Really? Because it's already a huge gap. Ling Qi literally has to work an extra day every single week to even keep pace with Ji Rong (and if Ji Rong works all 7 days it is literally impossible for Ling Qi to keep up unless she can somehow out-resource Sun Liling which she can't). And Ling Qi will never be able to even hope to compete with a talent 9 under any circumstances unless they got to the end of white and stopped and waited for Ling Qi to catch up. A talent 9 could be so lazy they only work 4 days a week and "very talented" Ling Qi would still be unable to keep up even if she worked every single day of her life without burning out.The math of talent actually underestimates the the intended effect - the difference is supposed to be even larger than that in-story. We discussed changes to the formula to represent things better at the start of Threads, but everyone got sick of arguing about math so it never got implemented.
Imagine a magical library containing a copy of every piece of paper ever written or typed.
Sounds like yet another incompleteness theorem which shows up anywhere you try to have complete meta-knowledge.just a fun side note, borges wrote about this (sort of, his library was a library that included all possible text). such a library includes its own catalog, a catalog of all possible catalogs, the mathematical proof that the catalogs of the library and of catalogs are incomplete, the proof reasserting the catalog's completion...a cultivator library could get weird
I don't think I'd categorize this as "quite a bit". The vast majority of people visiting such a library would find such things worse then useless; their existence actively hinders the pursuit of knowledge. It might have some value to an archaeologist in the far future, perhaps - but by this same logic those archaeologists would also be interested in your household trash, and nobody considers it a tragedy when you throw that out to be disposed of.
As long as storage is cheap, that is a reasonable position to take. Keep everything, on the off-chance that you will need it. Might as well; not like it costs you anything meaningful.
In FoD, storage is NOT cheap. If you box up a of books in your basement for 500 years just in case someone wants to look at them, chances are spirit shenanigans will happen at some point. If you don't want that, you have to get an archivist to spend time making sure nothing goes wrong with the boxed-up books, and that either means you hire more archivists or pull some old ones away from what they would otherwise be doing. It is too expensive to keep a copy of everything forever; far more efficient to figure out what you need or are reasonably likely to need, and then appropriately dispose of the rest.
Sure, but Talent 9 are not born that way, really. If they are, they are the equivalent of 'the world has never before seen this'.Really? Because it's already a huge gap. Ling Qi literally has to work an extra day every single week to even keep pace with Ji Rong (and if Ji Rong works all 7 days it is literally impossible for Ling Qi to keep up unless she can somehow out-resource Sun Liling which she can't). And Ling Qi will never be able to even hope to compete with a talent 9 under any circumstances unless they got to the end of white and stopped and waited for Ling Qi to catch up. A talent 9 could be so lazy they only work 4 days a week and "very talented" Ling Qi would still be unable to keep up even if she worked every single day of her life without burning out.
It seems, to me, that the mathematics of talent are already incredibly steep. If they were any stronger Ling Qi would never have been able to defeat Ji Rong at the tournament. Even as they are now, it's questionable that she'll ever beat him again (except, of course, that she's the protagonist and he's the foil).
Not directly, its a consequence of other policies.
Plus, all those depictions of Bai aligned forces doing horrible things to the barbarians that came out of the jungle are super awkward now that the Western Territories are part of the Empire. Why, that sort of record would acknowledge a long standing grudge between two provinces of the Empire, and therefore potentially give face to some form of open civil war.I reckon all those paintings of glorious civil war are now unacceptable because We Have Always Been At Peace
Yes; that is why I brought it up. Household trash is an excellent example of something that archaeologists care about but contemporary people freely dispose of in massive quantities.So a few things: First is that archaeologist are very interested in what people throw away.
That is unsurprising. Book burning IRL has a strong stigma associated with it, so it makes sense that we would use other means to dispose of books. It also makes sense that if the books can be given away rather than thrown away, that is something appropriate to do.If a library can no longer afford or has space to store books then they often have a book sale to move some of the books they no longer need into private libraries. Then the rest often go to a a larger library. If the absolute worst happens (I have never heard of this happening to any libraries connected to the one I worked at) then they might be sent to special storage units which are essentially landfills for books. This doesn't happen often and it is very different from book burning which is happening in the update.
Bigger != Better. A big library filled with junk plus a few gems is probably less attractive than a smaller library with just the gems.Another thing to remember is that this is a feudal society where reputation of the clan is a big deal. One of the big rep boosters is the size of the clans library.
I mean, we have in-character (literal) word of god that that is happening, so I'm certainly not to dispute that fact. What I do dispute is that having more information is always better. Having bad information mixed in with the good dilutes and diminishes the over quality of what you have collected. Pruning the info you have is useful for the same reasons pruning a tree is useful: it keep nutrients (time & attention) flowing to healthy regions, and prevents parasites and decay (misunderstandings) from infecting you via the unhealthy ones.What is happening in the update is the destruction of books for censorship purposes. I am and will always be against the destruction of books for censorship purposes.