The fact there is a human person to ask anything to is answer enough for me.
Who said the person was human?
Then I guess I do have a question : To your knowledge, how many sapient beings currently exist ?
To my knowledge, the sapient population is the human population of Earth.
However, there are numerous sentient species that could conceivably be “uplifted” in the next thousand years. Plus, I consider it more likely than not that extraterrestrials do exist and that there’s likely another sapient species out there, though they are unlikely to be in our general volume of space
A researcher in animal cognition said at a lecture I saw once: every time we look closer, we see more and more evidence of intelligent behavior in tinier and tinier creatures, behaviors we once assumed were limited to humans. He studied insects: bacteria have been shown to display “learning” behaviors.
How many beings are sapient? Wouldn’t be shocked if Future Being told me it was all of them
I hope the being from the future answers with a number, because “all of them” could mean “one” and that’s the actual thing I’m worried about 😆
I’d want to know what their favorite meal is. 1000 years would likely have a lot of culinary, agriculture, and food production changes. Maybe everyone eats cubes of flavored yeast.
Theyre really partial to the cockroach meal and protist gruel.
radioactive tardigrade goulash
What will be the lottery numbers for the next year?
Imagine some dude just blink in to your room and asks what the Viking lottery numbers are for 1025. Why would anyone know this? Lmao
The Viking lottery started in 1993 though.
Im sure they can ask their ai
What would you tell a direct ancestor of yourself, living in the year 2024?
This is it. You don’t always know what you need to to know.
How can I fix it?
Probably something timeless and philosophical, since it’s not like she’ll be able to answer.
What do your history books say happened around 2030?
How did you all kill the san-ti 600 years ago?
Oh that's easy:
We didn’t.
How long did it take to overthrow humanity, dear robot overlord?
I was thinking about this yesterday… the kinda already have.
I mean bots online have humans so addled we can’t decide whether to have a vaccination, or whether to elect a dictator.
I don’t think we’re in fit shape to read Facebook and order from Amazon, and we’re going to have a real actual shooting war with robots?
Hold up, it’s getting mighty undemocratic here
DEMOCRACY IS NON-NEGOTIABLE
Is science able to describe reality completely?
I hope “not yet” is a satisfying answer…
Will half life 3 be worth the wait?
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How can I build a cryogenic human chiller so I can fuck around 100 years from now lmfao
Take me with you. I want to be over 100 years old while looking super young.
Too soon for blackjack and hookers, gotta do better
I knew that there was going to be a Futurama reference!
I’d ask what I could do to make their modern day better.
What is the formula for immortality?
What would you tell someone in 2024 to completely change their life for the better?
Probably the best answer in this thread, still a bit if a gamble. I certainly would have a hard time answering that for a person from 1024.
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Telling them how a steam engine works. That would start the industrial revolution earlier and it would end up speeding us up to a more advanced and better future… or to an early extinction by global warming… hmmmm
Maybe explaining an electricity generator would be a better gamble, but it may be very hard to make one back then…
The Romans had steam engines. But they couldn’t be used for anything but opening temple doors to impress people because they didn’t have the manufacturing tolerances to seal the steam chamber properly, nor the metallurgy needed to pressurize it without bursting.
That tech only became available much later during the industrial revolution.AFAIK even that wouldn’t have been unsolvable problems for Greeks and Romans.
However why put all the effort into this machinery when you can simply put more slaves to work? One driving factor for the Industrial Revolution was the issue of having to pay people actual wages instead of being able to force them to work. This added incentives to reduce manual labor and replace them with something owners can force to work without paying it: Machines.
“wash your hands”
Don’t forget to specify with soap and to do it after bathroom visits and before meals, otherwise they’ll just wash their hands once per month and use dirt to wash with.
did they have soap back then?
According to Wikipedia
Humans have used soap for millennia; evidence exists for the production of soap-like materials in ancient Babylon around 2800 BC.
So I think they did.
And specifically before they try any “surgery”
The answer would probably be something sensible, within our ability and something we would be capable of.
We already know how to do this … we as a collective global civilization just actively refuse to do any of it unless we were forced to, either by war or by the realization that it will mean our extinction.
It’s not that we are a thousand years dumber than our descendants … we are just as intelligent and insightful as our ancestors a thousand years ago … it’s just that our short sightedness and greed gets the best of us.
In many ways we are still a lot like our prehistoric ancestors from 100,000 years ago who believed that our family should control all the unlimited amount of bananas in the jungle.
