It would be interesting to see a way to scale up production to produce more than just a couple of meals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1ajkzVf-VM
.. using the same (or similarly 'primative') technique.
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#32> This form of farming is a good way to get around the conventional farming practice of clearing trees to make fields. Yeah, you harvested two yams (less than a day's calories) over a six month period. That doesn't scale up the way modern farming practices do.
the primitive tech blogger guy is not trying to live off the land. he just have a Survivor/Bigbrother kinda of tv show for survival nerds. he probably live off the proceeds of paracord bracelets and pocket knife banners :)
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#33I clicked this fully expecting "yam", "cultivate" and "cook" to be archaic Unix tools. Instead I got this. Such a happy surprise.
If we anything they'd be named something like "ym", "cv", or "ck" if they were Unix tools. I was expecting a new set of JavaScript libraries.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Humans have always had the same/similar capacity for intelligence, but the modern world creates people with IQs significantly higher than the median would have been only 150 years ago.
Because IQ is a measure of abstract analytical and pattern-matching intelligence, our economic shift towards more analytical/intelligence-driven work causes us to practice those skills more. I could say that FQ (factory-production quotient) has decreased over the last 150 years, but that doesn't mean that people are more or less intelligent, only that they practice different things.
It's interesting how this simple truth is not obvious to most people, and we somehow think that people with skills or knowledge have some special quality we don't, when really they're just experienced.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are yams ever tasty plainly roasted? Most people wouldn't enjoy eating a plain baked potato. Some salt, paprika, and butter makes a world of difference.
Paprika on a yam? Yeah, yams are unbelievably sweet when exposed to direct fire, like candy sweet. But I'm talking about the Garnet and Japanese varieties, this might just be a less cultivated specie he found locally and just went with it.
Paprika on everything
But I was referring to plain potatoes, I've never had a real Yam, my understanding is that sweet potatoes are not the same thing.
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#37> This form of farming is a good way to get around the conventional farming practice of clearing trees to make fields. Yeah, you harvested two yams (less than a day's calories) over a six month period. That doesn't scale up the way modern farming practices do.
the primitive tech blogger guy is not trying to live off the land. he just have a Survivor/Bigbrother kinda of tv show for survival nerds. he probably live off the proceeds of paracord bracelets and pocket knife banners :)
Again, I was commenting specifically on this claim:
> This form of farming is a good way to get around the conventional farming practice of clearing trees to make fields.
It's not a good form of farming, because it's both low density and expensive.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Humans have always had the same/similar capacity for intelligence, but the modern world creates people with IQs significantly higher than the median would have been only 150 years ago.
Because IQ is a measure of abstract analytical and pattern-matching intelligence, our economic shift towards more analytical/intelligence-driven work causes us to practice those skills more. I could say that FQ (factory-production quotient) has decreased over the last 150 years, but that doesn't mean that people are more or less intelligent, only that they practice different things.
I think, if I'm practicing the principle of charity, the GP meant the difference in nutrition and sanitation standards, i.e. general health, rather than some sort of "now is the pinnacle of humanity" sense.
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#39This is probably my favorite youtube channel.
Buy him a coffee each time he releases a video: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2945881 (I have no particular connection to the channel or Patreon, I just like that I can support this channel because I also love it!)
Man I love that Patreon exists. Just by the collective weight of $1-2 donations, this guy can support himself just by making these videos. $6k per video isn't amazing, but it ain't too shabby either.
We live in wondrous times.
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#40This is probably my favorite youtube channel.
Survival Skills Primitive is a very similar channel (not as high quality, but more quantity) that has some interesting videos.
It wasn't until I cared to look that I found that there's an entire cottage industry of people making similar videos. I wish there was time to watch them all.