>Tik-Tok finds that he can do as he pleases, and he secretly commits various hideous crimes for his amusement. After manipulating both robots and humans to cause chaos and bloodshed, Tik-Tok becomes wealthy (partly through health care privatization) and is finally elected Vice President of the United States.
A quibble: the creator of Eliza was Joseph Weizenbaum, not "Wizenbaum".
So I fed his 1993 Kabuki-West Natalism Flame to it (the inappropriately announced baby in question is 33 years old now!):
http://www.art.net/studios/hackers/hopkins/Don/text/rms-vs-d...
>Are you annoyed that Stallman is emotionally stimulating?
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jwiegley/emacs-release/ref...
(set (make-local-variable 'doctor--stallmanlst)
'(((doc$ doctor--describe) your (doc$ doctor--feelings-about) him \.)
((doc$ doctor--areyou) a friend of Stallman \?)
((doc$ doctor--bother) Stallman is (doc$ doctor--random-adjective) \?)
(set (make-local-variable 'doctor--rms-flag) nil)
(doctor-put-meaning rms 'rms)
(doctor-put-meaning stallman 'rms)
;; I did not add this -- rms.
;; But he might have removed it. I put it back. --roland
(defun doctor-rms ()
(cond (doctor--rms-flag (doctor-type (doc$ doctor--stallmanlst)))
(t (setq doctor--rms-flag t) (doctor-type '(do you know Stallman \?)))))Long before I ever encountered Richard Wallace's AIML (which was quite unintentionally silly, but not actually a joke, unfortunately), around 1996 I wrote some joke web pages to parody VRML, announcing "AIML: Artificial Intelligence Marketing Language", by taking a couple of gushing articles about VRML, strategically replacing "VR" with "AI", and tweaking just a few words.
The point being that the VRML hype back then was as bad as the AI hype right now (well maybe not QUITE as bad). I don't have a very high opinion of VRML obviously! They didn't bother integrating it with an extension language at the time, so it was useless.
AIML: Artificial Intelligence Marketing Language
https://donhopkins.com/home/catalog/text/aiml.html
Support for AIML
https://donhopkins.com/home/catalog/text/SupportForAIML.html
To go along with the AIML parody, and give it a whiff of authentic scientific research, I formatted as html and published an actual AI research paper with the funniest title ever, by a company called Roanoke AI Laboratories, Inc., from The Journal of Theriogenology. (NSFW, unless you work in the Artificial Insemination industry!)
https://donhopkins.com/home/catalog/text/AILabratories.html
The author Jim Crump, Jr. actually found it by googling his name, and sent me a sincere email thanking me for formatting and publishing his AI paper on my web site, because his own publisher wouldn't allow him to publish his own paper on his own web site, due to draconian copyright restrictions. So I left it up because he was linking to it. Apparently it's well known in the AI Industry as the "Crump Technique". Attention is all horses need, too.
I miss the early days of the web...
I had this ancient program called Virtual Homespace Builder https://archive.org/details/hmebuilder that was like an early Sketchup sorta thing and it would render VRML output, but I can't say as I ever managed to publish anything with it, being a young whelp at the time.
If VRML had been fast and efficient, something like Second Life / Metaverse might have emerged there...
At the time, I had been working extensively with Bounce / Body Electric, which was developed by Chuck Blanchard at VPL Research, originally used for VR simulations with the DataGlove and Eyephone and a pair of SGI workstations to render each eye.
"Visual Programming Language" was not an afterthought nailed on the side, it was what the name of the company VPL stood for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPL_Research
>VPL Research was one of the first companies that developed and sold virtual reality products. It was founded by computer scientist Jaron Lanier in 1984. "VPL" stood for "Virtual Programming Languages". In 1990, VPL Research filed for bankruptcy and in 1998 all of its patents were bought by Sun Microsystems.
>VPL's funding came in part from Marvin Minsky.
Funny that you would mention it: Virtual Homespace Builder was precisely what I was making fun of, in fact that was what the article I was parodying was about, almost word for word - I just went M-X replace-string Home => Head and then went from there:
>AI Labratories has entered into alliances with the likes of Microsoft, Apple, Intel, Creative Labs, NewTek, and Caligari to foster acceptance of the format. One of their partners, SexPression, offers the first AIML authoring program, Virtual Head Space Builder (VHSB) 1.0 Academic Edition ($495) for Windows. SexPression offers the final beta version for $49 and a paradigm-limited final beta via their Web site free of charge.
>Designed to accommodate nonprogrammers, VHSB creates AI Web sites, or "head spaces", that can be saved as AIML files or in SexPression's proprietary FASL file format. In addition to realtime interactive Artificial Intelligence, sites can include text, audio (WAV and RealAudio), MIDI, video, animation (AVI and FLI), cubes, spheres, pyramids, conic sections, and checkerboards -- in fact, SexPression suggests that VHSB makes a good expert system authoring tool as well. Any part of a knowledge base environment can act as a URL link, and evaluatable function modules can be associated. Head spaces can be opinionated with moods, including recurring and unpredictable swings, and with transparent prejudices. The software comes bundled with hundreds of clip-opinions, goals, interests, paridigms, taxonomies, ontologies, excuse templates, animal guessing trees, todo lists, top ten lists, hot lists, and shit lists; and custom content can be imported easily. A Virtual Head Space Evaluator is included.
Just being fast and efficient wasn't enough. It had to be TC (Turing Complete). No matter how fast and efficient it was, it was still FU: Fundamentally Useless.
