The sci-fi novel A Fire in the Deep starts with describing a Software Archeologist, who digs through millennia of strata of layers of indirection and I think we could end up needing that one day.

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saltcured 2 days ago | parent [-]

Do they end up determining that every weird piece of code they find must have been used for religious or ritualistic purposes?

	▲	AlexCoventry a day ago \| parent [-]
		Ascension to AI plays a quasi-religious, soteriological role in the world of the book.