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Re: My likely-nonsense theory

Posted By: Steve Levinson Date: 4/4/05 12:19 p.m.
In Response To: Re: My likely-nonsense theory (MrHen)

: What we do know is networks all act exactly the same. Every terminal is the
: same, every interface is the same. For some reason the sheild generators
: all re-charge you and most everything is pressurized with oxygen. A
: "everything is Jrro" theory may not be far off.
A very intriguing thought. However, from the first message in Terminal 1 in Waterloo Waterpark:
Your suit has been modified to recharge at
Pfhor power stations and to use Pfhor
uplink terminals to upload yourself into a
pattern buffer on my ship.

Now obviously Bungie gave quite a bit of thought to inquisitive people like us and tried to head us off at the pass. Unfortunatley, there are situations when the pattern upload to Boomer cold not work - after you destroy Durandal's core in Begging for Mercy, for example. There has been quite a lot of speculation on this before and I'm not sure if any of us have come anywhere close to a concensus. Perhaps Boomer's systems remained active, even after the ship crash-landed and Durandal's core was pulled. More likely Durandal was just telling us this to get us to act quickly without worrying about uploading our pattern to a Pfhor database that they could easily hack into. But then the mechanism of pattern buffering has also been the subject of intense speculation here and although there is some disagreement, I think that most of us believe that PB's work by serving as a time beacon to our Jjaro implants. When we die, our memories are uploaded into the last pattern buffer we accessed at the moment we accessed it, so that we are able to "remember" what went wrong and to try to avoid making the same errors this time. The PB's, shield recharges and our own implants are probably all of Jjaro origin, explaining the compatibility.
The situation with oxygen is a bit trickier, since xenobiology does not guarantee that we would all be O2 breathers, or that we would all be adapted to the same range of O2 partial pressures and trace element tolerance. Since we're cybernetic, it's likely that we have been genetically adapted to a wider range of atmospheres, but then what about Bob? It's possible that the Pfhor genetically adapted them as well. More likely is that the Pfhor are forced to make use of a more "general" atmosphere in their ships to accommodate all their enslaved client races. We can specifically note that the Pfhor fighters always wear a face mask, suggesting that they are not adapted to the environment on the Marathon, whereas the enforcers are. There has also been speculation that some of the vacuum levels we encounter - particularly Post Naval Trauma - are really levels with an non-oxygen atmosphere. The reason is that we're told that enforcers are not vacuum-enabled and, yet, they survive on this level.
Interesting stuff . . .

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Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues J-M 4/2/05 1:37 p.m.

Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues *NM* J-M 4/2/05 1:37 p.m.

Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues J-M 4/2/05 1:38 p.m.

Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues Bob-B-Q 4/2/05 2:29 p.m.

Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues duality 4/2/05 8:20 p.m.

Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues J-M 4/3/05 7:03 a.m.

They also have a forced locality MrHen 4/3/05 8:52 a.m.

Does seem that way. J-M 4/3/05 10:33 a.m.

Continuity howekern 4/3/05 4:22 p.m.

Re: Continuity J-M 4/3/05 8:45 p.m.

Re: Continuity howekern 4/5/05 3:31 p.m.

Copied identities MrHen 4/5/05 6:44 p.m.

Continuity again Forrest of B.org 4/5/05 7:29 p.m.

Re: They also have a forced locality Chlazza 4/3/05 10:55 a.m.

Interesting. J-M 4/3/05 1:01 p.m.

Re: Interesting. Chlazza 4/3/05 2:45 p.m.

Re: Interesting. J-M 4/3/05 3:19 p.m.

Copied people MrHen 4/3/05 5:37 p.m.

Re: Interesting. thermoplyae 4/3/05 6:45 p.m.

Re: Interesting. J-M 4/3/05 8:49 p.m.

At least twice MrHen 4/4/05 5:34 a.m.

Google just shows those two. *NM* MrHen 4/4/05 5:57 a.m.

Re: Interesting. thermoplyae 4/6/05 11:41 a.m.

