(I couldn’t find a sub for hypotethical questions…)
“Do you send 1 for No?”
Clop clop
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.
Did we ever defeat fascism?
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
No. Here, I saved you your question, you get to ask something else.
We’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty.
Is life worth living?
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 relayed… i mean 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]?
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.
yo dawg, dis iz how we gen z txt to ech oder k?
probem? catch me outsid how 'bou dat?
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
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 intervalSo, if future people want to sent the message
helloand our time unit is 1s, and the max message length is 5, they need to send the bit to exactly26^4*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 the same problem as trying to map an n-dimensional array to a one dimensional array
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.
If you’re not asking about anything that we currently don’t have a word for, we can use words as the alphabet, sure.
We then need to transmit a list of words, they’re allowed to use, otherwise our count is off, because I’m sure that 974 years from now english won’t be the same, as it is today. They’ll have a lot more skibid rizz than we do now.
use Chinese xD
logographic languages tend to last longer, especially now all the characters are digitized.
A “Computer” didn’t exist in ancient times, but they still used words that have always existed to create new compound words: 电脑 (“Electric” + “Brain”). Airplanes didn’t exist but they still came up with the word 飞机 (“Flying” + “Machine”)
Wrong. Assuming 6bit encoding 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.
You can’t send bits at a constant rate in this case. You essentialy get to send one very large number, the amount of time since your decided starting time (plus the one bit we were actually intended to use). The bit count grows logarithmicly with time
Thus, the amount of bits n you can send over t time steps would be
n = log(t)/log(2) + 1
As an example, say they wait 8 seconds before sending you a 1. You have received the number 1000 and the bit 1. That’s a total of 5 bits.
If they choose to wait twice as long, 16 seconds, they have in effect transmitted the numbers 10000 and one additional bit, a total of 6 bits. Double the time but only one additional bit.
If we’re talking binary, the most common response will likely be…
The options are ‘yes’ and ‘double yes’.
I think the sub you’re looking for is “casualconversation”
Assuming quantum computing has finally delivered on its promises by that time, how would I interpret that single bit?
Put it in a box with a cat, a vial of poison and a decay timer that releases the poison. Obviously.
Edit: Just what is this downvote supposed to mean? Someone get me a box.
What’s your favorite comedy bit?
In the year 3000, comedy has reverted back to the year 2000. What is this, a year for ants??
Is my great-great-great granddaughter pretty fine?
And that’s how we found Trump’s Lemmy account.
Not much has changed, but we live under water
Thank you for saving me the effort of putting that and not knowing how well it would go down. Do Americans know of Busted?
Is planet earth still liveable?
Is human-made climate change an existential crisis?
Eithet 0 or 0 because we’ve already been told they exist
U good?
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.
I’m good.
!asklemmy@lemmy.world
!asklemmy@lemmy.ml (how do you link directly to comms?)‘!’ and the first few letters of the community name should give you a list to choose from. Comes out like !asklemmy@lemmy.world.
Sweet, thanking you!
