jimrandomh comments on Open Thread, August 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jimrandomh 02 August 2010 06:14:48PM 2 points [-]

Presupposing that only a limited amount of knowledge could be saved seems wrong. You could bury petabytes of data in digital form, then print out a few books' worth of hints for getting back to the technology level necessary to read it.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 02 August 2010 06:32:12PM 1 point [-]

If the resources for printing are still handy. I don't feel comfortable counting on that at present levels of technology.