Fwd: BEg2 ch33 brief summary - first section

[Joseph Tracy]

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> From: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
> Subject: Re: BEg2 ch33 brief summary - first section
> Date: July 31, 2022 at 9:06:08 PM EDT
> To: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
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> DeepArcher has become more Jetsons style than earlier hip darkness /pirates in cyberspace, more a cheap TV cartoon than a point of departure into the substructure of the web.
> The shift to open source for for Deep Archer is interesting. Perhaps more revolutionary than first glance reveals.  I just heard an exerpt of a podcast interview with Eric Schmidt as one of 4 participants in which he claimed to be scared because the Chinese are on parity with the US as regards ai, and according to him their progress was a result of information available through the open source approach to programming. He just wrote a book with Henry Kissinger, not making this up, about where the world is headed, in which the role of ai is central.  Besides the Chinese ‘threat’, he was equally concerned about ‘misinformation’, seemingly mostly pandemic misinformation; but one participant suggested that the government/ ai /high tech community’s role in handling the virus and providing reliable information was not particularly impressive and was actually an embarrassment .   Schmidt completely ignored these comments.  Here I have to ask something like what the fuck does it mean when heavy hitters of this kind get together to plot  the world’s future, one a war criminal on the scale of the nazis and the other one the tech wizard for both commercial sales and surveillance and for’intelligence surveillance and other military applications, (along with ranking what  internet searches reveal).   There are clearly more elements in the repetoire of these master planners leading toward an Orwellian  or perhapsPhilip K Dick type outcome than toward anything remotely benign.   
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> There is also something wildly ludicrous when Schmidt accused Tik Tok of being a totalitarian surveillance instrument, when state and commercial surveillance seems to be his personal love child.  
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> So who might be some of the real world opposition  corresponding to Marge, Maxine, Misha and Grisha, Reg etc. be? I would suggest that wikileaks appears on the scene soon after 911 and along with a slew of investigatitive reporters and whistleblowers, from Sy Hersch to Edward Sowden and Julian Assange expose themoney trail and the lies in the mainstream narrative about culpability, motive etc.  
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>> On Jul 30, 2022, at 4:36 AM , Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> love child
>> About 10 pages
>> Pg 352-362 (nook)
>> 3 sections - just starting to notice the bolding
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>> 1) Maxine (bolded)
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>> Maxine goes back into DeepArcher, notes some changes away from the stunning
>> visual environment of her previous visit
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>> meets up with Promoman and Sandwichgrrl, apparently avatars and
>> practitioners of an ongoing monetization there,
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>> who apprise her that somebody apparently added a back door during the 
>> randomization interregnum around the WTC disaster.
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>> Now all kinds of modifications are cropping up.
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>> She follows a visual link which gives her a queasy feeling (see, she’s
>> always departing from “safe choices”)
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>> The link takes her into a spaceship environment
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>> Reaches the bridge, which looks lived-in to the point of resembling a man
>> cave more than anything out of Star Trek, except for the view of stars
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>> And there she meets up with Lucas’s avatar, recognizing him when he says,
>> “it’s code, ‘s all it is.”
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>> He confides that they decided to go Open Source (but why not GPL!?) - “Just
>> dropped the tarball”
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>> Lucas also drops some knowledge and wisdom, along with details about this
>> ‘n’ that.
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