recurring pattern among successful powermaxxers indicates that treating subordinates fairly is an underpriced superpower > Hannibal slept in the open with his soldiers even though he didn't have to > Napoleon knew many of his soldiers by name, even remembered their injuries and asked about them etc > Scipio got a beautiful spanish princess for ransom during the punic wars but gave her back to the conquered prince and even financed their wedding etc obvious filtering effects at play here but it feels intuitive so I assume these are true.. loyalty in general is one of those extremely lindy concepts that is getting underrated in 21st century because we struggle with emergent phenomena in our utility funcs