"I think social stuff would shift sooner, and religions that still say have a bunch of kids would win."

"I guess they would, ideas can be almost like genes that way sometimes."

"Yeah. It's hard figuring out what ideas are gonna spread, though."

"That's true here too."

"Does the internet make ideas spread differently?"

"It does! We didn't anticipate needing an expert on Internet memetics in particular so none of us is one, but it makes everything faster and scales it all up."

"I don't need everything about the internet explained right now. But yeah that makes sense."

"The anonymity people can have there makes a difference too."

"That could probably be good or bad..."

"It's some of both, but... mostly bad, I think."

"That's sad."

"It is."

"I think it'd also help me to know how - Amentans do concepts like importance of kindness or charity or stuff?"

"We have plenty of charities... I'm not sure what you're comparing it to so I don't know where to start."

"Like, shoggoths have an idea of - uplifting kindness? Where it's important to be kind to people, but it's really important to be kind to people who need it most and who you like least, and it's also the idea that if you're trying to be friends with someone, you gotta look at how they treat the people they don't like? Especially the people who're - like their own species? Which's part of why shoggoths don't trust humans, 'cause a lot of humans are mean to other humans who're a different class or culture or religion on a really large scale."

Greens look at each other.

Eventually Hadri says, "I don't think I'm aware of a philosophy that says it's more important to be kind to people you don't like, but we do have the idea that some people need more than others and people who are trying to be charitable do usually prefer to help people who need help a lot, as long as they don't need more than it's even possible to give them or something."

"I think we've got it 'cause usually we've been the people others don't like."

"I can see how that'd make sense. Here we all like you, though!"

"Thanks."

She will leave explaining 'yes but you might not like me forever and other people have feelings too' in very small words for later when she knows how they think a bit better.

"It's about lunchtime, I was thinking of ordering everyone sandwiches from Somki's?" says one of the yellows. There are assorted calls of agreement to this plan. Someone mentions an allergy.

"Maybe something very small for me that's got a lot of calories for being small? And mom's not hungry, and I dunno what Amentan foods I can digest well yet."

"Okay!" says the yellow. "We can see if you like their cheese bites."

"Fiber's hardest for me, and after that fat? I just figured out how to digest fat pretty recently, though fat is really good calories, so cheese bites might work."

"They've also got sugar cookies?"

"Cookies usually have fat and a bit of fiber though, right? I think cheese works probably?"