It isn’t too hard to talk them into wars either—especially if you first talk someone into getting themselves killed in an appropriately provocative way. Or even just the right person.
Destroying humanity with mere words seems like a comparatively trivial task from the perspective of “is it even physically possible to do with intelligence?”.
It isn’t too hard to talk them into wars either—especially if you first talk someone into getting themselves killed in an appropriately provocative way. Or even just the right person.
I don’t know whether this is true or not; there seems to be supporting evidence either way. It’s true that you can point to many historical events when a seemingly well-placed murder, or just a well-placed word, sparked a major war. However, in many (if not most) of these cases, the local culture was on the brink of war anyway, and thus the well-placed murder wasn’t as well-placed as it appeared—because the critical mass could be achieved by killing virtually anyone, or even simply by doing nothing but waiting a few years for war to erupt.
It isn’t too hard to talk them into wars either—especially if you first talk someone into getting themselves killed in an appropriately provocative way. Or even just the right person.
Destroying humanity with mere words seems like a comparatively trivial task from the perspective of “is it even physically possible to do with intelligence?”.
I wish I could upvote this a second time solely for the understatement.
I don’t know whether this is true or not; there seems to be supporting evidence either way. It’s true that you can point to many historical events when a seemingly well-placed murder, or just a well-placed word, sparked a major war. However, in many (if not most) of these cases, the local culture was on the brink of war anyway, and thus the well-placed murder wasn’t as well-placed as it appeared—because the critical mass could be achieved by killing virtually anyone, or even simply by doing nothing but waiting a few years for war to erupt.