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Re: "A potential mental model: we cannot communicate. I need to *..."
The 3- Body Problem deals with bootstrapping communication.
Feb 07 · 6 weeks ago
🌲 Half_Elf_Monk · Mar 20 at 17:43:
What can we assume about those attempting to communicate? Human beings? English language? Intent to communicate? If the end goal is communication through digital networks, it seems like a xenolinguistics model might have some parallels.
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?