sketerpot comments on Open Thread: October 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CannibalSmith 01 October 2009 03:24:55PM *  9 points [-]

So, I'm reading A Fire Upon The Deep. It features books that instruct you how to speedrun your technological progress all the way from sticks and stones to interstellar space flight. Does anything like that exist in reality? If not, it's high time we start a project to make one.

Edit (10 October 2009): This is encouraging.

Comment author: sketerpot 04 October 2009 06:18:32PM *  1 point [-]

There's a time-traveler's cheat sheet that covers a lot of the basics. (Credit goes to Ryan North. )

Comment author: CannibalSmith 04 October 2009 11:26:18PM 0 points [-]

TAKE THE CREDIT

Comment author: ata 05 October 2009 12:36:55AM 1 point [-]

I'm going to go back in time and take credit for that cheat sheet.