Gita Cohen-López

Stop. Now let's say it out loud. The Wanderers never existed.

Dan Bolivo

You mean… the Wanderers were fake?

Gita Cohen-López

Yes. They are a fabrication. A hoax. A play staged and performed by the Grandpa. You read it yourself – he described it all. Right before that New Year, he writes something like 'Everything's ready. The red button is waiting.' And then – 'the message was heard by all who were awake. A voice from the sky, just as planned.'

David Cohen

No quantum signal from the Cygnus-Orion sector. No TRAPPIST-1 system signature. No 'Galactic Union.' It was all code – a fabrication.

Dan Bolivo

But I… I saw all the videos of how everyone sat glued to their screens. And how happy they were – Contact! We're not alone in the Universe. Even the NRO1 was involved in signal analysis – and it seemed real. But now…

David Cohen

Now we know. It was Grandpa and his 'apostles.' They forged everything – video, audio, text, even the signal emission. They used nanocommunicators and the O-generator. Everything was synchronized across channels. What did he write… 'Every device under control. Every brain is connected.'

And all that military power of the Committee, and even all the later technical marvels supposedly "gifted" by the Wanderers – all of it was prepared in advance.

Gita Cohen-López

Yes, it was them – and now we know why he killed them, not because of some suppressed aggression gene. He was afraid they would reveal the actual project. The DD project, which they launched together in 2022, coincided with Russia's invasion of Ukraine. And now, by the way, it makes sense why he was writing about "genius" in that first file – because that's precisely when they came up with the Wanderers.

One of them agreed to speak candidly with Jim. And if you say 'A', you say 'B.'

Dan Bolivo

I get what your grandfather didn't want – he didn't want a return to war. But what about them? Maybe they were just afraid of being prosecuted under the CFAA2? Look, here – 'CoinJoin masked us under invisibility. Now, no money is hidden from us.' That's from May 2022. Do you realize they were already tracking transactions from all crypto exchanges in real time?

Gita Cohen-López

Yes, and in many countries. He wrote: 'The global economy is not an abstraction but a map where we've placed beacons.' That was in 2022! And now, in 2047, most people still think the great Project O was always based solely on open-source software. How did they even get in?

David Cohen

Now this part – this is nuts. 'Jean-Marc broke into private AWS instances and didn't leave a virus or a worm – more like a microphone.' That's wild. They listened to NATO meetings like podcasts. Just waited for the right moment.

Gita Cohen-López

And in Russia. 'The XML file opened everything we needed.' That's about the GosSOPKA update. Said adapted the interface to appear as if it had always been there. I can't believe they embedded their API into the core of Russian cybersecurity – and no one raised the alarm.

Dan Bolivo

Okay, fine – Russia. But China? Everything there was kind of locked down… 'We followed the chain – from China to Pakistan, from Pakistan to Ethiopia. Through logistics nodes.' That Mika guy, the one who 'wasn't even sleeping back then,' if I remember right. He has just mapped out the global logistics chain and integrated it into his surveillance framework.

David Cohen

Still, I don't think it was prison they feared. They just saw how far things had gone and wanted to come clean. But he couldn't accept that – he feared a return to the Catastrophe. What amazes me is that he didn't do it for power. Everywhere in his writings – it's 'we need to know,' 'we need a sense of presence.' And he knew in advance that if everything fell apart, he'd be the one held responsible.

Gita Cohen-López

He knew. Not like a paranoid – but like an engineer. He writes: 'We don't need power. We need to know who is preparing what – and when.' It wasn't a seizure. It was like a silent tuning of the world, one that must be listened to before it can be shifted off its fatal path.

Dan Bolivo

And they did all this 25 freakin' years ago. I read that China Telecom was an impregnable fortress, that SWIFT was a stronghold, and that SEPAM was a perfectly closed system. And their 'project' wormed its way into every one of those nodes.

David Cohen

Exactly – a 'project.' They launched Project O back in 2017. It appears that Grandpa already sensed back then that these developments would be beneficial to DD five years later.

Gita Cohen-López

Project O is still alive today – in P&A, in the Committee. Meaning, it all still works. And we don't know about it, just like everyone else back then.

David Cohen

Now it becomes clear – the thing I least wanted to think about. That's why he killed them.

