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?
I would like to know the detailed life history of every human that was ever born…
Start taking I’ll wait :)
Sounds like a nightmare when you’re dying and probably in pain… It extends that painful state for a virtually infinite time.
Not to mention the overwhelming amounts of unimaginable suffering you would see.
And joy, but I’d say being suddenly ommiciant to all the life of humanity but completely impotent sounds awful
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?
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’
How is the entity or power that has the ability to grant me such knowledge connected to the existence of the universe?
Magic
is p != np
I guess that depends on whether n != 1
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.
Did she ever love me?
Aargh fuck
I would want to know if I could have accomplished anything different that I did. Could I have been a super successful NFL quarterback? Could I have been a lawyer? Could I have been president of the United States? Could I have been a rockstar or a movie star? Could I have been a bodybuilder? Could I have been a New York times best-selling novelist? I would like to know all the possibilities of what I might have been. I would like to see them lived out, what it looked like, what steps were taken, what decisions were made. Given the limited raw intelligence I had, the genetic potential of my physical body, what was the most I could have done with it?
Wouldn’t that be awful? Just sitting back and watching all your wasted potential when you’re in a position to do nothing about it?
I don’t feel that, I lived the life I had, it would be like a very long movie starring me doing cool stuff.
yeah, I think I would ask what I need to do to be the happiest possible instead.
You want to see your personal Everything Everywhere All at Once map! Love this
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
Given that God is infinite, and that the universe is also infinite, would you like a toasted tea-cake?
Yes Mr lister sir
Smeeeegheeaaad!
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
Is the answer really 42?
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No. I’d tell you what and why, but you didn’t ask.
Yes
“So god, we cool?”
“Hey god, do you exist?”
“Nope!”
?!?!
“No, I don’t exist.” but that may not be understandable.
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.
