Knowing something is a bad idea does not always decrease the odds that you will do it.

Carl just had too much mass - we couldn't stop falling into his gravity any more than we could jump to the moon

We’re at the point in history where being a person has become a liability. Better to just be a disembodied jumble of ideas. p57

Collections of individuals are beautiful, but they are as common as pelagibacter. Collections of ideas are veins of gold in our universe. They must be cherished and protected.