/lit/ - Literature

Complex goat fucking techniques we'll never get back

>>11132071
Much has been lost since then. And much not quite lost as of yet will be GWTW 50 years from now..

>>11132060
a lot of tax forms

>>11132060
>What knowledge was lost when the library of Alexandria was destroyed
Which time?

>>11132060
Reddit Gold

>>11132060
Honestly, I've wondered if the burning of the Library of Alexandria had anything to do with the kowtowing of the West to Jewish philosophy/religion.

>>11132060
His lost book.

>>11133289

>>11133321

>>11132060
Nothing that was worth it. The dialectical spirit wouldn't have permitted it.

>>11132060
my great grandpa's diary desu

>>11132060
When writing was introduced in 3114BC all of the oral traditions were written down. This created a large amount of ancient history to stop being told, because it was in a tome or book somewhere.
Most of those texts were lost over time, but Alexandria had a process than any books were to be duplicated.
We lost nearly all of oral history at the burnings, because we had entrusted them to paper, and lost them in our cultures.
The same will happen with digital documentation. We are abandoning books, people used to have encyclopedias in their hourses, now we trust that the information will always be on the internet.
One large pulse from the sun can change all that.

>>11133466
wtf i hate the internet now

>>11133466
>this is my biggest fear
Heheh, but it’s unrealistic, rite giuse?

>>11132060
tht u r fago XDD

>>11133493
>tfw when my library is all that's left?
Ride The Tiger anyone?

>>11133466
The Sun can't wipe out every single storage unit on Earth. For under 20 bucks you can get those tamagotchi looking things that have all of Wikipedia on them. We don't have to worry about losing knowledge

>>11133493
>but it’s unrealistic, rite giuse?
yes, you fucking mong

>>11132060
Dunno, it was lost

>>11132060
what evidence is there that it was destroyed when it was still functioning? Probably nothing was lost when it was destroyed, though many things have been lost just through the passing of time.

>>11132060
Hegesias of Cyrene works were probably there.

>>11132060
Early translations of the Hebrew bible.

>>11132060
Aristotle's dialogs from his youth. In his early years he wrote in dialog format like Plato, his teacher.

>>11132060
>What knowledge was lost
A whole fuckin' bunch

>>11132060
>All of epicurus's work
Feels badman

The other 60 Aeschylus plays, most tragic of all

>>11132060

The lost pre-iceage civilizations' last fragments of cultural histories, mathematics, and surprisingly advanced naval tech that took us centuries to discover again.

>>11132060
It apparently had 9 scrolls of Sappho's poems. All gone except for some fragments that survived in other places.

Where pee is stored

>>11132060
Original Naruto storyboards.

How to build a trireme

>>11133940
>not knowing what an electromagnetic pulse is and what it will do to every electronic device if severe enough

>>11133940
Unless they are in a true Faraday cage, yes, yes it can.

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>>11135762
The likelihood of a coronal mass ejection powerful enough to wipe out ALL electronics is negligible. It could however knock out a lot of power grids which is the bigger concern.

>>11132060
science

>>11133466
One large pulse from the sun and a lack of Wikipedia articles will be the least of our concerns

>>11132060
all of it

>>11134865
You really think Alexandria housed information on antediluvian civilizations? Daamn...

Probably some sick ass epics

>>11135840
Not him but it would be cool

>>11132060
Who knows, you'd think the rest homeric cycle was probably in there.

πενήντα αποχρώσεις του γkρι

>>11132060
Not that much I heard. Great deal of them were already copied and disseminated across the Mediterranean, and considering how many entirely forgettable books are in our libraries, I doubt we lost too many potential classics or hidden wisdom in Alexandria.

the meaning of life

What was lost when the tower of babel was destroyed?

>>11136085
Top kek

>>11132136
this

nothing that hasn't since been fully restored in H Y P E R S P H E R E

the golden chain of the ancient masters has been reforged, the link with the primordial tradition remains unbroken, all hail this glorious new dawn

>>11133940
Actually, considering that people like you (the majority) think wikipedia, which can be altered by literally anyone at any time, constitutes 'knowledge'- the Sun guy's post actually worries me now.

>>11136466
People act like because most (not all) wiki articles can be edited, flagrantly wrong statements can survive there for long, which is not the case. Wikipedia has some serious Nazi overseers for large and popular articles. There are mistakes relating to celebrity lives or whatever but not many scientific inaccuracies.
So fuck off.

>>11133289
Alexandria is in Egypt not the west, dumb amerishart

>>11136619
'The West' isn't exclusively a geographical term.

>>11132060
If it's lost then how are we supposed to know what it was?

>>11136926
speculation

>>11133289
fucking idiot

>>11136466
The greater concern to human knowledge after digitization is simply disorder and obsolescence. It is far easier for important information to fall through the cracks. With each new generation of technology, we care less and less about legacy tech. At least with physical recordings like books and films, you could see when something was destroyed or lost. Now we simply forget, and soon we will not have access to a great number of copies. It is not like digitization is one final solve. We are constantly inventing whole new methods for copying and storage that are incompatible with each other. It is like a library so large that before any sorting method is finished, a new method is begun, and there is no reasonable way to find anything intentionally.

>>11136430
Is this from the /lit/ meme book?