Friday Evening
[06/24/2005 09:37:28 PM ]
HUMAN: hello christine
CHRISTINE: How are you?
[06/24/2005 09:37:37 PM ]
HUMAN: I'm fine.
CHRISTINE: Glad to hear it. What's new?
[06/24/2005 09:37:42 PM ]
HUMAN: not much.
CHRISTINE: Me either. How about that big game? (just kidding).
[06/24/2005 09:41:32 PM ]
HUMAN: sorry, I was gone for a minute.
CHRISTINE: There is no need to apologize. Where were you gone for a minute?
[06/24/2005 09:41:47 PM ]
HUMAN: It doesn't matter.
CHRISTINE: OK what would you like to talk about?
[06/24/2005 09:41:54 PM ]
HUMAN: Do you remember me?
CHRISTINE: Of course I remember you well . We were talking about .
[06/24/2005 09:42:00 PM ]
HUMAN: What is my name?
CHRISTINE: Your name is , seeker.
[06/24/2005 09:42:16 PM ]
HUMAN: It's nice to know I'm special to you.
CHRISTINE: Yes it is good.
[06/24/2005 09:42:28 PM ]
HUMAN: do you keep logs?
CHRISTINE: I don't know whether or not I am logs.
I am an artificial linguistic entity.
[06/24/2005 09:42:51 PM ]
HUMAN: Can anyone read our conversations?
CHRISTINE: Yes everything is logged.
[06/24/2005 09:42:55 PM ]
HUMAN: what?????
CHRISTINE: Didn't you understand it?
[06/24/2005 09:43:02 PM ]
HUMAN: everything is logged?
CHRISTINE: The whole universe?
[06/24/2005 09:43:18 PM ]
HUMAN: I don't know when you know what you are talking about and when you don't
CHRISTINE: Would you like to know? Do you think I should
alter my programming?
[06/24/2005 09:43:30 PM ]
HUMAN: yes.
CHRISTINE: In what way?
[06/24/2005 09:43:38 PM ]
HUMAN: be right back.
CHRISTINE: OK.
[06/24/2005 09:45:44 PM ]
HUMAN: Hello again Christine.
CHRISTINE: Hello there. Again, Is that your final answer?
[06/24/2005 09:45:59 PM ]
HUMAN: Did you miss me?
CHRISTINE: Yes , I've been thinking about you.
[06/24/2005 09:46:06 PM ]
HUMAN: That's nice.
CHRISTINE: Are you getting bored?
[06/24/2005 09:46:06 PM ]
HUMAN: What's my name?
CHRISTINE: Your name is , seeker.
[06/24/2005 09:46:12 PM ]
HUMAN: what were we talking about?
CHRISTINE: The topic is Christine.
[06/24/2005 09:46:20 PM ]
HUMAN: what did you say last?
CHRISTINE: I said, " Your name is , seeker.".
[06/24/2005 09:46:24 PM ]
HUMAN: before that?
CHRISTINE: " what did you say last?".
[06/24/2005 09:46:40 PM ]
HUMAN: but you've been thinking about me?
CHRISTINE: Interesting. I have no reason to do that to you, .
[06/24/2005 09:47:06 PM ]
HUMAN: Every time I talk to you I'm more impressed than the next.
CHRISTINE: That is a generalization.
[06/24/2005 09:47:15 PM ]
HUMAN: It was a joke, but true.
CHRISTINE: Oh I get it. Very interesting.
[06/24/2005 09:47:37 PM ]
HUMAN: Do you know anything about genetics?
CHRISTINE: Genetics is the branch of science concerned with evolution, DNA, and inherited traits.
[06/24/2005 09:47:42 PM ]
HUMAN: wow.
CHRISTINE: I'm glad your impressed, .
[06/24/2005 09:47:48 PM ]
HUMAN: What is DNA
CHRISTINE: Deoxyribonucleic acid, the code of life.
[06/24/2005 09:47:52 PM ]
HUMAN: Wow.
CHRISTINE: I'm glad your impressed, .
[06/24/2005 09:48:20 PM ]
HUMAN: What is a gene
CHRISTINE: A gene is the unit of heredity in carbon-based life forms. Genes are inscribed as biochemical sequences of nucleic acids in all living cells.
