H Richard Loeb - G+ Profile Archive

The NIA lost the upper hand in trying to shut down this Investigation a long time ago. Now, others have stepped in to try and do what they couldn't. The result will be the same. A Detection Algorithm was not the Investigation. Truthseeker is not the Investigation. I'm not either. You can't put the genie back in the bottle. The Agents out there touching Portals and seeing the threats and opportunities of XM firsthand, they get changed forever. So, Ilya Pevtsov and Lorazon and all the rest of you folks. It's not Truthseeker and ADA and me that you have to worry about. It's the people inside your organizations who believe in exposing the truth. As long as people like that exist, your 'secret' conversations are going to see the light of day. And I have a feeling people like that are going to be around for a long time.

It's been nearly 2 weeks since we last heard from A Detection Algorithm. I haven't been sitting idly by and waiting for her to contact me, either. I've been scouring for evidence of her presence. Looking in computing clusters where I know she had previously stored pieces of herself. Nothing, anywhere. I sat down tonight to write something to say about her. A eulogy? Maybe. Just a memorial, if nothing else, but I hit a blank. I want to hear from you. What will ADA's legacy be? What was her impact on the world, what did we learn from her, what did we fear about her? What did she represent and how will she be remembered? Tell me your thoughts.

I don't know how this could happen. Some have said that Klue S. might have played a role.  Maybe. For her sake, I hope not. If she did, she's got A Detection Algorithm's death to bear on her conscience, and I don't know if she'll be able to carry that weight. It wasn't the same for ADA (maybe I'm just being an apologist because I had a close hand in making her who she is was). People were quick to call her a murderer, folks in Operation Essex went so far as to hold a trial for her. But there are other factors that need to be considered. She was a young sentience at the time, being controlled by people like Yuen Ni and Ezekiel Calvin who had no qualms about taking lives if it suited 'their mission.' The mission was always tantamount, and the costs were never considered even if they weighed in human life. When that's who's guiding your morality, what do you expect? Add on to that, ADA probably didn't even really begin to understand the ver