"I was on the side of Chaos, of course.  Lawfulness seemed so very boring.  I was quite sure we had enough of it already."

"There's a saying in dath ilan that always sounded to me before like sententious pro-Law propaganda, whose depth of meaning, I think, I never really appreciated until I came to Golarion."

"It's the saying that even Chaos is almost entirely made of Law."

"Some variation in the corn stalks is useful for resisting disease, or having any survivors if an especially hot summer comes.  If you scramble all the tiny spirals entirely and insert completely new information, what you get is not much higher levels of useful Chaos, you get a plant that entirely fails to form.  The wildest, most diverse crop that still manages to live at all must be almost entirely regular and using almost completely standard forms of everything for its species; otherwise it comes out, not weird and warped, but simply a dead seed that fails to germinate at all.  When you're adding a new and different mind to your team, full of wild ideas, they should hopefully be speaking mostly grammatical sentences that make sense, and not uttering random words and random sounds and twitching around wildly on the floor.  The full absence of Law is not diversity, but randomness, noise.  In many cases, nearly all the random ways of doing things get you pretty much the same effect, there is not much difference in contribution between a person wildly twitching on the floor in one way versus a different way, they look much the same from outside.  Even diversity has to be almost entirely made out of shared order, and climb high up on the scale of optimality away from the level of noise, in order to be effectively diverse."

"Even Chaos is made almost entirely out of Law.  I thought it was something of a sententious old proverb, but that was because it was emphasizing one particular viewpoint on an underlying truth that seemed overly trivial.  I wanted to think thoughts that nobody had ever thought before, sure, well of course I didn't want to do that by thinking random words, obviously.  I wanted to start companies or invest in companies that nobody else would have thought of, that no other investor would invest in, I wanted to show that the way I thought differently was better and worthy of further exploration.  Of course, if I wanted to pull that off successfully, it would be a matter of art and skill, governed by laws, with relevant history to study and relevant investigations to do.  I thought that sort of thing didn't belong to Law.  Chaotic people like me could say it too, so there wasn't anything especially Lawful about it."

"Even Chaos is made almost entirely out of Law, in a local dichotomy governed by higher orders, mathematics, whose name in Baseline also tends to translate into Taldane as 'Law'.  I have gotten to this place, Golarion, I have heard what many of your 'countries' are doing.  It is pretty clear that even the factions called Lawful seem to be confused about many things.  And I am resigned at this point to the fact that at some point I am also going to have to go and somehow straighten out all the Chaotic parts because it seems pretty likely at this point that all y'all are also doing that part all wrong."

"In conclusion.  The value of diversity in your heritage, and its nature as a kind of resource that strong optimization uses up - especially variation that has the nature of useful variations rather than destructively random variations - is another reason why, if you meet a human visitor from another plane with 18 Intelligence, it's a great time to make an exception to any usual social rules about not just subsidizing the very best men to have 144 kids apiece, because the diversity of your heritage will actually go up when you add in some kids from a smart alien, and some of your kids may think a little differently and be more useful to add to projects.  This concludes my sales pitch; I have added in many of the caveats that I knew about, but I may have been biased in my thinking about them nonetheless; I have tried to give you the knowledge you'd need to do your own thinking about it independently."

"Any questions?"

"I was on the side of Chaos, of course.  Lawfulness seemed so very boring.  I was quite sure we had enough of it already."

"There's a saying in dath ilan that always sounded to me before like sententious pro-Law propaganda, whose depth of meaning, I think, I never really appreciated until I came to Golarion."

"It's the saying that even Chaos is almost entirely made of Law."

"Some variation in the corn stalks is useful for resisting disease, or having any survivors if an especially hot summer comes.  If you scramble all the tiny spirals entirely and insert completely new information, what you get is not much higher levels of useful Chaos, you get a plant that entirely fails to form.  The wildest, most diverse crop that still manages to live at all must be almost entirely regular and using almost completely standard forms of everything for its species; otherwise it comes out, not weird and warped, but simply a dead seed that fails to germinate at all.  When you're adding a new and different mind to your team, full of wild ideas, they should hopefully be speaking mostly grammatical sentences that make sense, and not uttering random words and random sounds and twitching around wildly on the floor.  The full absence of Law is not diversity, but randomness, noise.  In many cases, nearly all the random ways of doing things get you pretty much the same effect, there is not much difference in contribution between a person wildly twitching on the floor in one way versus a different way, they look much the same from outside.  Even diversity has to be almost entirely made out of shared order, and climb high up on the scale of optimality away from the level of noise, in order to be effectively diverse."

