Ask HN: What content/knowledge is most important?

Re:Ask HN: What content/knowledge is most important? by prox on Thursday October 06, 2022 @11:07PM (#33116990)

Books on Fishing, Foraging, Farming, Carpentry, Mechanics, Electricity, Engineering,

Project Zomboid has taught me.

I would probably add a few compendiums on Computers/Computing, Philosophy, History of the World, Art, Geology and Astronomy.

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Re:Ask HN: What content/knowledge is most important? by gordon_freeman on Thursday October 06, 2022 @11:12PM (#33117014)

Good list. Reminds me of the plot from The Foundation book where Hari Seldon wants to build a library of all the knowledge that can help build a civilization from scratch.

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Re:Ask HN: What content/knowledge is most important? by prox on Thursday October 06, 2022 @11:18PM (#33117048)

Absolutely! Loved the series, probably good to add them if there was space. I’d probably skip over Religion thinking about it. No religious books and such and just a pretty formal description of the worlds religions that existed.

Instead adding a book on Ethics :) Not sure I know a good starter book on Ethics actually.

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Re:Ask HN: What content/knowledge is most important? by Wolfbeta on Friday October 07, 2022 @12:49AM (#33117562)

Plato's The Republic

King Fuzi's The Analects

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

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