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[-] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago

ngl I don't know if the earth will even be inhabitable in 600 years

[-] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

I don't really want to be remembered for generations, if I am that means that statistically I was a bastard

[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Few people left who remember me now already

I'll be forgotten once me, my wife, my family and my few friends die, so left say nobody will know me or my accomplishments 50 years from now, tops.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

I wonder who the last person will be that knows how to fix a dos machine.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

yes, but only the biggest brightest bonfires.

will charlie kirk be known? nah. will Donald Trump be known? absolutely.

the bigger the bonfire, the more damaging it is to society.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

I barely think Trump will be remembered. In 600 years we'll have a completely different economic/political system. I can't image our quaint ideas of 'nations' lasting much longer. This economic/political system was a flash in the pan from just after the Napoleonic wars till about now. I'm not sure what will come soon, but we've been stuck with an antiquated system now for over 70years.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

ever heard of Genghis Khan? How about King Solomon? Judas ring a bell? Pharaoh Akhenaten?

"But trump isn't nearly as bad as half those people"

Just wait. The worst is yet to come.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

How much do you know about Francis II, that last Holy Roman Emperor? A few people read about him, but he’s not that common of a name.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

you have heard of them

doesn't matter if I know their claim to fame. it's about name recognition. at least that's all OP was asking for.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

I mean, I'm sure you can name a half dozen or so people from the 1400s. I highly doubt anyone will remember me personally as one of those half dozen people, but I'm fairly certain that with the advances in technology the average people of the year 2625 will be dimly aware of closer to a dozen people alive today.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Not me.

But from this echo chamber, it surely seems like the current us president will live in infamy. Think about online debates over who was worst president ever: now it’s clear. And if he truly is accelerating the fall of the American century, then yes, he’ll be taught about ins cho for centuries to come

[-] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago

They will if I eat the Mona Lisa

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Remember in what capacity? I don't think any of our (users in this thread) names will be a part of conversation or on anyone's mind in any meaningful capacity. I do believe that digital storage is getting better and that our names and information about us will still probably exist somewhere in 600 years. So maybe somewhere someone might see your name. But that's very different than "remembering", you know?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

I will write a blog complaining about copper prices. If my sources are correct I will be remembered forever.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

We'll be all just data left. Unless someone really bored finds something amusing about certain data entry about somebody, no not really.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

People might be if you eat the Mona Lisa.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

I don't want to brag, but I've made a meme or two that got dozens of up votes. It's basically immortality. I'm sure there will be statues and monuments of me by then.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Someone will be remembered. It's very unlikely to be me, unless human lifespans get a lot longer, which TBF they probably will.

Gorbachev will probably still be famous at some point after 3025, let alone 2625, although he might be forgotten and then popularised in between.

[-] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago

The vast, vast majority of people are forgotten within 100 years. Pretty much need to be in an extremely high position where records are kept, like presidents, or do something extraordinarily positive or negative.

I strongly doubt anyone reading this post will be remembered after the people they met or interacted with directly have died.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

I'm still alive and I'm already forgotten. 👌

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago

Or be a really shitty copper merchant

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Yeah, weird random chance makes a huge difference. Otzi was probably well known, but only hyper-regionally. Lucy was basically just an unusually smart animal, and that was millions of years ago.

And just because you're forgotten for a bit doesn't mean you won't come back into style.

Hmm. So if you want 15 minutes of fame a long time from now, what's some weird easter egg you can leave?

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Archeologists actually dig up a lot of sex toys, believe it or not. That won't get you noticed.

A time capsule with something that nobody else will think to preserve might do it. Way too many preserve things the future is actually meh about. I actually wonder if a weird data footprint might be even better at this point. Like, if you filled out some official form thousands of times just for fun, and someone a long time from now is doing analysis and turns it into a meme.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

What sort of forms about buttplugs do we have?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I actually have a geneology book (族谱) from my paternal lineage (everybody does this in China). Its just a bunch of names, and some history of the village summarized. I hate tradition and I'm already in the US right now, I dont give a shit about the stupid geneology book anymore, my ancesters will probably be so pisses to find out that I totally ignored all the hard efforts lol. (My village still has a copy, but I'm not adding more name to the stupid thing, a waste of time, its also misogynistic AF, if there's a daugher, then the lineage doesn't record their decendents. So dumb, as I guy, I hate this patriarchal bullshit)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

I think the opposite with happen with the same results. Everyone's DNA will be on the books. It'll be revealed that we're all related somehow. You'll be able to orient the database any way that you want to see how you're related.

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

"It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sommbitch or another."

No one needs to remember me except my kids. Maybe my grandkids.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

The people of nepal, probably. Remembered as a collective

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

I imagine some archivists might find the lost fragments of this server is some ruins and by some miracle, maybe extract this very thread.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

We all will be living inside the weights of LLMs from this era.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Ok that's actually an interesting use of AI. Train on only media from that time period. This is Daniel, from the year 1400. Tell me about the Catholic Church

[-] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

This is basically how the persona AIs work. Some of them are focused on an individual, others are trained on a group of individuals.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

Hi to the future! 👋

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Fat chance, we're not carving things on glass or stone. SSDs and HDDs lose their contents and are irrecoverable even within our own lifetimes

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well, do you remember anyone from 1425 or even 1625?

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

There's a running phrase that gets' mentioned a lot in the Peanuts comic strip: "500 years from now, who'll know the difference?"

Just wanted to mention that. Peace ✌️

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Dude I’ll forget you ever existed when I leave this thread. Bye.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Gonna be awkward as fuck if there is an afterlife and you run into OP after you both expire.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

The afterlife being on Lemmy isn't the worst thing I can think of.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

To be fair I don't remember anyone from 600 years in the future.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

No, and I'm thankful for that

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Brave of you to assume that humanity will exist in 600 years.

Actually, we might be, but the better-off ones will be back at sticks and stones and huddling around wood fires and the like.

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