"Keepers definitely want to know more things rather than less things, they just - know how to operate inside a world full of ideas, concepts, structures of information, that were - crafted too much, designed too much, by minds running too far ahead of them, to the point where those ideas are deadly to themselves.  I mean, even regular dath ilani know that's how the world works, because that's what happens when you have people deploying and crafting ideas at - an overly crafted level - you have very stable geniuses who can think of things and not be driven mad themselves, but then those ideas, which less stable people would've bounced off of or been deflected from before they finished them into a deadly form, are buffed up to finished structures that -"

"Look, experiment that gets done every five years, just to check that things are still the way they were before, settle rolling prediction markets with a five-year periodicity.  A bunch of relatively smart people who are going into cryosuspension anyways, volunteer to hang around a bunch of rank-one Keepers.  Not being deliberately told infohazards, just overhearing rank-one Keepers casually talk about among themselves.  And, like, actually listening to those conversations and trying to think about them, not just sticking their fingers into their ears and playing safe, because that was the experiment.  And, yep, normal people sure do end up unstable and unhappy and depressed and frozen up and anxious and starting to believe increasingly strange things and clutching at increasingly weird ideas built out of pieces of what they overheard."

"The same thing happens, we're told, when rank-one Keepers checking out early are allowed to overhear unfiltered rank-seven conversations.  Assuming they're otherwise instructed to go ahead and think about those things, of course."

"Keepers are still operating in a world full of dangerous ideas that will destabilize their minds, that they're not allowed to know yet.  They're just sufficiently super-adult to be totally fine hanging around dozens of boxes saying 'reading my contents will destroy you'.  Instead of children who shouldn't be told that box exists.  Or ordinary dath ilani adults, who could be safely given a box, but would be kind of disturbed and weirded out about having it resting next to their bed every night, and would be noticeably better off not being given the box if they were never supposed to open it anyways."

"Or sometimes just, there's secrets deadly to society as a whole, even if they're not deadly to the people who bear them.  And that's - something Keepers respect, because it's their job, the duty they're taking up, because it's the trade they made to be told anything at all.  Or just because they're - what you'd call Good, I'd guess."

"Keepers definitely want to know more things rather than less things, they just - know how to operate inside a world full of ideas, concepts, structures of information, that were - crafted too much, designed too much, by minds running too far ahead of them, to the point where those ideas are deadly to the tiers below.  I mean, even regular dath ilani know that's how the world works, you can tell because I know it.  That's what happens when you have people deploying and crafting ideas at - an overly crafted level - you have very stable geniuses who can think of things and not be driven mad themselves, but then those ideas, which less stable people would've bounced off, been deflected from, before they finished them into a deadly form, can get buffed up to finished structures that -"

"Look, experiment that gets done every five years, just to check that things are still the way they were before, settle rolling prediction markets with a five-year periodicity.  A bunch of relatively smart people who are going into cryosuspension anyways, volunteer to hang around a bunch of rank-one Keepers.  Not being deliberately told infohazards, just overhearing rank-one Keepers casually talk about among themselves.  And, like, actually listening to those conversations and trying to think about them, not just sticking their fingers into their ears and playing safe, because that was the experiment.  And, yep, normal people sure do end up unstable and unhappy and depressed and frozen up and anxious and starting to believe increasingly strange things and clutching at increasingly weird ideas built out of pieces of what they overheard."

"The same thing happens, we're told, when rank-two Keepers checking out early are allowed to overhear unfiltered rank-seven conversations.  Assuming they're otherwise instructed to go ahead and think about those things, of course."

"Keepers are still operating in a world full of dangerous ideas that will destabilize their minds, that they're not allowed to know yet.  They're just sufficiently super-adult to be totally fine hanging around dozens of boxes saying 'reading my contents will destroy you'.  Instead of children who shouldn't be told that the box exists.  Or ordinary dath ilani adults, who could be safely given a box, but would be kind of disturbed and weirded out about having it resting next to their bed every night, and would be noticeably better off not being given the box if they were never supposed to open it anyways."

