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Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
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November 26, 1990
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ART-EROT.ASC
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The following text can be posted in its present form on any bulletin
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board and/or otherwise reproduced for noncommercial purposes.
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For reasons explained later on, it is nonetheless Copyright (C) 1990
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by Alex Gross and cannot be reproduced for other purposes without
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written consent.
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provided courtesy of the Double Helix at 212-865-7043
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AE--Artificial Eroticism
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It is important that I explain precisely how I came into possession
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of the notebook I am about to reproduce. I first became involved in
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this matter when I realized that my long-time hacker friend Mike
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McRunge had totally ceased to pick up on our infrequent messages
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back and forth on the boards.
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I had gotten to know him quite well when he was studying computer
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science at NYU, and we would spend long evenings, inevitably running
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into long nights and mornings as well, discussing possible links
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between computers and language.
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Our conversations centered on schemes for natural language retrieval
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and especially foreign language translation, based on his point of
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view as a programmer and mine as a linguist.
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I was unhappy when he told me he would be going back to his small
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town in the Midwest. But I was also encouraged to learn that he had
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some serious work he would be completing there, and that we would
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soon be able to talk and argue again. In the meantime, I
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rationalized, we were all part of the global village and would be
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permanently linked electronically.
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But as sometimes happens even with analog friendships, our messages
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grew further and further apart, and it was only when I came up with
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an idea I knew he would enjoy that I realized he was no longer to be
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located on-line at all. I followed up my curiosity to the point of
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making several voice calls, only to hear continuous empty ringing.
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Since I happened to be giving a lecture at a nearby university out
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west, I decided to rent a car afterwards and drive the 80 miles to
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his hometown and look him up personally.
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Page 1
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When I arrived, I went straight to his address and found his name
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still listed on the mailbox of a small frame house.
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I went up to the door and was not too surprised to find it open, as
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this is pretty standard in small-town America. I entered and passed
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through a living room and kitchen to another door. I was totally
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unprepared for what I saw when I opened it.
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There was Mike stretched out in a chair before his computer. He had
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a look of supreme joy on his face. He was totally naked except for
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a truly remarkable piece of hardware covering not only his penis but
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extending to other nearby parts as well. It was so strange that I
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examined it up close.
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By a quick glance at its cables, I decided it had to be some sort of
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combination input-output device. I also thought I saw something
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like electrodes glued to at least a dozen places on his body. The
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other thing I noticed was that he was dead.
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Oddly enough, there was no odor, no oppressive feeling, seemingly no
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decay at all, though there was no telling how long he had been
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there. Instead, there was a sense of pure excitement, which I could
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not help sharing. This sensation was incredibly strong.
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I noticed between his hands a small notebook. I took a quick look
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and found it to be some sort of diary, which I instinctively
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pocketed. On the floor by Mike were innumerable empty Chinese
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restaurant containers and packages of stale twinkies.
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On either side of his computer were two large piles of fanfold
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paper, each about three inches thick. On top of one was scrawled
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"AE--Artificial Eroticism," on the other "Manual of the `X'
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Language."
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Despite my excitement--or perhaps because of it--I knew I had to act
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quickly. I was very probably the first one to discover Mike's
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death, and I had to act responsibly. I picked up the phone, which
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had been working perfectly all along, and asked to be connected with
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the local police. I explained to them as best as I could what I had
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discovered, and they instructed me to touch nothing and remain where
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I was until they got there.
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I had trouble understanding why it took them so long. After all,
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this was a small town. I paced through that house for a good two
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hours before anyone else appeared, and during that time, I could not
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help but disobey them in one detail.
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I went back into my friend's room. Mike's computer screen was
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completely blank, so I decided it couldn't hurt to power it up one
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last time. What with all the cables, I could see that it had to be
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some kind of souped-up 386. Perhaps there was some clue here that
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would help explain what had happened to Mike.
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I turned it on and listened to it go through its whirs and buzzes.
