Iirc Eva's Instrumentality comes from Cordwainer-Smith.. Subtlety missed by TFA but not necessarily Eva: Government is meant to be the Instrument (like AI), NO

Iirc Eva's Instrumentality comes from Cordwainer-Smith.. Subtlety missed by TFA but not necessarily Eva: Government is meant to be the Instrument (like AI), NOT the people/meat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumentality_of_Mankind#Cultural_references https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumentality_of_Mankind#Cul... Eva's optimization: Human instrumentality=> self governance. Which is not that ambiguous, one could say, less so than Star Child (2001) "Of the people" vs <of the people>