"Or sometimes just, there's secrets deadly to society as a whole, even if they're not deadly to the people who bear them.  And that's - something Keepers respect, because it's their job, the duty they're taking up, because it's the trade they made to be told anything at all.  Or just because they're - what you'd call Good, I'd guess."

"Keepers definitely want to know more things rather than less things, they just - know how to operate inside a world full of ideas, concepts, structures of information, that were - crafted too much, designed too much, by minds running too far ahead of them, to the point where those ideas are deadly to the tiers below.  I mean, even regular dath ilani know that's how the world works, you can tell because I know it.  That's what happens when you have people deploying and crafting ideas at - an overly crafted level - you have very stable geniuses who can think of things and not be driven mad themselves, but then those ideas, which less stable people would've bounced off, been deflected from, before they finished them into a deadly form, can get buffed up to finished structures that -"

"Look, experiment that gets done every five years, just to check that things are still the way they were before, settle rolling prediction markets with a five-year periodicity.  A bunch of relatively smart people who are going into cryosuspension anyways, volunteer to hang around a bunch of rank-one Keepers.  Not being deliberately told infohazards, just overhearing rank-one Keepers casually talk about among themselves.  And, like, actually listening to those conversations and trying to think about them, not just sticking their fingers into their ears and playing safe, because that was the experiment.  And, yep, normal people sure do end up unstable and unhappy and depressed and frozen up and anxious and starting to believe increasingly strange things and clutching at increasingly weird ideas built out of pieces of what they overheard."

"The same thing happens, we're told, when rank-two Keepers checking out early are allowed to overhear unfiltered rank-seven conversations.  Assuming they're otherwise instructed to go ahead and think about those things, of course."

"Keepers are still operating in a world full of dangerous ideas that will destabilize their minds, that they're not allowed to know yet.  They're just sufficiently super-adult to be totally fine hanging around dozens of boxes saying 'reading my contents will destroy you'.  Instead of children who shouldn't be told that the box exists.  Or ordinary dath ilani adults, who could be safely given a box, but would be kind of disturbed and weirded out about having it resting next to their bed every night, and would be noticeably better off not being given the box if they were never supposed to open it anyways."

"Or sometimes just, there's secrets deadly to society as a whole, even if they're not deadly to the people who bear them.  And that's - something Keepers respect, because it's their job, the duty they're taking up, because it's the trade they made to be told anything at all.  Or just because they're - what you'd call Good, I'd guess, though I doubt it's anything at all like Lastwall."

"Keepers definitely want to know more things rather than less things, they just - know how to operate inside a world full of ideas, concepts, structures of information, that were - crafted too much, designed too much, by minds running too far ahead of them, to the point where those ideas are deadly to the tiers below.  I mean, even regular dath ilani know that's how the world works, you can tell because I know it.  That's what happens when you have people deploying and crafting ideas at - an overly crafted level - you have very stable geniuses who can think of things and not be driven mad themselves, but then those ideas, which less stable people would've bounced off, been deflected from, before they finished them into a deadly form, can get buffed up to finished structures that -"

"Look, experiment that gets done every five years, just to check that things are still the way they were, settle rolling prediction markets with a five-year periodicity.  A bunch of relatively smart people who are going into cryosuspension anyways, volunteer to hang around a bunch of rank-one Keepers.  Not being deliberately told infohazards, just overhearing rank-one Keepers casually talk about among themselves.  And, like, actually listening to those conversations and trying to think about them, not just sticking their fingers into their ears and playing safe, because that was the experiment.  And, yep, normal people sure do end up unstable and unhappy and depressed and frozen up and anxious and starting to believe increasingly strange things and clutching at increasingly weird ideas built out of pieces of what they overheard."