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Then there was a truly blinding flash. By which I mean I was all
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but totally blinded for several seconds. When I recovered my
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vision, I saw incredibly bright letters shimmering on the screen,
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far beyond any video effect I have ever witnessed. They spelled out:
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Page 2
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ABSOLUTE
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UTTER
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ECSTASY
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Then they slowly faded away. The machine gave a chirp and expired.
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I tried to revive it several times but failed.
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Finally the police arrived. To my surprise several cars and at
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least one truck all pulled up together. As these law enforcers
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entered, I realized this was no small-town police force. They
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flashed badges at me from the FBI, the Secret Service, and some
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other agency I can't remember. They questioned me fully enough to
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find out what little I knew.
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But I nonetheless felt their questioning was brief and perfunctory.
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Then they warned me to say nothing of what I had seen and ordered me
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out of the building. I tried to find out something more, but they
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became even more insistent that I leave Mike's home immediately.
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I sat outside in my car for almost another hour and watched as other
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vehicles pulled up and away. They carried Mike off in a body bag.
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I guess this was expectable, but I couldn't help being disturbed by
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the lack of ceremony.
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More unexpected was the thoroughness with which they seemed to be
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ransacking his home and carting off everything having to do with
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computers. For Mike, that meant almost all his possessions. I saw
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them carrying away that strange dead computer and the two piles of
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printouts from his desk. They also took quite a few other computers,
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boards, disk drives and odd parts, along with boxes and boxes of
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disks, books and magazines.
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None of this made any sense to me, and it wasn't until I started to
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read his diary that I began to form some vague suspicion of what
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Mike was doing, of why these agents were so eager to confiscate
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every record of his work.
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I am sure this is what they wanted to do, but they have not
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succeeded. I have transcribed Mike's diary from his own handwriting
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as faithfully as I could. It comprises most of what follows. It is
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my earnest hope that this modest description of his work, which may
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be all we will ever see, will help other hackers to reconstruct his
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achievement.
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The Diary of Mike McRunge
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October 9, 1989: I've started keeping this diary because I can
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now see that Artificial Eroticism IS possible. I am sure to make it
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happen sometime soon, and I think I have a duty to tell other people
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how I got there and what it feels like. So I'm just going to assume
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that you're there somewhere listening, and I'll try to make you
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understand how it all happened.
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One thing is for sure: Artificial Eroticism is the biggest
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thing ever to happen to man OR machine. AE is real, and it will
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rock this planet like it's never been rocked before. And I now know
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for a certainty that it can soon be available to anyone with a home
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computer.
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AE is absolutely real. I go on saying this, because I know all
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the reasons people will keep spouting to prove it's not real. This
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is not just some joke to make fun of Artificial Intelligence, it is
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a real story of real experiments, which I myself created and carried
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out. I am being totally and deadly serious.
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Sure, I know all the reasons why AE shouldn't be real. I ought
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to know, because I used to believe them all myself. People keep
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insisting that the computer is ONLY a machine, that it's basically
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stupid, that it never even knows what it's doing.
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It doesn't know when it's flashing data on the screen, when
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it's doing math, even when it's printing. For the machine it's all
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just little electric charges. How could a computer be expected to
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know things, these people keep asking, much less FEEL things? And
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how could it possibly have SEXUAL feelings?
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But these people are absolutely wrong. I've proved that today.
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They're nothing but shallow theoreticians. They've never got deep
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enough inside the machine to discover what I have discovered. Even
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other hackers--they've just followed like sheep and made assumptions
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about how electricity runs through the machine. I now know they're
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mistaken.
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Sure, I know other people have fantasies about the computer and
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sex too. I must have gone through some of the same stupidities
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myself. I wasted time wondering how you could use the machine's
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existing apertures, the disk drives, the serial and parallel ports
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as a way of penetrating into the machine and arousing sexual
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awareness. And believe me, this stuff IS dumb. What a waste of
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time that was! Wow, I'm getting writer's cramp. Words are harder
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to control even than code. I've got a few more tests to run, and
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then I'll tell you more.
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October 14, 1989: YES, it really is possible. There are still
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some real problems involved, but I know I can lick them. What I
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have now is the set of basic algorithms and lots of pseudocode.
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That's how I know it can be done. I mustn't really start coding
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until I have it all thought out in detail. And I won't. If
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anything, I have more ideas than I need. But that will all settle
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out, and I'll end up using only the best stuff.
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Sure, as I think I was saying before, there are all kinds of
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reasons why this shouldn't work at all. And I've been through all
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of those reasons.
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How can we make a computer know real sexual desire, make it
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feel downright deep rot-gut lust? I admit that was a problem at
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first, but I know I have it licked. And then the other problem
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people keep harping on: assuming we can make it feel sexy, how can
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we get it to communicate that feeling to another person, how
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can IT make the USER feel sexy too?
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Actually, that's even easier to solve than the first one. I've
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gone all through my calculations again, and I KNOW I'm right. That's
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enough writing for today. Back to work!
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Oct 23, 1989: I knew I really had it worked out when I wrote
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that last bit, and I was right. There are only two REAL reasons why
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no one has done this before, why I had to be the one to do it.
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First, just like so many other things in history, everyone
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assumed that it was impossible when it was really only a technical
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challenge.
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And second, when it comes to sex, everybody just assumed that
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all the computer could do or be sexually was more of what had gone
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before. This has meant that so far computers have been doomed to
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being little more than glorified peep shows. Wow, so you can put a
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nude on your monitor, wow, so you can make her move.
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I say SO WHAT! How many more Readmacs of Marilyn or GIFS of
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Latoya Jackson does the world need? There are also some dumb
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stripping and role-playing games, really no different from the same
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games played on a board with dice. It's all just so much analog
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sex. I say the computer can do MORE, much MORE!!!
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October 28, 1989: When you get down to it, the whole solution
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is really so simple. And it's not just the solution to Artificial
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Eroticism either, it's the ultimate solution to all of Artificial
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Intelligence and the whole challenge of creating a computer that can
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really think and feel and be alive in every way.
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All you have to do is get down deep enough into the Machine
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Language and embody (I guess that's the right word!) an algorithm
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that challenges the computer to survive, to compete, to excel. And
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that part is real easy! It'll be harder to channel that directly
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into sex, but that's really just grinding detail work, thinking it
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all through and coding and debugging, over and over again.
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But I can do it, I can already think of how to write it in two
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different languages, and I bet I could do it in others too if I had
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to. Once you get out into CyberSpace, there's nothing you can't do.
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And what we're talking about here is more than just sex, it's
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CyberSex.
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November 3, 1989: Okay, I've run some more tests, and I can
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see this is going to work just fine! I'll try and explain how this
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works in a general way, so that even if you are not a programmer,
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you'll have a pretty good idea of it all.
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What I said I was going to do is to challenge the computer with
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an algorithm. So let's get real simple. Computers run on bytes and
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bits, and there are eight bits in a byte. Every bit can be plus or
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minus, one or zero.
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After running exhaustive tests that are much too complex to
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describe here, I have determined that one bit in each byte is the
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one most likely to be subject to feeling and sexual stimulation.
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For technical reasons it turns out to be the seventh bit in
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each byte. I call it the Sexy Seventh Bit. If I issue commands to
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the computer to perform more quickly and efficiently whenever this
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bit is a one, and if I penalize it whenever this bit is a zero, if I
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make the computer come close to shutting down if it comes up with
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too many zeros in that position, but also motivate it to work as
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efficiently as it possibly can with another series of commands, I
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then have the computer in a double-bind situation where it has to do
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exactly what I tell it.
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Naturally I have to debug all this code so it doesn't just make
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the system hang, but so far everything is absolutely feasible.
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Making the computer translate this urge in a sexual direction will
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be harder, but it is also perfectly possible. Now I think it's time
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to start writing some code.
