Personally, I think it would make life too boring, so I'd take a pass.
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder 16h
it's a tricky one, because if the future showed me dying in some outrageous way, I would want to change it for sure. would that create a split timeline though or alter the future, who knows? would it be a Final Destination scenario?
if it was just a big playbook of future events, that didn't have personal or family death details then fuck it, I would take it. The risk would be ending up a Cassandra and trying to tell people but nobody would listen. Best case scenario would be I establish a small cult and enjoy being right.
If it was a Back to the Future Part II situation with Biff and the Grays Sports Almanac, then I'd go for it.
I don't think I would be bored being wealthy, I would find all kinds of things to do!
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42 sats \ 11 replies \ @grayruby 18 Mar
Only to avoid catastrophe. But that could be a slippery slope as well. If I avoid catastrophe for myself, most certainly I will want to look into the future to avoid catastrophe for my family and then where does it end. Do I think, I would miss Aardvark's sports facts if he got hit by a bus so let me peer into the future and check if there is anything I need to warn him about. While maybe a noble effort, I don't want to spend my days searching the future for calamities that might occur.
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40 sats \ 10 replies \ @Aardvark OP 18 Mar
Haha. My sports facts will be eternal. I'm definitely not going to die so don't look on my behalf.
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42 sats \ 9 replies \ @grayruby 18 Mar
@realBitcoinDog told me all bitcoiners will live until 2140. I assume he has some insight since his work is featured in 21 futures.
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40 sats \ 8 replies \ @Aardvark OP 18 Mar
Good, now I only have to worry about dying after 2140. I have time to spare.
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42 sats \ 7 replies \ @grayruby 18 Mar
By then you you will probably be either a slave to AI or an android anyways.
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20 sats \ 6 replies \ @Aardvark OP 18 Mar
Probably both, also willing. 😜
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42 sats \ 3 replies \ @cryotosensei 18 Mar
While I routinely fast forward to the last page of a detective novel, I don’t think I will do the same wrt future-gazing. Life’s hard enough without the preoccupation from thinking about the future
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24 sats \ 2 replies \ @Aardvark OP 18 Mar
Can you imagine what a curse it would be to know when you're going to die?
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei 18 Mar
I thought you said we all die in 2140
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 18 Mar
You might. I'm going to hit 2500 minimum.
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @denlillaapan 18 Mar
Wen moon?
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 18 Mar
Hopefully not for another couple weeks. I'm making a large purchase as soon as this whole 401k rollover shit is done.
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46 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 18 Mar
I'd want to know what happens in the stock market
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark OP 18 Mar
I think knowing even that much would make life pretty boring.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 18 Mar
What about just the meme stocks then? Life might be fun if you're known as the meme stock king
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 18 Mar
Probably how the world will be around 2140 when we've, just in case, mined the last block of Bitcoin.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @gandules 18 Mar
I would say to this: "Futurum praevisa non turbat" – the future doesn't disturb those who foresee it. In truth, the value lies not in knowing the future but in mastering our reactions to whatever comes our way. [So, rather than seeking a peek into tomorrow's events, we should focus on cultivating wisdom and virtue today].
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitcoiner1 18 Mar
I'd buy a bitaxe (home mining hardware) and I would like to know the NONCE for the next few blocks...
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @fm 18 Mar
that how you short btc and get to live another day..
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SwapMarket 18 Mar
that would create a cause-effect paradox, if the universe is fully deterministic, or you would see only one possible future, if the universe is branching. either way, an impossible idea and indeed, boring. instead, I would like a sleep chamber to keep waking up for short periods after 100-200 years, like in Foundation.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 18 Mar
how wud orange-pilling normies living in deep A.I. dystopia look like
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BallLightning 18 Mar
Predicting the future is kind of the function of intelligence itself. So im a sense everybody can somewhat "see" the future.
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