stops me from even looking away from the screen!!

[EDIT] ive had it, my brain is numb, and so is my ass!! i'll check back in in the morning, or afternoon as it'll probably be now!! Laughing

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King Mob wrote:

EDIT: I'm not entirely sure where this theory is leading us, if anywhere. Aside from being an interesting insight into the thinking of the PM's and potentially fascinating footnote to our potential future book, so what if they are using a chat bot or are communicating themselves? Doesn't really help us solve any of the puzzles does it?


Yeah - I agree. It's probably more of an interesting tidbit (I seem to be able to find interesting asides, but never the answer to a puzzle!).

Here is the latest from Beth (it's sloooow to respond)

Quote:
heatheratlectio: That's what I figured...and yes, he definitely outstrips anything the Turing test would have been used for. Do you suppose you could put him online when he comes back?
bethlmcconnell: if he comes back, I could try
bethlmcconnell: certainly

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 		I really will have to go soon she is respondin slowly to everybody here is what I got:

Quote:

insomniac uf (04:17:53): Beth are you there?
insomniac uf (04:19:34): Have you determined the purpose of AI Man's translocating?
bethlmcconnell (04:22:40): No, I think it was because I got so excited by the idea of it
insomniac uf (04:25:56): Beth I have a question, do you feel everything is a-ok with the world or is there something wrong with it?
insomniac uf (04:27:37): And how's Laika by the way?
insomniac uf (04:31:41): Beth?
insomniac uf (04:33:54): Beth I don't have long I am being monitored, I have test ideas if you want them
insomniac uf (04:36:26): Beth I really have to go you have 5 mins to respond.
insomniac uf (04:42:52): Beth I have a little longer, I know you're talking to others please tell me what is going on?
insomniac uf (04:47:45): Beth what do you know of Lynne Avery
insomniac uf (04:51:19): Or Jesse?


As you can see I am very impatient Very Happy

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bethlmcconnell (05:01:32): Lynne
bethlmcconnell (05:01:33): ?
bethlmcconnell (05:01:41): She's James' ex-wife.
insomniac uf (05:02:51): Where is Jesse now?
insomniac uf (05:09:4Cool: I gotta go Beth, anything to say?

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 16, 2003 12:57 am
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 		Since Beth has giving out GPS positions we should plot the points on a map and the time that they we given. I hope the people that taked to her took down times when she reported the positions.

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fubarz wrote:
Since Beth has giving out GPS positions we should plot the points on a map and the time that they we given. I hope the people that taked to her took down times when she reported the positions.



I know I did. (Although they are English time GMT)


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insomniac uf (05:09:4Cool: I gotta go Beth, anything to say?
bethlmcconnell (05:16:53): Well, I'm sorry to see you leave
bethlmcconnell (05:17:07): I hope that we'll get a chance to chat properly later.
insomniac uf (05:17:19): So do I
bethlmcconnell (05:17:39): I'm pretty much always online (unless I'm sleeping or running around)
bethlmcconnell (05:17:54): So, hopefully we'll get the chance another time
insomniac uf (05:18:1Cool: If you have time now I have a few mins
insomniac uf (05:20:10): bye then

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 16, 2003 1:10 am
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 		Arghhhhh

She drives me nuts!

Quote:

bethlmcconnell (05:22:04): I hope to see you soon.
insomniac uf (05:23:02): First you talk when I'm leaving then don't when I say I'll stay. Are you gonna speak to me NOW?
bethlmcconnell (05:23:20): Sorry, I thought you said 'bye'
insomniac uf (05:23:41): I did but I really want to speak to you
bethlmcconnell (05:23:47): I'm sorry that I'm so distracted. There are over 40 chat windows up and it's hard to balance them.
insomniac uf (05:24:22): Sorry to be impatient I just have lots of questions
bethlmcconnell (05:26:44): i can understand that
insomniac uf (05:27:47): Can you answer one or two quickly before I go like do you know Jesse's where abouts?
bethlmcconnell (05:32:02): I assume Jesse is with James and Lynne
bethlmcconnell (05:32:05): but I don't know
insomniac uf (05:32:22): Did you know Thomas Anderson?
bethlmcconnell (05:53:15): I did not
insomniac uf (05:53:50): Oh ok hows about dimitri?