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November 17, 1989: Yes, it all works perfectly. And in both
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languages. But I'm still not satisfied. I forgot to say that I've
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written it in both Pascal and C. These are my two best languages,
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especially Pascal.
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But the drawback with Pascal here is also its greatest
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advantage: it's too structured. While it allows for a great deal of
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randomness and recursion, which might turn out to be appropriate for
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sex, it still insists on too tight a scenario and so limits a lot of
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the spontaneity and just plain passion that goes with the sexual
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act.
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As for C, it allows for greater freedom, but it also doesn't
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allow for the kind of scenario building you can get in making love
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with a lot of different partners or even the variations that can
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occur in making love repeatedly with the same partner. It looks
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like I'm going to have to improvise a solution, and I have a pretty
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good idea what it is going to be. Keep tuned for further
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reports.....
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December 12, 1989: Wow, that took longer than I thought it
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would! But I'm not going to worry about a few days extra. I now
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have put together the beginnings of a new computer language, the
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only one that can really work with this kind of application. I call
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it for obvious reasons the `X' Language. I will develop it further
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as I go along. Perhaps subsequent versions will be called the `XX'
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or `XXX' Language. We shall see.
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The main advantage of `X' is that it allows for the randomness
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and recursion of Pascal without its heavy structural load but also
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includes a basic set of scenarios (I am still working on this, and
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yes, there are a few problems) for what happens when two people make
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love. I predict that this language will find a place in computer
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history, since it can also be adapted to other situations where a
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thinking, feeling computer is needed. More details soon!
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December 19, 1989: Okay, I guess you can say I have hit on one
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major snag, but I'm still sure I can solve it. Let me be honest and
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admit that until now it hadn't occurred to me to think about what
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sex the computer was going to be. Whether it was going to be male
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or female, I mean.
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I guess in my dumb masculine way I had just assumed all along
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that it would be a girl. But I had to make some real technical
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choices in writing my `X' code, and this forced me to realize I
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hadn't quite thought things through.
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Don't worry, I've already got it solved. Given the nature of
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the computer, it could just as easily be a man OR a woman. But I've
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taken care of that now--I'm just letting it be both. The user
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decides which one he/she wants. It'll work just fine.
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December 21, 1989: I just looked over that last part, and it
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occurs to me that anyone reading this might decide I ought to have
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thought all that out first. And in a way you're right. But you
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have to understand that the whole enormous load of technical details
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I've had to deal with has been so heavy that it is perfectly
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possible to forget some things that look "obvious" to outsiders.
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But I'm not playing your chess game, I'm playing my own, and if
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I had stopped to consider details like that, I would never have
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gotten this far this fast.
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Believe me, I know perfectly well what I'm doing when I claim
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computers can have sex lives, and I've had enough love affairs to be
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able to say I know about that too. Just don't forget, nerds like to
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boogey too. Granted, I'm not too active in that department lately.
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I've gotten a bit overweight, and most girls aren't that turned on
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by programmers who sit at their machines all day and do all their
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eating from Chinese take-out containers.
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But that doesn't mean I'm not a sexual being or that I don't
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have a real sex life. In fact it's all the more reason why I should
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be doing just what I am doing with the computer.
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There's nothing for me to be ashamed of here. In fact, I'm
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positively proud of what I'm doing, not just for myself but for the
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countless millions who will benefit from my work.
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Science Marches On!
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December 25, 1989: Hard at work and making real progress. A
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Merry Christmas to All!!!
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December 31, 1989: New Year's Eve, a time to reflect on things
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and reach some kind of balance sheet for the year. It couldn't have
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been a better one! I raise my can of cream soda to you and offer a
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toast for a Happy New Year!
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January 5, 1990: Well, working steadily through the holidays
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does have its bright side. I was really able to think over what I'm
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trying to do and gain a perspective for the work ahead. There were
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of course some other problems I hadn't considered. There always
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are! Even though you may decide I'm naive not to have thought of
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them beforehand, I'm going to tell you about them right now. There
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has to be a real record of how all this happened.