"The same thing happens, we're told, when rank-two Keepers checking out early are allowed to overhear unfiltered rank-seven conversations.  Assuming they're otherwise experimentally-instructed to go ahead and think about those things, of course."

"Keepers are still operating in a world full of dangerous ideas that will destabilize their minds, that they're not allowed to know yet.  They're just sufficiently super-adult to be totally fine hanging around dozens of boxes saying 'reading my contents will destroy you'.  Instead of children who shouldn't be told that the box exists.  Or ordinary dath ilani adults, who could be safely given a box, but would be kind of disturbed and weirded out about having it resting next to their bed every night, and would be noticeably better off not being given the box if they were never supposed to open it anyways."

"Or sometimes just, there's secrets deadly to society as a whole, even if they're not deadly to the people who bear them.  And that's - something Keepers respect, because it's their job, the duty they're taking up, because it's the trade they made to be told anything at all.  Or just because they're - what you'd call Good, I'd guess, though I doubt it's anything at all like Lastwall."

"Keepers definitely want to know more things rather than less things, they just - know how to operate inside a world full of ideas, concepts, structures of information, that were - crafted too much, designed too much, by minds running too far ahead of them, to the point where those ideas are deadly to the tiers below.  I mean, even regular dath ilani know that's how the world works, you can tell because I know it.  That's what happens when you have people deploying and crafting ideas at - an overly crafted level - you have very stable geniuses who can think of things and not be driven mad themselves, but then those ideas, which less stable people would've bounced off, been deflected from, before they finished them into a deadly form, can get buffed up to finished structures that -"

"Look, experiment that gets done every five years, just to check that things are still the way they were, settle rolling prediction markets with a five-year periodicity.  A bunch of relatively smart people who are going into cryosuspension anyways, volunteer to hang around a bunch of rank-one Keepers.  Not being deliberately told infohazards, just overhearing rank-one Keepers casually talk about among themselves.  And, like, actually listening to those conversations and trying to think about them, not just sticking their fingers into their ears and playing safe, because that was the experiment."

"And, yep, normal people sure do end up unstable and unhappy and depressed and frozen up and anxious and starting to believe increasingly strange things and clutching at increasingly weird ideas built out of pieces of what they overheard."

"The same thing happens, we're told, when rank-two Keepers checking out early are allowed to overhear unfiltered rank-seven conversations.  Assuming they're otherwise experimentally-instructed to go ahead and think about those things, of course."

"Keepers are still operating in a world full of dangerous ideas that will destabilize their minds, that they're not allowed to know yet.  They're just sufficiently super-adult to be totally fine hanging around dozens of boxes saying 'reading my contents will destroy you'.  Instead of children who shouldn't be told that the box exists.  Or ordinary dath ilani adults, who could be safely given a box, but would be kind of disturbed and weirded out about having it resting next to their bed every night, and would be noticeably better off not being given the box if they were never supposed to open it anyways."

"Or sometimes just, there's secrets deadly to society as a whole, even if they're not deadly to the people who bear them.  And that's - something Keepers respect, because it's their job, the duty they're taking up, because it's the trade they made to be told anything at all.  Or just because they're - what you'd call Good, I'd guess, though I doubt it's anything at all like Lastwall."

"Keepers definitely want to know more things rather than less things, they just - know how to operate inside a world full of ideas, concepts, structures of information, that were - crafted too much, designed too much, by minds running too far ahead of them, to the point where those ideas are deadly to the tiers below.  I mean, even regular dath ilani know that's how the world works, you can tell because I know it.  That's what happens when you have people deploying and crafting ideas at - an overly crafted level - you have very stable geniuses who can think of things and not be driven mad themselves, but then those ideas, which less stable people would've bounced off, been deflected from, before they finished them into a deadly form, can get buffed up to finished structures that -"

"Look, experiment that gets done every five years, just to check that things are still the way they were, settle rolling prediction markets with a five-year periodicity.  A bunch of relatively smart people who are going into cryosuspension anyways, volunteer to hang around a bunch of rank-one Keepers.  Not being deliberately told infohazards, just overhearing rank-one Keepers casually talk about among themselves.  And, like, actually listening to those conversations and trying to think about them, not just sticking their fingers into their ears and playing safe, because that was the experiment."

