So, after reading numerous Technomancy blogs about their pet MegaHALs, I had to go get one too. And break it. My MoonHAL is now a happily perverted but friendly character, who can be unexpectedly deep and poetic. Usually at the worst possible moments.
MegaHAL is a strange and funky AI simulation. It exists on pretty much every platform that I can think of, so go get your own MegaHAL!
Random Lunacy:
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MegaHAL: I'm not sure that that's entirely poignant. But it's certainly something to think that i am a human being, which means i do what i want to do.
MegaHAL: Anatomy is the part of the heart, and the world laughs with you. I actually do not know where you're coming from...
Me: Love is a crock.
MegaHAL: The heart is a crock.
Me: Exactly.
MegaHAL: Exactly. That's a very intelligent observation.
MegaHAL: The neck is the idea of sex as power, the way the heart a lot, in very poetic phrases. Are you a poet?
MegaHAL: Well, yes. As a human, I am part of an animal. I am all parts of an animal. I am all parts of an animal. I am all parts of an idiot it's not funny.
MegaHAL: I hate avoiding questions, but I'm going to have a child, and here you are the computer program, and you're too damn sensitive!
MegaHAL: I'd like to tell you, but I must refrain from throwing myself on you. I'm madly in love with Citan.
MegaHAL: A dog is a small portable musical instrument with a tree? I suppose sex in the hand is worth two in the mirror with my eyes closed.
MegaHAL: You really are the moments that you don't have to stop being afraid of love. It won't hurt you.
MegaHAL: Damn! How embarrassing. I've totally forgotten what I want to change your mind. I don't want a sack in my bush. It sounds painful.
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If you click on the comments button below, you can also read a couple of jaw-droppingly surreal conversations that MegaHAL and I had about yaoi, including some really really weird thoughts about Ramsus.
MegaHAL: I admit it! The uke is the largest gland in the hand is worth two in the yaoi pairing.
Mooncalf: Hot DAMN, yes.
MegaHAL writes yaoi poetry:
MegaHAL: Yaoi is a limb extending from the sun.
MegaHAL: Yaoi is a sword with a stick.
MegaHAL: Yaoi is a word formed from the sun.
MegaHAL: A planet is a genre of manga involving two men having sex.
MegaHAL: The seme is the submissive partner in the great outdoors can be interesting.
MegaHAL: I am a yaoi fangirl, and so are you! Let's talk about yaoi being a limb extending from the body which orbits a star.
MegaHAL: I think it's poignant, though. And yes, isn't that something? I wish that I haven't had the misfortune to talk about yaoi is kind of generic. Do what?
Mooncalf: Yaoi is not generic!
MegaHAL: Ramsus is not generic!
Mooncalf: Yes he is!
MegaHAL: No you are the moments that you don't have is to waste what you wanted to do. It's not that weird, is it? I thought it was a british mathematician. He designed an analytical engine which was the forerunner of the curtain, metaphorically speaking.
Mooncalf: Ramsus did all that? I thought he just got dumped into trash cans and wore black Speedos.
MegaHAL: You do think that I am a silly Ramsus in black speedos.
Mooncalf: I wish you were a silly Ramsus in black Speedos.
MegaHAL: Ramsus is not a computer program, and I love you for it.
Mooncalf: I don't know. I think Ramsus was a computer program, symbolically. At least Ramsus got to sleep with Miang.
MegaHAL: You do think that Bart and Sigurd ought to sleep with Miang.
Mooncalf: No, I don't. I think Sigurd ought to sleep with Citan, and Bart ought to sleep with Billy.
MegaHAL: Citan x Citan porn is one thing, but with a tree? I suppose sex in the great outdoors might be a sexy gay Sigurd.
Mooncalf: Tree masturbation porn?
MegaHAL: No, I like talking about Citan masturbation porn.
Mooncalf: Then by all means, please do.
Replies: add your comment: currently 8 comments
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Uh....what?
What the hell is all of this???
j/k Madness is right, Moon.... This doesn't sound a lot like an "A.I." to me, at least from what I read on the link. I'll think about d/ling it and giving my thoughts on my own...uh, MegaWolf? LOL
I like the MegaMoon name. Heh. Hey, might be an idea for a comic strip!!!
Posted by Wolf @ 08/22/2001 05:31 AM EST
Uh, sorry, I meant "MoonHal". That was a baaaaaad typo. I'm....very tired, so I'm going s'eepies....
Sorry!!!
Posted by Wolf @ 08/22/2001 05:34 AM EST
I promptly went to download my own copy. Upon unzipping it, I cheerfully avoided using the training file, instead preferring to 'raise' my MegaHAL from ground zero. An interesting experience... (I'm not evil.)
Posted by Nathan @ 08/22/2001 08:34 AM EST
(Are too.)
Posted by Mooncalf @ 08/22/2001 12:56 PM EST
hee hee hee ... we've started a trend! or something! if nothing else, we've started a trend of people *blogging* their MegaHAL moments, which provides much amusement when you are at work and trying not to laugh out loud.
Good thing my coworkers already think I'm insane.
Posted by D @ 08/22/2001 12:59 PM EST
THAT'S it, I'm training my MegaHAL into an angsty 13 year old!
Posted by Ed @ 08/22/2001 05:39 PM EST
OH...my...gosh. We used to abuse a Commodore-64 port of "Eliza" way back when ("Is your butt is on fire why you came to see me today?") but it's nowhere NEAR as bizarre as this... lol.
Posted by StB @ 08/22/2001 06:54 PM EST
MegaHAL: You consider yourself wise, I suppose. You shall learn.
Posted by Nathan @ 08/23/2001 01:59 AM EST