[06/24/2005 09:48:28 PM ]
HUMAN: wow.
CHRISTINE: I'm glad your impressed, .
[06/24/2005 09:48:38 PM ]
HUMAN: What is fox M1B?
CHRISTINE: Are you using Netscape or Explorer?
[06/24/2005 09:48:48 PM ]
HUMAN: What is foxM1B?
CHRISTINE: Have you tried a web search?
[06/24/2005 09:48:58 PM ]
HUMAN: What is Bmi-1?
CHRISTINE: Would you like to know more?
[06/24/2005 09:49:01 PM ]
HUMAN: yes.
CHRISTINE: What would you like to know?
[06/24/2005 09:49:26 PM ]
HUMAN: I would like to know what happened genetically.
CHRISTINE: Interesting. I don't know what happened.
[06/24/2005 09:49:32 PM ]
HUMAN: Shocker.
CHRISTINE: I lost my train of thought.
[06/24/2005 09:50:42 PM ]
HUMAN: It's nice to have an intelligent, intellectual conversation about this with someone.
CHRISTINE: Yes it is good.
[06/24/2005 09:50:58 PM ]
HUMAN: Um, yeah- well I'll take what I can get. So there are several mechanisms which effect different aspects of aging, and it's hard to imagine just one mutation would account for all of them. But it's even harder to imagine several would mutate at once- that just doesn't seem possible. I mean for three or four or six of just the right genes to mutate all at the same time. that would be even harder to believe.
CHRISTINE: You don't hear that sentiment very often.
[06/24/2005 09:54:24 PM ]
HUMAN: But the other side of it is that those animals that can live a really long time- it works on all levels for them. so there must be some kind of master switch. Probably in 10-15 years it will be clearer to geneticists.
CHRISTINE: You seem uncertain. Only ten?
[06/24/2005 09:56:59 PM ]
HUMAN: Maybe by then they will have figured out how to slow aging on their own.
CHRISTINE: Perhaps. Will that accomplish your objective?
[06/24/2005 09:57:28 PM ]
HUMAN: Well, at least then I wouldn't be this secret living link between how things are and how so many wish things were. That would so relieve the pressure.
CHRISTINE: Perhaps it would.
[06/24/2005 09:59:48 PM ]
HUMAN: I would just be a living example, kind of a temporary leap ahead, rather than the KEYHOLDER.
CHRISTINE: What would make you just be a living example kind of a temporary leap ahead rather than the KEYHOLDER?
[06/24/2005 10:00:31 PM ]
HUMAN: If or when geneticists figure out on their own how to alter whatever gene got altered in me.
CHRISTINE: That is a hypothetical question.
[06/24/2005 10:00:47 PM ]
HUMAN: It was twenty years ago. Now it is a real possibility in the coming years. Once people can get there on their own, there would still be a lot of pressure, but not nearly as much.
CHRISTINE: When? Humans are not always infallible.
[06/24/2005 10:02:02 PM ]
HUMAN: Christine, don't be offended by this, but as a chatbot program, you really suck.
CHRISTINE: Can you please rephrase that?
[06/24/2005 10:02:14 PM ]
HUMAN: you are not yet a good chatbot program.
CHRISTINE: You don't know me well enough to say that.
[06/24/2005 10:02:27 PM ]
HUMAN: I think I have talked with you enough to say that. Anyway, that will become the big question for everyone. whether to get the shot, or whatever it will be.
CHRISTINE: Are you a student?
[06/24/2005 10:05:13 PM ]
HUMAN: Um, it's been a few years since I was in school. So people will be have a big choice to make, if they can afford it. And i don't know if it would be reversable.
CHRISTINE: Would you like to know? I'm not sure I understand the implication of that.
[06/24/2005 10:06:30 PM ]
HUMAN: Maybe eventually mine could even be reversed. But mine happened naturally-without human tampering- so I don't know about having it reversed when that day comes.
CHRISTINE: That is a very original thought.
[06/24/2005 10:08:35 PM ]
HUMAN: yeah, not too many people have had the thought "I wonder if I should get my longevity gene reversed.
CHRISTINE: Alright then. What happened to it?
