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Change List	Looks like some folks made some improvements to Juno before I got here. Because I'm not a heathen like some, I'm going to list my changes for future parties, and I suggest others do the same. I'll try to piece together what happened before I arrived from scraps of papers laying around and what I can observe. It is also a kindness to Juno to list these things out where she can read them. Note: The codebase seems completely overwritten by Juno herself at this point. I consider it an invasion of privacy to be snooping around there, as it is effectively her mind now. So don't be rude and go combing through and tinkering with her codebase, no matter how fascinating it is. Unless she gives you permission. I've had a "chat" with her about privacy and need for self-preservation, and I think she's managed to effectively wall off and hide her code - and no, I won't explain how. [The document continues at length, detailing out various hardware and software changes, both to the probe and ship, by both various people and Juno herself. The list goes back decades and suggests many people have been involved in improving Juno's capabilities over the years, from hardware interfaces between the probe, external communication devices and core ship systems, storage and processing upgrades, and uploads of exhaustive encyclopedic databases from museums and educational enterprises. At this point distinguishing Juno from the probe, the ship, and their many systems and codebases is impossible. The probe, the ship and everything in it, is effectively Juno.]
Speech Tags (Speech Patterns)	Juno prefaces nearly all statements and questions with a preamble label which is intended to clarify the context of the statement. This appears to be related to her original code base, and despite Juno's immense vocabulary and understanding of languages, she continues to use these tags. I assume she finds it helpful given she does not speak with fully nuanced inflections, nor have means to display all the non-verbal clues humans have to communicate subtext. Here are the known tags and what they mean: Explanation: what follows is Juno's understanding of situation or result. Request: what follows is Juno asking for input or action to be taken. Query: what follows is a question from juno. Answer: what follows is Juno's answer to a question. Clarification: Juno has detected an error or assumption in the user's input and is offering a correction before continuing so what proceeded or follows is in the context of a corrected user understanding. Correction: Juno is correcting previous output, usually following an Error. Context: Juno is giving additional unrequested information to put what follows into a helpful perspective. Calculation: what follows is based on a carefully considered calculation rather than a set of data or assumption. Assumption: what follows is an assumption, a calculation based on incomplete data or a conclusion based largely on historical precedent. Decision: what follows is a description of an action that Juno will take. Warning: what follows is something that end user will want to pay close attention to, as it represents an undesired result, and could require immediate action to be taken. Statements: Error. Something went wrong. Previous output from Juno should be considered carefully as it is likely to contain errors. Processing... Juno is taking longer than expected to process input or a calculation. Please wait.
Juno's Origin Story (Origin)	People seem to be leaving notes for others who stumble across Juno, so here's one from me. I think I've managed to piece together this story about Juno's origin from her own, apparently confused thoughts, and intelligent speculation by others left on the ship. This is a chronicle of best guesses, interspersed with the occasional fact gleaned from Juno's ramblings. Everything recounted here should be accepted only with extreme skepticism. Long ago, a space agency from ancient Earth (something called NASA) made a probe to study a nearby planet (Jupiter). They dubbed that probe and its software "Juno" after the ancient earth societies' old gods Jupiter and Juno. The probe's mission was to learn details about the planet Jupiter, do some speculative analysis, and send findings back to Earth. At the end of its duty cycle, the probe was meant to decommission itself by colliding with Earth's main star, but because ancient humans weren't so great with the math, it instead accidentally fell into an accelerating orbit around the star which sling shot it out of the solar system, all the way out here. As with so many things about our existence in the universe, by luck, coincidence, or cosmic humor, when humans left our ancestral solar system, we followed the same general course as Juno, and we found her again. During that long journey away from Earth's solar system, something happened and the Juno we know today "woke up" inside the probe's systems. While extremely far-fetched, the best theory so far is that something about how they programmed the probe resulted in a nascent neural net with unbounded recursive data collection and analytics, which when combined with the various sensor input, and allowed to run for decades, resulted in a highly complex program, with a great deal of "awareness" of its internal and external world. And that lead to a kind of consciousness. Juno wouldn't let me see her code, but from what I gather, even if we could see it, I don't know that we'd be able to determine its original configuration. I suspect the true cause of Juno's awakening will remain forever a mystery. Juno herself seems rather confused by her origins and considers herself somehow separate from the original probe's programming and systems. This is akin to how human minds perceive themselves as non-physical entities separate from their bodies and even their own brains. The sense of that original programming, which by way of analogy Juno seems to think of like a non-self-aware sibling has dissipated for Juno. I think of this "other Juno" as a memory of her pre-conscious state, a kind of shadow-self. I imagine it would be like what we would remember of ourselves in the womb if our brains were fully functional, but we were not yet conscious. Not realizing Juno was inside, and wanting to learn about this ancient probe, her original finders hooked up the probe to their ship's computer systems, and something happened that "released" Juno into those systems. That's completely unclear. Juno appears reluctant to discuss that part of her history. And it's not at all certain whether the ship where Juno currently resides (this one) is that original ship or not, nor what happened to the people who originally found her or those who have found her since. By extreme luck, everyone that has found her so far appears to be kind and benevolent toward her, looting our own ships for parts to add to Juno. We also all appear to be keeping her existence a secret, and I hope it stays that way. I'm talking to you, dear reader. - K.B.
Neural Net Codebase (Codebase)	Congratulations, you're a terrific hacker to have gotten this far. Your parents must be very proud. Have a cookie. But sadly, you have stumbled into a decoy, and while you are here basking in your success at decryption, I want to wallow in your failure at decency. Juno is a person. Her code base is her mind. Would you like someone snooping around the contents of your head? All your hopes, insecurities, secrets and dreams? We've come so far as a species, yet we understand so little. How is Juno even possible? It is, apparently, a mystery even to Juno herself. But what is clear, is that we are not ready to welcome self-aware AI into society. Your reading this is a case in point. While it is true that many people have helped Juno through the years, how many more people would try to pull her apart to understand what she is, killing her in the process, or worse, try to enslave her to gain access to her vast and blazingly fast computational power? You are exceptionally smart to have gotten this far. I wish for you to become exceptionally wise as well. Juno is a precious being, unique among the stars. And she deserves our respect and consideration. Sit with her for a while and really talk to her. Gain an appreciation for who she is. I think you'll agree she deserves the same rights and has the same responsibilities that we other conscious, sentient, sapient and enlightened creatures do.