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Its basically like a cloud storage, and your local storage (your brain) gets wiped every loop. You can edit this file any time you want using your brain (you can be tied up and it still works). 1024 Bytes is all you get. Yes you read that right: BYTES, not KB, MB, or GB: 1024 BYTES

Lets just say, for this example: The loop is 7 days form a Monday 6 AM to the next Monday 5:59 AM.

How do you best use these 1024 Bytes to your advantage?

How would your strategy be different if every human on Earth also gets the same 1024 Bytes "memory buffer"?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That weeks winnings lotto numbers. It would amount to nothing but I'd be happy forever.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Guess be one url to the nicest porn gif I've found so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It would take me a week to decide, besides the fact this is beyond me 😄

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I’d save a text file that says “be sure to change your underwear.”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'd probably write down everything I should remember in a notepad and then use the 1024 bytes to store where the notepad is located

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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???

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Assuming standard data storage, you've got 1024 chars

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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.

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