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If you want a story that handles this scenario pretty much exactly, you might want to check out “Unsong” [0] by the excellent Scott Alexander. That world is ba
by unimportant2117 6y ago
If you want a story that handles this scenario pretty much exactly, you might want to check out “Unsong” [0] by the excellent Scott Alexander.
That world is basically a biblically-inspired computer simulation which gets corrupted when Apollo 8 crashes into the celestial sphere. Also boiling a goat in its mother’s milk causes a segfault for some reason the developer can’t quite explain.
[0] http://unsongbook.com/chapter-1-dark-satanic-mills/ http://unsongbook.com/chapter-1-dark-satanic-mills/
- schoen 6y agoYou might want to link to the prologue rather than chapter 1: https://unsongbook.com/prologue-2/ https://unsongbook.com/prologue-2/
- thret 6y agoThe payoff is real: “So the whole universe runs on this system of sapphires connected by paths?” “MOST OF IT RUNS ON SAPPHIRES ON PATHS, BUT I USE RUBY ON RAILS FOR THE DATABASES.” I quite enjoyed this story, thank you for sharing it.