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"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

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u/traverseda [+13] With dread but cautious optimism (26 minutes later)

full text.

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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