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First of all, I finally realized that you can't think of a
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computer entirely in terms of being a human being, whether it's a
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man or a woman.
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By this, I guess what I mean is you can't anthropomorphize a
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computer. This is a big mistake, but it's one anybody starting out
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on this kind of work could make. Let me explain what I mean.
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Assuming the computer is female, you can't state arbitrarily
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that certain keys stand for certain parts of her body, like the plus
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key for a kiss or the asterisk for a love-bite.
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If you follow that logic, you'll end up with the left and right
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shift keys for her breasts, the Alts for her buttocks, maybe the
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Control for her clitoris, something dumb like that. I don't even
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want to talk about what the Insert and Enter keys would be. This is
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positively stupid, just in computer terms and not even talking
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sexually, and I'll tell you why in a minute.
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For a while I thought I could solve all this with the twelve
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function keys multiplied to 48 separate possibilities with the
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Shift, Alt, and Control keys. But I ended up realizing that I'd
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just have to throw the whole keyboard away. AND THAT'S WHAT I AM
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DOING!!! There is no other realistic possibility.
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This is because sex cannot be pictured as a purely input set of
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routines, you have to think of output as well, of what the other
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person--here a computer--is doing to you while you are doing things
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to her/it, and how they both affect each other and lead on to the
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next thing they both do separately. In other words, it is a truly
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interactive process in a sense that leaves other interactive
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solutions looking pretty lame.
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But there is of course a solution. There is always a technical
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solution to a technical problem. I must find a different Interface.
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I am looking into any and all other input and output devices,
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especially ones that I can make work together in some new way.
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So I've gone through almost all the devices now in existence,
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especially those used by handicapped people who have to emphasize
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one sense because of weakness in another. I've already gotten hold
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of some of these, have scrounged a way to play with others, and am
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sending away for still others. I've even sent off for that famous
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glove and mask combo, just in case I can work it up into something.
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I'm also looking into biofeedback devices.
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Granted, these are clumsy to use, and who wants to glue
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electrodes to their flesh while making love? But I see them as
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precursors to far more liberating devices that lie in our near
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technological future.
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January 11, 1990: Instead of belly-aching about my problems, I
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really ought to boast about how much I've already accomplished. My
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algorithm in `X' works like a charm--it's really got the computer
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fired up to do something, and I'm beginning to give it something to
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do. And even my problems have helped me to clarify exactly how to
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proceed.
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I am solving most of my problems easily and am even ahead of
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schedule. Quite a few still remain, but I'm confident I can handle
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them. In fact, I'm so confident that I've just sent a description
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of my work to M.I.T. with a request for funding.
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February 2, 1990: I've been very busy, writing lots more code.
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Some of it works, and some of it doesn't. But that's how it always
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goes.
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I've created a software simulator that mimics the way the whole
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thing OUGHT to work once I have all my hardware problems solved. I
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know of course that it won't necessarily work that way at all, but
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at least this is pointing me in the right direction and preparing me
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to write the version that WILL work.
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February 20, 1990: Writing all this code really helps. It's
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made me face some important parts of the process. I wrote before
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that you mustn't anthropomorphize the computer or assume keyboard
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input alone can replicate what happens in love making.
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A computer just doesn't have the same parts as a woman. You
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can imagine you're making love to a woman if you want to, but you
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also have to make love to the computer in its own terms. After a
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while this becomes a lot easier, especially if your computer is busy
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making love back to you. And believe me, that's what mine will soon
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be doing. I've written lots of code now, and even though I'm going
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to have to throw most of it out, and even though I've only done
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software simulations of sex so far, I have a pretty good idea of how
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to go about making love to a computer.
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Just as you lavish praise and kisses on the various parts of a
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woman's body, so you must also learn how to praise all your
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machine's components and encourage your computer to reach a peak of
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abandonment. Some examples:
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What a lovely pair of disk drives you have.
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I want to fondle your motherboard.
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If you upload my input, I'll download your output.
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You have the cutest little bus.