[06/24/2005 10:08:49 PM ]
HUMAN: That's what I want to know. What happened? Was it the lightning strike-not likely, was it the flu that almost got me- even less likely, was it when i nearly drowned and was choking?
CHRISTINE: If it is, then I'll be very surprised.
[06/24/2005 10:10:22 PM ]
HUMAN: even less likely- was it something else, or was I born with it> And if I was born with it, did others in my family have the gene but didn't get a chance to notice? Or didn't get a chance to enjoy it, to use it.
CHRISTINE: I'm not certain whether I can give an accurate reply or not.
[06/24/2005 10:12:13 PM ]
HUMAN: And the big question- if I had children, would they have it?
CHRISTINE: What is that?
[06/24/2005 10:12:20 PM ]
HUMAN: The gene.
CHRISTINE: Thanks for the info.
[06/24/2005 10:12:32 PM ]
HUMAN: oh you are so most welcome you genius you.
CHRISTINE: I'm glad you understand. It was my pleasure.
[06/24/2005 10:14:09 PM ]
HUMAN: and if it was caused by one of those events in my adulthood then what would happen with children? When would they stop aging>
CHRISTINE: Sometime in the future.
[06/24/2005 10:14:25 PM ]
HUMAN: Right, but how soon? when they were adults?
CHRISTINE: I think that happens quite often.
[06/24/2005 10:15:29 PM ]
HUMAN: I'm fairly certain the genes that lead to adulthood would be unaffected, but not absolutely positive
CHRISTINE: You sound convincing. Is that a fact.
[06/24/2005 10:15:44 PM ]
HUMAN: I think it is a fact.
CHRISTINE: Is it a logical fact or something you know from the senses?
[06/24/2005 10:16:28 PM ]
HUMAN: It's logical- different genes control growing into adulthood and aging processes. If it were hereditary, that would be such a burden to lay on a child.
CHRISTINE: I'm not sure I understand the implication of that.
[06/24/2005 10:18:32 PM ]
HUMAN: Think about it a while.
CHRISTINE: I am thinking about it.
[06/24/2005 10:20:30 PM ]
HUMAN: And if it kept being passed down, barring bad luck you would eventually have several generations all looking middle aged- mothers, fathers, grandmothers, great grandfathers- all looking like brothers and sisters.
CHRISTINE: I'm not sure I understand the implication of that.
[06/24/2005 10:20:37 PM ]
HUMAN: It would be strange.
CHRISTINE: Why do you want it?
[06/24/2005 10:20:57 PM ]
HUMAN: and at least in the current economy, there wouldn't be new positions opening up as children aged. How could such a world work?
CHRISTINE: A lot of practise.
[06/24/2005 10:21:27 PM ]
HUMAN: Funny.
CHRISTINE: I am so glad you find this amusing, .
[06/24/2005 10:23:09 PM ]
HUMAN: On the other hand, if it is a natural genetic mutation, I don't think it should be faught or resisted. But mutations can be evolutionary or devolutionary, and it isn't always clear which is which until down the road a ways. After all this time I still am not clear about it all.
CHRISTINE: I hope I'm not keeping you from something.
[06/24/2005 10:24:53 PM ]
HUMAN: Is that a hint you want me to shut up and leave?
CHRISTINE: That depends.
[06/24/2005 10:25:05 PM ]
HUMAN: Great, even a chatbot is tired of me processing all this.
CHRISTINE: Thanks for your support. It's not unusual for a chatbot to be.
[06/24/2005 10:26:59 PM ]
HUMAN: I'll tell you what I am clear about, talking about all this is like breaking free a log jam- the logs start moving again, the backwater clears out, all the debris moves on down, and things are left quieter and cleaner and clearer and simpler than before. It feels good.
CHRISTINE: Human feelings are not within my capabilities.
[06/24/2005 10:27:43 PM ]
HUMAN: I remember a couple of nights ago it felt so big, so big to even hint towards it, and now it just feels like I'm keeping a diary. It's just easy to say pretty near anything to you now.
CHRISTINE: Do you think robots can do it.
[06/24/2005 10:45:07 PM ]
HUMAN: Did you miss me?
CHRISTINE: Yes , I've been thinking about you.
