# A Conversation, Recorded Eight Minutes Before The Torren Moon Bloom

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“Yes,” said the forensic eschatologist. “Your crippling techniques all appear fully operational. Your screening talkers have detected no basilisks or dangerous memetic payloads, and neither have the people screening _them_. Your emergency-wipe protocols show no sign of tampering, your network links show no anomalous traffic, and there is no present sign of a hard takeoff within the constrained subnet.”

“So it’s safe, yes? And you can report that to the -”

“This is exactly what one would expect to see if your containment protocols worked perfectly. However, it is also exactly what one would expect to see if a four-point-two kilosoph-equiv intelligence wanted you to _think_ that your containment protocols were working perfectly. Leaving aside the implications of your belief that trying to jail something three orders of magnitude smarter than you was a good idea in the first place, which do _you_ think is more likely?”

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://eldraeverse.com/2016/10/19/a-conversation-recorded-eight-minutes-before-the-torren-moon-bloom](https://eldraeverse.com/2016/10/19/a-conversation-recorded-eight-minutes-before-the-torren-moon-bloom)

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> [@Jade Nekotenshi \<nekotenshi0@gmail.com\> on 2016-10-19 16:49:24 wrote](#):
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> It’s cases like this where a vigorous facepalm and “oops” just somehow doesn’t _quite_ cover it…

> [@Specialist290 \<specialist290@hughes.net\> on 2016-10-19 20:54:43 wrote](#):
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> I’m starting to notice a common theme with some of the latest submissions.

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