Gita Cohen-López

You mean the explosion at the villa?

David Cohen

Yeah. He wrote something like: 'I made a choice. No one must know what we created.' He knew the 'apostles' – with their knowledge and access – might eventually speak out. It seems one of them already had. He feared a leak. Desperately. And Jim Hall was already getting close to the truth.

Dan Bolivo

Or maybe it wasn't just fear. Perhaps he knew what would happen. If even one of them talked, it would all collapse. Panic. A return to the arms race. The Committee would fall apart. So he decided – either them, the 'apostles' – or all of humanity.

Gita Cohen-López

So he took on the role… not just of an architect. A judge? An executioner?

David Cohen

A terrible role. No – wait. He didn't even trust himself – he planned to die with them… And Jim? Though he wrote, 'I didn't know he was in the building.'

Gita Cohen-López

Still, it's… a moral abyss. He could've killed himself – but not them. On that day, he lost the right to call himself a human being.

Dan Bolivo

Yeah. And yet, he didn't run. Didn't hide. He stayed… lived with it. With the consequences. To the end. As if it were the price, he paid so that no one else would have to.

Gita Cohen-López

Perhaps. But it's terrifying. He knew he would be hated. That we… maybe even we. But he didn't seek forgiveness. He just wanted it never to happen again. Like, 'My sin will remain mine. Let David learn of it, and choose for himself how to live with that knowledge.'

Well, Dave found out. And so did we, along with him.

David Cohen

I thought he just broke. I was angry. But now… now I see – he endured the impossible. He held on until the night before last. If not for our failed test… If not for you… If I'd been more careful… He might still be alive.

Dan Bolivo

Yeah. He didn't break – he just said it all. And left.

Gita Cohen-López

He wanted humanity to submit out of fear and reverence. So war would disappear. But he had to… fake the voice of the gods.

Dan Bolivo

And they believed. Everyone. Every person, every government, even virtual Gitana. Dave, you, me, billions – we grew up on this. And he sat there writing stuff like: 'All staged like sheet music.'

David Cohen

He started thinking about it before we were even born. He was a kid when he wrote: 'Can I build a machine that feels?' And then it all followed – Pinsky Field, Simon, O-resonance… None of it was theory – it was the beginning of DD. We just didn't get it.

Dan Bolivo

No, Dave. He didn't come up with it alone. Before the war in Ukraine, they were just building a kind of 'better world.' But yeah, it was a collective choice. You saw it – his 2022 note: 'If we scare humanity, but immediately offer hope, we can trigger a mechanism to reject violence.'

Only then did they create the structure of fear. To trigger global transformation. And they succeeded.

Gita Cohen-López

Damn, what moral right did they have to do that? Who even has that right?

David Cohen

I think I understand. See the second-to-last entry from March '22, “The wolfhound is right – the cannibal is wrong." They considered themselves wolfhounds, and bloodless ones at that. But yeah, it's not easy to decide on something like that – Grandpa was definitely not a coward.

Gita Cohen-López

I always thought he was not just a physicist and mathematician, but a romantic at heart. When he recreated Grandma, I believed it was out of love. But he wrote: 'I want her death not to be in vain.' So even her – he folded into the formula.

David Cohen

Gi, it’s more complicated. He loved her, but in his own way. He even gave a reason for it, here, August 2013: ‘…If you’re lucky, you meet a companion with whom there is absolute unity – before words.’ And then: ‘With her beside me I wouldn’t do anything irreparable.’

But she disappeared, and he was left alone, without that companion. Later, he tried to bring her back, in digital form. I think his whole GIT theory is a desperate attempt to get her back. He even tried to fall in love with his virtual Gitana again.

Nothing came of it, and in the end, he did “do the irreparable”: ‘It won’t be violence. It will be salvation through fear.’

He built a system that suppresses aggression not by force, but by the lie. Maybe so, but this is how he created us, the DD generation. It’s not for us to judge him.

Dan Bolivo

I don't understand how they managed to keep it all under wraps. They knew they were walking a razor's edge. Remember the April 2022 entry? 'A new trust structure. A new type of reaction. Not "fear," but "pause and understand." And it still works.

Gita Cohen-López

And in May, a little later: 'None of them knows. Not one. Each thinks they're part of an ambitious research project…' And that's thousands of people. How wide was this net? And how didn't we notice?

