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[BUG #3451249]

Unlimited resource drain caused by conscious blobs of particles (a.k.a humans) invoking recursive thought patterns over their own existence.

Workaround: ponder function can return a feeling of existential dread accompanied by increased weights for headache "sensation", causing blob to terminate process.

Estimate: M

Label: Backend

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I reckon we're just a bug and Colin doesn't even know about our existence.

We might even just be a heisenbug in a bug reproducer.

Good thing too. Once Colin finds out, we'll be features that he has to document so that everyone else involved will know to use us or to bypass us.

Oh. I have a [PR#4519842] that implements a biased value system of labour which should reduce the time available for such patterns to occur, and limit the recursion to a brief few who can embed/summarise such artefacts in written record as a form of memoization.

Should I rebase on your workaround?

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