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by gondo 3125 days ago
"I have no way of proving to you" well what about some events from "your past" and our future? like what big will happen in 2018? anyways fun read
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Somebody in the comments asked about the hashes of tomorrow. OP didn't deliver.
If I suddenly dropped you in Poland on June 11, 1371, how would you go about convincing a reasonably well-informed person that you're from the future?
This guy claims to be from our culture ~20 years in the future. Your question seems to be something like "Yeah, but what if everything was completely different?"

Not terribly relevant in this case since I doubt anybody is even remotely fooled, but more interesting in the Jon Titor case, where I think many people were (albeit with a certain amount of willingness). He kept his predictions close to his chest and tried to play off any inaccuracies as issues with "alternate realities", but if that is true and you're not even in your own past anyhow there really wasn't very much reason not to be far more free with the details of the timeline that we may not even be in.

I wouldn't talk to anyone: they'd die of several diseases from my breath pretty quickly if I understand the epidemiology of it. I wouldn't want to kill people, or get labelled a plague carrier!
I doubt i can ever convince someone from over 600 years ago about anything.

Someone who is reasonable well-informed, but living in the year 1371 is still a whole different level of information than someone who is reasonable well-informed today. Lots of concepts have not been discovered/invented and another whole bunch are lost.