New short story: “New Foundations”

There are, military sociologists estimate, around three dozen weaponized ideas in the world ready to explode at any given time. A few are ongoing non-state actor attacks; those are the most primitive and certain to be detected in time. Most are leftovers from the Golden Age of quantitative semiotics before panicked elites realized what they had unleashed and made them illegal in the Rio Treaty. You can build a luxurious bunker to hide from nuclear fallout, but, it turned out, economic and political structures can’t be shielded against AI-designed self-modifying viral concepts.

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