Re: Interesting. Chaemera 4/3/05 8:17 p.m.

modern AIs Josh M. 4/13/05 7:53 p.m.

daisy daisy.... *NM* duality 4/13/05 9:04 p.m.

Re: Interesting. Document 10/24/06 7:53 a.m.

copying neural networks? MrHen 10/24/06 4:45 p.m.

Re: They also have a forced locality howekern 4/5/05 4:03 p.m.

Re: They also have a forced locality blake37 4/5/05 4:25 p.m.

Yow... and I agree. MrHen 4/5/05 7:12 p.m.

Re: They also have a forced locality J-M 4/6/05 1:56 a.m.

Re: They also have a forced locality Steve Levinson 4/6/05 7:44 a.m.

Re: They also have a forced locality J-M 4/6/05 5:50 p.m.

Re: They also have a forced locality MrHen 10/24/06 5:54 p.m.

Re: They also have a forced locality Forrest of B.org 10/24/06 6:29 p.m.

Where is Leela's last message? MrHen 10/25/06 5:01 a.m.

Re: They also have a forced locality Document 10/25/06 9:50 a.m.

they spelled it wrong... *NM* MrHen 10/25/06 10:18 a.m.

Re: They also have a forced locality Document 10/24/06 8:23 p.m.

Re: They also have a forced locality ukimalefu 10/24/06 8:53 p.m.

Re: They also have a forced locality thermoplyae 10/24/06 10:49 p.m.

what? MrHen 10/25/06 5:21 a.m.

Re: what? thermoplyae 10/25/06 7:29 a.m.

misunderstandings... :P MrHen 10/25/06 8:45 a.m.

Re: misunderstandings... :P Document 10/25/06 9:52 a.m.

thanks! you rock... MrHen 10/25/06 10:19 a.m.

Re: misunderstandings... :P thermoplyae 10/25/06 11:57 a.m.

oh, got it MrHen 10/25/06 12:59 p.m.

Re: oh, got it thermoplyae 10/25/06 1:26 p.m.

#alephone, eh? MrHen 10/25/06 8:30 p.m.

Re: #alephone, eh? thermoplyae 10/25/06 11:17 p.m.

Rampancy and Exponentiatial Growth Forrest of B.org 10/25/06 4:15 p.m.

Re: Rampancy and Exponentiatial Growth thermoplyae 10/25/06 11:14 p.m.

More numbers MrHen 10/25/06 5:18 a.m.

AIs as "Ghosts in the machine" ForceMorph 4/8/05 6:16 p.m.

Re: AIs as "Ghosts in the machine" Forrest of B.org 4/8/05 8:05 p.m.

Shades of Mamoru Oshii... *NM* Bob-B-Q 4/9/05 5:56 a.m.

Re: "a planetary sized network" Document 10/25/06 4:51 p.m.

My likely-nonsense theory howekern 4/3/05 4:10 p.m.

Re: My likely-nonsense theory Chaemera 4/3/05 8:28 p.m.

Re: My likely-nonsense theory J-M 4/3/05 8:45 p.m.

Durandal has you! *NM* ukimalefu 4/3/05 10:06 p.m.

Re: Durandal has you! J-M 4/3/05 10:18 p.m.

Re: My likely-nonsense theory MrHen 4/4/05 5:47 a.m.

Re: My likely-nonsense theory Steve Levinson 4/4/05 12:19 p.m.

Stages of Rampancy in Human Psychology Forrest of B.org 4/3/05 10:20 p.m.

Re: Stages of Rampancy in Human Psychology Forrest of B.org 4/3/05 10:22 p.m.

Re: Stages of Rampancy in Human Psychology MrHen 4/4/05 5:55 a.m.

Re: Stages of Rampancy in Human Psychology Document 11/1/06 9:31 a.m.

Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues J-M 4/6/05 5:55 p.m.

Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues Forrest of B.org 4/7/05 8:34 a.m.

Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues J-M 4/7/05 4:37 p.m.

Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues Forrest of B.org 4/7/05 5:10 p.m.

Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues J-M 4/8/05 1:41 a.m.

Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues Steve Levinson 4/8/05 8:29 a.m.

Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues duality 4/11/05 1:57 p.m.

Doesn't account for the world reset. MrHen 4/13/05 5:40 a.m.

Re: Doesn't account for the world reset. Andrew Nagy (mb) 4/13/05 10:48 a.m.

Re: Doesn't account for the world reset. howekern 4/13/05 4:39 p.m.

Re: Doesn't account for the world reset. ukimalefu 4/14/05 12:52 p.m.

Yeah, but that's boring MrHen 4/15/05 8:03 a.m.

Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues Forrest of B.org 4/11/05 3:11 p.m.

Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues J-M 4/11/05 3:42 p.m.

Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues Document 10/24/06 8:49 a.m.

Re: Cybertonics, The Autonomy of an AI AlexZander 10/30/06 2:35 p.m.

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: A very intriguing thought. However, from the first message in Terminal 1 in : Waterloo Waterpark : Your suit has been modified to recharge at : Pfhor power stations and to use Pfhor : uplink terminals to upload yourself into a : pattern buffer on my ship. : Now obviously Bungie gave quite a bit of thought to inquisitive people like : us and tried to head us off at the pass. Unfortunatley, there are : situations when the pattern upload to Boomer cold not work - after you : destroy Durandal's core in Begging for Mercy, for example. There has been : quite a lot of speculation on this before and I'm not sure if any of us : have come anywhere close to a concensus. Perhaps Boomer's systems remained : active, even after the ship crash-landed and Durandal's core was pulled. : More likely Durandal was just telling us this to get us to act quickly : without worrying about uploading our pattern to a Pfhor database that they : could easily hack into. But then the mechanism of pattern buffering has : also been the subject of intense speculation here and although there is : some disagreement, I think that most of us believe that PB's work by : serving as a time beacon to our Jjaro implants. When we die, our memories : are uploaded into the last pattern buffer we accessed at the moment we : accessed it, so that we are able to "remember" what went wrong : and to try to avoid making the same errors this time. The PB's, shield : recharges and our own implants are probably all of Jjaro origin, : explaining the compatibility. : The situation with oxygen is a bit trickier, since xenobiology does not : guarantee that we would all be O2 breathers, or that we would all be : adapted to the same range of O2 partial pressures and trace element : tolerance. Since we're cybernetic, it's likely that we have been : genetically adapted to a wider range of atmospheres, but then what about : Bob? It's possible that the Pfhor genetically adapted them as well. More : likely is that the Pfhor are forced to make use of a more : "general" atmosphere in their ships to accommodate all their : enslaved client races. We can specifically note that the Pfhor fighters : always wear a face mask, suggesting that they are not adapted to the : environment on the Marathon, whereas the enforcers are. There has also : been speculation that some of the vacuum levels we encounter - : particularly Post Naval Trauma - are really levels with an non-oxygen : atmosphere. The reason is that we're told that enforcers are not : vacuum-enabled and, yet, they survive on this level. : Interesting stuff . . .

