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Maybe a few particularly consequential world leaders, but most of us? No.

The vast, vast majority of people are forgotten within 100 years. Pretty much need to be in an extremely high position where records are kept, like presidents, or do something extraordinarily positive or negative.

I strongly doubt anyone reading this post will be remembered after the people they met or interacted with directly have died.

Well, do you remember anyone from 1425 or even 1625?

"It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sommbitch or another."

No one needs to remember me except my kids. Maybe my grandkids.

To be fair I don't remember anyone from 600 years in the future.

I imagine some archivists might find the lost fragments of this server is some ruins and by some miracle, maybe extract this very thread.

ngl I don't know if the earth will even be inhabitable in 600 years

There's a running phrase that gets' mentioned a lot in the Peanuts comic strip: "500 years from now, who'll know the difference?"

Just wanted to mention that. Peace ✌️

I will write a blog complaining about copper prices. If my sources are correct I will be remembered forever.

Dude I’ll forget you ever existed when I leave this thread. Bye.

Brave of you to assume that humanity will exist in 600 years.

Actually, we might be, but the better-off ones will be back at sticks and stones and huddling around wood fires and the like.

They may not remember us by our names, but they'll be able to see the effects of the choices we made.

I don't think humanity is going to make it another 600 years tbh

No, but AIs will be able to generate a statistically accurate simulacrum of a set of people like us.

Doesn't even take that long. My parent passed away and left boxes of pictures from 50 to 75 years ago and no one recognizes. Why did they have these pictures and boxes of them? No notes. Nothing.

No.

Because history remembers people or groups who have made astounding and monumental moments that change the course of history.

They aren't going to remember a dude who spent most of their time jerking off and doing the average lifestyle.

And why 600 years?

They will if I eat the Mona Lisa

I am doing Genealogy as a hobby and in most of the lines I am in the 18the century, in some in the 17th century.

What I learned during this hobby is a simple thing - the more generations you go back, the more ancestors you have - the formula is 2^n. So if you go back 10 generations, you have roughly 1,024 ancestors.

Now imagine how many descendants these people have? I have met plenty of others nerds who are also doing genealogy, cousins by 7the grade and so on. There is always some dude doing this stuff, so I am pretty sure there will be one in the future.

Of course I can only go back about 300-350 years, but we people today are leaving way more traces on this planet than my ancestors in the 17th century.

History from this period will feast or famine. If the Internet Archive is preserved long term, then your words on the Internet will be there. If not, then bitrot will happen within decades.

The feast result will be an interesting one for historians. We don't usually have historical records about common people of any era more than a century or two back. "History is written by the victors" isn't quite right. History is written by writers, and for most of history, those would be educated upper class people.

Historians love finding Roman graffiti, even when it's about some guy's giant cock. So yes, they'll be interested in your memes, too.

No.

I don't want to brag, but I've made a meme or two that got dozens of up votes. It's basically immortality. I'm sure there will be statues and monuments of me by then.

Few people left who remember me now already

I'll be forgotten once me, my wife, my family and my few friends die, so left say nobody will know me or my accomplishments 50 years from now, tops.

No, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

You never know, look at Ea Nasir.