that scene where Mistake Not... is like casually talking about exotic stringed instruments and then just as an offhand says "oh yeah I just won a massive space battle with Teraton yield warheads flying around and shit, no big, carry on carry on"
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and that's how you get saddled with an (eccentric) entry in the GOU catalog
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The biggest problem the Culture seems to face is "What's the most stable personality for a planet killing warship." The Indran wars produced a generation of gods secretly suffering from PTSD. In look to windward we see why this is sub-optimal. But the alternative is worse.
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Program a machine to be maximally benevolent, then watch in horror as it's over-developed sense to empathy causes it to start wars for moralistic reasons, and then spend the next thousand years regretting everything it's ever done.
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Program a machine to be an amoral sociopath on the other hand, and suddenly the culture is addicted to militarism and devoting all their computational resources to finding ways to subvert galactic arms reduction treaties and find social acceptable ways to torture people.
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