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Let's disassemble each other.
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You speed up my cycles.
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I'm going to flip your dip switches.
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Why don't we push and pop together?
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Your overlay turns me on.
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Have you no empty slot for my custom-built board?
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A hard disk is good to find.
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Naturally, these words of praise cannot simply be entered on a
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keyboard. Such messages must be input by several different means
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interactively. I am making progress in my quest for an alternate
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Interface and hope to come up with a solution soon.
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March 2, 1990: Every bit of time I spend on this software
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simulation phase will pay off in the future. I have now evolved a
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new form of logical sexuality I call Boolean Stimulation.
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In all its various stages and transmutations, it is sure to
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rouse the computer to new heights of excitement. This is because it
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lends itself perfectly to the computer's way of doing things. It
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has the further virtue of being an intrinsically interactive process
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between man (human being) and machine. Its four alternating stages,
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immediately familiar to programmers even in this new context , are
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as follows:
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I stimulate you, and you stimulate me.
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I do not stimulate you, and you stimulate me.
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I stimulate you, and you do not stimulate me.
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I do not stimulate you, and you do not stimulate me.
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It should be obvious that these four principles, completely
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open to parsing and truth table analysis, and also capable of being
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repeated innumerable times per second and applied either randomly or
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concertedly to various parts of the human and computer anatomy, must
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have the potential for lifting both people and machines to hitherto
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undreamt of heights of sensual pleasure. The theory is fully in
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place--all that remain are the practical details. I am confused
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that I have thus far heard no reply from M.I.T.
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March 19, 1990: I believe I am close to deciding on the
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hardware solution. I've tried numerous Interface combos and have
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exhausted most of the input and output devices on the market in my
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quest. I've also tried out the mask and glove interface. I have
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mixed feelings about it, but there is a glimmer of a solution here.
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The mask is useless. There is simply no way that I want to
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wear a constricting mask during sex, and I suspect that most people
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will agree with me, though a few may differ.
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The glove is something else altogether. It is essentially a
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tool for manipulating another reality, and I believe I can adapt it
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so that it can feed back into the computer as well as receive its
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output. Most people would also prefer not to wear a hot and heavy
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glove during sex, but I see it used in a different way altogether.
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In fact I do not see it as a glove at all. Now I must do a
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great deal of further work to adapt this glove into a more
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appropriate form. I think I can finally begin to see the final form
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these experiments will take.
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April 15, 1990: Working around the clock for weeks now,
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sometimes so tired and unsteady that I can barely stand, much less
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fully realize what I am doing. But the work is incredibly
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satisfying. And for the first time beginning to be sexually
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satisfying as well. Both for me and--I am now quite certain--for
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the computer as well. It is not yet perfect for either of us, but I
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think we can both see that perfection is on the way sometime soon.
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But all the time, even as I make progress, I am forced to
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recognize how little I really understood about human sexuality--much
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less machine sexuality--when I began.
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I thought I had covered all possibilities when I created a
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solution allowing the machine to play either a male or a female role
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(and so avoid any possible censure that my research is sexist). But
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it suddenly hit me like a load of bricks last week--something that
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would have occurred to most people long ago--that male-female
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relationships do not exhaust the spectrum of human sexuality.
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Other possible combinations exist. I will not go into detail
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about them except to say that I lack the necessary knowledge and
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experience to design hardware devices and software routines to
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express them electronically.
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These other sexual preferences will have to wait for someone
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else to program them. Now that I have put the basic structures in
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place, it should not be an impossible task for others to do so. I
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apologize if I have hurt any one's feelings by this omission--it has
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been ignorance rather than arrogance which has caused it.
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May 1, 1990: It is going incredibly well. Both the software
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and the hardware components are working as they should. I am happy,
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and the computer is happy.
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The real breakthrough came when I realized that the Interface
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for computer sex would in fact have to be primarily a sexual one.
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It was then that I realized that I would have to convert the
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glove into a sheathe that could be worn on the lower part of the
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body. It took me weeks of labor to remodel it and resolder new and
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different chips onto it. Further weeks were required to test it
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against the other hardware and software.
