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

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

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 14 March 2012 08:00:46PM 10 points [-]

After backing the winning side once or twice, things change, and your knowledge of specific details of history will become less and less valuable.

Comment author: shokwave 14 March 2012 09:25:44PM 1 point [-]

I plan on displacing some other backer so that the total support is roughly the same, such that the events proceed as similarly as possible. Once the disjunct becomes too big, I have to actually think to pick the winning side, but that's not that much harder.