Body Electric / Bounce STARTED with a fully Turing Complete, extremely powerful and fun to use Visual Programming Language, and then added Swivel 3D skeletons, networing with UDP packet packers/unpackers and transmitter/receiver modules, Swivel 3D tree syncing over Ethernet two one SGI workstation per eye for rendering to the Eyephones, many different kinds of input and output device drivers for the Eyephones (like a module to configure how far apart your eyes are to adjust the two 3D renderers), Dataglove, Convolvotron 3D sound rendering device, MIDI, Flock of Birds 6 degree of freedom motion tracker, etc.
While VMRL was not only missing the VPL, it was missing all the device drivers and hardware integration, and didn't even have stereo 3D rendering and head tracking. It was WI (Woefully Inadequate) as well FU. I brought this up with Mark Pesche and Owen Riley, and they were much more interesting in creating a standard that was built into every web browser, than creating a standard that was actually good for anything.
At that time (and still today), everybody thought the most important thing was to create standards and get them universallyh accepted, while the idea of actually using something enough before you standardized it. That's what Alan Kay and colleagues were doing with Cro and iteratively improving it from real world experience was though to be a waste of time, directly at odds with standardizing on something as quickly as possible.
Again, I quote Alan Kay (talking about MVC, but it applies to so many other things.
I did try feeding the book into a small LLM to generate more text but it either doesn't follow its unusually stilted prose, which is clearly templated, or it just vomits back the entire corpus which is not very large.
RACTOR wrote a book, "The policeman's beard is half constructed."
https://archive.org/details/policemansbeardi0000unse/page/n2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary%27s_Mind_Mirror
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1603300/Timothy_Learys_Mi...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32578683
https://scalar.usc.edu/works/timothy-leary-software/index
I extracted all the text from the Apple ][ Mind Mirror floppy disk image:
https://donhopkins.com/home/mind-mirror.txt
Mind Mirror Anthropic Skill and Documentation for MOOLLM:
https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/tree/main/skills/mind-mi...
The Prison Escape: Ultimate Validation
In 1970, Nixon called Timothy Leary "the most dangerous man in America." Leary was sentenced to 10-20 years for marijuana possession — a draconian sentence designed to silence him.
Upon arrival at the California Men's Colony, Leary was administered psychological tests to determine his security classification. Among them: the Leary Interpersonal Behavior Inventory — a test he himself had designed twenty years earlier.
This was the ultimate field test of his own theory. If personality assessment truly revealed the inner self, Leary would be classified as what he was: a charismatic rebel, a leader, a flight risk.
But Leary understood the instrument. He knew which quadrant of the Interpersonal Circumplex mapped to "cooperative worker" vs. "dangerous agitator."
He answered strategically:
Dominance axis: Low scores ("I prefer to follow")
Hostility axis: Low scores ("I respect authority")
Interests: Forestry, gardening, nature work
Affect: Calm, conventional, agreeable
The prison psychologists, applying the Leary Interpersonal Behavior Inventory to Leary himself, concluded:
"Normal, well-adjusted, non-aggressive, conforming individual."
Result: Minimum security. Outdoor work detail. Access to the grounds with minimal supervision.
On September 12, 1970, Leary climbed a tree, shimmied across a telephone cable over the razor wire, and dropped to freedom. The Weather Underground had a car waiting. By October, he was in Algeria as a guest of the Black Panther Party's international chapter. By 1971, Switzerland.
He evaded capture for over two years.
[...]
Bob Dietz, co-creator, on working with Leary:
"His vision was way out there in the future so a lot of what we had to do was kind of pull it back a little bit and say well, this machine can't do all that. He always had these kind of big vision things of wanting to do three-dimensionally and you know have the computer react to everything you said and with artificial intelligence."
On Leary's goals:
"He was all about self-empowerment, giving the users the keys to the kingdom."
On the internet vision:
"I cannot begin to tell you how much Timothy Leary would have embraced and loved the notion of seeing Mind Mirror applied on the internet."
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Apple Software Bank Vol. 1: Bone Tumor Differential Diagnosis [Model 00114] © 1978 Apple Computer, Inc.
An expert system written in APPLESOFT BASIC by Jeffrey Dach, M.D.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21582027
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The classic Bone Tumor Differential Diagnosis program that Apple published for the Apple ][ in the original Apple Software Bank Volume 1 from 1978 sounds legit. But beware: it requires 32K of RAM, bigger than any other program in that volume! (Available on both cassette and 5-1/4" floppy disk for free from your local Apple dealer.)
https://archive.org/stream/Apple_Software_Bank_Vol_1-2/Apple...
https://archive.org/details/a2_Biology_19xx_
https://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.apple.asimov.net/documenta...
Program Name: BONE TUMOR DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
Software Bank Number: 001 1 4
Submitted By: Jeffrey Dach, M.D.
Program Language: APPLESOFT II BASIC
Minimum Memory Size: 32K Bytes
This program is intended for use by qualified medical practitioners. While the specific data are of interest only to those familiar with bone pathologies, the programming techniques may well interest a wide range of computer users.
INSTRUCTIONS
LOAD the program into APPLESOFT II BASIC, and type RUN. Follow the instructions displayed on the screen. The program asks a series of questions concerning radiographic and clinical details of the bone tumor in question. For each question, type the number of the appropriate answer and press the RETURN key. Finally, the program uses Baye's rule and a predetermined probability matrix from Lodwick (1963) to calculate the relative probabilities of 9 different diagnoses.
Some knowledge of descriptive terms for bone tumors is needed to answer the questions. Only a qualified physician should attempt to use this program as a diagnostic tool.
[1] https://dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/problog/
[2] https://github.com/ML-KULeuven/problog
[3] https://github.com/ML-KULeuven/deepproblog
[4] https://github.com/ML-KULeuven/deeplog