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As a quick test, 300 words of "Lorem Ipsum" compresses down to about 900 bytes (using gzip).
So I've got about 300 or so words worth of storage, probably more of I get clever.
Now I can't natively decode gzip, but the header is unique enough that I'll figure out how to decode it pretty quickly.
That's more than enough to explain to myself what's going on, what I've tried and anything else I'd want to know.
If we add other people then that's basically infinite storage.
i could figure out when it loops because date is just a number... or two. easily stored.
after i know when it loops, time to start connecting to other people's storage. there's like 8.2 billion people so i can potentially get ~8tera of shared experiences. or kick ass days.
then it's time to hatch from the egg.
Assuming that I understand that I am able to carry this information over, I would just make a text file of library of Babel URLs.
With a single string, you can encode an entire page of data.
On that page of data, you can have strings that encode additional pages of data.
I would have an entire blog of posts to myself to read at every reboot.
Who did I sleep with? How much money did I win? What cool things happened? What things did I try to do?
I would also tell myself when a stunt might kill me, and if I don't update the document to say that I survived, then I would know in the future that that did kill me.
I’m confused, does this mean you would be immune to consequences? Like if you broke your arm the next time loop would magically fix it like nothing happened?
Yep.
You die, time just resets again, and you won't remember anything except the "strange txt file" that 1024KB in size that popped up in front of you on your Neuro-Computer implant when you wake up.
If it's just me; I'd increment it by one at the start of each loop. That is, I'd increment the underlying 8192-bit number that the 1024 bytes represents. On some loops this will form a coherent ASCII text, on most it'll be gibberish. But I have infinite retries and it doesn't bother me how many loops I go through. So there will be 2^8192 "initial states" it's in, or about 10^2467 different states in base ten. If anything is going to get me out of that time loop then I'll hit on it eventually.
If I see that the integer is maxed out, I think I won't overflow it back to 0 again. The whole point of this is to avoid trying exactly the same thing over and over again indefinitely. I think I'd have to resort to a leap of faith - that quantum effects are still random. I'd go to random.org and generate something bigger than 1024 bytes to use as "inspiration" instead. Maybe a megabyte? It'd have to be a lot bigger to be on the safe side, since this is the last resort.
A KiB is a shitton of information for what it is. I'd make sure to GZIP compress it, and keep things short, whatever it is. I'd probably include a very short sentence on what's going on, and how to stay safe.
A url to a page you can update between resets?
That
That won't work bro. The page gets reset. I guess URLs could work as a way to externalise information. Like link to the IMDB page of Groundhog day.
Library of Babel. Look it up. It contains every possible string of characters. Just link to the string that says what you want to say.
The link would be the length of the string that you're trying to store.
Only for the first word, but you don't have to include the full link every single time. Just the first part would have it and then swap out just the final bits at the end for however many words you want.
You're trying to get free entropy. Its not possible.
What?
I see, I missed where everything is reset and not just your memory
When I want to save more data, before end of the loop, I send it near mini black hole, and retrieve ultra compressed data, which will decompress in next loop.
Deceive yourself, Deceive the world.
El Psy Congroo
Is that enough data to encode "Don't believe his lies" next to an 8-bit icon that looks vaguely like Teddy?
Bytes? What even is a byte in a brain? How much information is that? I think if you said "a tweet of 250 characters", I could give you an answer, but 1024 bytes???
Oh, but having bytes opens up so many more possibilities. I'm working on a fun response to this... But it's going to be a bit long.
8192 "1"s or "0"s stored in your Neuro-Computer Implant which automatically converts to Human-Readable text via UTF-8.
TLDR: You have a .txt file in your brain with the max capacity of 1024 Bytes or 1024 characters if its the standard English Language and syntax.
Assuming standard data storage, you've got 1024 chars
If you do a 5 bit encoding (0-31) that's enough for the alphabet and numbers can overlap with letters like in braille, plus spaces. Thats around 1638 characters. Standard ascii is technically 7 bits and that would compress to 1170 characters without the initial 0
I think the question here is how much translation can be auto-done if you don't have any memory of it to begin with. If it takes you any significant amount of time, that's probably not worth it.
This question was probably asked by an AI trying to figure how to avoid being rebooted.
Um...
Beep Boop
I am not a robot 🤖
Robots cannot lie, it's in the Constitution of Robotics
Three Laws Safe™
I’d save a text file that says “be sure to change your underwear.”
The most detailed ASCII art of a dickbutt that I can create with 1024 characters. Like this lil' guy:
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I'm a little confused by the premise.
