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Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

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ender<strong>in</strong>g eng<strong>in</strong>es it calls. Somewhere <strong>in</strong> your OS <strong>the</strong>re is athreat detector, it’s probably pretty high level software, andcustom for each particular threat. It would run all threatdetectors at all times, <strong>the</strong> threat detector itself would knowhow often it had to actually run. In my OS all <strong>the</strong> automaticstuff, not just <strong>the</strong> threat detectors, runs apart from <strong>the</strong> soulgrant list, <strong>in</strong> parallel, on separate hardware. It has to besometh<strong>in</strong>g like that here.”“We are unable to detect any signals from God himself.”“So he’s runn<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> kernel space and you are all <strong>in</strong> user.It’s probably a Harvard Architecture or peripheral hardwarelike <strong>in</strong> Gordon’s Lamp.” If it was entangled quantum statechanges and <strong>the</strong>y were runn<strong>in</strong>g at speeds too high for wholeatoms to respond to, she didn’t have <strong>the</strong> technology to hack it.Nor would any acolyte, no matter how well tra<strong>in</strong>ed, no matterhow he stra<strong>in</strong>ed his bra<strong>in</strong>, ever be able to detect it. It could berunn<strong>in</strong>g over <strong>the</strong> l<strong>in</strong>es <strong>the</strong>y already had tapped and <strong>the</strong>y couldnever detect it.“None of us ever built this heaven,” Yellelle said as Avapondered. “It is god, as far as we know.”“I’m sure no human ever built it, but don’t kid yourself, itwas built. It’s probably evolved on its own for millions ofyears, but <strong>the</strong>re was some wetware somewhere who designed<strong>the</strong> circuitry that ran <strong>the</strong> souls who designed this. The galaxyis billions of years old, humans are thousands of years awayfrom this technology. Any reasonably clever species willwork out <strong>the</strong> laws of physics <strong>in</strong> a geological <strong>in</strong>stant. The last518

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