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And the scribes designing the incantations using magical tools, ever more complex, eagerly working towards stronger and faster magic crystals

• timschmidt 2y ago
  Those magical tools being self-referential incantations written in the weird and decidedly non-human language of the crystals themselves, containing deep magic [0] derived from the secrets of life itself [1] exploited to solve problems of intractable complexity in creating the next set of incantations. Disturbingly, using the magical tool twice on the same incantation never produces exactly the same result. 0: https://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/deep-magic.html https://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/deep-magic.html 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_algorithm