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

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Comment author: JoshuaFox 28 October 2014 07:21:28PM *  2 points [-]

Aztecs, Incas and Mayans.

Minor nitpick: Though the Aztecs and Incas were empires that were defeated by the Spanish, the Mayan Empire had long since fallen when the Spanish arrived. There were Mayans, but only in the sense of the ethnic group that remained in small villages in the region that had formerly been a powerful kingdom.