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[QUESTION] Is it a good idea to try to communicate?
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themill
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 		[QUESTION] Is it a good idea to try to communicate?
Reading through the posts in this forum, it seems obvious that The Operator/The Queen/Whomever can communicate through whatever information we send her. This gives me two ideas. First of all, if we would like more coherent responses, perhaps we could send her a large amount of information, such as from a dictionary... (would that be attempting to break the game too much?) Secondly, if the thinking that this is a Rogue AI is correct, I remember reading that AIs "die" after processing too much information, because all they can do is think. If it becomes obvious that this thing is dangerous, perhaps we can flood it with information and it will become disabled by the lack of capability to interpret it all.


::puts on the trout mask::

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 		The best prepared bring their own trout freezers; you can live for months on what you gather in one game. Smile

Anywho, not entirely trout-worthy, just for the idea of overloading the AI with info to kill her if necessary. [We aren't bloodthirsty at all, are we?]
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 		And is an AI going to choke on the 2MB or 15MB or whatever of data we can cram a Hotmail account with?

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 		YEs, if we send it a near-constant flood of emails. 2 megs here, 15 megs there, it all adds up, yanno.
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 		Though if this is Microsoft-sponsored event, getting a hotmail account with unlimited storage space shouldn't be a problem...

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Worker wrote:
Though if this is Microsoft-sponsored event, getting a hotmail account with unlimited storage space shouldn't be a problem...


Unless they have a dimensionally-transcendental data storage system at Microsoft HQ, yes, getting an account with unlimited storage space WOULD be a problem.
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 		And remember our pissed-off AI is stuck on a PC at the moment. If she is constanting emptying Margaret's email account I'm sure we could overload THAT. Take about 20 minutes. Maybe less. (Yes, of course I know the next stage is she either gets a bunch of computers or takes control of the entire internet away from Al Gore. But this is what [SPEC] is for!) Wink
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 		Let's do it!
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 		Re: [QUESTION] Is it a good idea to try to communicate?
Another thought: Sure, we can communicate all we want by sending endless e-mails to ladybee777SPLAThotmail.com, which we think gets to whichever entity is putting text in the killer.jpg pictures. The thing is, that entity was able to put text in those pictures only because the Operator/Melissa posted 13 new pictures on the web site. The entity is now out of ways to communicate back to us. It doesn't do us a lot of good to send messages if no one can respond to them.

So...does anyone have any brilliant ideas as to what, if anything, we might do to enable this entity to get responses to us?
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 		In a technical sence, the widow communicates with several entities in the computer text/widow's log when she's repairing the queen. all the network.grope commands and act.attach are some form of communication... can we use these in anyway to communicate back?

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 		Or just throw in the ol Nomad logic fun and games, error overload time.

If its the mighty Traff-O-Data company sponsoring this bit of fun, methinks they have mucho staff to handle all the emails galoire there.

time to get back to The Adolescence of P-1, might have a clue concerning AIs in the computer communicating...then again, it may not (but I think it does Smile
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