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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

Blue pill. I'm young enough (37) that I'd lose far more than I'd gain if I chose Red. The knowledge I currently possess can change the world with 10 million.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In what way can it change the world? For you? Or do you mean for everyone? It feels like 10 Million is not enough to make changes on a global scale

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Red pill if it means I go back in time to when I was 6yrs old. Blue pill if not.

Edit: having to live through puberty again would be painful, but there's a fair amount of stuff I could, and likely would, do a lot differently.

[–] SonicBlue03 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

With six it would give me the opportunity to move to my dad and spare me 6 more years of torture and violence. I'd take that even over 100 billion.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Back when I was 6, in 1983, my uncle who worked in the oil industry told me about global warming.

I could totally have been a real radical environmentalist, but I was 6.

A second time around that talk would have an impact, and with some foresight for the next 40 years. I think no one would be surprised if I devoted everything to fixing global warming - they might be surprised at my success in the stock market.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Blue. I wouldn't change much about my life rn, but an extra 10mil would be awesome.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Red, that would give me 30+ years of life. I would also try to get older healthier.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Neither. Trick question.

I’d choose the secret third option:

The cyanide pill.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

One thing to consider, assuming the red one is mental time travel (which is the only way it'd really be at all useful), you're essentially murdering everyone who exists from your subjective present to the jump point to replace with at best very similar clones and possibly no one or completely different people. Then you have to also assume the timeline isn't fixed and you can actually change things, and thus contend with butterfly effect causing divergence making your knowledge less useful. Sure, little changes probably won't impact things on a global scale for a while, but once you start doing big things like investing or preventing terrorist attacks or something that could cause major divergence. Ethically any kind of useful time travel should be limited to "World is already wiped out" scale scenarios where the alternative is worse.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I think, if you went back in time and started, for example, trying to get rich playing the stock market, you would be surprised by how much things change with your interference. Like, Bitcoin still goes up, but peaks at a different price. The same team wins the super bowl but by a different score. The longer things go on the weirder it would get.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

which is one digests better in my ass?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fuck binary choices. I'm taking both. Radical free will baby!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I am taking both. Thank you. Nobody said that it is exclusive choice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Red pill so I can become powerful enough to end everyone's need for money

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Hold on I have to look up all the winning games so I can become a billionaire just by gambling.

After that red pill all the way

[–] Pika 4 points 11 months ago (5 children)

blue pill, my existing knowledge won't help me cause I'm not in a position to actually change things. 10 million dollars though... I could invest that and call it a day

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