"I'd like to review my improvised extemporaneous lectures in case I made errors or omissions that stand out as needing correction, yeah. Thanks to whichever person for their hopefully routine competence in having set that up."
"Governance then should now have a specific, rather than abstract or secondhand, notion of what I know and what that knowledge can do. It's built on a base level of trained skills of thinking, that work together effectively because of overlapping coherence and direction inspired by explicit mathematical structure, which were applied by my Civilization of a billion wealthier people of much higher average Intelligence to systematically decode and exploit reality to a far greater distance than Golarion appears to have traversed, leaving also incomplete traces in my personal memory of specific facts, techniques, and methodologies that I encountered in systematic or unsystematic passing."
"I know why snowflakes have sixfold symmetry. I can turn mechanical motion into cold without a Snowball spell, but I don't know yet how much motion for how much cold. I knew how to build a faster kind of unpowered sailing ship but it sounded like you have those already. I know how to make an unpowered mechanical device that will let people move between cities faster than a person can run, but only if there are roads between those cities. I know how I'd go about figuring out how to make cheaper roads, but I don't know how long that research will take or how good the end results would be. The books in the library here are written in ways that reflect patterns of thinking that I know are invalid, and I remember some things about how to take a person as intelligent as I am so that they'll think effectively. I know the foundational math that structured the kinds of thinking that I used. There is an attractor, an overlap, a center in everything, whose structure is that math, and by far the most important question is whether Golarion can be started down the path leading into that attractor and learn for itself what Civilization learned, but there remains the question of what Governance wants to see first for scaling up investment in this."