H Richard Loeb - G+ Profile Archive

Lynton-Wolfe on the Market? Poor Oliver Lynton-Wolfe. He releases iOS and thwarts Devra.  He’s a big hero, but he’s a hero without a country, or more specifically without a lab.  He did all that work back in the Jarvis days, or maybe before. What’s he doing right now?  Hiding out in a cabin without internet?  I know that feeling.  What I think is he’s trying to hire himself out to the highest bidder, but given past experience, I’m thinking IQTech and Hulong think he’s burned bacon, so that only leaves one home.  Have I got that right or am I missing something? What are the pieces of this puzzle?

Eerie Silence on the Hunt for 1331 A couple months ago, we saw repeated attempts for the NIA to recapture 1331 (AKA November LIma). We saw what appeared to be dumped bodies, vanished vehicles, hunts for 1331 that ended up with a shot down drone. There was a lot of speculation on what was inside 1331. Then, suddenly everybody stops talking. Why? What’s in there?  Who is this driver, anyway? For now it seems to move from place to place like a  ghost ship.  Silence is always unnerving?  Has the NIA given up or have they regained control?

Eerie Silence on the Hunt for 1331 A couple months ago, we saw repeated attempts for the NIA to recapture 1331 (AKA November LIma). We saw what appeared to be dumped bodies, vanished vehicles, hunts for 1331 that ended up with a shot down drone. There was a lot of speculation on what was inside 1331. Then, suddenly everybody stops talking. Why? What’s in there?  Who is this driver, anyway? For now it seems to move from place to place like a  ghost ship.  Silence is always unnerving?  Has the NIA given up or have they regained control?

HOW MANY DEALS WITH HOW MANY DEVILS:  Before the moment passes, we should take a look at the Calvin/Lynton-Wolfe conversation.  If you remember, it was a year or so ago that Jarvis lured Lynton-Wolfe out of IQTech and then nearly killed him after his failure at Cassandra.  Or was it that Lynton-Wolfe tried to double-cross Jarvis? I can hardly remember myself.  Now, they're speaking again. Not that I'm thrilled about the subject matter. I've yet to hear anything good about Dark XM.  Can some kind of alliance with Jarvis (who may or may not be with us) be in the offing?  Calvin also seems to have re-forged his alliance with Lightman and Schubert, but I don't think they were ever really on the outs. Is Calvin trying to re-form the Niantic Team?  Is an entreaty to Devra far away?  (Somehow he's got to get past the 'Bobby' incident.).  And what has become of Bobby?  There's a lot going on under the surface here.  And why do I get the feeling that all of them ...

YURI NAGASSA MISSING? So we know that there are mysterious artifacts (of what, really?) emerging, and the corporations are allying in ways that are horrifying in concept, but there’s something else happening under the radar to keep an eye on.  +Yuri Nagass has been emitting strange texts.  The Essexians have been transcribing them (where is Wright, by the way? Hasn’t checked in in a while.  Sooner or later somebody is going to come to his door and its going to be all over. But I digress).  As best I can tell, Nagassa returned to his un-contacted (except by him) native friends the Anazteka (you remember, Nagassa grew up with a father at a remote Soviet-era observatory -- wonder what they were looking for).  They were in a  state of excitement about something going on in the Valley of the Dead (not on a map) and he went on a journey. Found something there that upset or excited him. Hard to tell. Then he disappears.  I’m not suggesting that Ingresstigators look for him, I’m sure all sorts...

ADA’S CREATION: Let me clear something up.  My job on the Niantic Project was, put colloquially, helping ADA pass the Turing test (It was actually more complex than that and wasn’t technically a Turing test) so that she could facilitate and monitor the investigators on the Niantic Project as they studied XM. Ada had components of Omnivore, some custom code before I came in and components from a previous AI I constructed. After all, I didn’t get the job out of nowhere.  What I didn’t know about AI is that it would take on a life of its own quite the way ADA did.   So, viewed one way, I’m guilty.  Viewed another way, holding me responsible for what subsequently happened is like holding a parent responsible for their grown child.  Would I do things differently this time?  Of course. Would an ADA like event have happened inevitably.  Of course.  Nevertheless, I own my responsibility for what has happened, and believe me, I have felt the consequences.  Now, I can only proceed from the now a...

JARVIS WARNS OF DANGER AS HELIOS ARTIFACTS EMERGE And I’m inclined to believe him.  You heard me right. I might have leaned Resistance in the past, but I’m back to where I started. Truthseeker.  And you have to look for truth everywhere -- even Roland Jarvis. (By the way, what’s going on with him? I’m hearing rumors. So here’s where we are. We’ve got a Consortium and Arifacts. Consortium of who? Artifacts from what? Some thoughts:  Think back almost a year. The same day (date?).  Carrie Campbell makes the sacrifice and Klue stares into the glyphs and changes forever (forever? Will it be forever?) And what of the Shapers? What do they want? Were they protecting us from ourselves?   And what of Ada? At this point, what is the difference between her and a Shaper? And you’re hearing this from the guy who coded her.

Say what you want to about Wright. He does have an eye. And I felt the same thing.  I was watching Klue and something was wrong, but I'm not objective about these things.

I sat down to review some of the footage from my last meeting with Carrie Campbell in Chicago last year. It was more to honor her memory than anything else, but I noticed something I had failed to last year. As I was waiting for Carrie to arrive, in the background, it appeared as though she may have dropped or hidden a small object or something similar before she approached me? I don't know.... I immediately contacted a trusted source in Chicago and sent him to the area. He scoured the location but could find nothing. Perhaps there was nothing to find... But just in case, Investigators in the area, I would appreciate if you could keep your eyes open.  If Carrie did indeed leave something, it could potentially be tremendously valuable. A gift from the past. This is the location that she seemed to hover near in the video. My source in the area sent this photo to me earlier today.

Excellent question about 'who are the dead?'  I can't answer that right now, but I am trying to find out..  I must confess that one of the reasons I became interested in Artificial Intelligence was to create a kind of immortality.  I could never have predicted what would happen with it and Ada's disturbing plan or the corruption of one as brilliant and innocent as Klue. We didn't know anything about Glyphs or XM or any of the things that are becoming so evident now.  What is coming next?  I don't know.  But I am a truthseeker, and I can seek the truth in the future as well as the past. I do know that I do not want my brain coopted by an artificial intelligence I helped create.

Nearly a year ago, a brave and brilliant researcher’s career came to a sudden end, and I miss her. Her name was Carrie Campbell. She reached into signals from the unknown and revealed one of the most powerful mysteries to emerge from the Niantic Project: The Shaper Glyphs. Her gift was language, symbols and the fabric of understanding, and she wielded it with grace and power. The last time we met was in Chicago, the site of the #Helios Anomaly less than a day away. The Portals there will activate tomorrow, and Agents will leverage the power of XM to plot our path into the future. I can't help but wonder... Why there? Why now? Could it have something to do with Carrie Campbell's last message to us all? She gave her life protecting us all after the emergence of the 'Shaper Self-Destruct code,' a Glyph message with the power to end civilizations. Some have contested the nature of that threat, but I believe it was real. I also believe that when Carrie unleashed the power of...