This would also be a fun Burning Man project. Spend the week trying to recreate a specific tech advance. Or a reality show - compete in challenges to move up the tech ladder. Over time, we'd learn the topology of the tech tree and how to "speed run" these upgrades.
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What I love about this concept is that what we'd be gamifying, glorifying, practicing & optimizing is not some pointless physical feat (sports) or bullshit virtual world (games) but rather the technological leaps on which our entire civilization is built.
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I want teenagers walking by parks, looking appreciatively, and saying "Wow, there's wood, clay, running water, you could totally do a Stone to Bronze leap with that. I saw SidMeierIRL do it in 6 days live on Twitch last week".
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It should be ok to use any tool you want, provided you can create a copy of this tool by the end.
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Huh. That's a different, also interesting challenge. I was mainly thinking about leveling up: how to use toolset X to get to X*. I guess I wanted to play at recapitulating progress. But, you're right, self-replication is a super-important game too.
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Awesome and very related! I was thinking less about "meet survival need X with tech set Y" (here X=shelter, Y=rocks), and more about "How to expand toolset X into significantly more capable adjacent toolset X*". The game I want to play is about moving up the tech ladder.
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If I had the money, I would do this as a research project. Buy up a large plot of land, and without using a single outside material, try to advance tech as far as possible.
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I would watch this reality show
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