"So to me it feels obvious that you want to be the sort of planet where, if something weird happens, people can successfully coordinate, 'coordinate', to deploy an appropriate weird response, in much the same way that you want to be a planet where people can produce cookies and not have them get stolen.  There should be some procedure for figuring out whether you need to bury all your old cities and then everybody does that, which includes sensible aspects like firing everybody in your government, occasionally sending somebody one a one-way trip to the pole of the world where they report back using codes on whether the real reason seemed legit, that sort of thing.  If there's no possible procedure which does that then your world is defenseless against any problem requiring that response, and probably lots of other problems too."  [Attempted chain of valid inferences.]

"So to me it feels obvious that you want to be the sort of planet where, if something weird happens, people can successfully coordinate, 'coordinate', to deploy an appropriate weird response, in much the same way that you want to be a planet where people can produce cookies and not have them get stolen.  There should be some procedure for figuring out whether you need to bury all your old cities and then everybody does that, which includes sensible aspects like firing everybody in your government, occasionally sending somebody on a one-way trip to the pole of the world where they report back using codes on whether the real reason seemed legit, that sort of thing.  If there's no possible procedure which does that then your world is defenseless against any problem requiring that response, and probably lots of other problems too."  [Attempted chain of valid inferences.]

"So to me it feels obvious that you want to be the sort of planet where, if something weird happens, people can successfully coordinate, 'coordinate', to deploy an appropriate weird response, in much the same way that you want to be a planet where people can produce cookies and not have them get stolen.  There should be some procedure for figuring out whether you need to bury all your old cities and then everybody does that, which includes sensible aspects like firing everybody in your government, occasionally sending somebody on a one-way trip to the pole of the world where they report back using codes on whether the real reason seemed legit, that sort of thing.  If there's no possible procedure which does that then your world is defenseless against any problem requiring that response, and probably lots of other problems too."  [Attempted chain of valid inferences with overtones of moral inveighing.]

"No, that they tell you very loudly not to do it."

"So to me it feels obvious that you want to be the sort of planet where, if something weird happens, people can successfully coordinate, 'coordinate', to deploy an appropriate weird response, in much the same way that you want to be a planet where people can produce cookies and not have them get stolen.  There should be some procedure for figuring out whether you need to bury all your old cities and then everybody does that, which includes sensible aspects like firing everybody in your government, occasionally sending somebody on a one-way trip to the pole of the world where they report back using codes on whether the real reason seemed legit, that sort of thing.  If there's no possible procedure which does that then your world is defenseless against any problem requiring that response, and probably lots of other problems too."  [Attempted chain of valid inferences with overtones of moral inveighing.]

"No, that they tell you very emphatically not to do it.  We literally never do the 'torture' thing."

"So to me it feels obvious that you want to be the sort of planet where, if something weird happens, people can successfully coordinate, 'coordinate', to deploy an appropriate weird response, in much the same way that you want to be a planet where people can produce cookies and not have them get stolen.  There should be some procedure for figuring out whether you need to bury all your old cities and then everybody does that, which includes sensible aspects like firing everybody in your government, occasionally sending somebody on a one-way trip to the pole of the world where they report back using codes on whether the real reason seemed legit, that sort of thing.  If there's no possible procedure which does that then your world is defenseless against any problem requiring that response, and probably lots of other problems too."  [Attempted chain of valid inferences with overtones of moral inveighing.]