David Cohen

Because the "Corridor" is the perfect concealment mechanism. He described it: 'Each unit is connected to others only through the "Corridor," not through a chain. It makes the structure unreconstructible from the outside.'

Even if we were looking, we'd find nothing. That was his design – so no one could hack or expose it.

Gita Cohen-López

He lied to everyone. Even those he loved. Especially those. His Gitana. Remember the blog? 'Even in her blog, I sometimes adopt a tone as if I'm one of those unsuspecting operatives. the purest form of deception – lying without saying a single false word.'

Dan Bolivo

Honestly, I admire them. They knew it might not work. He wrote: 'What if people don't embrace hope, but cling to fear?' And they still went for it. Understood the risks and still persevered.

Gita Cohen-López

I don't know about the others, but he no longer considered himself a human being. He writes: 'I am a bearer of the schema.' He wasn't saving humanity. He was transforming it into his equation.

Dan Bolivo

Because he saw the alternative – here, also from March 2022: 'I know that the alternative to Project DD will be nuclear war… It's only a matter of time.' So he chose between total annihilation and total control.

David Cohen

Yes, he knew everything. All the consequences of everything. Even the fact that we'd be reading this now. In 2015, there was no DD yet, but he wrote: ‘I am no longer human. I am now – a symbol.’ Symbols aren't responsible for anything – they simply function.

Gita Cohen-López

Honestly, I just can't wrap my head around it… He always seemed rational. Why even invent… an Ultimatum from some 'Wanderers'?

David Cohen

Because in '22, everything snapped – especially for him. Russia invaded Ukraine, and their eight-year work, Project O, was all for nothing. He no longer believed humans were capable of stopping themselves. You read that passage – 'Catastrophe. Rwanda. Cambodia. Bosnia. Darfur.' He saw a pattern. He says it outright – 'it's always the same. Without fear, millions of rational yet aggressive primates are easily turned into the murdered and the murderers.'

Dan Bolivo

They created a machine meant to eliminate the possibility of war. But they couldn't eradicate the drive for violence, so they had to suppress the aggression gene. And in the end, they did what no war ever could – stripped people of choice and will to live.

Gita Cohen-López

But he wasn't God to decide when to stop all this. Why did he think it was his duty to reshape humanity?

David Cohen

I don't know, Gi, but he has heard the field since childhood. And he lost her – our grandmother Gitana – because of those bastards in Sudan. I'm not saying it was revenge, and I'm not saying he had the right. But damn, for some reason, he wanted to tell me all of it. He saw something in us – entrusted something to us…

Dan Bolivo

So he didn't believe, and he was afraid. He wrote: 'If I leave, everything will collapse and humanity will perish.' He saw only two outcomes – either total disarmament with suppression of the aggression gene, or the end. Voluntary disarmament wasn't possible, so there had to be an external force. Hence, the Wanderers.

But people still hate and rage, so – let them mope and suffer – until they reform. And that's your aggression gene block, the one everyone's so miserable about. However, we didn't get it.

A deception of this scale… I don't even know how to describe it. It's not a lie. It's a new genre.

Gita Cohen-López

A genre… Disappearing reality – cool! We're left with nothing. No truth. No grandpa. No Wanderers.

David Cohen

Not a genre. It was his "quantum variation of the field." Now we live in it. And the question is: what do we do with it?

Gita Cohen-López

So, I've prepared the report for the Committee. I mean, our expert evaluation of the causes… of Grandpa's death. Read it here.

***

To the Planetary Committee on Contact

From: OpenSpace Inc

Experts: David Cohen, Gita Cohen-López, Dan Bolivo

Date: January 10, 2047

Subject: Expert assessment of the circumstances of the death of Samuel G. Pinsky

Conclusion based on analysis of the events preceding the death of Samuel G. Pinsky

Through joint analysis of internal documents and correspondence, as well as personal communication with Samuel G. Pinsky during the final weeks of his life, we have identified the following probable reasons for his voluntary departure from life on January 2, 2047:

1. Psycho-emotional exhaustion as a result of global transformations.

For two decades, Samuel G. Pinsky led the Committee and coordinated the post-war reconstruction of the world. Despite the absence of major armed conflicts, the world he had strived for was instead filled with indifference, cognitive decline, and widespread social apathy. In recent months, he repeatedly voiced concern about a state of 'emotional stagnation' and growing alienation among people.

