Total horse takeover — LessWrong

I hear a lot of talk of ‘taking over the world’. What is it to take over the world? Have I done it if I am king of the world? Have I done it if I bur…

x Total horse takeover — LessWrong World Optimization Frontpage 104 Total horse takeover by KatjaGrace 5th Nov 2019 Meteuphoric 7 min read 14 104 I hear a lot of talk of ‘taking over the world’. What is it to take over the world? Have I done it if I am king of the world? Have I done it if I burn the world? Have humans or the printing press or Google or the idea of ‘currency’ done it? Let’s start with something more tractable, and be clear on what it is to take over a horse. A natural theory is that to take over a horse is to be the arbiter of everything about the horse —to be the one deciding

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