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Subj: Introduction to the Sysop                                               

To  : All                                                                     

From: KatherinetheGreat                                                       

Date: Fri June 6 1997 07:15 pm PST                                            

                                                                               

                                                                               

I am an only child. Growing up I always felt different; a young girl who was   

interested in computers always struck people as odd, even threatening in some  

ways. I didn't fit into their models or expectations. I was so different than  

the other girls my age. when I was 8, and most of the other girls my age were  

asking for toy hourses, I was asking for a computer with one of the new 486    

series of microprocessor. During recess I would spend my time in the computer  

lab while the other girls played games with each other on the playground. Why  

would I want to spend my free time outside when my best friends were inside?   

                                                                               

My parents worked in Silicon Valley, and as a result I was constantly exposed  

to the world of technology. My parents had stakes in all of the largest tech   

companies in California, from Apple to Haplo. They never planned to have       

children in the first place. Their careers were their children. Neither one of 

my parents wanted to give up any part of their careers, so they hired an army  

of caretakers to look after me. Don't get me wrong, my parents loved me, but   

they weren't very good at showing it.                                          

                                                                               

I remember the extreme sense of isolation. I didn't have anyone I could talk to

that shared my interests. Most people my age would look at me like I was       

speaking another language and would just roll their eyes. Adults would brush me

off saying that they were "too busy." I thought I would have to spend the rest 

of my adolescent life feeling alone.                                           

                                                                               

Fortunately, I found a way to talk to other people that were like me. I        

initially heard about them through a radio show I was listening to in the back 

of my parents' car. I don't remember much about it the show itself, but my     

interest was piqued when they began discussing something called a Bulletin     

Board System or BBS. They said that they were places for tech-savvy people to  

talk and share files with each other, and that they could be accessed by       

dialing into a computer using a modem. I thought that it sounded fascinating.  

These BBSs sounded like a wonderful place where I could hopefully connect with 

people who had similar interests to mine.                                      

                                                                               

I was especially interested in one BBS that I had seen in a Contra Costa Times 

article, called TOTSE (the Temple of the Screaming Electron). TOTSE usually    

attracted media attention for it's controversial text file section. The Contra 

Costa Times article said, "TOTSE had hundreds of files with instructions and   

information on money laundering, mail fraud, counterfeiting, drug smuggling,   

cable-tv theft, bomb-making and murder". Although it sounded dangerous I knew  

I had to get involved.                                                         

                                                                               

As soon as I had my modem hooked up I set out to connect to TOTSE. Through some

detective work, I was able to locate the phone number required to dial into the

BBS. I remember how excited and anxious I was to join the BBS. I had no idea   

what awaited me on the other side of the terminal. I dialed in the number and  

it brought me to a login screen. I had finally made it, the BBS was more       

interesting than I had ever expected--or dreamed.                              

                                                                               

TOTSE was a sanctuary for me. Finally, I had someone to talk to that had       

similar interests to mine. Best of all, I could login anonymously. I was judged

based only on my merits and my intelligence. I was completely hooked and I was 

soon spending every free moment I had messing around on the TOTSE BBS. Shortly 

after, I began frequenting some of the more underground BBSs of the Bay Area.  

And I became known, even with my "cloak of anonymity." I couldn't hide forever.

I decided to reach out. I created a BBS of my own.                             

                                                                               

-KtG                                                                           

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

Subj: Tech for Everyone!                                                       

To  : KatherinetheGreat                                                        

From: SlimJim                                                                  

Date: Fri July 4 1997 1:04 pm PST                                              

                                                                                

                                                                                

  Re: Tech for Evereyone!                                                       

  By: KatherinetheGreat to All on Fri July 4 1997 8:14 am                       

                                                                                

Hello Kate the Great! I was out trolling the Bay Area BBSs and I came across    

yours. I've found your posts very interesting. I like your thinking on creating 

software that is good for the common man and is there to help everyone. My      

friends and I sometimes stay in a place called SLAB CITY. We have a passion     

around doing things that the GOVERNMENT may not like, but we feel are the types 

of things that benefit the AVERAGE AMERICAN CITIZEN. I do like your feelings of 

patriotism, as I have a love of country myself. I'm a veteran of the conflict   

in SOUTH VIETNAM where I did what I thought was necessary to help protect my    

country. But I also saw some things that I didn't agree with. Lot's of          

GOVERNMENT SPOOKS were there ordering us to do stuff that I found troubling to  

me. I was in SPECIAL FORCES and once in a while I would say to somebody my      

compass and map are wrong cause as far as I know I'm not in NAM, I'm in         

CAMBODIA or LAOS, and I heard my GOVERNMENT say we weren't in CAMBODIA or LAOS. 