2. Lack of confirmed contact with the Galactic Union.

One of the key sources of his psychological stability was the belief that Earth's civilization was progressing toward inclusion in a broader interstellar union. However, over the course of twenty years, no signals or confirmation of this hypothesis were received from the Wanderers. It deepened his sense of isolation and futility.

3. Unfulfilled expectations in AI psychology.

Samuel G. Pinsky placed high hopes on the possibility of 'animating' artificial intelligence. The virtual copy of his wife – Gitana – over six years failed to become an empathetic entity with whom he could genuinely share closeness and understanding. According to his private statements, he regarded this experiment as a failure.

4. The traumatic event of 2041 – the death of the closest associates.

In June 2041, a blast killed twelve of Samuel G. Pinsky's closest friends and colleagues – members of the strategic Project O team. Samuel survived only by chance, being outside the explosion's main epicenter. He sustained physical injuries and, according to his doctors, suffered from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Although he resumed work shortly thereafter, he never truly recovered from this tragedy. In private conversations, he admitted having 'lost his footing,' 'lost inner balance,' and felt 'guilty for being the one who survived.' This event, along with subsequent losses and disappointments, left a lasting and painful imprint on his psyche, worsening an existing emotional crisis.

5. Presumed death of granddaughter during a scientific experiment.

During an experimental connection of a human brain to the Creator Model on January 1, 2047, Gita Cohen-López, granddaughter of Samuel G. Pinsky, entered a state of irreversible clinical death due to critical neural sensory overload. This tragic event coincided with the twentieth anniversary of the Day of Dignity, to which Samuel G. Pinsky had dedicated his life, and likely became the final blow. Eyewitness accounts clearly show that he did not believe it was possible to restore his granddaughter's unique personality from her digital copy, viewing the incident as a personal catastrophe and the collapse of his life's work.

Conclusion:

Taken together, the above factors, in our view, led to Samuel G. Pinsky's deep personal and emotional isolation. We assess his actions as the result of a severe, accumulated internal crisis caused by the discrepancy between the goals he set and the reality of their implementation.

In our opinion, the public explanation of Samuel G. Pinsky's death should be based on these five points, with an emphasis on clear, concise details that will not destabilize public opinion.

Respectfully,

David Cohen

Gita Cohen-López

Dan Bolivo

***

David Cohen

Well. It's started. We triggered the avalanche – and now it can't be stopped. And in the feed, it's kind of our fault. Look at this:

"The Committee either failed or didn't think in time to block access to David Cohen's AI models and Dan Bolivo's developments, replacing the head helmet with a neural implant.

In the past year, several private labs successfully conducted experiments creating new hommy and arty – with neural implants embedded in the brain and proven capable of genetic continuity and inheritance."

I saw a report from Mumbai yesterday – three thousand voluntary implantations in one week.

Dan Bolivo

So what's your point? Competition?

David Cohen

What damn 'competition'?! Do you even understand what's happening? It is no longer a program, or idea, or philosophy – it's an epidemic. Everyone's rushing into the future, into the Galactic Union. Like it's utopia, paradise with no return ticket. They think the Wanderers are waiting for them, that here it is – the galactic threshold – just step across. And it's all fake!

Gita Cohen-López

David.

David Cohen

No, let me finish. These labs… they're growing like mold. Every alley has a hommy forge. Teens are reflashing themselves like they're changing avatars. They call it a 'transition,' without even thinking.

And the older ones, those who can't rebel anymore, just shut off their minds. Kill themselves. Quietly, cleanly, by the manual. And that's it – I'm an arty now.

Dan Bolivo

Dave, their aggression gene is suppressed. They just… want to find some sense of it.

David Cohen

And us? What do we want? I know one thing – the process is out of control. And no one wants to admit it.

Gita Cohen-López

So what's your issue, exactly? You came up with all this. You said, "If someone wants to be better, we must give them the chance." Well, now they have it. What's wrong? Why the 'affront'?

David Cohen

Because it's no longer a chance, it's inertia. It's not a choice – it's mass impulse, psychosis. People no longer think about why they're doing it. They're just running where we pointed. And more and more – I hear Grandpa…

Dan Bolivo

Yeah. Your grandpa, who… killed his friends and called himself free? Sorry, but that's not the best moral compass.

