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0 pointsvinceguidry9y ago0 comments

A colony could stockpile food for the interrim period where the backup could be trained up.

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throwanem9y ago· 2 in thread

Trained up by whom? All that's left of the colony's institutional knowledge on the subject of provisioning is an owl pellet's worth of tiny bones and hair.

vinceguidryOP9y ago

With immortality, institutional knowledge doesn't have to go away. Everybody can know everything, and the specialist that has all the experience dies, then a new one can just be selected, and the whole colony can pick up the slack until the new specialist is experienced enough to do it all himself.

Everybody becomes T-shaped.

throwanem9y ago

So immortality implies perfect recall, such that skills not exercised cease to grow rusty and fade with time?

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