@Amoeba_Girl @Soyweiser I read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City and found something about it seemed deeply wrong in ways that I had trouble articulating.
It's like when you see a bogus mathematical proof of a statement that you know to be false, but the mistake is hidden deep and you can't tell where it has gone wrong, you just know it has.
@cstross @Amoeba_Girl @Soyweiser My usual handle when playing online games is "Bickel", because I happened to be re-reading "Destination: Void" at the time that I first signed up my World Of Warcraft account, and killing huge numbers of sentient beings in the pursuit of artificial consciousness was definitely not a problem for Frank Herbert =)