The options are 'yes' and 'double yes'.

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

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.

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.

Clop clop

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

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.

No response.

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.

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

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 borderline miraculous.