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You are extremely too optimistic about your personal ability to move technical progress forward. The amount of technological knowledge our civilization carries
by dennisgorelik 14y ago
You are extremely too optimistic about your personal ability to move technical progress forward.
The amount of technological knowledge our civilization carries is enormous, and even if you are extremely knowledgeable, you are unlikely to know even 1% of it.
So yes, you would be able to move civilization forward in the magnitude of a few months. But that's about it.
- dllthomas 14y agoObviously, it's not something we can really test... However, I do think you are severely underestimating the benefits, for technological progress, of: 1) Knowing that things are possible, 2) knowing approximately where to look, and 3) having a large (and growing) pile of resources to put behind these things.