Origin Part 15: The Wall Behind the Vocabulary (opens in new tab)

The gate said pass. The system got worse anyway. Part 14 ended with a build order: gate first, then substrate, then composer. I'd already started picking out which polysemous concepts in the bank needed splitting. Then I ran the trace one more time before kicking the work off, and the trace said something I wasn't expecting. The polysemy exposures from the last several days of audit traffic weren't coming from concepts already in the vocabulary. They were coming from concepts not in it. Eight...