History Fridge / FreeFall

** Not exactly. Mr. Thurmad and Niomi are considered the captain because they are members of the Savage Chicken's crew, while Kornada was not an actual crew member. Otherwise the Savage Chicken would've taken action to obey Kornada's desires the moment he voiced them, crew or no crew.

* Likewise, after hearing [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3400/fc03307.htm one of his species' myths]], his plan to give the Sqids a planet starts to look less [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness pure-hearted]] and more like striving for the ultimate fame: [[AGodAmI To become a god himself]].

** Adding to this, once society reached our modern age children living to adulthood is nearly a certainty in first world countries, to say nothing of what it's like 500 years in the future where the comic takes place. If Florence's theory is true, this creates an environment where SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan ends up winning or at least evening out due to it's higher survival rate while also AllGirlsWantBadBoys is no longer held in check by it's abysmal survival rate. This means that AllGirlsWantBadBoys will propagate over the generations much wider than SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan will until the former becomes overwhelmingly the genetic default.

** This is actually supported by the [[https://tinyurl.com/yaf7yrbg Trivers-Willard hypothesis]]; females in poor conditions have more female than male children, while females in comfortable conditions have more male than female children. Thus, the children of comfortable(IE ''wealthy'') parents always have their choice of females to impregnate. In pre-industrial times, that meant the children of ''[[MightMakesRight warlords]]''. And females that submitted to them were more likely to be placed in comfortable conditions to bear males. Feel free to throw up.

** The fact that Sam's species [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1100/fv01003.htm die when procreating]] ([[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1100/fv01004.htm and most are sterile anyway]]), also serves to explain his more reckless tendencies. His species has no biological imperative for long-term survival.
* Despite a highly honed sense of self-preservation, Sam enjoys doing things with a high degree of danger and risk. Then we learn that [[OutWithABang mating is fatal]] for his species, those of his species capable of breeding do so young, and [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1900/fc01898.htm no member of his species has died of old age]]. Sam's race effectively has no biological incentive for long-term self-preservation, leading them to take crazy risks in the name of being remembered as they get older.

* When Clippy appears before court, he's asked if the plan to give Mr. Kornada all that wealth was the only solution available under those constraints. He replies that no, it wasn't the only one: but it was the plan with ''the highest chance of the planet's survival.'' Clippy had considered and discarded at least two more, and was held back only by his own morals. That one instance differentiates the AIs on Jean from a mere [[https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer paperclip maximizer.]]

** Said plan involved lobotomizing the entire robot population, which consists of millions of individuals. If this is the best option Clippy could come up with, what did the alternatives consist of?

* When Clippy appears before court, he's asked if the plan to give Mr. Kornada all that wealth was the only solution available under those constraints. He replies that no, it wasn't the only one: but it was the plan with ''the highest chance of the planet's survival.'' Clippy had considered and discarded at least two more, and was held back only by his own morals. That one instance differentiates the AIs on Jean from a mere [[https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer paperclip maximizer.]]