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That's a good consideration, and any such document must display ample humility. Today, we could fill several volumes with "This is what we know we got wrong, t
by klyrs 4y ago
That's a good consideration, and any such document must display ample humility. Today, we could fill several volumes with "This is what we know we got wrong, this is how we might have avoided it."
Alternatively, hook the reader with the power of the nuclear weaponry, and write with an unironic lack of self awareness. Trust the reader to read between the lines. What could possibly go wrong?
- andrewla 4y agoDo we, though, know what we got wrong? In the hypothetical, our civilization has failed and a new group is trying to use this manual to start up civilization again. Who is to say that one of the things that we think we got wrong would, in fact, have saved our civilization? To put it differently [1]: > Who wants a how-to manual from a failed civilizations? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32638385 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32638385
- klyrs 4y agoWe know some things that we got wrong. We saw climate change coming, generations ahead. Could a time traveller change a damned thing? Probably not! Unless they had some brilliant tech, say,chemistry for excellent batteries and solar panels that could have been made with 50s tech -- that might have put us on a different trajectory altogether.