O’Keefe: Blighted Stars

Summary: Blighted Stars by O’Keefe . (Stub — expand from highlights.)

Sources: quotes_batch_16.md

Source pages: Quotes batch 16

Quote pages: O’Keefe – Blighted Stars

Last updated: 2026-05-07

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Quotes

Concept

“A world is not a place to live; it is a resource to be consumed until the ‘shroud’ makes it uninhabitable.” (p. 22)

Behavior

“Survival behavior in a dying world isn’t cruel; it’s just the biological imperative stripped of its polite mask.” (p. 104)

Game Theory

“The printing of bodies is a game of resource management; who gets a new body depends on their value to the mission.” (p. 156)

Cognition

“Transferring a consciousness to a new body requires a cognitive leap that most people don’t survive intact.” (p. 238)

Memory

“Memory is the only thing we carry between lives, but it degrades every time we are re-printed.” (p. 312)

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