1. extreme protectiveness is the socially acceptable way to express a parent's jealousy vs his children's suitors. youre channelling your rage against your own self-disillusionment before your kid gets to the inevitable point of disillusionment with you. It happens during the friction point between condition a: (child is totally dependent, perfect, beautiful, yours, a reflection of your awesomeness; parent is perfect, magnanimous, bringer of wonders, omnipotent) and b: (you're both just flawed, flailing humans, parental power is not needed in the same primitive, guaranteed-win way, child is taking risks and needs to be able to be hurt) 2. we as a species are a self-replicating AI that we built so we already know how to do that we're just trying to do it a different way now? why? (2015)