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Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues	J-M	4/2/05 1:37 p.m.
Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues NM	J-M	4/2/05 1:37 p.m.
Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues	J-M	4/2/05 1:38 p.m.
Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues	Bob-B-Q	4/2/05 2:29 p.m.
Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues	duality	4/2/05 8:20 p.m.
Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues	J-M	4/3/05 7:03 a.m.
They also have a forced locality	MrHen	4/3/05 8:52 a.m.
Does seem that way.	J-M	4/3/05 10:33 a.m.
Continuity	howekern	4/3/05 4:22 p.m.
Re: Continuity	J-M	4/3/05 8:45 p.m.
Re: Continuity	howekern	4/5/05 3:31 p.m.
Copied identities	MrHen	4/5/05 6:44 p.m.
Continuity again	Forrest of B.org	4/5/05 7:29 p.m.
Re: They also have a forced locality	Chlazza	4/3/05 10:55 a.m.
Interesting.	J-M	4/3/05 1:01 p.m.
Re: Interesting.	Chlazza	4/3/05 2:45 p.m.
Re: Interesting.	J-M	4/3/05 3:19 p.m.
Copied people	MrHen	4/3/05 5:37 p.m.
Re: Interesting.	thermoplyae	4/3/05 6:45 p.m.
Re: Interesting.	J-M	4/3/05 8:49 p.m.
At least twice	MrHen	4/4/05 5:34 a.m.
Google just shows those two. NM	MrHen	4/4/05 5:57 a.m.
Re: Interesting.	thermoplyae	4/6/05 11:41 a.m.
Re: Interesting.	Chaemera	4/3/05 8:17 p.m.
modern AIs	Josh M.	4/13/05 7:53 p.m.
daisy daisy.... NM	duality	4/13/05 9:04 p.m.
Re: Interesting.	Document	10/24/06 7:53 a.m.
copying neural networks?	MrHen	10/24/06 4:45 p.m.
Re: They also have a forced locality	howekern	4/5/05 4:03 p.m.
Re: They also have a forced locality	blake37	4/5/05 4:25 p.m.
Yow... and I agree.	MrHen	4/5/05 7:12 p.m.
Re: They also have a forced locality	J-M	4/6/05 1:56 a.m.
Re: They also have a forced locality	Steve Levinson	4/6/05 7:44 a.m.
Re: They also have a forced locality	J-M	4/6/05 5:50 p.m.
Re: They also have a forced locality	MrHen	10/24/06 5:54 p.m.
Re: They also have a forced locality	Forrest of B.org	10/24/06 6:29 p.m.
Where is Leela's last message?	MrHen	10/25/06 5:01 a.m.
Re: They also have a forced locality	Document	10/25/06 9:50 a.m.
they spelled it wrong... NM	MrHen	10/25/06 10:18 a.m.
Re: They also have a forced locality	Document	10/24/06 8:23 p.m.
Re: They also have a forced locality	ukimalefu	10/24/06 8:53 p.m.
Re: They also have a forced locality	thermoplyae	10/24/06 10:49 p.m.
what?	MrHen	10/25/06 5:21 a.m.
Re: what?	thermoplyae	10/25/06 7:29 a.m.
misunderstandings... :P	MrHen	10/25/06 8:45 a.m.
Re: misunderstandings... :P	Document	10/25/06 9:52 a.m.
thanks! you rock...	MrHen	10/25/06 10:19 a.m.
Re: misunderstandings... :P	thermoplyae	10/25/06 11:57 a.m.
oh, got it	MrHen	10/25/06 12:59 p.m.
Re: oh, got it	thermoplyae	10/25/06 1:26 p.m.
#alephone, eh?	MrHen	10/25/06 8:30 p.m.
Re: #alephone, eh?	thermoplyae	10/25/06 11:17 p.m.
Rampancy and Exponentiatial Growth	Forrest of B.org	10/25/06 4:15 p.m.
Re: Rampancy and Exponentiatial Growth	thermoplyae	10/25/06 11:14 p.m.
More numbers	MrHen	10/25/06 5:18 a.m.
AIs as "Ghosts in the machine"	ForceMorph	4/8/05 6:16 p.m.
Re: AIs as "Ghosts in the machine"	Forrest of B.org	4/8/05 8:05 p.m.
Shades of Mamoru Oshii... NM	Bob-B-Q	4/9/05 5:56 a.m.
Re: "a planetary sized network"	Document	10/25/06 4:51 p.m.
My likely-nonsense theory	howekern	4/3/05 4:10 p.m.
Re: My likely-nonsense theory	Chaemera	4/3/05 8:28 p.m.
Re: My likely-nonsense theory	J-M	4/3/05 8:45 p.m.
Durandal has you! NM	ukimalefu	4/3/05 10:06 p.m.
Re: Durandal has you!	J-M	4/3/05 10:18 p.m.
Re: My likely-nonsense theory	MrHen	4/4/05 5:47 a.m.
Re: My likely-nonsense theory	Steve Levinson	4/4/05 12:19 p.m.
Stages of Rampancy in Human Psychology	Forrest of B.org	4/3/05 10:20 p.m.
Re: Stages of Rampancy in Human Psychology	Forrest of B.org	4/3/05 10:22 p.m.
Re: Stages of Rampancy in Human Psychology	MrHen	4/4/05 5:55 a.m.
Re: Stages of Rampancy in Human Psychology	Document	11/1/06 9:31 a.m.
Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues	J-M	4/6/05 5:55 p.m.
Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues	Forrest of B.org	4/7/05 8:34 a.m.
Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues	J-M	4/7/05 4:37 p.m.
Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues	Forrest of B.org	4/7/05 5:10 p.m.
Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues	J-M	4/8/05 1:41 a.m.
Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues	Steve Levinson	4/8/05 8:29 a.m.
Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues	duality	4/11/05 1:57 p.m.
Doesn't account for the world reset.	MrHen	4/13/05 5:40 a.m.
Re: Doesn't account for the world reset.	Andrew Nagy (mb)	4/13/05 10:48 a.m.
Re: Doesn't account for the world reset.	howekern	4/13/05 4:39 p.m.
Re: Doesn't account for the world reset.	ukimalefu	4/14/05 12:52 p.m.
Yeah, but that's boring	MrHen	4/15/05 8:03 a.m.
Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues	Forrest of B.org	4/11/05 3:11 p.m.
Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues	J-M	4/11/05 3:42 p.m.
Re: Cybertonics, AIs, and fundamental issues	Document	10/24/06 8:49 a.m.
Re: Cybertonics, The Autonomy of an AI	AlexZander	10/30/06 2:35 p.m.