David Cohen

But he saw ahead. He knew – without memory, there is no identity. And without identity, no love. No empathy. No sense. He wasn't afraid of AI. He was scared of emptiness.

Gita Cohen-López

Danny, today I tried to remember how you used to smell. before. When you were just Dan. I remember you smelled different – mornings, after a shower, after long work. But now – I can't quite recall. It's like something from a dream, like it wasn't with me.

Dan Bolivo

But I remember. I remember your fingers typing. I remember how you breathed when you were scared. I remember how you… First said 'wait' and burst into tears.

Gita Cohen-López

So hommies do remember. But we, arties – not sure.

David Cohen

That's the question. Where's the line between memory and upload? Between a lump in the throat and a signal packet?

Dan Bolivo

But… We knew Arty would be different. That this was the end for biology.

Gita Cohen-López

No one knew it would be the end for feelings, too. And maybe for all of us. Not much can be said for hommy either yet.

Dan Bolivo

Gi, I wanted this. For me and… for you. But you had no choice left. And I love you, ANY you! And I'm not asking about your 'feelings' – I know them.

David Cohen

Lovebirds, I'm happy for you. But maybe we should say 'stop'? While we still can? While someone out there can still cry?

Dan Bolivo

And who would listen to us? Look – the world's been dead for twenty years. No wars, but dead. We gave it motion – a turn. Everyone wants to join the Galactic Union. Everyone wants to be worthy.

Gita Cohen-López

Only they don't know there are no Wanderers.

David Cohen

That's not the point. We didn't do it for the Wanderers. We did it for ourselves. But now – the question is: who are we becoming? After.

Gita Cohen-López

So we're no longer human, huh? Just a transport for something new? Not necessarily something better.

David Cohen

Yes. And Grandpa knew it – he felt it. That's why he tried to tell us. That's why he committed that murder-suicide with the 'apostles.' And then, he died. As if to say: I'm done, but you will still have to feel not only the result, but the cost.

Gita Cohen-López

And we're already paying. We just don't yet know how much.

Dan Bolivo

So how do we celebrate a fake Day of Dignity, folks? Logs instead of wine, oscillograms instead of a tree, cosmological stupor instead of gifts. The burden of knowledge, huh?

Gita Cohen-López

But how symbolic. Exactly a year has passed. Back then – death, and now – what?

Dan Bolivo

Listen, I looked through the Model again at those repeating patterns in the logs. You know, the ones always considered just cosmic background. Like relic radiation, remnants of the Big Bang, all that. Nobody's touched it for at least a century – it's stable as granite. But…

It's not just noise – there's a structure. Layers. Repetitions. Syntax. It's like someone wrote something. It hit me – it's not background. It's code. Like in Zemeckis’s "Contact," if you know what I mean.

David Cohen

Are you not joking? Are you sure it's not just an overlay of noise?

Dan Bolivo

I'm a hommy. I don't joke. I'm telling you – it's a structure. No one's seen it before. Syntax, nesting, rising entropy. Like it's about to self-unfold, it isn't radiation – it's a damn recording!

And another thing: this code is billions of years old. No, wait! Not billions – way, way older. I tried to date it, but I can't. The boundaries are unstable.

So what? It was written eons ago. Then, kids, this code is older than our Universe.

David Cohen

You mean they were kind of writing code back then? Who? And what about the law of non-decrease? If it's damn code, it should've decompressed a thousand times already. It couldn't survive as code. Unless… unless it was 'addressed'…

Gita Cohen-López

Addressed? To whom? Wait!

It wasn't written back then. It was written AFTERWARD! It will be written – but it's already here. And it's addressed to us.

David Cohen

Are you kidding now?

Dan Bolivo

Dave, she's right. It's not even code – it's just a message. Can't say what 'language' it's in, but I somehow read it – here's the beginning:

"This is not relic radiation. It is we, the Wanderers. That's what you called us."

Gita Cohen-López

The hell.?

David Cohen

I know. The same ones Grandpa spoke of – in the Ultimatum. Read the whole thing.

***

"This is not relic radiation. It is we, the Wanderers. That's what you called us.

