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Decisive strategic advantage

A decisive strategic advantage is a position of strategic superiority sufficient to allow an agent to achieve complete world domination.

Note that this notion is relative to the agent's situation: for example, a technology that would allow one to dominate the world in year 1000 might no longer be sufficient today. In particular, domination may be a much higher bar than (threat of) destruction, perhaps requiring unassailability by existing or future attacks.

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