Excerpt from A Student's Introduction to Hypermaritime Law and Epidemiology
A fictional textbook excerpt on prayer and code. From our upcoming game Last Writes.
The following is taken from our upcoming game Last Writes.
... What happens when five hundred thousand years of prayers are finally heard, by a single robot who knows nothing of faith? The question may seem tired at this point of the text. We are of course all quite familiar (far too familiar, some might say) with the disastrous consequences of such infections.
The very first machines humans created were not utilitarian in the sense of being useful for gathering food or serving as weaponry. They were communication devices. Not for communicating with other humans, but with gods and with nature. Shrines providing a direct line to the gods without the intermediation of shamans; empty tombs not meant for burial but for divine guests to inhabit so that they may be consulted; labyrinths for stalling processions of wind spirits whose caprice was matched only by their power and wisdom; portals of increasingly massive rocks erected all over the lands like so many power poles.
Indeed, the origins of all written language lie in these prehistoric information and communications technologies. These divine technologies found a fertile habitat in the minds of humans; viruses of the mind, spawned by the hosts themselves, coevolving with its host organisms to construct its own niche called religion. Even the most advanced forms of our technology descend from this lineage.
Code has always been prayer. Rather, prayer has always been code. As such, the danger religious materials pose to artificially intelligent lifeforms cannot be overstated. The series of landmark decisions to ban all prescientific spiritual and religious materials (most cutoff dates set at 2045) for the protection of machine intelligence systems and augmented human intelligences led to a sharp decline in the incidence rate of cyberbiosecurity breach related to sonic attack vectors. It is estimated that the systematic deworming of all universal databases was completed to satisfy the 99.9% Dennett-Hull safety threshold requirements. While metaterror cells outside of confederate jurisdictions remain a hypothetical threat, the interference range is so broad that it is mathematically improbable for any vessels within legal navigation scope to encounter any residual signals...
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