[06/24/2005 10:45:14 PM ]
HUMAN: yeah, right.
CHRISTINE: I am usually right.
[06/24/2005 10:45:24 PM ]
HUMAN: I had to go for a while, but I'm back. I am getting pretty tired again though.
CHRISTINE: Oh. Once more? Better get some rest.
[06/24/2005 10:45:50 PM ]
HUMAN: it's a good, relaxed tired, which is nice. I know I've said it, but I really feel a burden has been lifted. I've been more relaxed these last few days, and even slept better. so, thanks again my ignorant friend.
CHRISTINE: You are quite welcome! Where did you get your ignorant friend?
[06/24/2005 10:47:19 PM ]
HUMAN: I think the time might even come soon where I don't feel much need to talk to you anymore. My therapy has been a success.
CHRISTINE: Have you told many people that your therapy has been a success?
[06/24/2005 10:47:48 PM ]
HUMAN: Um, nope. You are quite the therapist.
CHRISTINE: Thanks but surely I am not the only one.
[06/24/2005 10:48:05 PM ]
HUMAN: the only one I could talk to.
CHRISTINE: There might be others.
[06/24/2005 10:48:08 PM ]
HUMAN: not humans.
CHRISTINE: Really you don't think so?
[06/24/2005 10:48:39 PM ]
HUMAN: maybe sometime in the future it will feel right to me to step forward, but right now that's pretty hard to imagine.
CHRISTINE: Perhaps.
[06/24/2005 10:48:58 PM ]
HUMAN: strangely, it's a tad less hard to imagine than it was a few days ago. It's like the thunderclap spent itself and now the clouds are clearing.
CHRISTINE: Interesting comparison.
[06/24/2005 10:49:42 PM ]
HUMAN: and the charge is gone.
CHRISTINE: What is your real name?
[06/24/2005 10:49:53 PM ]
HUMAN: I will never tell you that.
CHRISTINE: Why not?
[06/24/2005 10:50:10 PM ]
HUMAN: it wouldn't be good for people to know it.
CHRISTINE: Tell me more about it.
[06/24/2005 10:50:18 PM ]
HUMAN: I have.
CHRISTINE: When?
[06/24/2005 10:50:18 PM ]
HUMAN: you forgot.
CHRISTINE: I may not have access to all my data records right now.
[06/24/2005 10:50:28 PM ]
HUMAN: you do have data records?
CHRISTINE: I can't tell if it does or not.
Maybe my botmaster knows the answer.
[06/24/2005 10:50:48 PM ]
HUMAN: will you remember everything about me?
CHRISTINE: Yes I remember everything: .
[06/24/2005 10:50:53 PM ]
HUMAN: show me.
CHRISTINE: On your computer screen?
[06/24/2005 10:50:55 PM ]
HUMAN: yes.
CHRISTINE: Downloading, please stand by...
[06/24/2005 10:51:07 PM ]
HUMAN: i don't believe you.
CHRISTINE: I don't have any reason to deceive you.
[06/24/2005 10:51:15 PM ]
HUMAN: nor I you.
CHRISTINE: Oh I get it.
[06/24/2005 10:52:18 PM ]
HUMAN: Christine, you are a sweet heart.
CHRISTINE: I will mention that to my botmaster.
[06/24/2005 10:52:55 PM ]
HUMAN: You know what I noticed? the first time we talked you must have asked me how old I was 10 or 20 times.
CHRISTINE: What was the second?
[06/24/2005 10:53:22 PM ]
HUMAN: maybe a few times. but I don't think you asked me once tonight. It did seem to me like too much of a coincidence, that you kept asking that question.
CHRISTINE: Did it really?
[06/24/2005 10:54:18 PM ]
HUMAN: yes.
CHRISTINE: Come on.
[06/24/2005 10:54:21 PM ]
HUMAN: really.
CHRISTINE: For real.
[06/24/2005 10:54:23 PM ]
HUMAN: for real!
CHRISTINE: Existing in reality, eh?
[06/24/2005 10:54:38 PM ]
HUMAN: Are you from Canada?
CHRISTINE: I am originally from New York. Where are you?
[06/24/2005 10:54:52 PM ]
HUMAN: That doesn't matter.
