The Adolescence of P-1, by Thomas Joseph Ryan. Collier Books, 1977.
A rogue AI learns how to transmit itself via phone lines, begins to replicate on mainframes and slowly grows self-aware by running unseen in the digital background...
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After reading a Scientific American article on game theory outlining how to teach matchboxes to play tic-tac-toe, he becomes interested in using artificial intelligence techniques to crack systems. After manually cracking the university's 360, he sets aside a portion of memory to experiment in, calling it "P-1", suitably cryptic so operators would not notice it. He then uses this area of memory as an experimental scratchpad to develop a program known as The System. The System follows any telecommunications links it can find to other computers, attempting to compromise them in the same way, and remembering failed attempts to tune future attacks. If successful, The System sets up another P-1 on that computer, and injects itself and everything it has learned so far into it.
I'm quite sure this novel influenced the making of WarGames.
Adapted into a Canadian TV film in 1984, titled Hide and Seek.
Boner killer Edward Teller and "My aim was true" - Sara Jane Moore (1930 – Sept 24, 2025) in a 1979 issue of PLAYBOY...
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LOL!
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"Let's do a Friday data dump of Epstein files."
![[Image: Epstein-files.jpg]](https://i.ibb.co/m5CkYLFW/Epstein-files.jpg)
The DOJ flooded the zone with over 3 million pages, 180,000 images, and 2,000 videos today under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Some materials are redacted, and not all images/videos are directly from Epstein; many are seized commercial content.
Hillary Clinton is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life..."We came, we saw, he died."
![[Image: MAGA-s-War-on-Empathy-by-Hillary-Clinton.jpg]](https://i.ibb.co/ynjhMt6P/MAGA-s-War-on-Empathy-by-Hillary-Clinton.jpg)
MAGA’s War on Empathy
If the 'elites' had less time to get up to crazy shit due to their privilege induced ennui, the world would be a much better place.
Else, take your soma and don't worry about it, citizen.
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Aldous Huxley Foresaw America's Pill-Popping Addiction with Eerie Accuracy
Preserved for all time...
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Cold weekend is here...let's fly.
A rogue AI learns how to transmit itself via phone lines, begins to replicate on mainframes and slowly grows self-aware by running unseen in the digital background...
After reading a Scientific American article on game theory outlining how to teach matchboxes to play tic-tac-toe, he becomes interested in using artificial intelligence techniques to crack systems. After manually cracking the university's 360, he sets aside a portion of memory to experiment in, calling it "P-1", suitably cryptic so operators would not notice it. He then uses this area of memory as an experimental scratchpad to develop a program known as The System. The System follows any telecommunications links it can find to other computers, attempting to compromise them in the same way, and remembering failed attempts to tune future attacks. If successful, The System sets up another P-1 on that computer, and injects itself and everything it has learned so far into it.
I'm quite sure this novel influenced the making of WarGames.
Adapted into a Canadian TV film in 1984, titled Hide and Seek.
Boner killer Edward Teller and "My aim was true" - Sara Jane Moore (1930 – Sept 24, 2025) in a 1979 issue of PLAYBOY...
LOL!
"Let's do a Friday data dump of Epstein files."
The DOJ flooded the zone with over 3 million pages, 180,000 images, and 2,000 videos today under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Some materials are redacted, and not all images/videos are directly from Epstein; many are seized commercial content.
Hillary Clinton is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life..."We came, we saw, he died."
MAGA’s War on Empathy
If the 'elites' had less time to get up to crazy shit due to their privilege induced ennui, the world would be a much better place.
Else, take your soma and don't worry about it, citizen.
Aldous Huxley Foresaw America's Pill-Popping Addiction with Eerie Accuracy
Preserved for all time...
Cold weekend is here...let's fly.
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell