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by Aheinemann 4261 days ago
areas to cover:

do not kill each other, do not fight each other. Things are already bad enough. Because that one fails we gonna start at square one.

Leave the water, land is kinda ok.

language as ability to communicate to each other

teaching as transfer of knowledge between individuals

written language as conversation / fixation of knowledge

fire, the wheel

agriculture cultivation and crossbreeding, fertilizer and plowing

domestication of animals, breeding

scientific method: logic axioms, proof by induction, theory must be falsifiable by repeatable experiment, basic algorithms of computer science

scientific knowledge: math, physics, chemistry

medicine & hygiene

engineering how to build basic machines

social and cultural foundations:

there is no benevolent dictator,

most likely i am not right and don't have ultimate wisdom,

i do not know what the one true religion is,

to much power in to few hands is very very bad,

the people who claim to have the answers are the dangerous ones

my enemies enemy is not my friend but a tool which might trouble me in the future

things we really messed up: when, why, how and how to avoid next time

would have been nice had the dinosaurs taken the time to leave us a couple notes...

So, how to communicate our knowledge to the roaches, our heirs ?