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Semioclast · Boot Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 68

Beth is back in Washington, but is camping.

Maybe we should pick someone to talk to her that way we can get some straight answers in a hurry

**Posted:** Sun Nov 16, 2003 3:46 pm

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Omnie · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 772

She met with her friend at the lake, and they had a talk about human perceptions and feelings...he was very curious, it seems. And now she wants to go make lunch, but just went online for a sec to check her e-mail...

Cool

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**Posted:** Sun Nov 16, 2003 3:48 pm

Semioclast · Boot Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 68

She is actually quite chatty. She says that she is camping near Mt. Rainier in Washington and the weather is horrible. According to weather.com, she's actually quite right.

She says that she and her friend are communicating verbally now (voice) and they are trying to work out a problem "elsewhere."

I will post the log when I am finished.

**Posted:** Sun Nov 16, 2003 3:54 pm

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Tobester · Veteran Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 136

Maybe somene should ask permission tolog in to Little boxes or ask her about the missing file numbers...I'm at work, can't get on chat right now.....just muy luck Sad

**Posted:** Sun Nov 16, 2003 4:03 pm

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Insomniac · Decorated Joined: 14 Oct 2003 Posts: 234 Location: 01

I was talking to her a minute ago but her reply speed has dropped.

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Semioclast · Boot Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 68

**Posted:** Sun Nov 16, 2003 4:20 pm

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Omnie · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 772

Yeah, I think she went to have lunch/get warm. Very Happy

She hasn't answered in quite a while. Here's my transcript:

OmniEmp: Hello.
bethlmcconnell: hi.
OmniEmp: how's everything going?
bethlmcconnell: It's going well, considering.
bethlmcconnell: It's so overwhelming.
OmniEmp: Heh, yeah, I can only imagine...still at the campsite?
bethlmcconnell: Yes, I actually just returned from a long walk down by the lake
bethlmcconnell: I'm going to make lunch in a few minutes. Just wanted to check my email quickly.
OmniEmp: Oh, ok. Smile

I guess your friend hasn't come back?
bethlmcconnell: No, he did!
bethlmcconnell: He met us at the lake.
OmniEmp: oh! Great. Did you talk about anything interesting?
bethlmcconnell: We had a long talk on human perception which was frustrating. I'm much more interested in his perception.
bethlmcconnell: Have you seen the log that I've posted on my site?
OmniEmp: Yep, I've been reading through it
OmniEmp: What did he have to say about human perception? Maybe his ideas could give some clues about his purpose...
bethlmcconnell: He was curious about how I saw things, felt things.
bethlmcconnell: All very difficult to express.
[snip me babbling]
OmniEmp: ...Have you tried any new tests?
bethlmcconnell: I've just tried to see about his ability to effect the future.
OmniEmp: Cool, what happened?
bethlmcconnell: it worked. he caused a change 10 minutes in the future.
OmniEmp: Whoa...what kind of change?
bethlmcconnell: it was a test of the wind again.
bethlmcconnell: I figured that it would be best to test it with something that had happened in the past.
bethlmcconnell: That way I knew that it was something that he was capable of.
bethlmcconnell: I'm going to go to the fire and get warm, eat some lunch.
bethlmcconnell: I'll be back this afternoon and post any results to my log.
OmniEmp: Ok, great. I'll be looking forward to it.
OmniEmp: Enjoy your lunch.

So, the dude's back, he can effect the future, and Beth's log will have all the data on that in a little while. Very Happy

**Posted:** Sun Nov 16, 2003 4:22 pm

bakntime

Cleaned this up a little to include only "relevant" stuff:

**Posted:** Sun Nov 16, 2003 4:28 pm

Monki

Screw the game.. I think Beth likes me...

I want a date!

**Posted:** Sun Nov 16, 2003 4:33 pm

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King Mob · Decorated Joined: 15 Nov 2003 Posts: 289 Location: England

Down boy!

**Posted:** Sun Nov 16, 2003 4:37 pm

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amiantos · Boot Joined: 06 Nov 2003 Posts: 23

I dunno, as much as I enjoy talking to her, (i'm having a hard time keeping myself convinced she's not a real person which is why it's so easy for me not to bring up anything I shouldn't know... mostly because I don't know that much besides everything she's given us about this or in her emails, which gives me benefit I think), I'm starting to get a little annoyed.

I am wondering if there is any point to us talking to her at all. It looks like suggestions really go nowhere, the points are already plotted and she's just slowly going there and taking us for the ride, while we're just wasting breath trying to "figure out" the AI man for no reason. Beh, oh well, might as well have fun with it.

**Posted:** Sun Nov 16, 2003 4:41 pm

Monki

**Posted:** Sun Nov 16, 2003 4:41 pm

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amiantos · Boot Joined: 06 Nov 2003 Posts: 23

**Posted:** Sun Nov 16, 2003 4:45 pm

Gracer

There's no way she's a bot. She often says different things. The reason why she says similar things to people asking the same questions? Easy.

Have 40 people ask you the same question. Now, _you_ try and answer every single one of them with a different response. Beyond that, be a little nervous you're gonna screw up and give away too much info to players of the game you're running.

No way. You write an answer that works, and you give the same response when the question comes up again. Heck, if I have five people on ICQ ask me how I'm doing, I frickin' copy and paste the first answer I write down to the other four people.

Cut her some slack, it's daunting having your screen filled with message boxes. From what I remember in trying to login to AIM on two different lab computers, once you log into the second computer, the first AIM that I logged into cuts me off. I think you can only have one person named bethlmcconnell on AIM at a time. That's a real person slogging through those messages boxes, folks.

**Posted:** Sun Nov 16, 2003 4:48 pm

nonlocality · Boot Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 20

It could be Mr. MsStockPhoto, you know. It could be a team of them working in shifts. Don't be a sucker for a nice ascii.

**Posted:** Sun Nov 16, 2003 4:49 pm