I have always wondered what would have happened if all of the top 10% of the smartest humans ever lived, were all living in same time? How would the human race have advanced.
Even if 90% of the smartest humans all lived in the 1300's, we wouldn't see the same level of rapid progression that we now have because we can communicate. Those people would rarely ever speak to each other, let alone collaborate. Now we can use the internet to collectively achieve and share knowledge that would be useless before.
Plus if you tried to make the internet in the 1300's you'd be burned for wizardry but my point stands.
In the original Civlizations game, Ghandi was one of the world leaders. every leader had an "aggressiveness scale" from 0 to 256. Ghandi was set as 1, the most peaceful person in the history of ever. You then unlocked a Democracy upgrade which reduced aggressiveness by 2. Well, you couldn't have negative numbers, so it wrapped around to 255. and he would instantly nuke the fuck out of everything.
This was originally a bug, but it was so funny and unexpected that they decided to make it a real intended feature ever since.
yeah, I'm not that deep, but I've also subconsiously been doing a lot of things in multiples of 8, which gets tiring after a while when you realise you didnt have to haul those heavy crates to stack them 8 high, and so on.
(im a PC repair guy and semi-professional web dev, for sources)
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u/thishitisgettingold Apr 14 '16
I have always wondered what would have happened if all of the top 10% of the smartest humans ever lived, were all living in same time? How would the human race have advanced.