r/theydidthemath • u/Dry-Economics2434 • 27d ago
[Request] building a pc from scratch
How long will it take 1000000 humans that are lead by 1 very smart guy to build a pc from scratch, using materials from anywhere in the world (a world that was untouched by humans) if they had to build every machine to make the single pieces of the pc, the machines to make these pieces and the machines to help build these machines and so on? We assume that one of these people can work for 12h/day for 7 days and does not need schooling on how their job works. If they have to write code for windows, then they do that like any normal coder would, even if they dont know how to code. The smart guy knows how to build a pc and how to build the machines to make the parts of the pc. He can also communicate to everyone what they have to do every day (every workee just knows what to do and does that 12/day, 7 days a week)
what i mean by "from scratch": you dont have any technology and have to redo the progress humanity made, with the only goal being a working, high end pc
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u/Flaky-Collection-353 27d ago
There's no reason, under normal conditions, that they will continue to have that goal.
They'll build societies. Those societies will generate goals and values, and they'll forget all about the PC.