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They will need to feed this into some AI to understand the ancient language. Hopefully they will know who Einstein was!

eddtries 3y ago
We know of Egyptian doctors by name from a similar timeframe away in the past, so I assume they very well will! Especially because we’re better at archiving stuff deliberately now. For example Imhotep and Hesy-ra are both a doctor and dentist from over 4500 years ago
- unsupp0rted 3y ago
  We’re much worse at archiving stuff now. We don’t spend the lives of slaves to carve data into rock anymore.
  - csomar 3y ago
    The irony is, we can do much better today and at scale too. Without the need of any slaves or dangerous labor. It's just it costs a bit, and god forbid someone misses the next quarterly goals.
- benj111 3y ago
  but theres 1000s of doctors and dentists that we don't know the names of. they might be aware of Dr Joe Bloggs in 6939, just because he carved his name in some rock, that doesn't imply they will have a deep knowledge of our famous scientists.
- coldtea 3y ago
  >we’re better at archiving stuff deliberately now. Are we? You can't beat pyramids and Rosetta stones for long term endurance AND easy access. Surely not with any digital media we have now, and if there's something like "Fall of Rome" collapse and loss of techniques and high end manufacturing because of some global war, climate change, comet, or something like that in the 4000 years until then, we might not even be able to read the stuff that did survive.
  - Aeolun 3y ago
    As chronicled in ‘A Canticle for Leibowitz’
- bobsmooth 3y ago
  "Internet Atrocity! GeoCities' Demise Erases Web History" https://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1936645,00.html https://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,193664...
mdp2021 3y ago
> feed this into some AI Einstein: "We hope future societies will achieve widely distributed heightened intelligence. It is a quality we see today in inventive, active minds"...
- quickthrower2 3y ago
  “society.tf”
karaterobot 3y ago
> “If we are remembered at all, it will be as the contemporaries of Herodotus and Mark Twain.” (Gene Wolfe)

We know of Egyptian doctors by name from a similar timeframe away in the past, so I assume they very well will! Especially because we’re better at archiving stuff deliberately now. For example Imhotep and Hesy-ra are both a doctor and dentist from over 4500 years ago

unsupp0rted 3y ago
We’re much worse at archiving stuff now. We don’t spend the lives of slaves to carve data into rock anymore.
- csomar 3y ago
  The irony is, we can do much better today and at scale too. Without the need of any slaves or dangerous labor. It's just it costs a bit, and god forbid someone misses the next quarterly goals.
benj111 3y ago
but theres 1000s of doctors and dentists that we don't know the names of. they might be aware of Dr Joe Bloggs in 6939, just because he carved his name in some rock, that doesn't imply they will have a deep knowledge of our famous scientists.
coldtea 3y ago
>we’re better at archiving stuff deliberately now. Are we? You can't beat pyramids and Rosetta stones for long term endurance AND easy access. Surely not with any digital media we have now, and if there's something like "Fall of Rome" collapse and loss of techniques and high end manufacturing because of some global war, climate change, comet, or something like that in the 4000 years until then, we might not even be able to read the stuff that did survive.
- Aeolun 3y ago
  As chronicled in ‘A Canticle for Leibowitz’
bobsmooth 3y ago
"Internet Atrocity! GeoCities' Demise Erases Web History" https://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1936645,00.html https://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,193664...

mdp2021 3y ago

> feed this into some AI Einstein: "We hope future societies will achieve widely distributed heightened intelligence. It is a quality we see today in inventive, active minds"...

quickthrower2 3y ago
“society.tf”

karaterobot 3y ago

> “If we are remembered at all, it will be as the contemporaries of Herodotus and Mark Twain.” (Gene Wolfe)