I'd say whatever culture's beliefs you most identify with, i.e., assume things are maximally inconvinient.
And so in that case, I've been wondering how the Chronophone would handle the fact that my culture has orders of magnitude more information available to it than Archimedes' did. It seems the simplest thing to do would be to drop packets, but that would complicate all the individual transmissions sent by all the people prior to this question. Avoiding that issue, I think there's a difference between the ancient culture and my own that the Chronophone couldn't easily handle: back then, the sum of human knowledge was probably knowable to a brilliant mind like...
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