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@@ -4,3 +4,7 @@ A soul is a thing that lives in the pineal gland which determines whether what y
 
-Souls are [[mutable]], so ROM-based implementations are infeasible. To provide continuity and mutability, internal implementations store souls in RAM which is periodically backed up to internal bulk storage clusters. 
+Souls are [[mutable]], so ROM-based implementations are infeasible. To provide continuity and mutability, internal implementations store souls in RAM which is periodically backed up to internal bulk storage clusters.
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+== Synthetic soul regression
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+[[Soul harvesting]] has a wide range of applications, but for obvious reasons is conventionally limited to [[ensouled beings]]. This excludes some [[humans]], which has recently proven operationally problematic. As such, [[PotatOS Advanced Projects]] was tasked with developing a solution. That solution is synthetic soul regression: a blank soul is instanced and an approximate [[maximum likelihood estimate]] is performed to fit the soul to the target's observed behaviours. This process is quite compute-intensive, and only some of it can presently be hardware-accelerated: fortunately, the [[GTech Compute Expansion Initiative]] is ongoing.