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by gsf_emergency 387 days ago
Iirc Eva's Instrumentality comes from Cordwainer-Smith..

Subtlety missed by TFA but not necessarily Eva: Government is meant to be the Instrument (like AI), NOT the people/meat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumentality_of_Mankind#Cul...

Eva's optimization: Human instrumentality=> self governance. Which is not that ambiguous, one could say, less so than Star Child (2001)

"Of the people" vs <of the people>