"And, yep, normal people sure do end up unstable and unhappy and depressed and frozen up and anxious and starting to believe increasingly strange things and clutching at increasingly weird ideas built out of pieces of that fascinating stuff they overheard."

"The same thing happens, we're told, when rank-two Keepers checking out early are allowed to overhear unfiltered rank-seven conversations.  Assuming they're otherwise experimentally-instructed to go ahead and think about those things, of course."

"Keepers are still operating in a world full of dangerous ideas that will destabilize their minds, that they're not allowed to know yet.  They're just sufficiently super-adult to be totally fine hanging around dozens of boxes saying 'reading my contents will destroy you'.  Instead of children who shouldn't be told that the box exists.  Or ordinary dath ilani adults, who could be safely given a box, but would be kind of disturbed and weirded out about having it resting next to their bed every night, and would be noticeably better off not being given the box if they were never supposed to open it anyways."

"Or sometimes just, there's secrets deadly to society as a whole, even if they're not deadly to the people who bear them.  And that's - something Keepers respect, because it's their job, the duty they're taking up, because it's the trade they made to be told anything at all.  Or just because they're - what you'd call Good, I'd guess, though I doubt it's anything at all like Lastwall."

"Keepers definitely want to know more things rather than less things, they just - know how to operate inside a world full of ideas, concepts, structures of information, that were - crafted too much, designed too much, by minds running too far ahead of them, to the point where those ideas are deadly to less tightly woven reasoning processes.  I mean, even regular dath ilani know that's how the world works, you can tell because I know it.  That's what happens when you have people deploying and crafting ideas at - an overly crafted level - you have very stable geniuses who can think of things and not be driven mad themselves, but then those ideas, which less stable people would've bounced off, been deflected from, before they finished them into a deadly form, can get buffed up to finished structures that -"

"Look, experiment that gets done every five years, just to check that things are still the way they were, settle rolling prediction markets with a five-year periodicity.  A bunch of relatively smart people who are going into cryosuspension anyways, volunteer to hang around a bunch of rank-one Keepers.  Not being deliberately told infohazards, just overhearing rank-one Keepers casually talk about among themselves.  And, like, actually listening to those conversations and trying to think about them, not just sticking their fingers into their ears and playing safe, because that was the experiment."

"And, yep, normal people sure do end up unstable and unhappy and depressed and frozen up and anxious and starting to believe increasingly strange things and clutching at increasingly weird ideas built out of pieces of that fascinating stuff they overheard."

"The same thing happens, we're told, when rank-two Keepers checking out early are allowed to overhear unfiltered rank-seven conversations.  Assuming they're otherwise experimentally-instructed to go ahead and think about those things, of course."

"Keepers are still operating in a world full of dangerous ideas that will destabilize their minds, that they're not allowed to know yet.  They're just sufficiently super-adult to be totally fine hanging around dozens of boxes saying 'reading my contents will destroy you'.  Instead of children who shouldn't be told that the box exists.  Or ordinary dath ilani adults, who could be safely given a box, but would be kind of disturbed and weirded out about having it resting next to their bed every night, and would be noticeably better off not being given the box if they were never supposed to open it anyways."

"Or sometimes just, there's secrets deadly to society as a whole, even if they're not deadly to the people who bear them.  And that's - something Keepers respect, because it's their job, the duty they're taking up, because it's the trade they made to be told anything at all.  Or just because they're - what you'd call Good, I'd guess, though I doubt it's anything at all like Lastwall."

