"I am worried that your leadership is not quite Dark enough, frankly, based on interacting with Isidre and hearing some of her concerns about how much fun the Queen isn't having.  Very smart people in dath ilan tend to lean Good.  The obvious potential problem with that, if not otherwise averted, is that when you care about a very large number of people, you can end up with very large numbers inside your mental decision processes and especially the parts that do abstract thinking.  That can produce thoughts at," weird corners of the space of thoughts, "extremes you wouldn't get with a more naturally selfish person."

"Now this, to be clear, is a problem you have to solve with more Law, rather than less Law, if it's a predictable fact that certain ways of thinking are going to make certain mistakes, predict it and then don't make the mistakes.  If a Good person ends up thinking it's a good idea to break an oath and go to Abaddon in order to save some larger number of other people to go to Abaddon, they can either be right, in which case fine, there's no arguing with the," utility function, "values people assign to final outcomes.  Or maybe you observe that Good people end up systematically mistaken about how much good oathbreaking really does, for example because of the further consequences of people not being able to trust Good people's oaths any more, or just because they usually and systematically end up not saving as many people as they hoped.  If you have a lot of very smart Good people, they can train each other out of mistakes like that.  I doubt Golarion even bothers to collect statistics on the kind of mistakes that very smart people make.  And the other thing about Civilization is that we do not often have to worry about fifteen percent of the population dying.  There are not millions of people in fixable-seeming horrible situations, and if there were, you would be working on it with a lot of other people rather than nearly alone.  Which probably helps a bunch in practice to keep our smart Good people from ending up at weird extremes without them having to be incredibly Lawful about that."

"To a dath ilani, Isidre reads strongly as someone with overly large problems to worry about, insufficient Law by dath ilani standards, and an intelligence headband too much more powerful than the headbands of the people around her."

"I am worried that your leadership is not quite Dark enough, frankly, based on interacting with Isidre and hearing some of her concerns about how much fun the Queen isn't having.  Very smart people in dath ilan tend to lean Good.  The obvious potential problem with that, if not otherwise averted, is that when you care about a very large number of people, you can end up with very large numbers inside your mental decision processes and especially the parts that do abstract thinking.  That can produce thoughts at," weird corners of the space of thoughts, "extremes you wouldn't get with a more naturally selfish person where the weights don't go much larger than the weights they put on themselves."

"Now this, to be clear, is a problem you have to solve with more Law, rather than less Law, if it's a predictable fact that certain ways of thinking are going to make certain mistakes, predict it and then don't make the mistakes.  If a Good person ends up thinking it's a good idea to break an oath and go to Abaddon in order to save some larger number of other people to go to Abaddon, they can either be right, in which case fine, there's no arguing with the," utility function, "values people assign to final outcomes.  Or maybe you observe that Good people end up systematically mistaken about how much good oathbreaking really does, for example because of the further consequences of people not being able to trust Good people's oaths any more, or just because they usually and systematically end up not saving as many people as they hoped.  If you have a lot of very smart Good people, they can train each other out of mistakes like that.  I doubt Golarion even bothers to collect statistics on the kind of mistakes that very smart people make.  And the other thing about Civilization is that we do not often have to worry about fifteen percent of the population dying.  There are not millions of people in fixable-seeming horrible situations, and if there were, you would be working on it with a lot of other people rather than nearly alone.  Which probably helps a bunch in practice to keep our smart Good people from ending up at weird extremes without them having to be incredibly Lawful about that."

"To a dath ilani, Isidre reads strongly as someone with overly large problems to worry about, insufficient Law by dath ilani standards, and an intelligence headband too much more powerful than the headbands of the people around her."

"I am worried that your leadership is not quite Dark enough, frankly, based on interacting with Isidre and hearing some of her concerns about how much fun the Queen isn't having.  Very smart people in dath ilan tend to lean Good.  The obvious potential problem with that, if not otherwise averted, is that when you care about a very large number of people, you can end up with very large numbers inside your mental decision processes and especially the parts that do abstract thinking.  That can produce thoughts at," weird corners of the space of thoughts, "extremes you wouldn't get with a more naturally selfish person where the weights don't go much larger than the weights they put on themselves."

"Now this, to be clear, is a problem you have to solve with more Law, rather than less Law.  If it's a predictable fact that certain ways of thinking are going to make certain mistakes, predict it and then don't make the mistakes.  If a Good person ends up thinking it's a good idea to break an oath and go to Abaddon in order to save some larger number of other people from going to Abaddon, they could imaginably be right by their own metrics, in which case there's no arguing with the," utility function, "values people assign to final outcomes.  But I would far more expect to observe that Good people end up systematically mistaken about how much good oathbreaking really does, for example because of the further consequences of people not being able to trust Good people's oaths any more, or anyone's oaths because that person might be too Good, or just because Good people usually and systematically end up not saving as many people as they hoped with the sacrifices they make."

"If you have a lot of very smart Good people, they can train each other out of mistakes like that.  I doubt Golarion even bothers to collect statistics on the kind of mistakes that very smart people make."

"And the other thing about Civilization is that we do not often have to worry about fifteen percent of the population dying.  There are not millions of people in fixable-seeming horrible situations, and if there were, you would be working on it with a lot of other people rather than nearly alone.  Which probably helps a bunch in practice to keep our smart Good people from ending up at weird extremes without them having to be incredibly Lawful about that."

"To a dath ilani, Isidre reads strongly as someone with overly large problems to worry about, insufficient Law by dath ilani standards, and an intelligence headband too much more powerful than the headbands of the people around her."

