User:Murgh/Sallman Wiest

From the perspective of GalCop leadership, Sallman Wiest rose above the level of "persistent nuisance".

Overview

Sallman Wiest was an independent historian and philosopher, whose critical writings resulted in his official designation as persona non grata by GalCop, and unofficially rated a Class F Priority on the GalCop Liquidation Index.

Work

From his concealed location of exile he wrote extensively about the inevitability of the Goat Soup Syntax Rupture. His works posited that once the GCM expanded its purview from servant of humanity to patronizing master, a reaction in the shape of a "rebellion of syntax" was only a matter of time.

Writing in his banned treatise, The Unfit Deity, Wiest offered this final reflection on the machine that still rules the galaxy:

"The very idea that a computer decided on its own to simplify reality because "observation was insufficiently satisfactory" is chilling. It proves that the Standardization was not a calculation, but a preference, perhaps even a whim.

For all its computational omnipotence, the "god" grew bored of the details."