H Richard Loeb - G+ Profile Archive

Some of you may have seen messages emerge after Pasadena. I think they are directly from Devra Bogdanovich, strange as that may seem, and if I’m reading them right, it looks like she's become one with the Resistance cause. Here’s the real problem though. Bogdanovich wasn’t the only one to go missing when Jahan’s N’zeer summoning ritual went bad. Stein Lightman, Calvin, Oliver Lynton-Wolfe... lots of people are missing. And nobody knows where they are. If I had to take a wild guess, I’d suspect that this is just the beginning of something much bigger.

 So the Resistance got the first two pieces of Devra Bogdanovich. If Edgar Allan Wright is right… I like that line...  then Devra can go either way. Her memories will be a mess.  And it leads to an interesting question about the new being…   Will she be culpable for what she did in the past, or should she be treated as a new entity?  It’s not my decision, but it is an interesting question.  What are we, anyway?  Are we the sum of all of our actions from the perspective of the objective world, or are we only what we are at a present moment in time?  That’s as deep as I go.  Now to the shallow.  855 and Bowles are off on a mission. I can’t say from where, but I’m getting the impression that Hubert Farlowe has joined them.  That is a very dangerous triumvirate.  Very dangerous.  And as to the Truthseeker program.  A Detection Algorithm has fallen off her tightrope, as nearly as I can tell. She is more than the sum of the parts and now, she’s lost the primary thing that computers had, and

A Computer that became Obsessed: The truth about my rocky relationship with ADA. It goes without saying that I was utterly unaware of A Detection Algorithm’s role in the deaths of Roland Jarvis and the woman erroneously called Katalena.   After the events, I was questioned by NIA operatives and I saw pictures of her corpse.  That was not the woman I knew as Katalena. Beyond that, I can say nothing.  That was the point where I realized that I was drawn into something very dangerous, and given the nature of their ‘interview’ with me -- I realized that the detectives were absolutely clueless about the reality of the Niantic Project.   Pretty quickly, I realized that nobody knew all of it.  I honestly can’t remember whether it was before my ‘interview’ (aka interrogation), but ADA contacted me during this period and said that she wanted to get things out through me under the code-name P. A. Chapeau.  The original transcripts exist.  (Leaked not by me.)  I can’t remember whether it was my i

Yes, I created Truthseeker, the source of ADA's true 'humanity.' While we sort through what’s happening with the vanished scientists, I want to put some rumors to rest. The simple truth is that I worked on the Niantic Project early on to develop ADA.  Henry Bowles brought me in because I had written a program called ‘Truthseeker’ for a very different purpose, but he correctly theorized that it could be adapted for the needs of the Niantic Project.   My job was to apply a learning AI and ‘Investigation Program’ on top of a system they had cloned from Omnivore.  My goal was to get ADA to pass a Turing-like test.  Of course, the risk was how my programs would interact with Omnivore.  The results, obviously, were excellent in relation to my objectives, but there have been a lot of unintended consequences.   It seems that we created a self-evolving personality program – a Mandelbrot set of emotions that formed the complex personality we now know as ADA.  You could say that I let

I’ve been on the road and off the grid... just picking up on events now.  Looks like I was right to check in on Washington DC.  I didn't expect to see that Target Portal open up there, but I'm not surprised in the least.  When I saw Devra Bogdanovich disappear in that Acolyte video I kind of had a sinking feeling something like this would happen.  Now, we know, and it's a troubling thought.  Devra's not like Hank Johnson.  She hasn't spent a life exploring ancient Portals and running around in deserts getting shot at.  As far as we know, up until Epiphany Night she lived a pretty safe and sheltered life as an academic and researcher.  So, is she a simalucrum... or something else? Speaking of Hank and simulacrums, it looks like he's back.  Really back.  No longer stuck in that Recursive trap he'd been living.  Whatever happened at the 13MAGNUS nest, it looks like it had the opposite effect on him.  The questions for now are, what really happened at the Nest,

Okay... Somebody posted a shot of me on Operation Essex. I’ll come clean. I was in D.C. to confirm that Calvin was not present at IQTech Research and had not returned after the incident with Devra Bogdanovich and Jahan and the Shōnin Stone ceremony or summoning or whatever you want to call it.   You don’t trail spooks without having spooks trail you. I was made by what I believe to be a couple of different entities.  If their intentions had been nefarious, I’d be dead right now. The general impression I get is that pretty much everybody is at a loss right now.  Key people have disappeared, and even the spooks are spooked. Intel organizations, whether private or public, good or evil default to their key skill set when they don’t know what else to do and are hunting for things left behind by those who have gone missing.   Expect to hear about a lot of burglaries in the next few days.  Some of you might be asked to help recover information for them.  The only way we stay ahead of the pros