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It’s pretty hard to rule the land from the water. Even with all of our technological might, do you think we could wage war on an ocean-bound technologically ad
by willis936 6y ago
It’s pretty hard to rule the land from the water. Even with all of our technological might, do you think we could wage war on an ocean-bound technologically advanced species? They have the same disadvantage. In all likelihood we would coexist.
- maxerickson 6y agoDo you get a technological society without air? Cooking and metallurgy are both pretty important, and we got them incrementally, starting from fire being pretty easy to do.
- willis936 6y agoI don’t have a good answer to “what does underwater technological progression look like?” I just want to point out that we are under a heavy survivorship bias. Just because we are where we are does not mean there aren’t other plausible histories.
- maxerickson 6y agoSure, you can't identify path dependence from 1 data point. Moving back to the land-sea war, we know how to make bombs and stuff, so they better have something like steel and know how to come attack us on land and so on if there is any notion of it being a contest.
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