"Well, for starters, whenever someone invents a particularly cool thing, unless they are a superhero it will probably be immediately used to threaten the world." 

"Why???"

"Because our universe is bullshit and most of the smartest people on this Earth are laser-focused on inventing a ray that turns people into dinosaurs and installing it on the Empire State Building, no this is not a real example, or inventing insanely good glue and using it to paste the Human Torch to a skyscraper, that one is." 

"Do you need to fix... your patent law... or something."

"We need to fix our patent law very badly but corporations are infinitely more able to pay for lobbyists." 

"...There are a lot of issues with the Barrayaran system, like the rule of every emperor whose name is prefixed with 'Mad', but if we had a supervillain problem Gregor would be like 'Lev, figure out why there are supervillains' and I would be able to subpoena anyone I wanted to figure it out and then once I did Gregor would issue a law about it and corporations' opinions would not be involved at any point."

"In theory corporations' opinions are not involved at any point here but in practice the people writing the laws get a lot of their money from donations and guess who's donating." 

"--this is an advantage of the Vor being independently wealthy."

"Unfortunately the policy opinions of the independently wealthy tend to suck a lot for everyone else." 

"Your planet does not seem to care very much about honor."

"That's true! We don't. We used to but we stopped." 

"...I guess most planets don't but it's strange, as a Barrayaran."

"Reasonable. Hearing about Levva's world is bizarre for me and I'm sure hearing about mine is bizarre for him." 

"Haven't gotten a chance to talk to Levva much. Also, he's very sad and I don't really like talking to him."

"He's less sad if you can get him to talk about social science without him realizing, he can talk for ages about how green income inequality creates a culture where most people are less successful than their parents which in turn creates all sorts of pressure and forget that he thinks he's stupid, but that's also reasonable." 

"If you were to ask me to make predictions about what alternate universe mes would be like I would not have predicted that we'd all basically be auditors except the wretchedly miserable Not Vor."

"If you'd asked me to make predictions about what alternate universe mes would be like I wouldn't have expected Noonlight to be half so traumatized but the other two are basically in line with how I work." 

"Oh, I mean, I'd definitely be Basically An Auditor if that job was available, I just didn't expect so many worlds to have one! I would have thought we'd all be psych professors."

"I have no idea what I want to do with my life, I'd expect most of the mes to be doing something at least kind of artistic but other than that I've got no clue." 

"I'd tell you, but as far as I can tell we don't have a you at all."

"Yeah. It still seems weird that some of us have versions of each other but not others." 

"Gregor is great. You should tell the other mes to find a Gregor and date him."

"The other yous seem pretty okay without a Gregor, except for Levva who I doubt a Gregor would help. What's he like?" 

"He's really quiet, and very sad, and very serious, and he has a great sense of humor but he hides it because he thinks it is not very emperor-ly. He takes his job really seriously. We can cuddle and talk about the industrialization of Barrayar and go over account books together. It's great."

(He appears moderately suspicious that Sashas would not want to go over an account book even a little bit.)

"Yeah. That sounds like someone you'd like." Sasha could be persuaded to go over an account book but it does not sound particularly appealing, no.