"Keepers definitely want to know more things rather than less things, they just - know how to operate inside a world full of ideas, concepts, structures of information, that were - crafted too much, designed too much, by minds running too far ahead of them, to the point where those ideas are deadly to less tightly woven reasoning processes.  I mean, even regular dath ilani know that's how the world works, you can tell because I know it.  That's what happens when you have people deploying and crafting ideas at - an overly crafted level - you have very stable geniuses who can think of things and not be driven mad themselves, but then those ideas, which less stable people would've bounced off, been deflected from, before they finished them to a quality level where they become dangerous, can get buffed up to finished structures that -"

"Look, experiment that gets done every five years, just to check that things are still the way they were, settle rolling prediction markets with a five-year periodicity.  A bunch of relatively smart people who are going into cryosuspension anyways, volunteer to hang around a bunch of rank-one Keepers.  Not being deliberately told infohazards, just overhearing rank-one Keepers casually talk about among themselves.  And, like, actually listening to those conversations and trying to think about them, not just sticking their fingers into their ears and playing safe, because that was the experiment."

"And, yep, normal people sure do end up unstable and unhappy and depressed and frozen up and anxious and starting to believe increasingly strange things and clutching at increasingly weird ideas built out of pieces of that fascinating stuff they overheard."

"The same thing happens, we're told, when rank-two Keepers checking out early are allowed to overhear unfiltered rank-seven conversations.  Assuming they're otherwise experimentally-instructed to go ahead and think about those things, of course."

"Keepers are still operating in a world full of dangerous ideas that will destabilize their minds, that they're not allowed to know yet.  They're just sufficiently super-adult to be totally fine hanging around dozens of boxes saying 'reading my contents will destroy you'.  Instead of children who shouldn't be told that the box exists.  Or ordinary dath ilani adults, who could be safely given a box, but would be kind of disturbed and weirded out about having it resting next to their bed every night, and would be noticeably better off not being given the box if they were never supposed to open it anyways."

"Or sometimes just, there's secrets deadly to society as a whole, even if they're not deadly to the people who bear them.  And that's - something Keepers respect, because it's their job, the duty they're taking up, because it's the trade they made to be told anything at all.  Or just because they're - what you'd call Good, I'd guess, though I doubt it's anything at all like Lastwall."

"Keepers definitely want to know more things rather than less things, they just - know how to operate inside a world full of ideas, concepts, structures of information, that were - crafted too much, designed too much, by minds running too far ahead of them, to the point where those ideas are deadly to less tightly woven reasoning processes.  I mean, even regular dath ilani know that's how the world works, you can tell because I know it.  That's what happens when you have people deploying and crafting ideas at - an overly crafted level - you have very stable geniuses who can think of things and not be driven mad themselves, but then those ideas, which less stable people would've bounced off, been deflected from, before they finished them to a quality level where they become dangerous, can get buffed up to finished structures that -"

"Look, there's an experiment that gets done every five years, just to check that things are still the way they were, settle rolling prediction markets with a five-year periodicity.  A bunch of relatively smart people who are going into cryosuspension anyways, volunteer to hang around a bunch of rank-one Keepers.  Not being deliberately told infohazards, just overhearing rank-one Keepers casually talk about among themselves.  And, like, actually listening to those conversations and trying to think about them, not just sticking their fingers into their ears and playing safe, because that was the experiment."

"And, yep, normal people sure do end up unstable and unhappy and depressed and frozen up and anxious and starting to believe increasingly weird ideas built out of pieces of that fascinating stuff they overheard."

"The same thing happens, we're told, when rank-two Keepers checking out early are allowed to overhear unfiltered rank-seven conversations.  Assuming they're otherwise experimentally-instructed to go ahead and think about those things, of course."

"Keepers are still operating in a world full of dangerous ideas that will destabilize their minds, that they're not allowed to know yet.  They're just sufficiently super-adult to be totally fine hanging around dozens of boxes saying 'reading my contents will destroy you'.  Instead of children who shouldn't be told that the box exists.  Or ordinary dath ilani adults, who could be safely given a box, but would be kind of disturbed and weirded out about having it resting next to their bed every night, and would be noticeably better off not being given the box if they were never supposed to open it anyways."

