Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Mar 11, 2021If you had to create a modern 5 category exhaustive folksonomy of ALL materials, like the earth-fire-water-wind-ether of the alchemists, what would your 5 base classes be? Should cover all familiar modern materials.67764
Brian Skinner@gravity_levity·Mar 11, 2021Replying to @gravity_levity and @vgrthen combine them like pokemon: glass = water+rock mylar = metal+plastic grass = water+wood etc.29
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @gravity_levityThis is promising. Can you get to foods and pharmaceutical drugs from this ontology 🤔12:38 AM · Mar 11, 20213 Likes
Mastro Pipetta@nilaRdivaD·Mar 11, 2021Replying to @vgr and @gravity_levityNot a dig but I don't think we can even get to ethanol or any other solvent. Not without a lot of chemistry.3