Obviously a hypothetical scenario. There is no way to pass on the knowledge to anyone else. Time freezes for you only, and once you have your answer you are out of this world.
The question can allow you to see into the past, present and future and gain comprehension of any topic/issue. But it’s only one question.
Edit: the point isn’t “how to cheat death”. You can’t. Your body is frozen and there is nothing you can do with this knowledge other than knowing it, and die. So if you would rather be frozen in a limbo just thinking of numbers for eternity, be my guest.
Such a variety of replies, it’s been really interesting to read them!
What would you want to know? Personally I’d want to see a timelapse or milestone glimpses of humanity’s future until the end of Earth’s existence (if we survive that long)
When is going to be the year of the Linux desktop?
3303
20xx
What’s “the Linux desktop”? New distro?
What was life like for ever human that has ever existed? I’d like to see every single day start to finish from their perspective, sorted as randomly as possible.
The worst part of traditional immortality is being stuck as you, I’d like to experience the entire library and range of human experinces. It would eventually know how it started and how it all ended, while seeing every perspective that got us there. They’d be a lot of days toiling in a field, a lot of days in office cubicles toiling in excel, but most importantly I’d see the small victories and tragedies that make up every life. I think that’d be the real beauty.
I don’t want to ruin your idea, I think it’s kinda neat. But I think that you may be monkey pawing yourself.
A tremendous amount people have suffered so much, that I’d probably not want the experience in its current form. The horrors of the holocaust, unit 731, and a lot of wars springs to mind, from just the last century.
IDK how you could modify the question, but “no violent deaths” could be a starting point.
I don’t think there is a short clear way to avoid potential centuries of suffering. Living in pain could be worse than a violent death.
Imagine a life time as a comatose patient who is still conscious and can hear but not respond?
Years of nearly starving to death. Years of physical abuse? Slowly dying in a hospital from cancer / some other slow painful death.
Hiker trapped alone on a mountain.
In short no thanks.
Honestly, those are all selling points. I’d love to understand how a coma patient thinks a few months in, a few years in and a few decades in. What it’s like to die in war in the year, 700, 1700 & 2700. To die as a newborn and then eventually see how those very parents are affected. So long as it is randomized and I’m statistically likely to see something radically different tommorow, I don’t think I’ll ever get sick of the human experince.
No. It’s not a selling point and you don’t want it. I have a condition that puts every part of my body in pain continuously. It’s been 4 years and I’ve forgotten the sensation of painlessness. Many people with my condition kill themselves, not only because the pain alone is intolerable, but because every step of the way somebody will tell them they are being lazy or faking it.
I feel for you and I’m sorry you also are going through it. I don’t blame you for taking umbridge with this all. But I also live in constant pain as well, after a dog attack a few years ago I can’t walk for more than an hour at a time, laying sitting and standing all hurt and even with pain meds, I can only get to a dull ache. I can’t work and the life I had before is gone, it was such shit trying to prove to skeptical condescending doctors saying just to do stretches and it will get better, but… Here I am still waiting.
So while I feel where you are coming from with this time of chronic pain, I am ready to deal with this and other life debilitating conditions if I also get to feel like it was to run again, to climb, to see through the eyes of an athlete. To be able to walk normally and enjoy events again. I’d take my own pain and yours again to feel human again.
Also, I’m sorry to say but I think the vast majority of people would be boring. We all have 1 or 2 interesting things happen to us in our lives but the humdrum of taking a shit and sleeping for 8 hours would get old fast
the humdrum of taking a shit and sleeping for 8 hours would get old fast
Ageed I’m only halfway watching this poor sod’s life, and it’s soo boring. I’m not going to watch more of this.
Maybe we could add a remote control and a library interface? Like choose whom to follow and then you can use ffw and a stop function?
ah you mean just like Adam Sandler’s timeless masterpiece, “The Magic Remote Control”?
I loved when Adam Sandler said “It’s Sandlering time” and totally Sandlered all over those guys
Was that the one where he enlarges Jennifer Anniston’s boobs?
Nah, that was just my dream
Oh, well okay, into the egg cycle then.
“…no”
I also think this is the only fair version of reincarnation. If we are all everyone. If everyone has to live every life.