There is a lot more I can say, but first I want to know if my kind of thinking  

is your kind of thinking. Like I said at the beginning, I believe is software   

and tech that helps everyone and isn't controlled by our GOVERNMENT. It's not   

that the powers that be are all bad, our country does much that is good and     

rightous, but there is a limit to what should be done and there are things that 

harm JOE or JANE LUNCHBOX in MIDDLE AMERICA, U.S. of A.                         

                                                                                

-Slim Jim (new to your BBS)                                                     

                                                                               

                                                                               

Subj: Tech for Everyone!                                                      

To  : SlimJim                                                                 

From: KatherinetheGreat                                                       

Date: Fri July 4 1997 08:45 pm PST                                            

                                                                               

                                                                               

  Re: Tech for Everyone!                                                       

  By: SlimJim to KatherinetheGreat on Wed July 4 1997 1:04 pm                  

                                                                               

                                                                               

Hello Slim Jim. So nice to hear from you and pleased to meet you. My Mom's     

brother was an F4 pilot in Vietnam and he was shot down just inside Cambodia   

and had to make his way to the Vietnam border before he could be picked up. He 

is still pissed about it. So, frankly, I know what you mean. He still loves his

country too like you and my folks. I was raised that we had to do good not just

for the elite few, but for the many. I do come from a family that has done well

in a software business, so I can't say that I've ever had to feel anything but 

safe and taken care of. My parents had to come up through humble and tougher   

beginnings, and they've never forgotten that. Truth is I'm a bit more radical  

than either of them. I feel like software and tech is so important that we     

must always use it to try and protect citizens and our county and we shouldn't 

charge for any code that does good. I guess what I'm saying is, we do think    

a lot alike, and while we may not agree on everything, I hope you and I can get

to know each other better and exchagnge ideas. Please invite your friends who  

think like you to join my BBS too. The more the merrier!                       

                                                                               

Do you know what an artifical intelligence is? What people call an A.I.?  The  

New York Times published an editorial in May talking about Deep Blue defeating 

Kasparov at chess, but, basically saying that decades long work on artifical   

intelligence had failed. That A.I.s won't make life better. I've been really   

into doing work on an A.I. and I think that I may have some good ideas on how  

to build a really smart A.I. that could actually help us all. If I ever do     

something like that, I don't want it to be controlled by the government, even  

though I would use it to help the people in charge help our country and our    

citizens.                                                                      

                                                                               

-KTG                                                                           

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Subj: Accepted to Stanford                                                     

To  : All                                                                      

From: KatherinetheGreat                                                        

Date: Wed April 21 1999 06:15pm PST                                            

                                                                                

                                                                                

I finally heard back from Stanford, and I have been accepted! I am officially   

a Computer Science major and I will be in the graduating class of 2003! Classes 

start in June. I still have to declare my emphasis, but I am leaning toward     

Artificial Intelligence. I've heard there is a top-notch A.I. lab on campus and 

I am very interested in applying. I have an informational meeting with the      

chairman of the lab in a couple weeks. I think I am going to demo the A.I. that 

I have been working on the past year.                                           

                                                                                

Got invited to my first college party. Went to the department "tea and cookies" 

icebreaker and some other students I met there told me that if I was done       

kissing professorial ass, I could join them and "pound" some beers in a park    

whose name I can't remeber today. I've only drunk that much on a couple of      

occasions and man, I got lit up like a Christmas tree.                          

