Dath ilan didn't say it was easy to teach it to five-year-olds.  Civilization is staring at that problem and optimizing it roughly as hard as Civilization ever optimizes anything.

Dath ilan didn't say it was easy to teach it to five-year-olds.  Civilization is staring at that problem and optimizing it roughly as hard as Civilization ever optimizes anything.

Figuring out how to have logarithms be fun to learn about starting one month earlier on maturation timelines is a perfectly respectable accomplishment for a +5sd researcher's entire life's work, and would get anyone well into the 'more money than one person can reasonably spend on themselves' category of rich.

Dath ilan didn't say it was easy to teach it to five-year-olds.  Civilization is staring at that problem and optimizing it roughly as hard as Civilization ever optimizes anything.

Figuring out how to have logarithms be fun to learn about starting one month earlier on maturation timelines is a perfectly respectable accomplishment for a +5sd researcher's entire life's work.  If any single individual made a discovery like that singlehandedly, it would get them well into the 'more money than one person can reasonably spend on themselves' category of rich.

Dath ilan didn't say it was easy to teach it to five-year-olds.  Civilization is staring at that problem and optimizing it roughly as hard as Civilization ever optimizes anything.

Figuring out how to have logarithms be fun to learn about starting one month earlier on maturation timelines is a perfectly respectable accomplishment for a +4sd researcher's entire life's work.  If any single individual made a discovery like that singlehandedly, it would get them well into the 'more money than one person can reasonably spend on themselves' category of rich.