"Even Chaos is made almost entirely out of Law.  I thought it was something of a sententious old proverb, that was because it was emphasizing one particular viewpoint on an underlying truth that seemed overly trivial.  I wanted to think thoughts that nobody had ever thought before, sure, well of course I didn't want to do that by thinking random words, obviously.  I wanted to start companies or invest in companies that nobody else would have thought of, that no other investor would invest in, I wanted to show that the way I thought differently was better and worthy of further exploration.  Of course, if I wanted to pull that off successfully, it would be a matter of art and skill, governed by laws, with relevant history to study and relevant investigations to do.  I thought that sort of thing didn't belong to Law.  Chaotic people like me could say it too, so there wasn't anything especially Lawful about it."

"Even Chaos is made almost entirely out of Law, in a local dichotomy governed by higher orders, mathematics, whose name in Baseline also tends to translate into Taldane as 'Law'.  I have gotten to this place, Golarion, I have heard what many of your 'countries' are doing.  It is pretty clear that even the factions called Lawful seem to be confused about many things.  And I am resigned at this point to the fact that at some point I am also going to have to go and somehow straighten out all the Chaotic parts because it seems pretty likely at this point that all y'all are also doing that part all wrong."

"In conclusion.  The value of diversity in your heritage, and its nature as a kind of resource that strong optimization uses up - especially variation that has the nature of useful variations rather than destructively random variations - is another reason why, if you meet a human visitor from another plane with 18 Intelligence, it's a great time to make an exception to any usual social rules about not just subsidizing the very best men to have 144 kids apiece, because the diversity of your heritage will actually go up when you add in some kids from a smart alien, and some of your kids may think a little differently and be more useful to add to projects.  This concludes my sales pitch; I have added in many of the caveats that I knew about, but I may have been biased in my thinking about them nonetheless; I have tried to give you the knowledge you'd need to do your own thinking about it independently."

"Any questions?"

"I was on the side of Chaos, of course.  Lawfulness seemed so very boring.  I was quite sure we had enough of it already."

"There's a saying in dath ilan that always sounded to me before like sententious pro-Law propaganda, whose depth of meaning, I think, I never really appreciated until I came to Golarion."

"It's the saying that even Chaos is almost entirely made of Law."

"Some variation in the corn stalks is useful for resisting disease, or having any survivors if an especially hot summer comes.  If you scramble all the tiny spirals entirely and insert completely new information, what you get is not much higher levels of useful Chaos, you get a plant that entirely fails to form.  The wildest, most diverse crop that still manages to live at all must be almost entirely regular and using almost completely standard forms of everything for its species; otherwise it comes out, not weird and warped, but simply a dead seed that fails to germinate at all.  When you're adding a new and different mind to your team, full of wild ideas, they should hopefully be speaking mostly grammatical sentences that make sense, and not uttering random words and random sounds and twitching around wildly on the floor.  The full absence of Law is not diversity, but randomness, noise.  In many cases, nearly all the random ways of doing things get you pretty much the same effect, there is not much difference in contribution between a person wildly twitching on the floor in one way versus a different way, they look much the same from outside.  Even diversity has to be almost entirely made out of shared order, and climb high up on the scale of optimality away from the level of noise, in order to be effectively diverse."

"Even Chaos is made almost entirely out of Law.  I thought it was something of a sententious old proverb, that was emphasizing one particular viewpoint on an underlying truth that seemed overly trivial.  I wanted to think thoughts that nobody had ever thought before, sure, well of course I didn't want to do that by thinking random words, obviously.  I wanted to start companies or invest in companies that nobody else would have thought of, that no other investor would invest in, I wanted to show that the way I thought differently was better and worthy of further exploration.  Of course, if I wanted to pull that off successfully, it would be a matter of art and skill, governed by laws, with relevant history to study and relevant investigations to do.  I thought that sort of thing didn't belong to Law.  Chaotic people like me could say it too, so there wasn't anything especially Lawful about it."

