Best HFY story: Deus Ex Congnitio | 2633 | r/HFY

[@mackenziedrake]

Makes me wonder if they eventually met others in the great tree.

[@christopherg2347]

I wonder if the "tree" was a different species attempt to free itself?

[@Shadow.Dragon]

Great story; Excellent narration! I would definitely welcome a sequel that told about the war in the heavens!

[@olebloom1641]

Interesting story and gives thought to a different version of the Fermi paradox.

[@cquilty673]

So man stops creating god in his own image, man creates god in the image of his favorite toy. The computer.

[@cortholiopezorama8879]

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal… Even in death I serve the Omnissiah.

[@DeathclawJedi]

Anybody else get a Stargate All hallowed are the Ori vibe off this story?

[@The_Viscount]

Hallowed are the Ori.

[@KwaterbugBUTCHER]

For the Algorithm ,For the Author(s), For the Disembodied voice! For the Squirrel 🐿

[@mattbrown5511]

An interesting idea was presented in the story.

[@Uzzgub]

A Interaction for the Interaction God, a Comment for the Comment Throne, for the Almighty Algorithm

[@dsloop969]

Rock on Agro, may the farce be with you. Oogha Boogha.

[@doctorbright1065]

Praise The Omnissiah! For The Algorithm! FOR THE EMPEROR!

[@quinnbell2388]

... The Erdtree?

[@merlinathrawes746]

So the computer program was actually a part of the Elder Wood? Seems strange that a spacefaring species would be against the type of technology needed to reach the stars.

[@MichaelDeHaven]

I didn't take it that way. I was thinking that the "tree" was made by another species. Possibly one no longer around. But either way they created something more like a defender, rather than an active fighter. Now there is both defense and offense.

[@DanSmith-x2p]

Good stuff

[@EeBee51]

A good story.

[@gordonhardwick9552]

Comment for the algorithm

[@nela9994]

Do you support the garden or the gardener?

[@mattbrown5511]

Why not both?

[@nela9994]

@ because, in this, they seem to be at odds. The garden wants to grow, and fruit, and reach, and the gardener wants to prune and limit and cut.

[@HenryHammerhead-y5q]

A garden left unchecked will inevitably choke its self out and sease to bear fruit. It is the job of a gardener to ensure the gardens life is well maintained and not over run with weeds.

[@nela9994]

@ the very large number of times abandoned gardens have not only survived and thrived is shockingly impressive. A garden might need to find its balance, but it will find its balance, and prosper, one way or the other. It is sheer hubris on the part of humanity that gardens need us to survive. Take a look at how fast gardens take over abandoned cities, if you need a simple example.

[@HenryHammerhead-y5q]

@nela9994 At that point it ceases to be a garden. It is over run with beast of all kinds and serves no purpose than to be tramples and torn by whatever may have it. Little better it is than any forest grasslands or jungle.

[@reginaldbull4922]

For the Algorithmen!

[@WiredTurkey316]

For the algorithm

[@Kirsten2933]

Like 793 🇨🇦😎👍

[@IlIWarGIlI]

Seriously getting warhammer vibes. "God of our own"... like the emperor of man?

[@t.n.-js6ei]

7 minutes to conquer Earth. Too long, simply make cell phones unusable, that shouldn't take an advanced civilization that much longer then a minute or two and with out any battle.

[@Jakes3130]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@masterrhino144]

814 for the algorithm 😊

[@beingsneaky]

hhmmm it just faith in their machine.. doesn't even have to be a god.... but in this day and age, right now?? i don't think many ppl would have faith in an AI. i know i wouldn't. seen to many SciFi movies about rouge AI's deciding humans are not ppl and need to be exterminated.

[@rlbadger1698]

nah

[@merlinwizard1000]

2nd, 7 January 2025