You can ask any question to the people of year 3000, but can only receive information in the form of a single bit. What's your question?

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s actually a way to make a question so that you can receive 3 possible answers

  0, 1, or [No Response]

  Or depend on how soon they have to send the answer, more info can be replayed if the the bit was sent to 1PM and it can mean a different meaning if that same bit was sent to 5PM

  So you can actually just write one LONG quesrion that list out a bunch of answers like a multiple choice question:

  If answer is [Response A], send “0” to 1PM, if answer is [Response B], send “1” to 1PM, if answer is [Response C], send “0” to 2PM, if answer is [Response D], send “1” to 2PM, if no response, we’ll assume ur dead, from the options aforementioned, What [Question Here]?

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  • Ediacarium@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Once you’re able to use time as an information, they can send a message with a character limit. For every letter they need to wait:

    Remaining Message Length^Alphabet Size*Index of Letter*time interval

    So, if future people want to sent the message hello and our time unit is 1s, and the max message length is 5, they need to send the bit to exactly 26^4*7+26^3*4+26^2*11+26^1*11+26^0*14=3276872 seconds or 54614,5333min or 910,242222h or ~38 days after the start time.

    We can choose smaller time intervals, but with a long enough message, we’ll eventually reach the year 3000 again. Alternatively, we can move the start time into the past, at the expense of quite a few possible messages.

    This is effectively the same problem as trying to map an n-dimensional array to a one dimensional array.

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    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nah, “aaaaa”, “bbbbb”, and “zzzzz” doesn’t need to be one of the “multiple choices”

      Don’t spell each letter of each word, just use words to “spell out” the sentence instead.

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    • bacon_pdp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wrong. Assuming 6bit and one bit per minute; a 3 char start and stop sequence. 1024 character message could be sent per 4.3 days. Or a faster response time than my ex.

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  • Aatube@thriv.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    that’s more than one bit, though, which is part of the question’s constraints. In practice that means [No response] would be the same as indicating 0 or even 1 and they cannot convey additional information by controlling for time of receipt, likely because they can’t control time of receipt

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    if no response, we’ll assume ur dead

    And there was no response, for Ur - the city - died millennia ago. If only Skippy had stayed in school.

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    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      yo dawg, dis iz how we gen z txt to ech oder k?

      probem? catch me outsid how 'bou dat?

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• ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If we’re talking binary…

  Image

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  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The options are ‘yes’ and ‘double yes’.

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• mech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What’s your favorite comedy bit?

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  • garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In the year 3000, comedy has reverted back to the year 2000. What is this, a year for ants??

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• Photonic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is my great-great-great granddaughter pretty fine?

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  • Test_Tickles@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And that’s how we found Trump’s Lemmy account.

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    • Ediacarium@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      busted

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  • Thorry@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not much has changed, but we live under water

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  • aarRJaay@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thank you for saving me the effort of putting that and not knowing how well it would go down. Do Americans know of Busted?

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• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  U good?

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  • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The annoying thing is we won’t be able to know if we can trust the answer. I f you’d ask now there’s also people who’d say yes.

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    • electrotabby@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m good.

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• NABDad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think the sub you’re looking for is “casualconversation”

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• Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Are we on the right track with physics right now? 1 for yes; 0 for throw it all away and start as fresh as possible.

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• suff@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Do you send 1 for No?”

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Clop clop

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• lemming@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  asklemmy@lemmy.world
  asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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  • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    ‘!’ and the first few letters of the community name should give you a list to choose from. Comes out like !asklemmy@lemmy.world.

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    • lemming@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sweet, thanking you!

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• Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Does humanity solve the climate crisis

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  • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No response.

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  • Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think we already know the answer to that one.

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• Sharkticon@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Did we ever defeat fascism?

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  • jnod4@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Year 3000, every single human is born from a biological reactor, they’re genetically modified to be subservient and strong and infertile. Everyone on earth serves and praises the few remaining masterminds who locked their brains in jars, kept alive by nutrient tubes

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  • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No. Here, I saved you your question, you get to ask something else.

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• W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  u up?

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• PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Assuming quantum computing has finally delivered on its promises by that time, how would I interpret that single bit?

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Put it in a box with a cat, a vial of poison and a decay timer that releases the poison. Obviously.

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• dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is human-made climate change an existential crisis?

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Eithet 0 or 0 because we’ve already been told they exist

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• limpatzk@bookwyr.me ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is planet earth still liveable?

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• theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Aliens?

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• Admetus@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  0?

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• finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How the fuck are humans still alive?

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  • turboSnail@piefed.europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’re just backup copies hosted in the galactic museum. There’s no way a species that stupid would survive long enough to invent FTL travel. Just surviving the nuclear era was a borderline miracle.

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    • murmelade@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Way out in space, two aliens are watching Earth and talking to each other.

      The first alien says, “The dominant life forms on the Earth planet have developed satellite-based nuclear weapons.”

      The second alien asks, “Are they an emerging intelligence?”

      The first alien says, “I don’t think so, they have them aimed at themselves.”

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• fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty.

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• Cantaloupe877@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is life worth living?

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• Darkness343@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Are we still alone? 1 for no, the xenos are out there. 0 for yes, we killed them all.

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• paper_moon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6N7hZ4DPdY

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