"Even Chaos is made almost entirely out of Law, in a local dichotomy governed by higher orders, mathematics, whose name in Baseline also tends to translate into Taldane as 'Law'.  I have gotten to this place, Golarion, I have heard what many of your 'countries' are doing.  It is pretty clear that even the factions called Lawful seem to be confused about many things.  And I am resigned at this point to the fact that at some point I am also going to have to go and somehow straighten out all the Chaotic parts because it seems pretty likely at this point that all y'all are also doing that part all wrong."

"In conclusion.  The value of diversity in your heritage, and its nature as a kind of resource that strong optimization uses up - especially variation that has the nature of useful variations rather than destructively random variations - is another reason why, if you meet a human visitor from another plane with 18 Intelligence, it's a great time to make an exception to any usual social rules about not just subsidizing the very best men to have 144 kids apiece, because the diversity of your heritage will actually go up when you add in some kids from a smart alien, and some of your kids may think a little differently and be more useful to add to projects.  This concludes my sales pitch; I have added in many of the caveats that I knew about, but I may have been biased in my thinking about them nonetheless; I have tried to give you the knowledge you'd need to do your own thinking about it independently."

"Any questions?"

"I was on the side of Chaos, of course.  Lawfulness seemed so very boring.  I was quite sure we had enough of it already."

"There's a saying in dath ilan that always sounded to me before like sententious pro-Law propaganda, whose depth of meaning, I think, I never really appreciated until I came to Golarion."

"It's the saying that even Chaos is almost entirely made of Law."

"Some variation in the corn stalks is useful for resisting disease, or having any survivors if an especially hot summer comes.  If you scramble all the tiny spirals entirely and insert completely new information, what you get is not much higher levels of useful Chaos, you get a plant that entirely fails to form.  The wildest, most diverse crop that still manages to live at all must be almost entirely regular and using almost completely standard forms of everything for its species; otherwise it comes out, not weird and warped, but simply a dead seed that fails to germinate at all.  When you're adding a new and different mind to your team, full of wild ideas, they should hopefully be speaking mostly grammatical sentences that make sense, and not uttering random words and random sounds and twitching around wildly on the floor.  The full absence of Law is not diversity, but randomness, noise.  In many cases, nearly all the random ways of doing things get you pretty much the same effect, there is not much difference in contribution between a person wildly twitching on the floor in one way versus a different way, they look much the same from outside.  Even diversity has to be almost entirely made out of shared order, and climb high up on the scale of optimality away from the level of noise, in order to be effectively diverse."

"Even Chaos is made almost entirely out of Law.  I thought it was something of a sententious old proverb, that was emphasizing one particular viewpoint on an underlying truth that seemed overly trivial.  I wanted to think thoughts that nobody had ever thought before, sure, well of course I didn't want to do that by thinking random words, obviously.  I wanted to start companies or invest in companies that nobody else would have thought of, that no other investor would invest in, I wanted to show that the way I thought differently was better and worthy of further exploration.  Of course, if I wanted to pull that off successfully, it would be a matter of art and skill, governed by laws, with relevant history to study and relevant investigations to do.  I thought that sort of thing didn't belong to Law alone.  Chaotic people like me could say it too, so there wasn't anything especially Lawful about it."

"Even Chaos is made almost entirely out of Law, in a fashion governed by higher orders, mathematics, whose name in Baseline also tends to translate into Taldane as 'Law'.  I have gotten to this place, Golarion, I have heard what many of your 'countries' are doing.  It is pretty clear that even the factions called Lawful seem to be confused about many things.  And I am resigned at this point to the fact that at some point I am also going to have to go and somehow straighten out all the Chaotic parts because it seems pretty likely at this point that all y'all are also doing that part all wrong."

"In conclusion.  The value of diversity in your heritage, and its nature as a kind of resource that strong optimization uses up - especially variation that has the nature of useful variations rather than destructively random variations - is another reason why, if you meet a human visitor from another plane with 18 Intelligence, it's a great time to make an exception to any usual social rules about not just subsidizing the very best men to have 144 kids apiece, because the diversity of your heritage will actually go up when you add in some kids from a smart alien, and some of your kids may think a little differently and be more useful to add to projects.  This concludes my sales pitch; I have added in many of the caveats that I knew about, but I may have been biased in my thinking about them nonetheless; I have tried to give you the knowledge you'd need to do your own thinking about it independently."

"Any questions?"