"We are in a situation that is decision-theoretically complicated.  That's the part you're not getting.  I'll be blunt, Carissa, I was raised to understand things that are this, from a Golarion perspective, insane and twisty and complicated and stupid and turning on arcane points of math, and from a dath ilani perspective, twisty in a simple funny way, like a, not-professional story that an average person wrote for fun and their friends to read, a story where all of the points are obvious in retrospect as soon as you actually think of them, and then, if you're a dath ilani character in that story, you have to try very hard not to think about those points, because the information has negative value to you in a way that threatens to destroy all possibility of an ending better than destroying the multiverse.  We're not equals in this, we can't be, and the reason for that isn't that you don't know decision theory, you have the capability to reach INT 29 from where you stand and then you would understand the ass out of the decision theory, you would see the whole thing immediately, maybe without even my explaining it, from that level, and once you saw it - you would be - forced, by being the sort of entity you are, down a path that -"

"This isn't, the actual problem, but an analogy, would be if you were a sort of entity that responded to threats, and so, as soon as you started having any power, here, Asmodeus would laugh and command you to go do as He said or He'd destroy every paving stone in Hell to spite you, along with Abrogail and Pilar and every soul that ever prayed to you.  Except I cannot, even, tell you for certain that it is like that, that I am trying in a way to protect you from yourself.  Because you are an alien and maybe, the way you think, it's actually valid that Keltham is something you should just turn in to Asmodeus to be squashed." 

"So I am trying to - thread a very narrow needle - a narrow storyline that I wish I hadn't seen, and that I'm worried I've now ruined by telling you, when we met, that I no longer considered myself to be Keltham - nor wanted to be him again, because it's too painful to, to destroy a city, when you have feelings, about that -"

"Carissa.  I need those Wishes, and the headband, and once I have those things, I think, I'll be back on track.  And there are things that I can honestly trade to you for those, and things I cannot honestly trade to you for those.  I can trade making sure that in a week of realtime you get Wished up on all six stats yourself, and giving you all the headbands and enhancement spells I won't need.  I can trade you telling you the real story, as soon as I do have the headband and Wishes, and offering you the access to try to do harm reduction on what you see as the harm from my plans.  I can trade you that you never have to take my orders to do anything positive, just, promise not to do a lot of things."

"But the one thing I cannot do is give you anything like the power to, call a halt, shut things down, or try to fix the multiverse on your own authority, because we are in a situation where - from my perspective, possibly even from yours though I don't know - you are the wrong shape of entity."

"We are in a situation that is decision-theoretically complicated.  That's the part you're not getting.  I'll be blunt, Carissa, I was raised to understand things that are this, from a Golarion perspective, insane and twisty and complicated and stupid and turning on arcane points of math, and from a dath ilani perspective, twisty in a simple funny way, like a, not-professional story that an average person wrote for fun and their friends to read, a story where all of the points are obvious in retrospect as soon as you actually think of them, and then, if you're a dath ilani character in that story, you have to try very hard not to think about those points, because the information has negative value to you in a way that threatens to destroy all possibility of an ending better than destroying the multiverse.  We can't be equal partners in this, and the reason for that isn't that you don't know decision theory, you have the capability to reach INT 29 from where you stand and then you would understand the ass out of the decision theory, you would see the whole thing immediately, maybe without even my explaining it, from that level, and once you saw it - you would be - forced, by being the sort of entity you are, down a path that -"

"This isn't, the actual problem, but an analogy, would be if you were a sort of entity that responded to threats, and so, as soon as you started having any power, here, Asmodeus would laugh and command you to go do as He said or He'd destroy every paving stone in Hell to spite you, along with Abrogail and Pilar and every soul that ever prayed to you.  Except I cannot, even, tell you for certain that it is like that, that I am trying in a way to protect you from yourself.  Because you are an alien and maybe, the way you think, it's actually valid that Keltham is something you should just turn in to Asmodeus to be squashed." 

"So I am trying to - thread a very narrow needle - a narrow storyline that I wish I hadn't seen, and that I'm worried I've now ruined by telling you, when we met, that I no longer considered myself to be Keltham - nor wanted to be him again, because it's too painful to, to destroy a city, when you have feelings, about that -"

"Carissa.  I need those Wishes, and the headband, and once I have those things, I think, I'll be back on track.  And there are things that I can honestly trade to you for those, and things I cannot honestly trade to you for those.  I can trade making sure that in a week of realtime you get Wished up on all six stats yourself, and giving you all the headbands and enhancement spells I won't need.  I can trade you telling you the real story, as soon as I do have the headband and Wishes, and offering you the access to try to do harm reduction on what you see as the harm from my plans.  I can trade you that you never have to take my orders to do anything positive, just, promise not to do a lot of things."

"But the one thing I cannot do is give you anything like the power to, call a halt, shut things down, or try to fix the multiverse on your own authority, because we are in a situation where - from my perspective, possibly even from yours though I don't know - you are the wrong shape of entity."

"We are in a situation that is decision-theoretically complicated.  That's the part you're not seeing.  Carissa, I was raised to understand things that are, from a Golarion perspective, insane and twisty and complicated and stupid and turning on arcane points of math, and from a dath ilani perspective, twisty in a simple funny way, like a, not-professional story that an average person wrote for fun and their friends to read, a story where all of the points are obvious in retrospect as soon as you actually think of them, and then, if you're a dath ilani character in that story, you have to try very hard not to think about those points, because the information has negative value to you in a way that threatens to destroy all possibility of an ending better than destroying the multiverse.  We can't be equal partners in this, and the reason for that isn't that you don't know decision theory, you have the capability to reach INT 29 from where you stand and then you would understand the ass out of the decision theory, you would see the whole thing immediately, maybe without even my explaining it, from that level, and once you saw it - you would be - forced, by being the sort of entity you are, down a path that -"

"This isn't, the actual problem, but an analogy, would be if you were a sort of entity that responded to threats, and so, as soon as you started having any power, here, Asmodeus would laugh and command you to go do as He said or He'd destroy every paving stone in Hell to spite you, along with Abrogail and Pilar and every soul that ever prayed to you.  Except I cannot, even, tell you for certain that it is like that, that I am trying in a way to protect you from yourself.  Because you are an alien and maybe, the way you think, it's actually valid that Keltham is something you should just turn in to Asmodeus to be squashed." 

"So I am trying to - thread a very narrow needle - a narrow storyline that I wish I hadn't seen, and that I'm worried I've now ruined by telling you, when we met, that I no longer considered myself to be Keltham - nor wanted to be him again, because it's too painful to, to destroy a city, when you have feelings, about that -"

"Carissa.  I need those Wishes, and the headband, and once I have those things, I think, I'll be back on track.  And there are things that I can honestly trade to you for those, and things I cannot honestly trade to you for those.  I can trade making sure that in a week of realtime you get Wished up on all six stats yourself, and giving you all the headbands and enhancement spells I won't need.  I can trade you telling you the real story, as soon as I do have the headband and Wishes, and offering you the access to try to do harm reduction on what you see as the harm from my plans.  I can trade you that you never have to take my orders to do anything positive, just, promise not to do a lot of things."

"But the one thing I cannot do is give you anything like the power to, call a halt, shut things down, or try to fix the multiverse on your own authority, because we are in a situation where - from my perspective, possibly even from yours though I don't know - you are the wrong shape of entity."