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The speaker analogizes humanity losing control of powerful intelligences to the Aztecs losing control to Cortés or the Mughals losing control to the East India Company.
Unresolved speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sep 2026
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“The Aztecs lost control of the Cortez or the Mughals lost control the East Indian trading company”41:46Report a misattribution
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