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>We can read Egyptian hieroglyphics. Only because we found like one stone hundreds of years ago, if that was not the case we probably could not have done it.
by peterpost2 3y ago
>We can read Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Only because we found like one stone hundreds of years ago, if
that was not the case we probably could not have done it.
>Anything written in simple English will be understandable even by an alien species in 100,000 years.
[Citation needed] This seems like quite an assumption.
Anyhow, the situation he sketched was that some random guy develops a fields with cylinders 300 years from now, how reasonable is it that he somehow understand the language or goes through the effort to translate it? I would wager pretty slim, I can barely understand text in my own language from 100 years ago.
- YuccaGloriosa 3y agoI think the best thing we can do is bury all the nuclear waste. And to avoid any future generation excavating it, mark it's location, and to stand the test of time, build a massive stone pyramid on top of it. In 5000 years people will be able to figure that out.
- sneak 3y agoSurely nobody would dig under a 10ky-old massive stone pyramid out of curiosity.
- viraptor 3y ago> This seems like quite an assumption. The issue with hieroglyphics is that we only had a relatively small sample. If full books remain, it's going to be much easier to recover meaning from scratch. It's very close to what we already do with LLMs.
- flangola7 3y agoWhat books last 10000 years? What writing is performed today on a medium that will last that long? No one is carving into clay any more
- viraptor 3y agoThe one in text files. Data is already extremely cheap and there are many horders and archivists. I would bet that if advanced civilisation still exists in 10,000 years, they'll have an archived version of Wikipedia from around this century. (And probably quite a few weirdos will still keep replicating the bible)
- ben_w 3y agoWe have no way to know, either way, what humanity will look like 10k years from now. We might have disassembled every planet within a few thousand light years to englobe each corresponding star within a Dyson swarm. We might have suffered a cataclysm that almost wiped us out, and have only just returned to the equivalent of the early industrial age, and the occasional remaining patch of carved rock writing from our time is as unreadable to those living in that new world as ππ ππ π πππ π πππππ ππ π πππππ πππ π πππππ π π πππππ ππ πππ ππ ππ ππ πππ π ππ ππ π ππππππ is to us.