I didn’t get the ‘first person’ thing at first (and the terminal diagnosis metaphor wasn’t helpful to me). I think I do now.
I’d rephrase it as “In your story about how the Friendly hypercreature you create gains power, make sure the characters are level one intelligent”. That means creating a hypercreature you’d want to host. Which means you will be its host.
To ensure it’s a good hypercreature, you need to have good taste in hypercreatures. Rejecting all hypercreatures doesn’t work—you need to selectively reject bad hypercreatures.
I didn’t get the ‘first person’ thing at first (and the terminal diagnosis metaphor wasn’t helpful to me). I think I do now.
I’d rephrase it as “In your story about how the Friendly hypercreature you create gains power, make sure the characters are level one intelligent”. That means creating a hypercreature you’d want to host. Which means you will be its host.
To ensure it’s a good hypercreature, you need to have good taste in hypercreatures. Rejecting all hypercreatures doesn’t work—you need to selectively reject bad hypercreatures.