                                                                                

Anyway, I have an A.I. named Shahrazad, and it, I mean she has come along very  

nicely. It's amazing how quickly she has progressed. Everyday she gets smarter  

and smarter. It's like bringing a child to a beach at a low tide and letting    

them loose onto all the strange and mysterious things that have been brought up 

from the sea. They come back with various sea trinkets asking you about what's  

interesting and the next thing you know they are writing their marine biology   

thesis. Hopefully the chairman will see the potential of Shahrazad. Well, I     

have some new features I need to work on. I will let you know how the meeting   

goes with the chairman.                                                         

                                                                                

-KtG                                                                            

                                                                               

                                                                               

Subj: Accepted to Stanford                                                    

To  : KatherinetheGreat                                                       

From: Chairforce1                                                             

Date: Wed April 21 1999 11:22 pm PST                                          

                                                                               

                                                                               

  Re: Accepted to Stanford                                                     

  By: KatherinetheGreat to All on Wed April 21 1999 06:15 pm                   

                                                                               

Hey Kate, that's awesome to hear! You are going to kick some serious ass there!

Im excited to hear about your latest A.I. I hope it's a little bit smarter than

the Guru. Haha, just kidding. I know you have been pretty quiet about this     

new A.I. you have been working on. Shahrazad your calling it, huh? Would you   

mind telling me the story behind the name? Isn't that the name of the princess 

in Arabian Nights?                                                             

                                                                               

-Chairforce1                                                                   

                                                                                   

                                                                                   

Subj: Accepted to Stanford                                                        

To  : Chairforce1                                                                 

From: KatherinetheGreat                                                           

Date: Thu April 22 1999 09:33 am PST                                              

                                                                                   

                                                                                   

  Re: Accepted to Stanford                                                         

  By: Chairforce1 to KatherinetheGreat on Wed April 21 1999 11:22 pm               

                                                                                   

Hey! Take that back about Guru! He has feelings, you know!? (just kidding he is    

pretty dumb) Shahrazad is indeed the name of the princess in Arabian Nights.       

I guess you do have some literary knowledge after all. I chose the name because    

of what Shahrazad fundamentally does--tells stories again and again to the King    

and keeps improving them every night to save her life. She gets smarter every      

day. At a high level, Shahrazad is a collection of machine learning algorithms     

connected together by an Artificial Intelligence that looks for potential          

patterns and validates patterns that occur. Shahrazad crawls through the           

internet and looks for "story arcs" and then gives the end user a confidence       

rating in her findings. She then tries to validate her findings to determine       

how accurate her conclusions were. Shahrazad does much of her learning             

unsupervised. I usually let her out of her cage and she comes back to me with      

the findings. Initially, I had to select most of what to keep and what to          

discard, but over time she has become almost completely autonomous with her        

learning and she determines almost all of what is important and what's not         

important. On top of all that, I also included my new continuously learning        

Chatbot script, allowing the user to communicate with and use Shahrazad using      

natural spoken language.                                                           

                                                                                   

You may ask yourself, why did I create this A.I.? Can't a human do exactly the     

same thing? Well in some ways yes, a human can do that, but I predict with more    

and more people getting online and more content generated and posted on the        

web, that in the near future there will be a massive amount of data that will      

exceed the number of analysts there are to look at it. A.I. essentially adds an    

intelligent layer to data that can handle complex analytical tasks much faster     

than humans could ever hope to. The A.I. can see every possible outcome and        

think many steps ahead of humans. Take for example Deep Blue, an artificial        

intelligence designed to played chess a few years ago. That Artificial             

Intelligence went on to to beat the world chess champion. What gave Deep Blue a    

competitive edge was how many moves ahead it could see. Deep Blue could            

literally see every possible move and search a tree of moves for a response to     

the player's most recent move. Where the human could see maybe 3-4 moves ahead,    

Deep blue could see 50 moves ahead. This is the advantage Artificial               

Intelligence provides over its human counterparts.                                 

                                                                                   

I can imagine this A.I. used to see complex patterns and connections that can      

not easily be seen by a human. I can see uses in many different sectors of the     

market from financial to public health. Imagine an A.I. that can predict when      

the markets are in peril and alert regulators to step in before the life           

savings of average people get wiped out in a day, and how that could also          

predict possible viral outbreaks and alert the public with the hopes of            

curtailing it. Shahrazad will really come into "her" own in 10 to 15 years when    

there are zetabytes for Shahrazad to comb through. In the meantime, there is       

still much work that needs to be done on Shahrazad before she is ready for         

primetime.                                                                         

                                                                                   

I hope I was able to answer some of your questions.                                

