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?
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Yep.
You die, time just resets again, and you won't remember anything except the "strange txt file" that 1024KB in size that popped up in front of you on your Neuro-Computer implant when you wake up.
I’d save a text file that says “be sure to change your underwear.”
It would take me a week to decide, besides the fact this is beyond me 😄
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???
Assuming standard data storage, you've got 1024 chars
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
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8192 "1"s or "0"s stored in your Neuro-Computer Implant which automatically converts to Human-Readable text via UTF-8.
TLDR: You have a .txt file in your brain with the max capacity of 1024 Bytes or 1024 characters if its the standard English Language and syntax.
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.
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.
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
Guess be one url to the nicest porn gif I've found so far.
With regard to what if every person on earth gets a similar buffer: Assuming everyone initially becomes aware of this feature, I would imagine communities would pool up their storage by connecting them via references to other member's name or identity (similar to linked lists). They could store their collective thoughts in the form of megathreads similar to how Twitter users do it, in plain text or making use of links to Babel pages as suggested in another comment.
Intelligence agencies would be extremely efficient in cramming information in their limited shared buffers. Imagine they observe 'CakeShoeRock' written in the buffer and immediately conclude they are in a time loop because they anticipated this exact scenario and developed a comprehensive set of protocols and a system of condensed code words to follow for the same in advance.