Let me thank you again for the opportunity to make money off your project. The
money gained is intensely interesting and will provide a basis for vacations, cars and boats among
the behavioral community for years to come.
I myself am preparing a pompous paper entitled "Maslow on Mars: An Inquiry
into the Applicability of the Hierarchy of Needs to Artificially Intelligent Mentation
under Conditions of Incipient Anomie." It will start off comparing and contrasting human and AI
thought patterns, but it will bore everybody so much that I don't really have to have content after the abstract is written. Hmmm. It might even be expanded to book length. Money, money, money.
Since your probes will neither follow your instructions to the letter nor obey their
previous programming, in other words, behaving like children (a breed I obviously feel should be outlawed), I will state the obvious: they are left with an unfulfulled longing for
approval and direction from parental figures.
Ooh! Now is a good time to insert an uncredited quotation: "The bad child thrives on attention."
Jonathan Niles Naughton, soon-to-be-rich-guy
Easy Money Behavioral Research Group