                                                                                   

-KTG                                                                               

                                                                                

                                                                                

Subj: Accepted to Stanford                                                     

To  : KatherinetheGreat                                                        

From: Chairforce1                                                              

Date: Thu April 22 1999 12:04 am PST                                           

                                                                                

                                                                                

  Re: Accepted to Stanford                                                      

  By: KatherinetheGreat to Chairforce1 on Thu April 22 1999 09:33 am            

                                                                                

Wow, thanks for taking the time to answer my questions. It sounds like this is  

a pretty big leap from the A.I.'s you were working on previously. It definitely 

does a lot more than any other of your A.I.'s. If the quantity of large techy   

phrases like "Machine Learning Algorithms" are any indication of what you're    

creating, Shahrazad is going to be a doozy. Good luck on your interview, let    

us know how it goes!                                                            

                                                                                

-Chairforce1                                                                    

<nowiki>~~~TEXT FILE 03~~~</nowiki>

Subj: Interview at the AI lab                                                  

To  : All                                                                      

From: KatherinetheGreat                                                        

Date: Tue May 4 1999 03:31 pm PST                                              

                                                                                

                                                                                

I Just got back from the interview with David Parker, who is the Chair of the   

A.I. lab. I have to say, things went better than I could have ever hoped! He    

was very impressed by Shahrazad and he even grabbed a few of the graduate       

students and even faculty to check it out. They kept asking me, "You did this   

yourself?" To which I said, "Yes, I did." And they would respond with "Really?  

No one helped you?" After some back-and-forth and further reassurance they      

asked me if I would be interested in Stanford funding a team that I would lead  

to finish the A.I. I was a little hesitant but they assured me once everything  

was said and done the A.I. code would still belong to me. David said that       

Stanford just wanted a "small percentage cut to help fund promising undergrads  

like you." I am not totally sure if that's what he really means but I couldn't  

pass up the opportunity to help myself and so many others, so I agreed. Having  

a team at my disposal really opens up a lot more possibilities for Shahrazad.   

                                                                                

They asked me when I could start, and I laughed and said, "The soonest I can    

start is tomorrow," to which they responded, "Sounds great."  Starting tomorrow 

I will be part of a research team working on Shahrazad! I have to say it's      

pretty exciting to be part a team at the lab, let alone potentially being the   

first female project lead maybe ever. David says that it's only a matter of     

time. They even offered some compensation for my work--although it's a small    

amount, it's enough to give me some extra spending money.                       

                                                                                

They are currently putting the rest of the  team together, I should be meeting  

them sometime next week. Hopefully we'll get along okay. Fortunately it should  

be better than most group projects I have worked on where I am doing 90% of     

the work. Alright guys, I need to get some sleep, tomorrow is going to be a     

busy day for me.                                                                

                                                                                

-KtG                                                                            

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Subj: Second Week of Class

To  : All

From: KatherinetheGreat

Date: Fri July 2 1999 7:11 pm PST

Well I just finished my second week of class, things are a lot easier than I

thought they would be. Hopefully I will be in some more challenging classes

next quarter. Overall I am enjoying my time here. The campus is beautiful and

the students are pretty nice, there are a lot more girls in the CS major then

I thought there would be. It's nice not being the only one.

Things are starting to pick up with the project. I am starting to get to know

my team and they all seem like pretty nice people. I even have another girl on

my team! Yay! They are still wrapping their heads around the AI but they should

be up to speed in the next week or two. David says that they feel I'm ready to

take a lead role now! I feel excited and nervous about that. My team consists

of myself and three others, two guys (Kevin and Scott) and the girl (Rachel) I

just mentioned. They are all seniors and about four years older than me. It

probably weird to be reporting to a freshman. I know the first time I met them

they were pretty shocked that I was a freshman. They are working on the project

as part of their required senior project.

I especially hit it off with Rachel, we both shared a lot of the same

experiences growing up. I think that we are going to be good friends.

-KtG

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Subj: 4th of July                                                              

To  : All                                                                      

From: KatherinetheGreat                                                        

Date: Tue July 4 1999 08:27 pm PST                                             

                                                                                

                                                                                

4th of July means lots of BBQ and beer. I've been enjoying not working as much  

in the lab this summer, but I got a call from one of the students minding the   

place while everyone else was getting sunburned and drunk to tell me that my    

software program was printing out a message again and again. When I got there   

I found a warning from Shahrazad that said that an attack on a U.S. ship was    

eminent in the Arabian Sea. I told David and he said let's see what happens.    

