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1. criddell · 1790362088 · focus · HN ↗

   > You can “compress all of the three-dimensional world into two dimensions.”

   That sounds a little like the sophons in the novel Three Body Problem. IIRC, aliens took a photon, unfolded it to a flat surface to etch circuitry on, then folded it back up and fired the photon at earth where it unfolded again and did the bidding of the aliens.

   > you can decipher the entire contents of the box just by repeatedly measuring points on the surface

   So if the box is both inside and outside of a black hole, is that a path for information to leave a black hole?

   1. rkagerer · 1790386998 · focus · HN ↗

      I think by definition if part of you is in a black hole, the bits inside it can't affect (or communicate information to) your bits that are outside.

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