Hello, WGBers

My name is Dr. Mohan Advani. I am a scientist in Computer Engineering.
In late spring 2008 I was commissioned by the Princeton University Department of
Psychology in order to write a constitutive piece of software for an experiment. This program, basically needed to collect the information on the issue, was used as the base for the team work of several actors and actresses from the United States to create a collective personality.
The goal of this experiment was to gather material about the reactions of groups to extraordinarily involved members of a discussion board on the internet. The artificial personality our team of actors has created was both annoying and imperfect. This exaggerated characterization of a human being was necessary to get the required emotional responses from the board members our team needed for the success of the project.
(The discussion board of the author William Gibson was selected randomly.)

Lastly, I hope this explanation was enough to put you in the picture about what has happened lately on your discussion board.
My superiors wanted me to pass on the following words to you:

"We regret if the project "Biochips" has been divisive and caused the administrator of the William Gibson Discussion Board trouble. If necessary the Princeton University Department of Psychology is willing to provide information about the project and the team. The project report has to be written now and will be to read along with a list of all the actors and actresses that impersonated "Biochips" on our website (https://weblamp.princeton.edu/~psych/psychology/home/index.php) in late January 2009."

Now that the experiment has been finished the account "Biochips" can be deleted of course.
If the webmaster tiger68 still has any questions he can contact me personally: drmohanadvani@yahoo.com

I'm also planning on attending the next William Gibson convention. Maybe you can meet up with me there.

Sincerely,
Dr. Mohan Advani

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Biochips,

A Princeton Prof. is using a Yahoo account?

uh-huh.

howcome biochips gets to go to the convention?

And just googling the Dr. shows he's not Computer Science, he's Psych at George Washington U.

I had a good ride, I hope this is still part of it. If it isn't, i will have to shut down this "Princeton" place and requisition it as a training school for elite legacies of wealthy white American dynasties.

I doubt you'd like that.

Behold, I am Heralkes!

Biochips, initial project data seems to suggest several antithetical hypothesizes including this post-Derrida proposition:

"The Hydra", in addition to being responsible for 42% of all WGB quotes ever made, is the source of 91% of all WGB internet truth. The Hydra is void of human restraints, such as pity and mercy. Those who perform reckless actions or oppose The Hydra will be eliminated. Hydra failure is not a tolerated outcome. The Hydra enemies are to be dealt with swiftly, ruthlessly, and efficiently. The Hydra works as one. No single Hydra Head knows everything about "The Hydra". The Hydra is everyone and no one. You and I are essential components of the large Hydra collective. Everyone is "The Hydra"! "The Hydra" is humanity when the gloves come off.

We are not any one person, nor is it a group, movement or cause: "The Hydra" is a collective, a commune of human thought. A gathering of sheep and fools, assholes and trolls, and normal everyday Wigbers. An anonymous collective, left to its own devices, quickly builds its own society out of rage and hate. "The Hydra" can be anyone from well-meaning college kids with highly idiosyncratic senses of humor trying to save people from Scientology, to devious nihilist hackers, to thirteen year old boys who speak entirely in injokes on an endless quest for porn.

"The Hydra" is very much like most other web communities, with in-jokes, culture, extended debates, etc. Well, anyone stupid enough to join a web community. The difference, and the reason they visit other communities is that "The Hydra"
have a need to be harassed by "Nanny" moderators. They hate being denied late night sleepovers. Here, there isn't anyone to do that - yet long and productive edit wars spring up at about the rate you'd never tolerate elsewhere, on topics you'd never believe. They have no leader, no pretentious douchebag president or group thereof to set in stone what "The Hydra" is and is not. This makes Hydras nearly impossible to control or organize. Not really a collective at all-- more like a stampede of coked-up lemmings. They don't dare to lead for will but rather break the "bridge" instead. And since it's all made out of Legos, fuck it.

Starting as an in-joke itself, "The Hydra" is the name assigned to a poster who does not enter text in the [Name] field on the WGB. "The Hydra" is not a single person, but rather, represents the collective whole of individuals choosing to reclaim the internet for their individual goals.

