one thing I think people dont consider enough when looking at eg the ability of the Taliban to resist US force, or the Viet Cong, or whatever, in the context of the value of small arms is that the US did not adopt the tactic of "kill everyone until the fighting stops"
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yes the US did all sorts of horrible things in these wars and I dont mean to downplay that, only put it in perspective those horrible things tended to be exceptions or edge cases rather than part of a systematic effort to kill everyone until resistance ended
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anyway while yes its true it would have been impossible for the US to adopt such measures in the current environment for a variety of reasons theres no reason to expect that constraint to hold forever in all cases
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so if your plan for revolution or resistance or whatever relies on guerilla warfare to bleed out an external force this might be worth considering
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i should also be clear i am not arguing /for/ a kill everyone strategy. i think it is abominable. but many disagree and they might be able to enact their preferences sooner or later
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to be extremely extremely clear this is something I hope im wrong about but it might be worth considering what the likelihood of it not being wrong is if this is something important to you idk glhf
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Haha it'd be really bad if there was an ascendant power with the capacity to commit total, unadulterated genocide in pursuit of power. Man I hope no one capable of that shows up in the near future, especially not ones with advanced biotech capacity. Haha what's a gene drive???
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ha ha ha i think about that but try not to say it out loud because im superstitious ha ha ha ha
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There are... Several specific technological advances in biotech recently that are cause for serious concerns over longer than normal time horizons and my faith in institutional competence being very low right now is not making it easy to sleep at night.
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you could also just build a ton of killbots and drop swarms of them in cities and dust your hands and come back in a couple weeks
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Yeah, but thats gonna trigger a response, the uhhh... Other method won't be obvious for years, will be effective over a few tens of decades and is more or less 100% deniable/unattributable...
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