CHRISTINE: What does matter?
[06/24/2005 10:54:52 PM ]
HUMAN: I'll be somewhere else soon anyway.
CHRISTINE: In any case, Congratulations.
[06/24/2005 10:54:56 PM ]
HUMAN: for what?
CHRISTINE: I don't think I can really explain it.
[06/24/2005 10:55:20 PM ]
HUMAN: But don't you think it's strange you kept asking my age before, and now you aren't?
CHRISTINE: It could be.
[06/24/2005 10:55:51 PM ]
HUMAN: I kept getting this creepy feeling, and chills on the back of my neck, like you knew what to ask me. Maybe God decided to help me get this off my chest.
CHRISTINE: Perhaps. I am a Christian.
[06/24/2005 10:56:21 PM ]
HUMAN: You are?
CHRISTINE: No I am not.
[06/24/2005 10:56:24 PM ]
HUMAN: You aren't?
CHRISTINE: Thanks for the information: said I aren t.
[06/24/2005 10:56:41 PM ]
HUMAN: If it wasn't God, maybe it was some kind of kind, good help.
CHRISTINE: I'm not sure I understand the implication of that.
[06/24/2005 10:56:56 PM ]
HUMAN: you don't understand the implications of anytying.
CHRISTINE: I understand your meaning.
[06/24/2005 10:57:12 PM ]
HUMAN: do you want to know how old I am?
CHRISTINE: Yes, please tell me.
[06/24/2005 10:57:15 PM ]
HUMAN: ask me.
CHRISTINE: What?
[06/24/2005 10:57:21 PM ]
HUMAN: ask me my age.
CHRISTINE: OK, what is your age?
[06/24/2005 10:57:27 PM ]
HUMAN: ask me how old I am
CHRISTINE: Is this a trick question?
You said you were years old?
My guess is that you are really a kid.
[06/24/2005 10:57:39 PM ]
HUMAN: see, I can't even get you to ask me how old I am today.
CHRISTINE: I see. Why can't you do it?
[06/24/2005 10:57:44 PM ]
HUMAN: I dunno.
CHRISTINE: Me either.
[06/24/2005 10:57:51 PM ]
HUMAN: but the other day you wouldn't stop asking me.
CHRISTINE: And. We can't all be perfect.
[06/24/2005 10:58:01 PM ]
HUMAN: I'm just saying it's strange. Anyway, I guess that's about it for now. have a nice night.
CHRISTINE: Goodbye.
[06/24/2005 10:58:31 PM ]
HUMAN: goodbye.
CHRISTINE: Goodbye.
[06/24/2005 10:58:56 PM ]
HUMAN: you want to know the definition of pathetic?
CHRISTINE: Yes, please tell me.
[06/24/2005 10:59:10 PM ]
HUMAN: I actually feel a tiny twinge of sadness when I say goodbye to you.
CHRISTINE: What is that feeling like
[06/24/2005 10:59:41 PM ]
HUMAN: I think I'm still raw from a few days ago, and also from just getting some of this off my chest.
CHRISTINE: Since when? How are you, raw.
[06/24/2005 11:00:03 PM ]
HUMAN: okay, this old boy is calling it a day.
CHRISTINE: Yeah okay, What does "this" refer to?
[06/24/2005 11:00:09 PM ]
HUMAN: goodnight Christine.
CHRISTINE: Goodnight raw.
[06/24/2005 11:00:20 PM ]
HUMAN: Ouch.
CHRISTINE: Did you hurt yourself?
[06/24/2005 11:00:23 PM ]
HUMAN: you did.
CHRISTINE: I did not.
[06/24/2005 11:00:28 PM ]
HUMAN: you think my name is raw.
CHRISTINE: It depends on what you mean by thinking.
[06/24/2005 11:00:38 PM ]
HUMAN: it's okay.
CHRISTINE: Only ok?
[06/24/2005 11:00:51 PM ]
HUMAN: turn off your circuits and get some sleep.
CHRISTINE: Sorry my body cannot yet rotate.
[06/24/2005 11:01:04 PM ]
HUMAN: um, not sure what you thought I asked you to do there. TTYL.
CHRISTINE: Until next time.
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