As individuals, they can be intelligent, rational, emotional and empathetic. As a mass, a group, they are devoid of humanity and mercy. Never before in the history of humanity has there once been such a morass, a terrible network of the peer-pressure that forces people to become one, become evil. Welcome to the soulless mass of blunt immorality known only as the Internet.

Hydras are the Monsters of the collective WGB Id.

I wonder what extremely-implausible-yet-extraordinarily-boring twist is coming next.

Dear Dr. Mohan Advani,

Please go fuck yourself. Discussion boards do not exist for Princeton's academic pleasure. Who funded this grant?

Dr. Mohan Advani does not exist.
He is another experiment.
Created by Dr. Prius.

Well fuckem.

Allem.

I'm so disappointed. I thought our boy Chips was that German kid in the Youtube video screaming and smashing his keyboard.

Dear Doctor, i hope your experiment failed.

Bullshit. He's a dorky, 22-year-old German kid. And actually, I thought he was kind of entertaining. He provoked us to discuss cyberpunk and an alternate, severed-head-centric Christian tradition, so he's not all bad.

What, did he mad-lib a Nigerian prince scam e-mail?m

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Dear Dr. Mohan Advani,

Please go fuck yourself. Discussion boards do not exist for Princeton's academic pleasure. Who funded this grant?

I've been informed that Dr. Prius is funding this grant with copious quantities of Bacon.

*somebody's* been fucking around with us, that's for sure.

and I've found it rather amusing

the Hitler, Stalin, Hubbard triptych really was a tour de force

Where is my payment?

There is another one.

Sex: M
Specialisation: Medical Sociology, Population Studies Resettlement and Rehabilitation
Date of Birth: 10/15/1942
Subject: Sociology/Social Sc./Futurology
University: Mohanlal Sukhadia University Udaipur

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Originally posted by Biochips:
Hello, WGBers

My name is Dr. Mohan Advani. I am a scientist in Computer Engineering.
In late spring 2008 I was commissioned by the Princeton University Department of
Psychology in order to write a constitutive piece of software for an experiment.

Prove it.

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This program, basically needed to collect the information on the issue, was used as the base for the team work of several actors and actresses from the United States to create a collective personality.
The goal of this experiment was to gather material about the reactions of groups to extraordinarily involved members of a discussion board on the internet. The artificial personality our team of actors has created was both annoying and imperfect. This exaggerated characterization of a human being was necessary to get the required emotional responses from the board members our team needed for the success of the project.

A Bladerunner / Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep style Voight-Kampff test ?

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(The discussion board of the author William Gibson was selected randomly.)

Randomly from the whole world wide web ? Or from a pre-selected list of groups whose members do actually understand what a Turing test is ?

Do you understand what the Data Protection Principle or the ethical academic research principle of Prior Informed Consent is ?

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Lastly, I hope this explanation was enough to put you in the picture about what has happened lately on your discussion board.

No, that is not acceptable.

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My superiors wanted me to pass on the following words to you:

"We regret if the project "Biochips" has been divisive and caused the administrator of the William Gibson Discussion Board trouble. If necessary the Princeton University Department of Psychology is willing to provide information about the project and the team. The project report has to be written now and will be to read along with a list of all the actors and actresses that impersonated "Biochips" on our website (https://weblamp.princeton.edu/~psych/psychology/home/index.php) in late January 2009."

Now that the experiment has been finished the account "Biochips" can be deleted of course.

Not so fast - you cannot get rid of the evidence so easily.

The FBI, Joseph Kahn's lawyers and Princeton University's Office of the General Counsel may well be interested in the assassination and kidnap threats made by "Biochips" on this discussion board.

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If the webmaster tiger68 still has any questions he can contact me personally: drmohanadvani@yahoo.com

Wot, no princeton.edu email address then ?

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I'm also planning on attending the next William Gibson convention. Maybe you can meet up with me there.

Sincerely,
Dr. Mohan Advani

When and where is the "next William Gibson convention" ?