4GB is an absolute fuck ton of text. Like, solid chunk of Wikipedia would fit in there.
this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2023
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If you were restricted to just 700MM words, what would you say?
Help. Thatβs it, thatβs all Iβd say
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the other day I learned you can download Wikipedia and it's something like 50 GB of text plus 50 GB of pictures
Nah, it's 22 GB for just the current English version, text-only Wikipedia. Adding the media English current version only would be 140 GB (plus the 22 GB for the text). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaStatistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia
So you could do text-only Wikipedia and probably compress it. Maybe drop a few thousand of the articles that don't matter or are stubs. Drop all the entertainment articles, etc.
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So you send them text that they can't read?
I don't think you appreciate how much text you can fit into 4GB. The first entire gigabyte could be dedicated to various means of translation and explaining our language system, and you'd still have a 500 million words left after that.
You can also get 2-3 movies worth with 4gb depending on its length and quality. Maybe even more.
So they need to understand our colors, video codecs, displays, sound, and so much more?
I would first find some big names from the demo scene and say "I am not worthy, let these folks do it" and anyone who disagreed would have their frontal lobes severed or something.
This, in its original form, was 4kb.
So, none of us are worthy. Unless one of you is on Lemmy.
Edit: this one is 1kb lmao. None of us are worthy.
Can you tell me a little more about these? What is the βdemo scene,β how were they made, and why were they made?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene
It's as rad as it could possibly be.
Wouldn't be surprised at all if anyone from that scene lurks on lemmy.
A link with a cracked Minecraft client and an ip to join to a small server to chill with that alien.
Technically you can probably send a bunch of links, like Wikipedia etc. He "just" needs to access to it, which may or may not breach the 4GB rule.
Damn, what a cheapskate. A chance to play Minecraft with a friendly space alien and you canβt even pay for a legit copy. Probably going to give that alien a computer virus and doom us all. Donβt put this guy in charge.
Can agree with that, but I wanted to save the alien from having a Microsoft account.
Youβve got a point. On second thought, maybe a different game would be better.
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Why do you assume the alien has access to the internet?
No reason at all. Of course probably the aliens won't have access to the interwebz, but playing Minecraft with an alien sounded funny in my head.
It won't breach the 4GB rule, but even the closest star to Sol would have at minimum latency of 4 years.
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Rickroll, comeon
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the actual messages humanity has sent into space in the hopes that aliens will hear it since those are actually pretty cool.
I mean look at this crap. Look at how cool it looks. https://www.plover.com/misc/Dumas-Dutil/messages.pdf
(I'm on mobile otherwise I'd add a picture)
https://www.plover.com/misc/Dumas-Dutil/messages.pdf
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Again a cringe Word PDF title (why cant this program use normal Titles?)
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Why tf didnt they just draw our numbers and instead some crazy art stuff?
It's explained in the PDF. If they used normal numbers and letters, the chance of corruption would be high. So they had to reform into the symbols you see.
I still don't get why we use Pi instead of Tau though, when most equations double it up into Tau anyway.
The dimension (physical height, 5'9") of an average man (blue/white)
Well thanks now they think we are all men
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I would probably include an apology for using FAT32 and insist that we've made better filesystems since then.
Probably an AI model that fits in that size. It might not be our best models, but it probably would be a lot more useful to aliens than whatever we'd decide to fit on 4GB.
They'd get mostly all the inner workings of our languages and how we do conversations and generally be able to answer basic questions about humanity.
What ? "an AI model" is not a compression algorithm. Why give the aliens an AI trained with some wikipedia articles when you could just give them wikipedia.
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In_the_end.exe from limewire
Iβd send a small note saying βPlease take me away from here.β
"Stay away" with various methods given to understand the meaning of the words (images, signs, numbers, sounds, etc)
2 girls 1 cup
We must send them the historical documents so they can work to achieve the perfect society.
Frank Sinatra - stormy weather
the English Wikipedia articles on codecs, the 7 layer model, semiconductors, and microprocessors.
gcc compiler.
the source code for Firefox and the lightest possible Linux environment to run it... ... ...
and then as many axxo rips as I can cram in, sorted by IMDb rating
A history of all of our misdeeds and self-inflicted suffering, probably 1gb of compressed literature and 3gb of imagery and video, along with an Earnest plea:
Please if you are able, either teach us how to save us from ourselves, or be merciful and destroy us. Don't let this self-inflicted carnage of we barely sapient creatures commit on one another due to lack of meaningful intellect or empathy continue.
Either take our hand and teach us as the confused, selfish, irrational children that we are, or just end this evolutionary mistake.
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