Remember that time when we asked Kyuubey if we should use our powers to create more Grief for him, and he dismissed us out of hand, pointing how the best way to do that was to fight Witches like a nice little meguca?
Way to think one-dimensionally.
He said that when we were first starting out, when we generated a paltry amount of Grief, and we were suggesting that that alone could solve everything ever.
We're talking about inventing some kind of new method or refinement to the existing method that improves efficiency. If it improves efficiency by even 1%, that's MASSIVELY better than a Madoka Witch, because that 1% is being applied to every world the Incubators operate on across the
entire universe, for billions upon billions of years.
The milennia old 'rational' paperclip maximizer doesn't believe we can do this. It didn't told us how we could experiment with our powers in order to help his quota, it didn't answer to our offer with an offer of knowledge so that in the future we might be able to help him so.
He never said this. He said that Sabrina, by herself, generating a paltry amount of grief through casual magic usage was less efficient than hunting Witches.
It's like the difference in energy output between starting a tiny fire by rubbing sticks together and the energy output of, say, a series of nuclear reactors. You need to advance your research, understanding of the mechanics/physics/magic, and refine methods.
It just told us to go along with his plan. Kyuubey believes his plan is best.
We didn't even
have a plan, back then. We had done no research. We didn't even really have a proposal. We were one girl, generating a paltry amount of Grief, which was objectively a lot less efficient than just hunting Witches.
Saying that we plan on finding some way of improving the system, even if it takes us 1000 years of research and experimentation, is far more credible of a plan.
Unless we change that, unless we make Kyuubey believe we can create something better for him, it will keep doing the same thing.
No, because Kyubey is not a moron and is capable of seeing the value of long-term payoff. We don't need to hand him an improvement on a silver platter, just convince him that we represent a reasonable chance of providing some kind of improvement
eventually. Which is definitely within our abilities.
You want Kyuubey to give us information that would help us create better grief/energy generating systems?
Fine. I wouldn't trust him to give us good information, but maybe that's just me. However, first you need to give him a reason to do it. KB giving up the information is not something that'll happen if it doesn't believe it would be useful.
"Kyubey, can you tell me about the system so that I can better research ways on improving it?"
"Well, if you're interested in trying to figure out a way to improve the system, then I have everything to gain and nothing to lose by telling you."
And if it isn't inclined to believe that we can pull it off? Do some research and experimentation, and share it with him, until we pull off enough unprecedented stuff that he starts to believe we might be able to do it.
Finding out how much Grief a Seed generates, how quickly? That's trivial. Any big secrets of Grief generation or... something...
Actually, what do you think would be important information Kyuubey would give us in order to better create Grief/energy? Because at the moment, I can't think of an example.
We don't know. That's the point. It might have extremely useful information to give us, it might not. But if we never even try, we have zero chance of ever finding out.
It's 'Entanglement', part 20 for anyone interesting in looking at the whole context of it.
us any further. Or something like that.