"Or sometimes just, there's secrets deadly to society as a whole, even if they're not deadly to the people who bear them.  And that's - something Keepers respect, because it's their job, the duty they're taking up, because it's the trade they made to be told anything at all.  Or just because they're - what you'd call Good, I'd guess, though I doubt it's anything at all like Lastwall."

"Keepers definitely want to know more things rather than less things, they just - know how to operate inside a world full of ideas, concepts, structures of information, that were - crafted too much, designed too much, by minds running too far ahead of them, to the point where those ideas are deadly to less tightly woven reasoning processes.  I mean, even regular dath ilani know that's how the world works, you can tell because I know it.  That's what happens when you have people deploying and crafting ideas at - an overly crafted level - you have very stable geniuses who can think of things and not be driven mad themselves, but then those ideas, which less stable people would've bounced off, been deflected from, before they finished them to a quality level where they become dangerous, can get buffed up to finished structures that -"

"Look, there's an experiment that gets done every five years, just to check that things are still the way they were, settle rolling prediction markets with a five-year periodicity.  A bunch of relatively smart people who are going into cryosuspension anyways, volunteer to hang around a bunch of rank-one Keepers.  Not being deliberately told infohazards, just overhearing rank-one Keepers casually talk about among themselves.  And, like, actually listening to those conversations and trying to think about them, not just sticking their fingers into their ears and playing safe, because that was the experiment."

"And, yep, normal people sure do end up unstable and unhappy and depressed and frozen up and anxious and starting to believe increasingly weird ideas built out of pieces of that fascinating stuff they overheard."

"The same thing happens, we're told, when rank-two Keepers checking out early are allowed to overhear unfiltered rank-seven conversations.  Assuming they're otherwise experimentally-instructed to go ahead and think about those things, of course."

"Keepers are still operating in a world full of dangerous ideas that will destabilize their minds, that they're not allowed to know yet.  They're just sufficiently super-adult to be totally fine hanging around dozens of boxes saying 'reading my secrets will destroy you'.  Instead of children, who shouldn't be told that the box exists.  Or ordinary dath ilani adults, who could be safely given a box, but would be disturbed and weirded out about having it resting next to their bed every night, and would be noticeably better off not being given the box if they were never supposed to open it anyways."

"Or sometimes just, there's secrets deadly to society as a whole, even if they're not deadly to the people who bear them.  And that's - something Keepers respect, because it's their job, the duty they're taking up, because it's the trade they made to be told anything at all.  Or just because they're - what you'd call Good, I'd guess, though I doubt it's anything at all like Lastwall."

"Keepers definitely want to know more things rather than less things, they just - know how to operate inside a world full of ideas, concepts, structures of information, that were - crafted too much, designed too much, by minds running too far ahead of them, to the point where those ideas are deadly to less tightly woven reasoning processes.  I mean, even regular dath ilani know that's how the world works, you can tell because I know it.  That's what happens when you have people deploying and crafting ideas at - an overly crafted level - you have very stable geniuses who can think of things and not be driven mad themselves, but then those ideas - which less stable people would've bounced off, been deflected from, before they finished them to a quality level where they become dangerous - can get buffed up to finished structures that -"

"Look, there's an experiment that gets done every five years, just to check that things are still the way they were, settle rolling prediction markets with a five-year periodicity.  A bunch of relatively smart people who are going into cryosuspension anyways, volunteer to hang around a bunch of rank-one Keepers.  Not being deliberately told infohazards, just overhearing rank-one Keepers casually talk about among themselves.  And, like, actually listening to those conversations and trying to think about them, not just sticking their fingers into their ears and playing safe, because that was the experiment."

"And, yep, normal people sure do end up unstable and unhappy and depressed and frozen up and anxious and starting to believe increasingly weird ideas built out of pieces of that fascinating stuff they overheard."