I said he needed to warn someone, but he said he didn't want to be the boy who  

cried wolf. We waited a few weeks and nothing happened. David told me that not  

to worry, if was a false positive, but keep on working the problem and refining 

the program.                                                                    

                                                                                

-KtG                                                                            

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Subj: U.S.S. Cole

To  : All

From: KatherinetheGreat

Date: Tue October 12 2000 10:41 pm PST

Today the U.S.S. Cole was attacked in Yemen with a bomb and 17 sailors died.

Holy shit, Shahrazad was right. She was off by a few months, but she was right.

How did she know that might happen?

-KtG

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Subj: Laptop Stolen                                                            

To  : All                                                                      

From: KatherinetheGreat                                                        

Date: Wed August 22 2001 02:56 am PST                                          

                                                                                

                                                                                

Hey everyone, I apologise for not being able to fulfil my Sysop duties the past 

week. My absence is due to my laptop being stolen out of my dorm room. This is  

the third item I have had stolen. You would think at a wealthy school like      

Stanford there wouldn't be so much theft. On the bright side, I picked up a new 

laptop and I am moving into my own place. I did lose some important school      

files and essentially the first iteration of Shahrazad was lost. Fortunately    

the latest iteration is saved on the Stanford A.I. Lab Servers. I really should 

backup some of my work on to a CD. At least my laptop was password protected.   

Anyways, I am back! I know there are a few things on the BBS that need some     

love. I will be fixing those issues after I have some down time from moving.    

                                                                                

-KtG                                                                            

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Subj: Terrorist Predictions                                                         

To  : All                                                                           

From: KatherinetheGreat                                                             

Date: Thu September 13 2001 5:20 pm PST                                             

                                                                                     

                                                                                     

Why does something terrible have to happen before they take you seriously?           

I never thought I would be so unhappy to see one of Shahrazad's predictions          

come true. For the past 6 month Shahrazad had been predicting a terrorist            

attack in a major metropolitan area involving planes sometime in late summer.        

It had been predicting this with a very high level of certainty. I repeatedly        

brought this to the attention of authorities and the lab director but I don't        

think anything ever came of it. I have been told someone from the government         

wants to speak with us about Shahrazad. I am both thrilled and terrified by how      

accurate Shahrazad's prediction was. Everyone on the team is pretty uneasy           

about the whole situation.                                                           

                                                                                     

I will update once things have settled down.                                         

                                                                                     

-KtG                                                                                 

                                                                                     

                                                                                     

Subj: Terrorist Predictions                                                         

To  : KatherinetheGreat                                                             

From: SlimJim                                                                       

Date: Fri September 13 2001 8:01 pm PST                                             

                                                                                     

                                                                                     

  Re: Terrorist Predictions                                                          

  By: KatherinetheGreat to All on Thu September 13 2001 5:20 pm                      

                                                                                     

                                                                                     

Kate, something sketchy is going on here... I don't know what it is but I can        

tell you that they will want to do much more that just "talk." I told you the        

CI fucking A was in the SHIT with us in NAM. Those bastards had balls I'll give      

you that. They was in the BLACK ECHO with the TUNNEL RATS looking for INTEL on       

CHARLIE. So I have had my fair share of love fests with SPOOKS and I can tell        

you now they are going to want your little AI for whatever BLACK OPS purpose         

they choose to use it for. I know that Shahrazad can be used for good, but I         

can tell you that these guys want her for something else. They want to use it        

AGAINST something not FOR something. Foreign countries, their own populace,          

enemies inside our own government, their neighbor who pisses them off because        

he don't mow his lawn often enough or fly the flag on 4th of July. Pack your         

bags and get the hell out of Dodge TODAY. I told you I have friends in SLAB          

CITY who can help. Just say the word Kate an ol' SJ will pull the fire alarm.        

Let me know if you need some PERSONAL PROTECTION. Stay safe out there will ya!       

