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well yeah this is not itself the product, this is a demonstration of the need Obsidian/etc really isn't it either, though; clearly OP wants to be able to do ca
by sixo 1y ago
well yeah this is not itself the product, this is a demonstration of the need
Obsidian/etc really isn't it either, though; clearly OP wants to be able to do calculations with this stuff. They want both the knowledge graph AND an executable code environment. (I imagine Emacs can do both.)
But think more broadly. Imagine just
```
import <established knowledge>.anatomy
import <established knowledge>.high_energy_physics
import <established knowledge>.microeconomics
...
```
into a notebook-like environment, with good intellisense and completions. But not quite as a programming language—somewhere between that and a wiki.
- sixo 1y agoSimilar: for years I've been lugging around the idea of making a game like Civilization but where all of the different theories of history can be turned on/off as modules. Maybe going back to prehistory: - did fire lead to cooking lead to big brains lead to tools lead to agriculture? - or was it ice ages ending that lead to agriculture? - or did oxygen levels change leading to more efficient brains? - or were we Born to Run? - or did women's hips change shapes to allow bigger brains? - or perhaps 2001: A Space Odyssey occurred as written - or Ancient Aliens... Repeat for every other highly-debated period of history. Somehow having all of these in the same modular system feels like it would metabolize them in a way that reading a bunch of separate theories can't really do. Same for OP's anatomy.
- pagekicker 1y agolike this idea. Add "tech trees": path dependence can be arbitrary. What if we kept going with vacuum tubes/no transistors?