The newest stories shift the focus from whether reality resembles software to who may have written, interpreted or controlled its rules. Biblical punishment becomes a clue to hidden authorship, mathematical code invites speculation about a maker, and AI restrictions make control over access part of the story.
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Theology Seeks the Author
Biblical punishments are recast as clues to a hidden rulebook and the entity that may stand behind it.
Code Invites a Maker
Gates’s link between adinkra diagrams and error-correcting codes renews the simulation question and turns mathematical pattern toward possible authorship.
Access Becomes Control
Backlash over AI companies restricting reverse-engineering tools frames access to the systems as a feature controlled by their builders.
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Reality is starting to look like software. (Oct 25 to Nov 15)