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qbiliuson Ask HN: How many dependencies does manufacturing a light switch have?

This is exactly what I wanted to see. And it's wild! Consider the fact the you need sugar cane to produce a mouse. Or that there are at least 20 different raw materials and layers upon layers of intermediaries required to produce a mouse.

qbiliuson Ask HN: How many dependencies does manufacturing a light switch have?

Cool! This project also had a link to an essay "I, Pencil" [0] on the difficulty of producing a pencil (discussed on HN previously as well [1]). That HN discussion also had a link to the Open Source Ecology project [2] that seems somewhat relevant as well.

[0] https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13016980

[2] https://wiki.opensourceecology.org

qbiliuson Google DeepMind Founder Demis Hassabis: Three Truths about AI

What would be a good starting point for digging into that 80s stuff, in your opinion?