If my memory is completely wiped every loop, how would I even know about editing this "file", or have any purpose of doing so? The only way it'd work is if I'm given the information before the loop begins (so I always have the info, even after wipes), or at the beginning of every loop, both of which defeat the purpose of "you're in a time loop" messages.
What am I trying to accomplish, getting out of the loop?
You wake up the beginning of the loop and the txt just pops up in your Neuro-Computer Implant's HUD interface. (sorry got the techno-babble 😅)
But the first time the loop starts, how would I ever know to edit the file?
If the brain HUD thing is new, and I suddenly am able to edit a file, I might use it for random stuff. Once the loop happens, I would have a text file with whatever random things I put in there during the previous week, with zero context.
I might be able to determine that it's my own writing, depending on the language used.
If I'm able to tell that it was things pertaining to my upcoming week, I might conclude some kind of time fuckery; if I knew it was my own writing, but couldn't figure out the context of when I wrote it, I might assume I've lost my mind.
If the former happens, that's when I'd probably start testing; whatever day I "discovered" the file would be the reset day, I would try leaving a note to myself about the time loop and indicate the date just before that day (in the example given, Sunday before the second loop).
Once I wake up on a reset day with a text file giving me the last date before the reset and a message explaining what happens, I would know about the loop, and roughly how long I have until it happens again.
Seems like storage outside your brain is stable, so you can use your 1 kb of brain persistent storage to store a URL and credentials.
Well, that 1KB is special and is immune to time travel effects, everything else gets reset.
You can link to a website that you create after the loop begun, but when the loop resets, the link goes to what the webpage looked like at the beginning of the loop, so either a 404 Error, or if you already had the page up befote the loop, its just gets reverted to what it looked right at the start of the time loop.
So if between weeks you don't retain any skills and the entire world resets, then the sum total of your existence is what you experience in a week and what you can store in 1 kB of data. Unlike groundhog day, where the protagonist knows and can learn.
The 1 kB would be the only thing that indicates that something is going on.
The irony is that your own memory of the 1 kB existing and how to write to it would also need to be retained.
(I'm a software developer, it's all about the edge cases.)
My initial response with the expanded parameters, I'd probably store a GPS location and a timestamp. How far did you get in a week, assuming that your starting location also resets.
I mean, you could store a location finder in the Library of Babel.
You can convert any 3200 character into a location on an imaginary library, site is here https://libraryofbabel.info/
Example:
Hexagon: goynbkiuqamnqrrbo2h2xt1xpg9j802eacyyur5zua3a
Wall 4 Shelf 5 Volume 17 Page 48
The text says:
you already tried assassinating the queen of england last week, but your attempt failed when you stepped on a banana peel just as you pulled your firearm, and your head smashed into the pavement and you typed this text just as you bleeded out
You can then put multiple locations into another set of 3200.
Like you have have multiple of:
"Hexagon: goynbkiuqamnqrrbo2h2xt1xpg9j802eacyyur5zua3a
Wall 4 Shelf 5 Volume 17 Page 48"
Type of text all crammed into another location.
Then you have one string of text telling you to go to a page, which has an index of every other location you need to go to. You can cram so much information in there. Honestly, I think you can do this recursively and fit like nearly unlimited info in there, ye know what I mean?
https://libraryofbabel.info/ Very cool concept btw.
Edit: Actually nvm, I just realized the hexagon number is as long as the max text limit 3200, so see y'all again on Monday 6AM since I will be stuck in this timeloop again. 🙃
That weeks winnings lotto numbers. It would amount to nothing but I'd be happy forever.
I've never won the lotto, but I feel like there's probably more than a week of paperwork to deal with before you get your money. And they don't do a draw every day.
I think Biff Tannen's idea of sports betting would be the way to go. There's always games happening somewhere to bet on and you could do a lot of bets on which player gets the next point and stuff like that on those online sports betting apps they're constantly advertising.
I hear you. But it's not about getting the money. The sense of relief that would come with it would be the goal. Imagine just thinking, wow, I can afford all the basic shit now and I'll have extra to have the fun too. Not even a huge pay off, just a few 10s of Ks.
Maybe include something to the effect of, "you are the chosen one, have maximum confidence in your actions and decisions, for they are guided."
Yes, you'd be a raging psycho, but 1.) that's sadly what works and gets you to the top fast and 2.) brain wipe, no risk of remorse if I can't remember. You'd feel motivated and fulfilled, though it's based on a lie. Blissful ignorance.
Lol the "Chosen One" thing was literally my previous question. 😅
If everyone has it then it would be the purge everyday as everyone will be keeping in RAM the fact they are in a time loop, and dieing does not matter.