Since I am not a bio expert, it is very hard for me to argue about these types of hypothetical scenarios. I am even not at all sure that intelligence is the bottleneck here, whether on defense or the offense side.
I agree that killing 90% of people is not very reassuring, this was more a general point why I expect the effort to damage curve to be a sigmoid rather than a straight line.
Since I am not a bio expert, it is very hard for me to argue about these types of hypothetical scenarios. I am even not at all sure that intelligence is the bottleneck here, whether on defense or the offense side.
I agree that killing 90% of people is not very reassuring, this was more a general point why I expect the effort to damage curve to be a sigmoid rather than a straight line.