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which books are the 'ancient wisdom' that serves the humanity the best?

feeding an llm with the ancient, constant, unchanging wisdom should be done earlier than recent, changing knowledge and information. the amount of wisdom from those books should be high because they are time tested and timeless.

since the timeless books worked for centuries listening to them should continue to work. this is mostly for using limited resources the best way but it might be also about the learning rate. ancient wisdom that worked for centuries could get a higher learning rate compared to rather recent books..

example: instead of going with the latest guidelines on health, we should read centuries old books to find health advice..

which books served humans the best way and the longest?

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Low Information Voter 1y ago

Have you ever read Nicholas Nassim Taleb's "The Black Swan"?

He makes this exact same point, that the books (and technologies) most likely to stay in use in the future are those that have already served many centuries in the past.

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someone 1y ago

yes, that was my thinking!

i read the 'skin in the game' and i liked it.

there is a rule somewhere in math that says 'if you can't estimate life of a thing just assume it will be equal to the age of the thing'.