How were the pyramids built? People have been wrestling with this for a long time, but the reason we can't figure it out is not because of the people who built it but because of the people who are trying to figure it out, us.
The pyramids were built by smart people who had no constraints when it came to human capital, monetary capital, time or safety. When you put all of those aside it's fairly simple. You move giant stones however you can, even if it takes a year, even if it kills a thousand people.
Imagine showing a professor at Cambridge in 1850 a printed version of Wikipedia. Just for reference, if you did print Wikipedia it would be just shy of seventeen hundred bound books. He would solve the problem by probably starting a college, getting a couple thousand students, each who was a specialist in any number of fields and asking them to start doing research and writing papers. It would cost an arm and a leg and would take years. We did it with just a little time, from twenty million people, effectively for free.
Maybe you have unlimited man hours, or maybe you aren't allowed to kill a thousand workers (hopefully, but as recently as the Hoover Dam, rail system and Golden Gate Bridge we did not count human lives as too much of a cost for completion).
When trying to fix a problem, make sure to ask who is fixing the problem not just what problem is being fixed. How do you fix problems? Now, what problem needs to be fixed?
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