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

Ascension to AI plays a quasi-religious, soteriological role in the world of the book.

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