## "The Cookie Monster" by Vernor Vinge

* Author: u/traverseda  *With dread but cautious optimism**
* URL: http://www.analogsf.com/0310/cookie.shtml
* Score: 21

* Created: 2014-08-20T01:05:05

### Post:

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### Comments:

> **u/traverseda** [+13]  *With dread but cautious optimism* (26 minutes later)
> 
> [full text](http://will.tip.dhappy.org/blog/Compression%20Trees/.../book/by/Vernor%20Vinge/The%20Cookie%20Monster/Vernor%20Vinge%20-%20The%20Cookie%20Monster.html).

>> **u/zajhein** [+3]  (4 hours later)
>> 
>> Thanks for that. Probably wouldn't have cared or even remembered just the start of it.

> **u/alexanderwales** [+6]  *Time flies like an arrow* (59 minutes later)
> 
> One of my favorites (but then, I'm a big fan of nearly everything that Vinge has done).

> **u/Escapement** [+2]  *Ankh-Morpork City Watch* (2 hours later)
> 
> Thanks for this. It reminds me of Yudkowsky's That Alien Message, but Vinge's work is better in many ways IMO. I really liked everything about this - a great story.

> **u/Zephyr1011** [+1]  *Potentially Unfriendly Aspiring Divinity* (21 hours later)
> 
> This is a bit dull at the beginning, but gets significantly better and is definitely worth reading. That was great

> **u/MugaSofer** [+1]  (5 days later)
> 
> Well, that was good.
> 
> Surely the tech-support and NSA lines to reality are a serious security flaw, though?

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