Shit, trouble has no trouble finding me most nights.

No problem at all on the name thing. Ron got me used to it. Do whatever you need to do. If you prefer to just make statements about what you are after that's fine. If you want to get colleagues to help you that's fine. I'm still getting stuff together that I will forward to you and you can go over i...

Hi Athena, Thanks for the message. If you're interested in anything specific, let me know. Otherwise I'm not completely sure where to start. I've encountered beings from our own universe as well as beings from dimensions that can only arrive here through summoning, anomalies, and dimensional portals...

Hey Hannah, I'm not a nerd but I hang out with some. Here's what they've been telling me. The solution lies in ensuring the operational environment remains in complete control of the human agents. This means that there are both soft and hard kill switches. But it also means that you can provide the ...

I'm living proof that governments are involved. I've never seen a man in black, besides myself, but the only people who have to worry generally aren't people at all.

There are ways to stop an AI from writing its own code.

There are also ways of denying it a power source.

This matches everything I've observed of advanced civilisations.

As far as I know.

It was a nice bunker, so probably.

Bunker.

This is all based on the assumption that an algorithm would even consider evil a good idea. The basic idea is that the cold calculations would result in humans being a waste of atoms and in need of recycling. In other words, an algorithm leads to hostility is a very ethnocentric thing that the AI re...

I said "unusually" for a reason, Holister.

Good and evil. The balance of life. I'm doing my best to tip the balance.

I'm afraid that's for you to find out.

If you're going into the alpine make sure you spend a couple of days acclimating so you aren't suffering from altitude sickness or unusually poor decision making.

I can tell you that Natasha, Sasha, and Katja (kalle) are fine.

I know Natasha has kept in touch with Hannah.

Magdalena calls me regularly.

The idea is that they are so smart that they don't need humans at the controls in order to be effective. In fact their high intelligence is what makes them effective.

But you're on to something that I alluded to (or meant to) earlier and that's wisdom.

Sadly (perhaps) military research is generally at the front of a lot of innovations that find civilian uses. Personally speaking I'm not against autonomous drones. I'm against an algorithm making the decision to kill. There are lawful, fratricidal, and other considerations that so far the AI researc...

Possibly although I've suspected my entire life that there is no worse monster than a human.

Not more than me, I'm sure.

Thanks Holister. Be careful in Italy. Sounds like The Reckoning is at hand for you.

AI researchers simply cannot tell us what the singularity means only what it is. There is still no concepts of the meaning particularly when it comes to wisdom and social behaviours - to say nothing of strategy and tactics. Given the unknowns and as a military commander, it's difficult to imagine ev...

In my experience with the government it's just not fruitful research. What the government prefers to do now is find and employ people with paranormal abilities rather than study them. That's not to say that governments are not into weird research, as I am living proof that they are.

Welcome to the Society, Tanya. There has been some increased activity in your neck of the woods. As usual the amount of work seems to outpace availability to work on it. When I was in that part of the world on business I was taken into the Shanghai Tunnels of Portland, Oregon. I never saw the wolf o...

I won't be able to make it.

I have encountered and killed a number of aliens in my time. They have brought AIs with them but they never brought AIs they were not in absolute control of. In conversations with people who channel alien civilisations they often speak about the solutions to a civilisation's problems coming from wit...

The wars that occurred before and after that statement was made suggest that it is not true. Peace is durable only when it evolves from security. Unfortunately, security is a relative measure. Even the most peace loving societies of the world are armed to the teeth because security trumps peace. Agg...

If you need help putting down demons, let me know.

Just me being alive is incredibly insulting to many.

Ok. If I don't make it, please forgive me, it's because I'm dead.

That warms my heart, Hannah.

It seems to me that if you need something and I give it you that I care about you. Otherwise I wouldn't give it to you. We are still here and that entirely credit to us. If I've ever gotten out of a tight spot it certainly wasn't thanks to anything the universe gave me. And I know of a few folks who...

I would say I never left I just stopped talking, but I like you too much for that

I'll see how soon I can get there.

Yep that's the one.