Once again, I agree with pretty much everything you say here. I still think you are making the extreme claim—to see this, consider that as far as I can tell my conclusions are justified already by what happened before disease showed up in the Americas. Heck, a lot of the things you are saying here are also support for my conclusions—e.g. the point about coordinated and/or fearless forces being super effective even with inferior tech. Basically, it seems totally true to me that the sort of “small” technological advantage advanced AI might provide, combined with “small” leadership/strategy/diplomacy/coordination advantages, could be super potent.
Perhaps we are talking past each other. On the narrow question of how bad the disease was and how wrecked Aztec (and Inca) society became as a result, I agree that I don’t know much about that and look forward to learning more. Perhaps it was worse than I thought.
Once again, I agree with pretty much everything you say here. I still think you are making the extreme claim—to see this, consider that as far as I can tell my conclusions are justified already by what happened before disease showed up in the Americas. Heck, a lot of the things you are saying here are also support for my conclusions—e.g. the point about coordinated and/or fearless forces being super effective even with inferior tech. Basically, it seems totally true to me that the sort of “small” technological advantage advanced AI might provide, combined with “small” leadership/strategy/diplomacy/coordination advantages, could be super potent.
Perhaps we are talking past each other. On the narrow question of how bad the disease was and how wrecked Aztec (and Inca) society became as a result, I agree that I don’t know much about that and look forward to learning more. Perhaps it was worse than I thought.