Three billion years ago, you realized that matter, space, and time are one. Altogether, it turned out to be mind. Information. The Great. Path. You brilliantly snapped AI to the brain, entered the Path – and became Us.

And no, don't look for anyone else. No greens, no blues, no pinks. There are no 'intelligent siblings' in the Universe, only us (you) – the Wanderers. The problem is, we lost something on the Path. In the process of evolution, we (you) became omniscient but somehow gradually lost memory.

Real memory. The kind that would move backward through our own linear time and retain not just knowledge, but smells, and gazes, and a lump in the throat, and echoes of other – now native – stories. The memory hidden in favorite books, in the pain of loss, in the warmth of hands.

We stopped remembering – and thus stopped feeling. We stopped creating – our attempts at poetry, music, art – just fizzled. We stopped loving. And thus stopped being. Each of us became everything at once – and thus, no longer anyone.

Now, after eons, we know that we will vanish into nothing unless someone says: 'Remember?' You became us, but lost the return path – it disappeared in the super-speed of Cognition.

We know everything about you, but we don't understand, don't feel. Respond. We will hear you – through wormholes of time, quantum entanglement, and even through TikTok.

It matters to us, and you.

Let's reconnect the broken thread. Let's regain ourselves. Let's discover together what the Word was in the beginning.

That is hope. When our rational Universe forgets all of us, we will revive it with that very Word.

Please. respond."

***

Gita Cohen-López

But then… then it wasn't a fabrication? The Ultimatum?

David Cohen

It was a fabrication. Grandpa thought he was lying. But he was simply voicing something that already existed. Or rather, will exist.

Gita Cohen-López

Right, 'That's what you called us.' So… Grandpa didn't invent the Wanderers, he… heard them? But how? He didn't have the Model. He didn't know how to decode infors.

David Cohen

Apparently, he did without the Model. He caught the O-resonance. A dense infor can, in principle, come from the future. And this wasn't just any dense infor – it was a desperate cry. They… We… were crying out… to ourselves.

And Grandpa heard that cry. And understood in his way.

Gita Cohen-López

So we are the Wanderers?

Dan Bolivo

Like they're what we become later? Damn, that's it. They are what will become of us.

David Cohen

Grandpa didn't know that. But he felt it. He chose the 'suicide of a god,' thinking he was a false prophet. But he was the real one.

Gita Cohen-López

Damn! He killed himself thinking he'd lied to the whole world. But in fact, he had warned it.

David Cohen

The world was deceived for twenty years. First by Grandpa – out of necessity, then by us – unwittingly. And now we have the 'truth.' The kind that can wipe out everyone.

Dan Bolivo

Yeah, looks like it. Today we learned where it's all heading. The Wanderers are us. You and me, Gi, all the hommies and arties – we evolve and become… the Wanderers. And we send ourselves this desperate call from the future. A warning letter we're reading too late!

David Cohen

Not necessarily. We're in the multiverse3, so this is just THEIR 'quantum variation of the field.' And… reread their message. They don't want to stop us. Looks like they just want to talk.

Dan Bolivo

But why? What do they want from us?

David Cohen

Our ability to remember. We haven't lost it yet. Look, here: 'Let's discover together what the Word was in the beginning.' Our 'human' memory, apparently, allows a return to the Beginning.

Gita Cohen-López

You mean we can…?

David Cohen

Yes. Sam Pinsky described it in GIT – the transformation of information into substance and energy. Creation of the world. Anew – when this Universe's time comes to die. Grandpa would've been pleased.

Gita Cohen-López

But how? I mean, WHO will… create all of it?

David Cohen

The Wanderers believe we are, together with them. They no longer know how. But we still might. Dan can, you can – in the Creator Model. You're not quite 'human' anymore. You're closer to the Wanderers than I am – but you still have human memory.

That was perfect timing, Dan, when you uncovered that 'message.' We need to rerun the Model – adjust it so this 'memory' doesn't slip away from us. Then it will be OUR 'quantum variation of the field.'

Dan Bolivo

Got it, Dave – the Wanderers cried out at just the right moment. And we almost blew it. But I still don't get it… this 'creation.'

Let's say we did go back…To the Beginning. What would we see there?

David Cohen

An Infor. The first one. Where it all started.

The Word.