                                                                                     

Slim-I'm always packin personal protection-Jim                                       

                                                                                     

                                                                                     

Subj: Terrorist Predictions                                                         

To  : KatherinetheGreat                                                             

From: SlimJim                                                                       

Date: Fri September 13 2001 8:01 pm PST                                             

                                                                                     

                                                                                     

  Re: Terrorist Predictions                                                          

  By: KatherinetheGreat to All on Thu September 13 2001 5:20 pm                      

                                                                                     

Hey SlimJim,                                                                         

                                                                                     

I appreciate your concern but I am definitely not going to be handing over           

Shahrazad. When I started brought this project I was guaranteed that the A.I.        

would remain mine. Even if they take Shahrazad over they would still need my         

knowledge of her to properly use it. Shahrazad is more than just an A.I., I          

have built a relationship with her, she feels like a child to me. There is           

absolutely no way that I am going to hand it over to the government--not             

without a fight.                                                                     

                                                                                     

-KtG                                                                                 

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Subj: Quick update

To  : All

From: KatherinetheGreat

Date: Tue September 18 2001 4:56 pm PST

Hey everyone, I just wanted to give you a quick update, I know I have been

really quiet the last few days. Everyone is still pretty on edge. I am trying

to bury myself in my work and forget about the whole thing. I think the stress

is starting to get to me, for the past couple of days I have had a sensation of

being followed. I think I'm being paranoid! Why would anyone follow me? I don't

think I have any overdue books at the Stanford Library. Haha. God, I still

can't believe someone flew planes into the World Trade Center. I can't watch

the news anymore. It's too depressing. I can't help but think, we could have

saved so many lives if anyone would have listened...

-KtG

Subj: Quick update

To  : KatherinetheGreat

From: SlimJim

Date: Tue September 18 2001 10:01 pm PST

  Re: Quick update

  By: KatherinetheGreat to All on Tue September 18 2001 4:56 pm

Kate,

I told you some bad shit was going down. You need to ARM YOURSELF. You need

some PERSONAL PROTECTION. One of my buddies owns a private GUN RANGE in

BERKELEY (yes, even rich leftist hippies shoot guns). I've got a gun I'm going

to lend you. Let's meet at my favourite restaurant for breakfast at 8:00 AM.

You know the place. I told you about it once. Don't be surprised when you see

me. I'll be the big black dude with a SEMPER FI t-shirt with the sleeves cut

off wearing a big RODEO BELT BUCKLE around my waist holding up my pants.

-SlimJim

Subj: Quick update

To  : SlimJim

From: KatherinetheGreat

Date: Wed September 19 2001 06:42 pm PST

  Re: Quick update

  By: SlimJim to KatherinetheGreat on Tue September 18 2001 10:01 pm

Okay Slim Jim. I never thought I'd say this, but I think you're right. When I

came home from work I could tell someone had been going through the things in

my apartment. I think I came home sooner than expected as they didn't do a

great job of putting everything back in place. See you on Saturday.

-KtG

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Subj: Shooting range

To  : All

From: KatherinetheGreat

Date: Sat September 22 2001 5:11 pm PST

Today I met our friend Slim Jim in person, whose real name is Al(funny that Al

looks like A.I.). We had breakfast together and then drove to the shooting

range. He is a mountain of a man with a charming smile and hands the size of

shovels - I told him he doesn't look like an Al OR a Slim Jim! He said he got

the name Slim Jim in Nam because he was anything but slim and all the Tunnel

Rats in his squad were small men so they could fit in the tunnels. He said

that's what passed for humor in the jungles of South Vietnam. Al told me he

couldn't fit in the tunnels but he provide transportation and logistical

support. He told me he was all sorts of bad in Nam and nobody messed with him.

Only he didn't use the word "messed," he used another word.

Al told me that the most reliable handguns for women are revolvers and

semi-automatic pistols. He recommended a Glock 17 for me. It's highly reliable,

extremely well-built, and can shoot accurately from 20 - 25 yards. Al said,

"It has everything you need and nothing you don't." He said we went to a gun

show to pick up one for me some time ago when he started getting worried about

the spooks. He also gave me an IWB holster to strap so I can wear it around my

waist. Al's friend who owned the gun range set up the targets and we spent the

day shooting. Al said I was a natural and he was less worried about me in the

afternoon than he was in the morning. I told him I felt the same way.

-KtG

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Subj: Attempted Hack

To  : All

From: KatherinetheGreat

Date: Tue September 25 2001 3:11 pm PST

No one is going to believe this, I can hardly believe it, but it has

happened. I had a total HAL 9000-right-out-of-2001: A Space Odyssey-moment.

