Alicorn comments on How would you take over Rome? - Less Wrong

25 Post author: Yvain 14 March 2012 04:24PM

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Comment author: Alicorn 14 March 2012 11:09:50PM 0 points [-]

But did they have all their teeth and oracular powers?

Comment author: Thomas 14 March 2012 11:14:59PM 1 point [-]

Matters a little, A wife or a mistress of an emperor could hope only to survive some more. Her son might become the new emperor. He might, she could not.

Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 14 March 2012 11:22:45PM 5 points [-]

By Yvain's hypothesis, she possesses all human knowledge as of 2012. That makes her (along with all the other competitors) strongly superhuman. In my book, she wins simply because her declared strategy means she starts closer to the throne than anyone else.