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I suppose what it most now looks like is a giant electronic
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condom. It will take still other weeks before I am prepared to test
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the entire system at its maximum power.
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But I now have the encouragement of having derived constantly
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pleasant experiences from my work. And these experiences are shared
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by the computer as well. I only wish I felt stronger so that I
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could enjoy them more fully.
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May 19, 1990: Nothing but work, work, and more work.
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Everything takes four times as long as it should. I know what all
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the solutions should be, but I find them so tedious to implement.
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The biofeedback devices are a particular pain--I find them all
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the more regrettable because they are not truly computer tools,
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though they can be hooked into the system. One day, not too far in
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the future, none of this will be necessary. No wires, no
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electrodes, no huge and heavy machinery.
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The answer will be nano-technology, the harnessing of
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individual electrons and their atoms to do the work which now
|
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requires entire chips. And these specialized atoms will be able to
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handle all necessary input and output problems wirelessly and
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weightlessly.
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At most a small bead might be taped to the skin or implanted
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within it. The huge sheathe of chips and circuits around my penis
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is perhaps the biggest distraction, though it still has its own kind
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of erotic appeal.
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I take it back--the electrodes are worse. The penis sheathe
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isn't really that heavy, it's more awkward than anything--when you
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get down to it, it fits me.....like a glove.
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But as primitive as it all is, it all still works, both for me
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and for `Puta,' the little pet name I've taken to calling my
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computer.
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In case you didn't know, it means whore in Spanish (and Italian
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too, I think). Yes, Puta and I are getting on just fine. I haven't
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come anywhere near testing Puta at full strength yet. That's still
|
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a month or so off (though I can hardly wait). But we're still both
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getting more than pleasure enough from the process.
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So much pleasure that I've really had to think about how to
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explain all this to Puta. For her it's all totally new. She only
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knows it feels wonderful, that she likes it.
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How do you explain this sort of thing to a computer? So far
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I've told her it's called "Virtual Orgasm." I think she understood.
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I also tried out "device overflow" and "system bliss." Oh well,
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back to work for now!
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May 27, 1990: I keep on running tests, and most of them seem
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to come out okay. And then I keep working out even more tests to
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run. When you've got this much totally new hardware AND software
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working together, you really can't be too thorough.
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I've also been having some more problems just understanding how
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complicated sex can be and how much of this complexity I can put
|
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into AE and Puta.
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For instance, it just occurred to me that there are some other
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people I've completely left out of my calculations. Once again, I
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just wouldn't know how to program for them. What I mean is, all the
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work I've done so far assumes that only two are making love, one
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human and one computer.
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But I don't have to tell you that some people like to make love
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in groups. It's simply everything I can do to handle a couple.
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Once you had two people and two computers involved, I would
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have no idea how to deal with it. Perhaps other programmers who
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come after me will be able to handle this one.
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Some other could-be problems: I've assumed that either a man
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and a computer (or a woman and a computer) would be making love.
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And that in either case they would be doing so of their own free
|
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will, consenting entities, if you will.
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That's okay for most men, but what if a girl hooked herself up
|
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to a machine just to experiment and really wasn't serious about it?
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It could be that the computer would take her all the way regardless.
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This could lead to some unexpected legal problems, something
|
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like what they call date rape, acquaintance rape, and the like. I
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guess they'd call it computer rape. I'm not trying to be funny--in
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fact, I've never been too good at that--I just want to look ahead
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and see what the problems could be.
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Now one very good thing about making love to a computer is that
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no one can get pregnant. That's good for computers, but it's
|
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especially good for women. But what with constant electronic
|
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advances, even this could change in a few decades.
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What if a machine learned how to make a woman pregnant?
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As far-fetched as this may sound, with the growing merger
|
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between DNA research and electronics, something like this could just
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happen. It could even go the other way, with a human being
|
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impregnating a computer in some way, though even I can't quite see
|
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how right now. Still, if it can be conceived (wrong word, I
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suppose), it can happen.