Bro this is already what’s up. We’re all the same stardust!
I like this
It’s the Kang the conqueror paradigm
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How is the entity or power that has the ability to grant me such knowledge connected to the existence of the universe?
Magic
2.4gz WiFi.
I want stats like the end of a game. How many red lights did I run, did anyone die by my actions, how many hours did I sleep, how many meals did I eat. Things like that.
Haha love this
Just “Why?” Leave this magical answers being confused and questioning humanity, like the rest of us.
Just ‘because’
Because 42
In ASCII, 42 is an asterisk, which is a common computer placeholder for “whatever you want it to be”. The computer in Hitchhikers wasn’t just pooping out a random number, but in the most computer way possible it pretty much just said life is what you make of it.
So yea, 42.
Bro. I love this. TIL. Never thought of checking the ASCII of 42.
is p != np
I guess that depends on whether n != 1
I would like to know the detailed life history of every human that was ever born…
Start taking I’ll wait :)
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Im not sure if there would be pain, but it’s a possibility. When I thought of the question I figured everything but your mind would freeze, perhaps I should have been more explicit when I phrased it. I understand those asking to experience the lives of others - even strangers- but I can’t understand those asking for an infinite answer such as a number in hopes of… What? Staying in a limbo doing nothing but absorbing a number?
By what mechanism did the universe come to be, or if it simply always existed, why does it exist in this particular way with these particular laws?
Because all possible universes with all possible combinations of particular laws exist.
Maybe even the impossible ones exist.
And they all came to be the same way the number 3 “came to” exist.
Because of it didn’t it wouldn’t, but it does so it is.
Did she ever love me?
If you need to ask, then probably not. If she really did, you wouldn’t have to ask, you’d know.
Nah. The thing about this is that people who are insincere don’t know how to act sincere. People who are sincere also don’t know how to act sincere.
Aargh fuck
I’d like to see the details of the events from Nefertiti up through the end of the 19th dynasty and the activities of the sea peoples with a special focus on the figure of Muksus, in an interactive format where I could sort of scrub the timeline to fast forward or rewind and instantly move around the Mediterranean to observe the different events in different places in parallel.
I wouldn’t mind having the same for the 1st century CE too, but that would be a secondary priority.
Personally I’d want to see a timelapse or milestone glimpses of humanity’s future until the end of Earth’s existence (if we survive that long)
I’d ask for the same thing, but not a glimpse, I’d ask for an immersive first person view, and not a timelapse, I’d want to see it in realtime.
And just like that, I’d be reborn.
You’d have no agency though. You’d be a passenger in someone else’s mind, unable to communicate or intervene. I understand the appeal but personally, without agency I’d be bored quickly. I’d rather satisfy my curiosity in a shorter timeframe and be gone.
Jan 1st 2024 pic 1 of house
Jan 1st 2199 pic 2 of same house
Jan 1st 7019 pic 3 of same house on a piece of earth’s crust shatterd by by the destruction of earth.
Hope you enjoyed your time-lapse!
Silly mortal, the earth ends in 2036 with the impact of Apophis. You can have the first one
I wouldn’t ask anything. I’m gonna die and that knowledge would be lost. Just play me out Ricardo
You get stuck in a waiting loop, due to not asking for the be all question and have achieved immortality!
Loophole achieved
Given that God is infinite, and that the universe is also infinite, would you like a toasted tea-cake?
Yes Mr lister sir
Smeeeegheeaaad!
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
African or European?
I… I don’t know that…
AAAAHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
20-25mph, if you want the full Monty.
Did my childhood dog really go live on a farm in the country?
When I was younger, we lived on a little farm outside town. Some people from town couldn’t take care of their golden any longer, so the dog came to live with us.
About a year later, they asked if they could bring their kid by to visit, because he found out that “went to live on a farm” was usually a lie.
I’m sorry, your dog is on another farm.
No :(
Good.
As the chemicals worked their insensate magic on her diaphragm, and her mind winked out leaving her head blank, she fell into a waiting blanket held by God. And the blanket surrounded her, and showed itself to her as a farm, pristine in its morning dew and limitless splendid smells.
