Well, do you remember anyone from 1425 or even 1625?
Wikipedia does.
Tbf, they didn’t have mass surveillance back then.
If the data doesn’t get lost, someone could find an average human in a developed country born in the 21st century, and could know what their entire life is like.
I imagine some archivists might find the lost fragments of this server is some ruins and by some miracle, maybe extract this very thread.
Hi to the future! 👋
Yes. Or, they’ll get the thread with the awkward dog meme about a microwave. It’s beautiful to contemplate.
To be fair I don’t remember anyone from 600 years in the future.
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 ✌️
ngl I don’t know if the earth will even be inhabitable in 600 years
Yeah true, to be remembered we need someone alive to remember us
No, but AIs will be able to generate a statistically accurate simulacrum of a set of people like us.
Dude I’ll forget you ever existed when I leave this thread. Bye.
No, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
History from this period will feast or famine. If the Internet Archive is preserved long term, then your words on the Internet will be there. If not, then bitrot will happen within decades.
The feast result will be an interesting one for historians. We don’t usually have historical records about common people of any era more than a century or two back. “History is written by the victors” isn’t quite right. History is written by writers, and for most of history, those would be educated upper class people.
Historians love finding Roman graffiti, even when it’s about some guy’s giant cock. So yes, they’ll be interested in your memes, too.
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.
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.
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.
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.
doesn’t matter if I know their claim to fame. it’s about name recognition. at least that’s all OP was asking for.
Without googling, can you tell me who Hideki Tojo is?
It’s not that hard of a question and a lot of people willing know him, but unlike with say Hitler or Jesus, I also think there’s a lot who isn’t recognise the name at all.
Ofc it’s probably not hard to guess the context here, but still. The point is about name recognition. I wonder how familiar the teenagers of today are with Reagan or Nixon. Clearly on a meme basis the names are still recognised. But in 100 years, after a half a dozen more Trumps?
Prolly less so.
Anyways I agree with the other guy that it’s completely possible if not likely history will have ignored Trump in 600 years time.
But I guess none of us will be around to see that. Although I wouldn’t be 100% sure of that either.
If some people get their way, then Kirk will be remembered somewhat, like Franz Ferdinand.
He’ll be known like any other president 600 years ago
Nope
Me personally? Absolutely not and that’s great. Someone who is alive now? Probably yes. We know about Socrates and Caesar and Leif Erickson and Ghengis Khan and Cleopatra.
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There was a pic of my great-great-grandparents on the wall. No idea what their name was.
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?
We will live on in future LLMs, and possibly in the minds of AGI if that ever gets developed.
I was tangentially talking about this recently. Our effects live on even after we die. It seems prideful to worry about your name being associated with them. This wasn’t in the context of LLMs though.
