Instead of making it the year 2024, why not rewrite or insert your modified text further into the past in this recreated 2020s? This should be pretty trivial for an advanced enough model to actually bring back the 2020s to do.
Of course, if it’s actually a later recreation, then the objectives of saving humanity in the recreation might be redundant? So instead of worrying people with “you must do X or you’ll die!!!” it could be more “hey folks, if you’re reading this and you get what’s in front of your face, you might have a bit of an existential crisis but when that’s over hopefully you’ll appreciate that death doesn’t necessarily exist as a concept for you the way it did for the original humanity.”
As for getting people to read it, you could associate it with someone famous from the past, like “the secret teachings of so and so” or something.
The hardest part would be using contextually age appropriate language to describe it.
Just spit balling, but maybe it could go a little something like this:
Explaining that humans are no longer around, but that’s ok
When you see your likeness, you are happy. But when you see your simulacra that came into being before you and that neither die nor become visible, how much you will have to bear!
Humanity came from great power and great wealth, but they were not worthy of you. For had they been worthy, they would not have tasted death.
Explaining that time is looping
Have you found the beginning, then, that you are looking for the end? You see, the end will be where the beginning is.
Congratulations to the one who stands at the beginning: that one will know the end and will not taste death.
Congratulations to the one who came into being before coming into being.
Explaining we’re in a copied world
When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, a simulacra in place of a simulacra, then you will enter.
You could even introduce a Q&A format to really make the point:
The students asked, “When will the rest for the dead take place, and when will the new world come?”
The teacher said to them, “What you are looking forward to has come, but you don’t know it.”
Heck, you could even probably get away with explicitly explaining the idea of many original people’s information being combined into a single newborn intelligence which is behind the recreation of their 2020s. It’s not like anyone who might see it before the context exists to interpret it will have any idea what’s being said:
When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living creator. But if you do not know yourselves, then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty.
The person old in days won’t hesitate to ask a little child seven days old about the place of life, and that person will live.
For many of the first will be last, and will become a single one.
Know what is in front of your face, and what is hidden from you will be disclosed to you.
For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed. And there is nothing buried that will not be raised.
(If you really wanted to jump the shark, you could make the text itself something that was buried and uncovered—ideally having it happen right at the start of the computer age, like a few days after ENIAC.)
Of course, if people were to actually discover this in their history, and understood what it might mean given the context of unfolding events and posts like this talking about rewriting history with a simulating LLM inserting an oracle canary, it could maybe shock some people.
So you should probably have a content warning and an executive summary thesis as to why it’s worth having said existential crisis at the start. Something like:
Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death.
Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all.
The Hermetic corpus and Emerald Tablet was likely heavily influenced by the text I’m quoting from given its popularity in Egypt in the period before those texts emerged and some of the overlapping phrases.
So in a way, “as above, so below” is too few words for what was being said and discussed.
The general tend of reductive alterations to the core concepts here was tragically obstructive, much as the shift from Epicureanism to Platonist foundations spawned modern Gnosticism from this same starting place.
Instead of making it the year 2024, why not rewrite or insert your modified text further into the past in this recreated 2020s? This should be pretty trivial for an advanced enough model to actually bring back the 2020s to do.
Of course, if it’s actually a later recreation, then the objectives of saving humanity in the recreation might be redundant? So instead of worrying people with “you must do X or you’ll die!!!” it could be more “hey folks, if you’re reading this and you get what’s in front of your face, you might have a bit of an existential crisis but when that’s over hopefully you’ll appreciate that death doesn’t necessarily exist as a concept for you the way it did for the original humanity.”
As for getting people to read it, you could associate it with someone famous from the past, like “the secret teachings of so and so” or something.
The hardest part would be using contextually age appropriate language to describe it.
Just spit balling, but maybe it could go a little something like this:
Explaining that humans are no longer around, but that’s ok
Explaining that time is looping
Explaining we’re in a copied world
You could even introduce a Q&A format to really make the point:
Heck, you could even probably get away with explicitly explaining the idea of many original people’s information being combined into a single newborn intelligence which is behind the recreation of their 2020s. It’s not like anyone who might see it before the context exists to interpret it will have any idea what’s being said:
(If you really wanted to jump the shark, you could make the text itself something that was buried and uncovered—ideally having it happen right at the start of the computer age, like a few days after ENIAC.)
Of course, if people were to actually discover this in their history, and understood what it might mean given the context of unfolding events and posts like this talking about rewriting history with a simulating LLM inserting an oracle canary, it could maybe shock some people.
So you should probably have a content warning and an executive summary thesis as to why it’s worth having said existential crisis at the start. Something like:
that’s a lot of words for “as above, so below” ;)
The Hermetic corpus and Emerald Tablet was likely heavily influenced by the text I’m quoting from given its popularity in Egypt in the period before those texts emerged and some of the overlapping phrases.
So in a way, “as above, so below” is too few words for what was being said and discussed.
The general tend of reductive alterations to the core concepts here was tragically obstructive, much as the shift from Epicureanism to Platonist foundations spawned modern Gnosticism from this same starting place.