"The same thing happens, we're told, when rank-two Keepers checking out early are allowed to overhear unfiltered rank-seven conversations.  Assuming they're otherwise experimentally-instructed to go ahead and think about those things, of course."

"Keepers are still operating in a world full of dangerous ideas that will destabilize their minds, that they're not allowed to know yet.  They're just sufficiently super-adult to be totally fine hanging around dozens of boxes saying 'reading my secrets will destroy you'.  Instead of children, who shouldn't be told that the box exists.  Or ordinary dath ilani adults, who could be safely given a box, but would be disturbed and weirded out about having it resting next to their bed every night, and would be noticeably better off not being given the box if they were never supposed to open it anyways."

"Or sometimes just, there's secrets deadly to society as a whole, even if they're not deadly to the people who bear them.  And that's - something Keepers respect, because it's their job, the duty they're taking up, because it's the trade they made to be told anything at all.  Or just because they're - what you'd call Good, I'd guess, though I doubt it's anything at all like Lastwall."

"Keepers definitely want to know more things rather than less things, they just - know how to operate inside a world full of ideas, concepts, structures of information, that were - crafted too much, designed too much, by minds running too far ahead of them, to the point where those ideas are deadly to less tightly woven reasoning processes.  I mean, even regular dath ilani know that's how the world works, you can tell because I know it.  That's what happens when you have people deploying and crafting ideas at - an overly crafted level - you have very stable geniuses who can think of things and not be driven mad themselves, but then those ideas - which less stable people would've bounced off, been deflected from, before they finished them to a quality level where they become dangerous - can get buffed up to finished structures that -"

"Look, there's an experiment that gets done every five years, just to check that things are still the way they were, settle rolling prediction markets with a five-year periodicity.  A bunch of relatively smart people who are going into cryosuspension anyways, volunteer to hang around a bunch of rank-one Keepers.  Not being deliberately told infohazards, just overhearing rank-one Keepers casually talk among themselves.  And, like, actually listening to those conversations and trying to think about them, not just sticking their fingers into their ears and playing safe, because that was the experimental-instruction."

"And, yep, normal people sure do end up unstable and unhappy and depressed and frozen up and anxious and starting to believe increasingly weird ideas built out of pieces of that fascinating stuff they overheard."

"The same thing happens, we're told, when rank-two Keepers checking out early are allowed to overhear unfiltered rank-seven conversations.  Assuming they're otherwise experimentally-instructed to go ahead and think about those things, of course."

"Keepers are still operating in a world full of dangerous ideas that will destabilize their minds, that they're not allowed to know yet.  They're just sufficiently super-adult to be totally fine hanging around dozens of boxes saying 'reading my secrets will destroy you'.  Instead of children, who shouldn't be told that the box exists.  Or ordinary dath ilani adults, who could be safely given a box, but would be disturbed and weirded out about having it resting next to their bed every night, and would be noticeably better off not being given the box if they were never supposed to open it anyways."

"Or sometimes just, there's secrets deadly to society as a whole, even if they're not deadly to the people who bear them.  And that's - something Keepers respect, because it's their job, the duty they're taking up, because it's the trade they made to be told anything at all.  Or just because they're - what you'd call Good, I'd guess, though I doubt it's anything at all like Lastwall."

"Keepers definitely want to know more things rather than less things, they just - know how to operate inside a world full of ideas, concepts, structures of information, that were - crafted too much, designed too much, by minds running too far ahead of them, to the point where those ideas are deadly to less tightly woven reasoning processes.  I mean, even regular dath ilani know that's how the world works, you can tell because I know it.  That's what happens when you have people deploying and crafting ideas at - an overly crafted level - you have very stable geniuses who can think of things and not be driven mad themselves, but then those ideas - which less stable people would've bounced off, been deflected from, before they finished them to a quality level where they become dangerous - can get buffed up to finished structures that -"

"Look, there's an experiment that gets done every five years, just to check that things are still the way they were, settle rolling prediction markets with a five-year periodicity.  A bunch of relatively smart people who are going into cryosuspension anyways, volunteer to hang around a bunch of rank-one Keepers.  Not being deliberately told infohazards, just overhearing rank-one Keepers casually talk among themselves.  And, like, actually listening to those conversations and trying to think about them, not just sticking their fingers into their ears and playing safe, because that was the experimental-instruction."

