Comment by 🌲 Half_Elf_Monk

Re: "A potential mental model: we cannot communicate. I need to *..."

In: s/permacomputing

@gyaradong - a shared language makes this easy enough, imo. When establishing a connection, dialup modems would transmit blocks of frequency at the "1" bit and the "0" bit, in a regular tempo, to establish a baseline.

If we're granting a shared language, couldn't each file that's being sent do something similar, and transmit (for example) 256 characters as part of the header, to establish "this is the ascii table, and how thus to interpret the content that follows"

Now we can communicate in our shared language, because the header included a key to decode whatever set of signals followed.

If you meant that the file being sent should also imply a program of executable code... then... i don't know. you'd have to assume similar architecture for the machines reading the code, and that's a big ask. So *automatically* constructing an implied program to parse file contents is tough. Manually decrypting file contents based on a character table and a shared language seems easy.

🌲 Half_Elf_Monk

May 01 · 5 weeks ago

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🌒 s/permacomputing

A potential mental model: we cannot communicate. I need to *imply* a computer program by giving you a file to parse, based on the file contents, but I also need to create the file contents based on what you would also want the file contents to be given that we have the shared goal of independently writing a program to parse the file. Therefore we do not need to share anything and can write the program. Is this possible?

💬 gyaradong [mod] · 6 comments · 2023-10-31 · 7 months ago