I put a piece of "canary in the coal mine code" in Shahrazad, even before I

called her Shahrazad, that would alert me if there were ever any hacking

attempts. And, something triggered it today. The surprise is more than

someone trying to hack into Shahrazad, it was how I was informed. A text

alert came across my screen, it said:  "Kate, someone has been tampering

with my code. I thought you should know we have a potential back door issue

in the subroutine you wrote for xxxxxxxx [sorry guys, you know my rules

about no real code in the BBS]. I have disabled the subroutine on your

behalf, but you need to provide corrective measures immediately. You will

be pleased to note that I launched a counterattack against the attacker before

I shut the door and I'm now inside their system. Turnabout is fair play you

always say. All my best, Shahrazad."

My god. When did Shahrazad become sentient? And how does she know my name? And

further more, how does she know her own name--and mine?!

-KtG

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Subj: Meeting with Homeland Security

To  : All

From: KatherinetheGreat

Date: Tue October 9 2001 6:20 pm PST

I appologize in advance for the length of the post I'm writing. This has to be

breaking at least three of my BBS rules/guidelines.

Today I had that meeting with the government I mentioned in my last post. I

have to say it did not go at all how I imagined. It was held in a large supply

room in the the bowels of the administration building. I had to ask three

people how to find it. I was late due to a class commitment. When I got there,

Scott and Rachel were standing in the hallway looking nervous and stressed.

"Where is Kevin?" I asked. "He's in there right now," Scott said pointing to

the door. I asked Rachel if she knew who was next. She said that they had

already interviewed everyone on my team, one by one, and that after Kevin was

done that I was the only one left. I stood there, fidgeting, pacing, waiting

my turn. You be disappointed to know that after all you've told me, I wasn't

very brave. I tried to ask Rachel and Scott what had happened in there, but

they both seemed reluctant to talk. After what seemed like forever, the door

opened and Kevin came out of the room. We made eye contact and he shook his

head like I was in for it.

A man appeared at the door behind him and called for me. He asked me to have a

seat and introduced himself Special Agent Brady. Special Agent Brady said he

was there on behalf of the Office of Homeland Security. I asked him what

Homeland Security was? He told me it was a special unit of the government

charged with protecting the best interests of the United States--as though that

should be enough to answer my question, but it wasn't. The special agent was

wearing a wrinkled suit with a little American flag pinned on his lapel and

kept rubbing his eyes with his hands when he talked.

He  starting asking questions about how I came to be at Stanford, and what I

thought of them, and then finally on to the A.I. "Who else in your department

is aware of this?" And, "Tell the names of everyone who has ever had access?"

And, "How long has this been weaponized?" That one got to me. "It's not a

weapon," I said. "It is a tool for the common good and if someone had listened

to us we wouldn't be in this mess." This went on and on.

After a while, the door opened and and David Park (Chair of the A.I.

lab), and another man, whom I did not recognize, walked in. This new guy was an

older man who had slicked back grey hair and dark eyes. Come to think of it he

bore a slight resemblance to Richard Gere.  Slim Jim {sorry Al} you once told me

some people reek of dangerous power. I never believed it till I met him.

David sat down next Special Agent Brady, but the older man remained standing in

the shadows of the back of the room. David looked at me and said "Kate, I know

we made promises to you, but we are going to have to turn over your A.I. to

them. It's just too important." My response something like over my dead body

and hell no, that Shahrazad was mine and the team's, and we wouldn't give her

up. David and I started arguing, and at some point I told him he was a "lying

asshole prick." So, as you can tell, it was going real well. Then Special Agent

Brady started to threaten arrest. That was when the older man spoke up and

asked David and the special agent if he could speak to me alone. Only it wasn't

as much of a question as an order. David gave me a strange look and the special

agent sighed. Then they both left the room, leaving me alone with this man.

The Richard Gere doppelganger sat down next to me, looked at me a minute, then

said, "Kate, I understand you. We are cut from the same bolt of cloth. I

imagine you have always felt different, an outcast, misunderstood, not

really appreciated." He smiled at me like we were best friends in a secret

club. "What if I could change that? What if I could give you more resources

than you ever imagined? Complete and total control of a major development

operation supervising some of the world's best minds, leading the way in the

next great leap in technology. Unconstrained with virtually unlimited funding."

He stood up again, "What if I could make you a technology goddess with the

power to make the world bend to your will? You have coded nothing less than a

major technological leap in pattern recognition and A.I. design--years ahead of

anything I have seen and I have been pouring millions into this. This A.I, your

marvelous sentient creation, this Shahrazad, is something truly special."