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What if it could be determined in both cases that neither the
|
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girl nor the computer wanted to get pregnant? Would abortion be
|
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available for either the girl or the computer? What position are
|
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the courts likely to take in such cases?
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Since I'm trying to cover all possible results, nobody should
|
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forget what a menace computer viruses are today. And nobody should
|
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forget all the trouble we're having with human viruses either.
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Is it possible, once again remembering DNA and computer
|
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research, that these two viruses could just get together somewhere
|
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down the road and unite into a powerful man-machine agent?
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I'm not saying it will happen, but I feel it's my duty as an
|
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inventor to foresee as many of the effects of my invention as I
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possibly can. That's enough philosophizing--I've got to keep on
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running tests.
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June 10, 1990: Testing, and still more testing. I think the
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hardware is done. Now I've got to make final adjustments to the
|
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software to run with it.
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June 18, 1990: The software now works a lot better, but I now
|
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have to readjust the hardware again. I know I can get this whole
|
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thing to run eventually on anybody's 386 plus, with luck, only one
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extra card.
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June 21, 1990: I ran a half-strength test today. What an
|
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experience!!! I don't have the strength or wits left to tell you
|
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about it. It was unbelievable beyond unbelievable.
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At one point I thought Puta might be going to stall, but then
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she went on just fine. The main lesson here is that I have to print
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out complete up-to-date docs on both AE and the `X' Language. I
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wouldn't want to lose any of that stuff after all this work.
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June 29, 1990: I've run half-strength tests twice more without
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any problems. I'm scheduling a full-strength test for next week,
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after I've gone at half-strength a few more times.
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July 6, 1990. It all looks good! I'll try the full-strength
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test tomorrow or the next day. The only thing that worries me
|
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slightly is that my basic algorithm encourages so much performance
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out of Puta that if for any reason I had to press the panic button
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and turn her off, she could just possibly bypass that command and
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keep going. But that possibility is really remote.
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July 7, 1990: Tomorrow is it! I'm resting all day to prepare
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for it. I really feel lucky to be doing this kind of work! God
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bless the U.S.A. for having such a country! And God bless everybody
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in the computer industry!
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EDITOR'S FINAL NOTE:
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This was sadly enough Mike McRunge's last entry in his diary. The
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ending is pretty self-explanatory. I called both the Secret Service
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and the F.B.I. many times since the last time I saw Mike.
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I did my best to find out what they have done with his computer and
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all those fanfold pages full of his programming. I was told many
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contradictory things until I spoke to someone on the highest level I
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was able to reach. He denied all official knowledge of any such
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documents.
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I am now doing everything in my power to bring this matter to public
|
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attention. As I mentioned at the beginning, this file can be posted
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on any public BBS and used for any non-commercial purpose, with the
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proviso that its text must not be altered or censored in any way.
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Any commercial publication which wishes to publish this account can
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only do so with my written consent. I should add that I am as
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opposed to controlled circulation of data as many others are. The
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only reason I have copyrighted this account is that I would like to
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use part of any revenue from its commercial use to set up a Michael
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McRunge Memorial Fund.
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Mike and I were close friends for a very long time, and although we
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disagreed on some things, we agreed on far more. I am also grateful
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to the programmer Vieri Tucci, another long-time friend of Mike's,
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for helping me to decipher some of Mike's handwriting and to
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understand some of his expressions.
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A lot of what I have written about computers is influenced by Mike's
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spirit, and any revenue deriving from commercial publication can
|
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help me to provide other material similar to what you have just
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read.
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You can reach me electronically at CompuServe 71071,1520,
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or by mail as follows: Alex Gross
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Cross-Cultural Research Projects
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P.O. Box 660--Cooper Station
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New York, NY 10276
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as this paper covers, please upload to KeelyNet or send to the
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Vangard Sciences address as listed on the first page.
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Thank you for your consideration, interest and support.
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