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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:12631 comp.os.386bsd.misc:999 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!sneezy.cc.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: vax@sneezy.cc.utexas.edu (Vax) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Clustering - red hot on UNIX [ was Re: Excuse me? ] Date: 13 Sep 1993 19:23:47 -0500 Organization: The University of Texas - Austin Lines: 43 Message-ID: <2732uj$ius@sneezy.cc.utexas.edu> References: <JKH.93Sep9212249@whisker.lotus.ie> <jmonroyCD4qtC.22n@netcom.com> <CD7KzA.HGy@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk> <VIXIE.93Sep11174809@gw.home.vix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sneezy.cc.utexas.edu In article <VIXIE.93Sep11174809@gw.home.vix.com>, Paul A Vixie <vixie@gw.home.vix.com> wrote: >I'd like to offer an observation on the Jesus Monroy phenomena visible here. >Many of you have wondered how this obviously clue-impaired individual could >possibly post article after article in gleeful defiance of the universal scorn >and disgust people feel for him. > >To fully understand the phenomena you have to have been reading Usenet more or >less full time for 10 years or more. In my time I have seen the Jesus Monroy >phenomena repeated many times -- by different people, in different newsgroups, >but every other detail is the same. You have noted the pattern, but you have missed the forest for the trees. Jesus Monroy, Jr. is actually a very advanced form of AI, developed in the dark recesses of the CS labs in Montana, far away from the eyes of modern society, in close cooperation with the NSA and banished Nazi war criminals. You see, through careful manipulation, Jesus Monroy Jr (known internally as JM-2) seems to have a minimal benefit to society as a whole, but this is mainly due to his repeated postings regarding code which is ubiquitous yet impossible to pinpoint, not unlike the sheer strangeness which occasionally surfaces in his ramblings. You will note that he occasionally lapses from near-sensibility into nonsense, which is characteristic of the fine tuning that his neural net needs. You see, it would be all to EASY to make an AI that seemed human, and made meaningful posts, but JMJ's are far more than that - they are disturbing because they lack the underlying common sense that a human possesses, the underlying sense of order, to such "dribble". It is this etheric, fleeting quality which is meant to disturb us, and at the same time to be almost tolerable... insidious, is it not? My friend, who once ventured into the depths of the montana labs, just moved here to Austin to relax. It seems that whatever he saw in those labs was disquieting enough that a normal, balanced individual turned into a shrieking madman, and needed rest to recover from his mental breakdown. I can't seem to remember what it was he told me, perhaps my own mind rejected his fragments of broken speech like antibodies reject virus cells, and yet, the tone of his voice haunts me to this day.... >Practice ignorance. Ignore them and they will make less noise. Sorry, I couldn't help myself :-) -- Protect our endangered bandwidth - reply by email. NO BIG SIGS! VaX#n8 vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu - Don't blame me if the finger daemon is down