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Re:Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve? by jeffreyrogers on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:58AM (#23792855)
I believe this was the goal of some French Enlightenment philosophers like Denis Diderot[0] and others who worked on the Encyclopédie[1]. Definitely a worthwhile project. One problem you will have to find a solution to is how to adequately explain things that require tacit-knowledge (e.g. it's not enough just to know chemistry, you also have to know how to do it, which requires physical practice, not just book learning).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A9die

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