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by AlanSE 1688 days ago
You might not do great to start with computers, and instead, do better to start from the dawn of civilization.

https://www.howtoinventeverything.com/

What I got from this is that I could make homemade coal by myself, MAYBE. I don't know if there's any climate on Earth where I could eek out a net energy return on primitive crops. If there was no one telling me what to do, I would surely starve in early agricultural times. But hey, that's what the Pharaoh's for, amirite?

Basic bronze tools are a mind-numbing mess to mentally process.

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You might like this video "I tried blacksmithing and only got slightly burned": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2HUg144liM

https://bootstrapping.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page also feels relevant

It's interesting to imagine the human experience of reality when living in such times.