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-----Original Message-----
From: laia [mailto:laia@...]
Sent: 24 April 2001 17:31
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Subject: To all my allies...


Some progress here. I have certainly learned to pay attention to
bounce-back email....
Our Modern World Dept.: Abuela had to sit down and have a long chat
with her
administrative AI yesterday. Of course, it would not do for the great
Jeanine Salla not
to have a first class Evolving Intelligence handling her affairs, but
despite her
brilliance, she did grow up in a time when machines were mostly just . .
. machines.
She tends to be brusque, which is fine with a toaster, but less
efficient with the
sentient help. The administrative intelligence--typical that Abuela
would never have
given it a name--has become rather resentful, to the point of waging a
small campaign
to express her displeasure. All trivial actions--a reference
mis-spelled in a paper;
"forgetting" to remind her of office hours; booking her next to the
engine in an almost
empty plane. The Salla women are not used to being crossed, though; she
was about to
just wipe the assistant and re-install when I suggested a conversation
might clear the air.
(Actually, a resentful AI is always bad news, but Mephista demanded that
I intercede.
Talk about all politics being local!) We shall see if things improve.
In more important matters: the killer has been caught. Now we'll see
what she has to
say for herself.