Post by Shifter (Admin) on Sept 16, 2017 17:44:50 GMT
I have thought of a way to preserve the integrity of history using file hashing. Download an offline copy of Wikipedia and any and all databases you can think of. Libraries of books, detailed medical information etc. Once downloaded, zip it all up into a single file and then use a hashing tool (like QuickHash for example) to get the MD5 and SHA-1 hashes.
Once you have the hashes, at the very least memorise the MD5 hash. Although collisions are possible, MD5 should be sufficient for now. Memorising the hash means that if the file changes by even one byte or words change even by one letter, the hash will no longer be the same, and we will know the file has altered. Unfortunately, just writing the hash down will not work as the hash will likely shift with the change, the only way is to memorise it. If enough people memorise the hash, then the integrity of the file can be maintained.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with file checksums, here is an overly simplified explanation. The "hash" (long string of numbers and letters) is the mathematical representation of the file. If you change the file even in the minutest way, the math is broken and the hash number no longer represents the file, and thus you are alerted to it having changed. You could imagine it like this, say the file is represented by the number 100 and the formula or hash is 10 x 10. We all know that 10 x 10 = 100. So, if the file was altered to 101, but we have 10 x 10 memorised (the hash so to speak) then we know that something has changed because 10 x 10 doesn't = 101.
If you do not believe you can memorise a 32-character alphanumeric hash, just remember that as a child you memorised 26 letters and at least 100 numbers in order. I was able to memorise an MD5 hash of the King James Bible in 30 minutes. I recite it daily to keep it fresh in my mind and to preserve the integrity of the bible.
Finally, if we do shift, you’ll notice the file and hash has changed and can record the time/date of the change (you’ll need to check the hash frequently) and therefore keep track of reality shifts when they occur.
If a standard ME collection of data can be agreed on, then this would also give us a good idea of what reality we are from by the MD5 hash of the file for our reality/universe.
Some example to include in our file could be:
Once you have the hashes, at the very least memorise the MD5 hash. Although collisions are possible, MD5 should be sufficient for now. Memorising the hash means that if the file changes by even one byte or words change even by one letter, the hash will no longer be the same, and we will know the file has altered. Unfortunately, just writing the hash down will not work as the hash will likely shift with the change, the only way is to memorise it. If enough people memorise the hash, then the integrity of the file can be maintained.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with file checksums, here is an overly simplified explanation. The "hash" (long string of numbers and letters) is the mathematical representation of the file. If you change the file even in the minutest way, the math is broken and the hash number no longer represents the file, and thus you are alerted to it having changed. You could imagine it like this, say the file is represented by the number 100 and the formula or hash is 10 x 10. We all know that 10 x 10 = 100. So, if the file was altered to 101, but we have 10 x 10 memorised (the hash so to speak) then we know that something has changed because 10 x 10 doesn't = 101.
If you do not believe you can memorise a 32-character alphanumeric hash, just remember that as a child you memorised 26 letters and at least 100 numbers in order. I was able to memorise an MD5 hash of the King James Bible in 30 minutes. I recite it daily to keep it fresh in my mind and to preserve the integrity of the bible.
Finally, if we do shift, you’ll notice the file and hash has changed and can record the time/date of the change (you’ll need to check the hash frequently) and therefore keep track of reality shifts when they occur.
If a standard ME collection of data can be agreed on, then this would also give us a good idea of what reality we are from by the MD5 hash of the file for our reality/universe.
Some example to include in our file could be:
- The entire offline text copy of Wikipedia
- A detailed medical encyclopaedia
- A detailed database of astronomical information and star charts etc
- A comprehensive film/theatre and music encyclopaedia
- Detailed maps and atlases of the world
- All mainstream religious books
- Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries
- Thesaurus
- Foreign dictionaries