"And, yep, normal people sure do end up unstable and unhappy and depressed and frozen up and anxious and starting to believe increasingly weird ideas built out of pieces of that fascinating stuff they overheard."

"The same thing happens, we're told, when rank-two Keepers checking out early are placed to overhear unfiltered rank-seven conversations.  Assuming they're otherwise experimentally-instructed to go ahead and think about those things, of course."

"Keepers are still operating in a world full of dangerous ideas that will destabilize their minds, that they're not allowed to know yet.  They're just sufficiently super-adult to be totally fine hanging around dozens of boxes saying 'reading my secrets will destroy you'.  Instead of children, who shouldn't be told that the box exists.  Or ordinary dath ilani adults, who could be safely given a box, but would be disturbed and weirded out about having it resting next to their bed every night, and would be noticeably better off not being given the box if they were never supposed to open it anyways."

"Or sometimes just, there's secrets deadly to society as a whole, even if they're not deadly to the people who bear them.  And that's - something Keepers respect, because it's their job, the duty they're taking up, because it's the trade they made to be told anything at all.  Or just because they're - what you'd call Good, I'd guess, though I doubt it's anything at all like Lastwall."

"Keepers definitely want to know more things rather than less things, they just - know how to operate inside a world full of ideas, concepts, structures of information, that were - crafted too much, designed too much, by minds running too far ahead of them, to the point where those ideas are deadly to less tightly woven reasoning processes.  I mean, even regular dath ilani know that's how the world works, you can tell because I know it.  That's what happens when you have people deploying and crafting ideas at - an overly crafted level - you have very stable geniuses who can think of things and not be driven mad themselves, but then those ideas - which less stable people would've bounced off, been deflected from, before they finished them to a quality level where they become dangerous - can get buffed up to finished structures that - well, I don't actually know."

"Look, there's an experiment that gets done every five years, just to check that things are still the way they were, settle rolling prediction markets with a five-year periodicity.  A bunch of relatively smart people who are going into cryosuspension anyways, volunteer to hang around a bunch of rank-one Keepers.  Not being deliberately told infohazards, just overhearing rank-one Keepers casually talk among themselves.  And, like, actually listening to those conversations and trying to think about them, not just sticking their fingers into their ears and playing safe, because that was the experimental instruction."

"And, yep, normal people sure do end up unstable and unhappy and depressed and frozen up and anxious and starting to believe increasingly weird ideas built out of pieces of that fascinating stuff they overheard."

"The same thing happens, we're told, when rank-two Keepers checking out early are placed to overhear unfiltered rank-seven conversations.  Assuming they're otherwise experimentally-instructed to go ahead and think about those things, of course."

"Keepers are still operating in a world full of dangerous ideas that will destabilize their minds, that they're not allowed to know yet.  They're just sufficiently super-adult to be totally fine hanging around dozens of boxes saying 'reading my secrets will destroy you'.  Instead of children, who shouldn't be told that the box exists.  Or ordinary dath ilani adults, who could be safely given a box, but would be disturbed and weirded out about having it resting next to their bed every night, and would be noticeably better off not being given the box if they were never supposed to open it anyways."

"Or sometimes just, there's secrets deadly to society as a whole, even if they're not deadly to the people who bear them.  And that's - something Keepers respect, because it's their job, the duty they're taking up, as the trade they made to be told.  Or just because they're - what you'd call Good, I'd guess, though I doubt it's anything at all like Lastwall."