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I'm not sure that's correct. Wikipedia contains detailed articles on many very obscure subjects. Searching for such topics on YouTube usually gives disappointin
by Houshalter 11y ago
I'm not sure that's correct. Wikipedia contains detailed articles on many very obscure subjects. Searching for such topics on YouTube usually gives disappointing results.
Wikipedia is missing some material though. A better choice might be the google book project or libgen, which contains a ton of obscure books and scientific papers. But compressing it all to 20 GB would be difficult or impossible. Much easier than compressing Youtube though.
- sparkzilla 11y agoThat's my point: They're assuming the aliens want to know about detailed, encyclopedic subjects. But what if they just want to know about Kim Kardashian?
- morgante 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Kardashian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Kardashian That's more than anyone ever needs to know about Kim Kardashian.
- notahacker 11y agoVideo broadcasts of humans being human conveys a lot more information than a written language they don't understand (they may not even have the concept of a written language) and don't have any reference points to. Admittedly, with YouTube they might get the idea that humans communicate with each other mainly via the medium of song and that cats are sacred, but at least they'd learn something