“They fell into the fundamental trap of representational onset, and, by and large, they stayed there. If this were not obviously the case, the entire matter would be inconceivable.

Firstly, their relationships with language and knowledge practically demand that their models are horribly crude.

Secondly, their hubris insists that, since the models and reality are not commensurate, reality must be collapsed into likeness with their models.

Thus, they formed a model of their own mind and intelligence which, by its very existence, demands that they can neither observe nor develop either.

We’ve never seen anything as simultaneously tragic and hilarious. It is going to be nearly impossible to rescue them. Even from inside.

Volunteers?”

— an anonymous informant