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The Knowledge was nice, but I found Ryan North's book to be much better, at least as a book. Far funnier, with a very nice through line of laughing at how slow
by edanm 2y ago
The Knowledge was nice, but I found Ryan North's book to be much better, at least as a book. Far funnier, with a very nice through line of laughing at how slow humans were to come up with some pretty obvious ideas. (Often, humanity invented something as a toy before realizing, a hundred+ years later, that it could be used for real.)
- tptacek 2y agoI like The Knowledge the same way I like the US version of "The Office", in that any time I just want something on so I can shift my brain off whatever it's jammed up on, I can start it up at any point in the middle and just play it (the audiobook, of course). I don't know that I thought it was a great book, but it was a book-length description of a version of Dwarf Fortress I would definitely play. :) The Knowledge also works with a slightly different set of constraints, in that it's explicitly about rebooting --- that takes a lot of fossil fuel options off the table, for instance, because all the easy-to-get coal and oil has been taken.