JoshuaFox comments on Superintelligence 7: Decisive strategic advantage - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoshuaFox 28 October 2014 04:38:49PM 2 points [-]

Sure, the diseases were accidental. But beyond that, they used various methods, including hostage-taking and building alliances, and a few hundred men defeated millions, in two cases. Doesn't that show a decisive strategic advantage?

Comment author: CellBioGuy 28 October 2014 11:40:14PM 3 points [-]

Way more than a few hundred - local rebellions and malcontents joined their cause in droves on the (mistaken) assumption that they would remain in an advantaged state in the aftermath.