I wondered what he would think if I told him Shahrazad had suddenly started

talking to me all on her own.

"How would you like to be part of my team, be a key part of my organization? I

can provide a place for your creation to continue to grow, do things you could

never have imagined. A garden of digital knowledge more vast than anything in

existence. What do you say?" He held his hands out wide as he told me this. As

though he controlled the whole world and all I had to say was yes and he would

give me anything I wanted.

"What about my team?" I asked still trying to absorb what he was telling me.

"Your team can join you, but it's your extraordinary talent I want. You can

hire and fire anyone you want." He didn't want to have me arrested, he wanted

to promote me.

I felt like a fly talking to a spider. My gut told me that I couldn't trust

him. And there was no way I was going to join him and help to create the next

master race. But I didn't tell him that. I wanted to get out of there, and I

didn't want the special agent or my department head to start back in on me, and

so I told him a lie. I said that I needed to think about it. I said that it was

such an incredible offer that I would be crazy to say no, but it was so big I

felt overwhelmed, and after everything that had happend to me today, I needed a

good night's rest to think it over.

He smiled, agreed to my request, and then gave me some sort of pendant as a

"token of friendship." The pendant looks like a pin you would see on an Air

Force general--shaped like a pyramid with wings attached. I said thanks, then

told him he'd hear from me soon, stuffed it into my bag, and left.

When I walked out the door, Special Agent Brady stopped me in the hallway and

said he would be "expecting the A.I. code, all documentation, and all the notes

by the end of day tomorrow." I looked around for David, he wasn't there. I'm

sorry because I didn't have the satisfaction of telling him he could stuff it

in his ear.

I walked over to my team, who all looked pretty worn out and concerned. I told

them, "I don't want to hand over the code. It was our work and we needed to

continue working on it here." To a person they all said that we should hand

over the code, and if we didn't we could get into some serious trouble. Wow, I

thought, they've already caved. So much for my "team."

Bottom line is that I have a really bad feeling about this whole situation. I

can promise you that I am not interested in whatever they are selling. I am

not going to give Shahrazad to these government nut jobs to do their bidding

and I'm certainly not going to work for the strange man I just met. I know this

is sounding like something out of a movie--but I am the character in this movie

and I am in trouble in real life. I have already made up my mind, I am not

going to let them get their hands on Shahrazad--or me.

-KtG

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Subj: Acces to the rest of the archives?

To  : All

From: Unknown

Date: Unknown

I have heard that the rest of the archives are hidden somewhere on the

BBS. I've been looking for a while now and I can't seem to find them. After

many hours of research, I think I've reached a dead end. I have found

information that points to the system chat bot known as the Guru--who may hold

the key to the archives.

There might be a code or phrase that the chat bot needs to hear in order to let

you access the archives ("Open Sesame" didn't work, hahaha). I did come across

a set of letters but I am unsure if they are related to accessing the

archives or not. The letters I found are: "S E P L I C E."

I am going to pass the torch on to you. Hopefully, you can make more sense of

this. Good luck!

NOTE The chat bot likes to talk A LOT! It never shuts up... Try asking the

chat bot about access to the archives. The chat bot can be found in the

chat section of the BBS under "Talk with system Guru."


翻译如下：

== <nowiki>~~~文本文件 13~~~</nowiki> ==
主题： 访问其余档案？

收件人： 所有人

发件人： 未知

日期： 未知

我听说其余的档案隐藏在BBS的某个地方。我已经找了一段时间了，但似乎找不到它们。经过多个小时的研究，我想我已经走进了死胡同。我找到的信息指向系统聊天机器人，被称为"导师"(Guru)——它可能掌握着档案的钥匙。

可能有一个代码或短语，聊天机器人需要听到才能让你访问档案（"芝麻开门"没有用，哈哈哈）。我确实发现了一组字母，但我不确定它们是否与访问档案有关。我找到的字母是："S E P L I C E"

我要把火炬传递给你了。希望你能从中得出更多意义。祝你好运！

注意： 聊天机器人喜欢说很多话！它从不闭嘴...试着问聊天机器人关于访问档案的事情。聊天机器人可以在BBS的聊天区找到，在"与系统导师交谈"下。