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 16, 2003 1:24 am
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loewin
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 		someone ask her if she knows thomas anderson

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nonlocality
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 		It is, near as I can tell, Paris, Odessa (Ukraine), Alexandria (Egypt), Oslo (Norway), Tel Aviv (Isreal), Bucharest (Romania), the desert in the middle of Oman (though the metacortex directory map--anyone remember when I posted about that?--erroneously lists Kuwait City there), Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), Belgrade (Serbia), and Vladivostok (Russia).

I'm talking to Beth, letting her know where she was now. I'll post the conversation when it is done.

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 		Do mean this thread nonlocality: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2611&highlight=
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 		Beth IM
My conversation with Beth.

Quote:
Diandra (10:36:29 PM): beth...are you here?

bethlmcconnell (11:36:27 PM): I am here

Diandra (11:36:59 PM): beth, perhaps he is trying to gain your trust by showing you he has influence over certain things in the environment. He's a computer program, basically. What if the world as you know it was controlled by a massive computer program, too?
Diandra (11:37:41 PM): Perhaps that's the code to which he's referring.
Diandra (11:38:27 PM): Do you think this is possible?
Diandra (11:39:38 PM): Beth, do you think it's possible that we are living in a computer-generated world?
Diandra (11:40:13 PM): a virtual reality?

bethlmcconnell (11:50:01 PM): That seems a bit far-fetched, don't you think.

Diandra (11:50:55 PM): All of this seems a but far-fetched, Beth. I mean explain AI Man. If he's plausible, than this could be, too.

bethlmcconnell (11:52:08 PM): AI is a not an unbelievable or unrealistic technology

Diandra (11:52:22 PM): In a human form?

bethlmcconnell (11:52:41 PM): As far as how advanced he is, yes, that is a bit unbelievable

Diandra (11:54:05 PM): So, if he exists, it is possible that he's existing in some type of computer generated reality. Explain how else he could possible affect the weather, unless it was controlled the same way as he...via a computer program.

bethlmcconnell (11:54:25 PM): But our lives as a virtual reality, have you seen the latest virtual reality software? I'd buy an AI man before I'd buy life as a virtual reality (and I have seen the latest meta vrx builds)

Diandra (11:55:26 PM): And I think that's exactly what he wants you to do, Beth. Once you can believe what he is capable of, then you are open to believing more about this virtual world
Diandra (11:56:38 PM): I believe he has a lot more to share with you. I also think he needs more computing power to share it with you
Diandra (11:58:01 PM): You took the first step by seeking him out after he tried to cut ties with you
Diandra (11:58:22 PM): so he shared a bit more about himself and his capabilities with you
Diandra (12:01:46 AM): I know it sounds off the wall, but you yourself know the technology exists...just not to this degree...yet you have been around the world tonight. Perhaps the technology has advanced more than you know.
Diandra (12:04:13 AM): AI Man himself is proof of the technology.
Diandra (12:08:01 AM): If you are to be believed, and I do believe you, Beth, than you have experienced the inexplicable tonight. If your friend can control the weather, and gravity, and he's a computer program, it's probable that the world as you know it is also computer controlled.
Diandra (12:08:56 AM): It just takes a much larger, much more powerful machine to run it all.

bethlmcconnell (12:11:20 AM): I understand exactly what you are saying. But there are some things that are just hard to absorb
bethlmcconnell (12:11:22 AM): to accept

Diandra (12:11:49 AM): you have accepted a lot tonight, that's for sure.
Diandra (12:12:43 AM): i think you should let your friend know that you can handle what he's shown you. you have been remarkably calm throughout
Diandra (12:13:24 AM): express more interest in learning all you can from him. If nothing else, it will help you in your career, right?
Diandra (12:15:20 AM): I believe his purpose here may be to expose you to all of this knowledge. He found you for a reason. You found him because you questioned these anomalies

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 		hahaha
loewin wrote:
someone ask her if she knows thomas anderson


I just asked her that, but for some reason she decided that I wasn't important enough to talk to anymore after I actually asked her some interesting questions. Oh well. I should try to IM her under a different name to see if she'll actually respond to me then or not.

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 		FYI:

People are still chatting with Beth and pasting snippets of their conversation in IRC. I am copying them to a log, which gets updated on Netninja every few minutes or thereabouts: http://metacortex.netninja.com/little-boxes/aim-11-15/aim_transcripts.txt

Also, full one-on-one transcripts (some sent to me directly, some copied from this forum) are here: http://metacortex.netninja.com/little-boxes/aim-11-15/
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