• aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works
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    7 hours ago

    Develop whatever language exists, find methods of timekeeping and recording history. I vaguely remember something about the first humans getting eaten a lot so maybe my priorities are in the wrong place

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    Main question is do I have modern knowledge or not?

    If yes - then apply everything I know from primitive technology and education. Will try to reach some level of progress, probably will be able to get to steam machines and telegraph in one lifetime.

    If no - then will be just strolling with everyone and enjoying nature as usual.

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    I’m not sure that you meant born because everyone is taking it too literally and it doesn’t help make a decent question.

    Document everything I can think of for future people and put it in a place that someone will find out but is not that open to be degradation.

    I know how impossible this sounds.

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    Look around for some andesite, granite, or flint, and copper. Use those to make tools. Instantly get promoted to the top of the human monkey group because I “know magic” of fire and stone. I’m an apprentice smith.

    Probably spend the rest of my life making one of those Roman 12 sided smithing test things that historians can’t figure out what it is.

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    Not sure how accurate my memory of the modern world map would be for that far back but depending on “where I spawned in” I would try and migrate to like ideal farmland or somewhere I know is good to build up.

    If I was near Iberia I’d probably try for Cordoba… Western America, I’d go for San Francisco or anywhere near Lake Tulare… I’m sure there’s more than I am remembering right now.

    I wouldn’t have to worry about organized religion having immense crusades and could carve out a little kingdom.

    Try to make a modest “fortress” out of ashlar blocks or anything I can make primitively. Try to find a way to record as much “hints” towards technological progress for my descendants to follow.

    Fertilizer, Germs, Animal Husbandry, Public Works (Dams), Canning, Gunpowder (not idea of gun just explosives, but they’ll probably weaponize it), steam power, oil, electricity, refrigeratation, concept of computers.

    It’ll probably just have to be drawings but if I can find a cool gal and learn her language enough to roll with it then it’ll just have to be that, No point in writing it in English.

    If I can actually get to the point of building a steam/wobbler engine that would probably be my life goal.

    Throw in ancient technologies that are cool like Yakchals(?) and what not to actually survive to that point.

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    2 days ago

    Find other humans and try to kill them all. Then kill self. Earth breathes a sigh of relief!

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      2 days ago

      Wait no ! once you’ve killed everybody else you can live out the rest of your life knowing you cannot reproduce.

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    2 days ago

    Survive, get that weird fruit and have sex.

    And to go to “there”, it seems nice “there”, why shouldn’t we go “there”? It doesn’t have other people “there”.

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      People long ago are not that different from us, like people from the middle ages, they acted like us now because they ARE like us now.

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        There’s no real evidence that people are smarter today than they were 5000 years or so ago. We just have more knowledge/technology.

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      2 days ago

      That would require some knowledge that they couldn’t get (people can’t think things that they don’t know the basics of, like a different colour). Rolling rocks and fire would be on that age.

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        No, it would require usefullness compared to cost.
        How are you going to use the wheel when there are no combustion engines, no roads or even domesticated horses?