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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? (piefed.social)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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(I couldn't find a sub for hypotethical questions..)

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[–] 61 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

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]?

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months 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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