Right, but there are certainly going to be a ceiling to how far one can go. With...

		EasyMark on June 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological k... Right, but there are certainly going to be a ceiling to how far one can go. With writing it can be copied nearly verbatim and kept for centuries whereas the human mind is brittle and forgets, fuzzes, and randomly changes knowledge, it can contain only so much data.

That ceiling is pretty high above 18 steps for flint knapping.