#im looking at you counter terrorism/AI/Cultural Hegemony et al fjfhfbdb

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I find Contessa in Worm really fascinating, cause she gets at a really fundamental point for me that your life experiences shape the kind of questions you ask, which in turn shape the kind of answers you get. Like.. she has The Best Possible tool of analysis. She can answer essentially any question! But she can't literally ask "how do I beat Scion and save the world", so she has to use her non supernatural human self to work out what questions to ask. So she asks "how do I kill the biggest scariest monster possible" and of course gets back to make the biggest most dangerous weapons possible. And like... This sets her on a path to commit uncountable atrocities, leads to the creation of even more terrors that kill billions more people, and it doesn't even work! Cauldron just gets destroyed by the result of all the contradictions they created in society, all the people they oppressed in the name of creating the biggest, worst monster-killing weapons possible.

And like...the problem is that all the magical analysis powers in the world can't stop you from asking the wrong questions. What you put in is what you get out, and what you put in is always human, fallible, shaped by the world you know