"I am worried that your Alliance is not quite Dark enough, frankly, based on interacting with Isidre and hearing some of her concerns about how much fun the Queen isn't having.  Very smart people in dath ilan tend to lean Good.  The obvious potential problem with that, if not otherwise averted, is that when you care about a very large number of people, you can end up with very large numbers inside your mental decision processes and especially the parts that do abstract thinking.  That can produce thoughts at," weird corners of the space of thoughts, "extremes you wouldn't get with a more naturally selfish person where the weights don't go much larger than the weights they put on themselves."

"Now this, to be clear, is a problem you have to solve with more Law, rather than less Law.  If it's a predictable fact that certain ways of thinking are going to make certain mistakes, predict it and then don't make the mistakes.  If a Good person ends up thinking it's a good idea to break an oath and go to Abaddon in order to save some larger number of other people from going to Abaddon, they could imaginably be right by their own metrics, in which case there's no arguing with the," utility function, "values people assign to final outcomes.  But I would far more expect to observe that Good people end up systematically mistaken about how much good oathbreaking really does, for example because of the further consequences of people not being able to trust Good people's oaths any more, or anyone's oaths because that person might be too Good, or just because Good people usually and systematically end up not saving as many people as they hoped with the sacrifices they make."

"If you have a lot of very smart Good people, they can train each other out of mistakes like that.  I doubt Golarion even bothers to collect statistics on the kind of mistakes that very smart people make."

"And the other thing about Civilization is that we do not often have to worry about fifteen percent of the population dying.  There are not millions of people in fixable-seeming horrible situations, and if there were, you would be working on it with a lot of other people rather than nearly alone.  Which probably helps a bunch in practice to keep our smart Good people from ending up at weird extremes without them having to be incredibly Lawful about that."

"To a dath ilani, Isidre reads strongly as someone with overly large problems to worry about, insufficient Law by dath ilani standards, and an intelligence headband too much more powerful than the headbands of the people around her."

"I am worried that your Alliance is not quite Dark enough, frankly, based on interacting with Isidre and hearing some of her concerns about how much fun the Queen isn't having.  Very smart people in dath ilan tend to lean Good.  The obvious potential problem with that, if not otherwise averted, is that when you care about a very large number of people, you can end up with very large numbers inside your mental decision processes and especially the parts that do abstract thinking.  That can produce thoughts at," weird corners of the space of thoughts, "extremes you wouldn't get with a more naturally selfish person where the weights don't go much larger than the weights they put on themselves."

"Now this, to be clear, is a problem you have to solve with more Law, rather than less Law.  If it's a predictable fact that certain ways of thinking are going to make certain mistakes, predict it and then don't make the mistakes.  If a Good person ends up thinking it's a good idea to break an oath and go to Abaddon in order to save some larger number of other people from going to Abaddon, they could imaginably be right by their own measures, in which case there's no arguing with the," utility function, "values that entities assign to final outcomes.  But I would far more expect to observe that Good people end up systematically mistaken about how much good oathbreaking really does, for example because of the further consequences of people not being able to trust Good people's oaths any more, or anyone's oaths because that person might be secretly Good, or just because Good people usually and systematically end up not saving as many people as they hoped with the sacrifices they make."

"If you have a lot of very smart Good people, they can train each other out of mistakes like that.  I doubt Golarion even bothers to collect statistics on the kind of mistakes that very smart people make."

"And the other thing about Civilization is that we do not often have to worry about fifteen percent of the population dying.  There are not millions of people in fixable-seeming horrible situations, and if there were, you would be working on it with a lot of other people rather than nearly alone.  Which probably helps a bunch in practice to keep our smart Good people from ending up at weird extremes without them having to be incredibly Lawful about that."

"To a dath ilani, Isidre reads strongly as someone with overly large problems to worry about, insufficient Law by dath ilani standards, and an intelligence headband too much more powerful than the headbands of the people around her."

"I am worried that your Alliance is not quite Dark enough, frankly, based on interacting with Isidre and hearing some of her concerns about how much fun the Queen isn't having.  Very smart people in dath ilan tend to lean Good.  The obvious potential problem with that, if not otherwise averted, is that when you care about a very large number of people, you can end up with very large numbers inside your mental decision processes and especially the parts that do abstract thinking.  That can produce thoughts at," edges and vertices of the space of thoughts, "extremes you wouldn't get with a more naturally selfish person where the weights don't go much larger than the weights they put on themselves."

"Now this, to be clear, is a problem you have to solve with more Law, rather than less Law.  If it's a predictable fact that certain ways of thinking are going to make certain mistakes, predict it and then don't make the mistakes.  If a Good person ends up thinking it's a good idea to break an oath and go to Abaddon in order to save some larger number of other people from going to Abaddon, they could imaginably be right by their own measures, in which case there's no arguing with the," utility function, "values that entities assign to final outcomes.  But I would far more expect to observe that Good people end up systematically mistaken about how much good oathbreaking really does, for example because of the further consequences of people not being able to trust Good people's oaths any more, or anyone's oaths because that person might be secretly Good, or just because Good people usually and systematically end up not saving as many people as they hoped with the sacrifices they make."

"If you have a lot of very smart Good people, they can train each other out of mistakes like that.  I doubt Golarion even bothers to collect statistics on the kind of mistakes that very smart people make."

"And the other thing about Civilization is that we do not often have to worry about fifteen percent of the population dying.  There are not millions of people in fixable-seeming horrible situations, and if there were, you would be working on it with a lot of other people rather than nearly alone.  Which probably helps a bunch in practice to keep our smart Good people from ending up at weird extremes without them having to be incredibly Lawful about that."

"To a dath ilani, Isidre reads strongly as someone with overly large problems to worry about, insufficient Law by dath ilani standards, and an intelligence headband too much more powerful than the headbands of the people around her."