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[-] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

You know, a fun project would be compiling an instruction book for elevating/fast forwarding technology just in case someone does get sent back in time.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

We could send them to the end of the galaxy to compile an encyclopedia of all human knowledge but they'd secretly be there to start the next iteration of civilization through the foolproof strategy of not doing much and just letting the pre-calculated history take its course.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Or we could just fly around in space on a religious drug trip until we find a planet with some worms that make some freaken killer drugs.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

That sounds like it would cause a major succession crisis and a galaxy-wide jihad.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

We will need one against those sentient mitosis using beings from another dimension. The Kinnison bloodline won't be enough!

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You just gave Hari an idea...

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

I want this for when climate collapse destroys modern civilization and the survivors are left to rebuild society without the benefit of global supply chains or information infrastructure.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Download wikipedia. Its not only possible, but its actually easy. There are some apps for it, see Kiwix and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download. Just bring a couple phones and some solar panels for when they run out of charge.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I've put a bit of thought into this and I feel that even if you could bring every blueprint for every technology ever made onto a computer with 10 backups, you would still need to be extremely lucky on whether you get people skilled enough to recreate those technologies.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

You'd need the social skills to demonstrate technological improvements (say, a better axe) without causing everyone to freak out and call you a demon. You'd also have to keep your phones and charging devices secret until after you've recruited a few technophiles because otherwise someone is going to break them accidentally when they confiscate them for one reason or another.

Basically you need to recruit a few smart people who can be trusted and get them on your side. You might even want to funnel all your "inventions" through them to keep the heat off you, and this is assuming you end up in a culture that would even value technological advancement.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

this is assuming you end up in a culture that would even value technological advancement.

People value their friends and family not dying, and the murdering raiders from neighbouring tribes being kept at bay. And people that don't value that don't tend to last very long.

You’d need the social skills to demonstrate technological improvements (say, a better axe) without causing everyone to freak out and call you a demon.

....Starting with an axe would be nice. The lumberfolk would appreciate it, surely. But then what happens when the old blacksmith blames your witchcraft for the crops failing next year, or for the village chief's child falling ill? So maybe teach the blacksmiths too, so they also benefit from you— I'm sure they'll love having some upstart come in and tell them how to do their jobs.

You're an outsider, no matter what, and you're never going to completely look like them or sound like them or act like them— Can we really think that any amount of social skills will be enough to keep you safe, when they might just be determined to hate you for what you are?

Maybe start with a combination of military and medical technology. Show them a crude crossbow; when they see the next raid of Goths or Aztecs or Mongols or Vikings or Peloponnesians or whomever being repelled before they even reach the gates, they'll come to appreciate it sooner or later… Their enemies are against their gods, so if you helped defend them from their enemies, you must be sent by their gods. Disgustingly, hating the same out-group is a great way to keep yourself safe in any given in-group, whether at work or at war. Medicine's probably trickier, because if you fail to save somebody then some people will probably blame you for their death. But if you make it clear that you can't stop fate from running its course, and you start with some basic stuff, they'll probably come to appreciate that their friends aren't dying as much from infections anymore too.

Fear of death has always been sadly the strongest motivator for embracing technological change. Modern aviation, computing, and nuclear science all came after WWII; and "anti-vax" movements only thrive in countries that have already essentially eradicated the concerned diseases. It'll be harder for them to crucify somebody whom they can see is standing between them and death.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

There's a couple of books that do this: How to Invent Everything, and How Rebuild Civilization.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I don't know why they put just one zero in front of years. That just makes the clock slightly longer, and it's still insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

02023 in years only is good until 99999, then you'd need to prepend another zero.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's a constant symbolic reminder, and still a 10X scope increase.

If you want to be pedantic about making "the clock slightly longer", you might as well say "I don't see why they don't write their dates out in base 62. Then they could make the clock shorter by writing wD instead of 2023". The point is that everyone who sees "02023" can have a bit of an "oh shit" moment where they instantly understand what it means.

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