I'm just saying...we can't trust them. We've never been able to trust them. That's always been a cornerstone of our operational policy." "Then maybe … - Alastair Reynolds

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I'm just saying...we can't trust them. We've never been able to trust them. That's always been a cornerstone of our operational policy." "Then maybe it's time we got a new cornerstone. They're people, Lillian. They might be people who make us uncomfortable, people with very different values from ours, but when we're facing local extinction at the hands of a genocidal machine intelligence, I don't think the differences between us look massively significant, do you?