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	Message: : A very intriguing thought. However, from the first message in Terminal 1 in : Waterloo Waterpark : Your suit has been modified to recharge at : Pfhor power stations and to use Pfhor : uplink terminals to upload yourself into a : pattern buffer on my ship. : Now obviously Bungie gave quite a bit of thought to inquisitive people like : us and tried to head us off at the pass. Unfortunatley, there are : situations when the pattern upload to Boomer cold not work - after you : destroy Durandal's core in Begging for Mercy, for example. There has been : quite a lot of speculation on this before and I'm not sure if any of us : have come anywhere close to a concensus. Perhaps Boomer's systems remained : active, even after the ship crash-landed and Durandal's core was pulled. : More likely Durandal was just telling us this to get us to act quickly : without worrying about uploading our pattern to a Pfhor database that they : could easily hack into. But then the mechanism of pattern buffering has : also been the subject of intense speculation here and although there is : some disagreement, I think that most of us believe that PB's work by : serving as a time beacon to our Jjaro implants. When we die, our memories : are uploaded into the last pattern buffer we accessed at the moment we : accessed it, so that we are able to "remember" what went wrong : and to try to avoid making the same errors this time. The PB's, shield : recharges and our own implants are probably all of Jjaro origin, : explaining the compatibility. : The situation with oxygen is a bit trickier, since xenobiology does not : guarantee that we would all be O2 breathers, or that we would all be : adapted to the same range of O2 partial pressures and trace element : tolerance. Since we're cybernetic, it's likely that we have been : genetically adapted to a wider range of atmospheres, but then what about : Bob? It's possible that the Pfhor genetically adapted them as well. More : likely is that the Pfhor are forced to make use of a more : "general" atmosphere in their ships to accommodate all their : enslaved client races. We can specifically note that the Pfhor fighters : always wear a face mask, suggesting that they are not adapted to the : environment on the Marathon, whereas the enforcers are. There has also : been speculation that some of the vacuum levels we encounter - : particularly Post Naval Trauma - are really levels with an non-oxygen : atmosphere. The reason is that we're told that enforcers are not : vacuum-enabled and, yet, they survive on this level. : Interesting stuff . . .
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