Blue door is a monkey’s paw. You go back in time? You butterfly-effect shit you didn’t intend to.
- Buy a bunch of Bitcoin? A series of unanticipated changes means people figure out it’s a pyramid scheme early and by around 2017 or so, the last Bitcoin miner shuts down. But hey, at least video cards are affordable!
- Bring back Lotto numbers? Well sorry, buddy, but just by breathing the air differently, the air currents where the numbers are drawn are affected, and you’re left with zilch.
- Got kids younger than 10? They don’t exist anymore! If you try to have them again, you end up with other kids who are similar, but not the same as the ones you loved… and have deleted from the timeline.
The answer to these time-travel opportunities is always to run screaming from them. But hey, at least with this one you’ve got an alternative where you become an instant millionaire! Take the $10 million. Don’t fuck the timeline up.
Yeah, the re-do your life idea really gets scary after you have kids. There’s pretty much no way you get them back.
Sounds like a win-win /s
Bonus points, odds are you will have a really hard time re-meeting your partner. You’re probably a totally different person than you were when you met. The chemistry that got you started is now not there and who knows how you mix now. It may still work, but they might be weirded out by how much you know about them.
For both your sakes, the best option may be to never meet.
I’ll take the red door thanks.
My partner and I love this time travel stuff — the truth would be a great pickup line!
The movie About Time deals with this fact. It’s a great movie if you are ok with romcoms
Yeah having acquired a wife and kids in the last decennia really makes this a no brainer.
Speak for yourself! As someone who will literally be married for 10 years in 2 weeks and has 2 kids I’m going back baby! How else would I stop the marriage! Yeesh.
Red door, I can’t say how much better I would do things if I did them again. But 10 mil can make things much better right now.
Just look up some stocks to buy on the day of your first mistake before you go through the blue door and as a result you can have however much money you feel like is a good amount in future.
Better yet, buy a huge amount of bitcoin and dump it at the height of the 2018 surge. Stocks implies you have a reasonable amount of money to start with, but bitcoin was worth pennies at the beginning.
I was just thinking stocks so you can get the money prior to 2018
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As someone upper-class who hangs around rich people: Yes, money solves your problems, and yes, money is a great way to be happy
That’s only true to a point and that point is not very high. There is some good literature on this, but after a handful of standard deviations above high-average income the happiness effect plateaus. Multimillionaires aren’t any happier than millionaires and often work more / stress more to get there.
You know, I happen to be ok with it plateauing, as long as I’m on the damn plateau.
I’m not even within view range of the plateau at the moment. Might even be a different continent.
But then, I’m not dumb enough to keep working/trying to earn more once I’m set to be comfortable for the rest of my life. So maybe that’s the difference.
But what if 10 mil is enough for me to never work again and just spend all my time doing stuff I actually care about? I might even do work that matters to me that doesn’t normally pay well if I can control it myself.
That is a problem that I am very willing to have
A decent house costs over a million where I’m at, I don’t think those studies account for inflation
Steeve, unless you live in Palo Alto, you have a very pinky in the air definition of decent. I said X SDs above the average so that would account for inflation. I don’t know the current number. At one point I think it was like $270k a year. Nothing completely insane. I would guess now it’s probably like $450k a year roughly. You make that and you are as happy as someone making double that.
Southern Ontario, Canada, namely the GTA. Houses with boarded up windows have sold for $600k.
$450k a year roughly. You make that and you are as happy as someone making double that.
Lol bullshit
The blue door, because money can’t buy me the time back. It’s priceless.
Also I could just buy BTC at $2 a piece and make the 10 mill as well. So it’s win-win.
I’d even say, im hindsight it was a mistake not to buy bitcoin back then.
I strongly considered buying a single bitcoin for $700. I was irrational with money bit it seemed like a good idea. I decided I was being dumb with my money again and didnt go through with it.
It would have been worth it. Even at $700 it would have been worth it.
I went through the same thing, but I think it was multiple for 50. Total.
However, it was college loan money and I thought that would be too irresponsible to spend 50 on something like that.
Shit
I was going to buy $100.00 worth back when it was 36 cents. I couldn’t figure out how to buy it and then my car broke down and that was that.
People eventually buy Bitcoin at the price they deserve, they say
I think that kind of goes for anything in a market economy. Client wants item that vendor has for sale, vendor and client negotiate a price.
$2? I’d go back to 2012 or whatever and mine it using free electricity in grad school. Hell I’d use their cluster, call the slurm job something like “orbital_freq_prime_factors”
And I’d break up with my college girlfriend
And I’d bring my doctoral dissertation back in time so I didn’t have to write it
Even if the bitcoins didn’t work out, maybe I could buy Pokémon cards for cheap and sell them
Blue door is essentially erasing your own existence. Why do people even view it as an option? The me that made mistakes created the me today. If I erase those mistakes I wouldn’t exist. Just some other guy with an easy life.
True, true. One of the mistakes however is not buying tech stocks in their infancy, so you’d wind up with way more than 10m.
I’ve forgotten again that the average age on here skews 30+. All the big tech stocks were cheap when I was literally an infant, so I really misunderstood what you said.
It’s cool. Some of us in that category were just broke due to the Recession.
The blue door implies that your current existence is the one changing your past, i.e. you retain the knowledge of your current existence. The ‘you’ that made those mistakes therefore still exists, as you would remember the mistakes you’ve made in order to correct them. The mistakes still happened, your timeline still exists/existed, you’re just now in an alternate timeline where your brain was surgically implanted into your younger self.
Exactly! I can’t count how many times I’ve messed up, but without them I wouldn’t be who I am today. Hence why I pick the red door, not for the money, but so that the experiences that shaped me still mean something.
Bingo. We are the sum of our experiences mistakes and all. I have an ex i I still long to be together with to the point of a physical ache. But I still wouldn’t take the blue door.
Go through blue door to choose red door instead.
This one should be the accepted answer.
Go through the red door and use that money to build a tine machine.
Red Door cause I know myself enough to know I’m gonna make all the same mistakes even if I had perfect recollection of years of details I don’t even remember now.
Why would you go back in time only to make the same mistakes again when you can now have ample opportunity for whole new ones!
Big brain thinking right here. Variety is the spice of life.
Read, give me that money there are more mistakes to be made.
Blue, because I’ll might come to this again and take the red door on the second time around.
Who decides what is a “mistake” and what is “fixed”? I feel like going through the blue door would trap you in some kind of infinite loop
Blue door would mean having to relive my childhood years being forced to go to church and Christian school, but without the indoctrination that made it feel like it was a good thing. That would be torture.
Why worry about the past when you can have a brighter future with an extra 10 million cash?
Red. No amount of fixing mistakes will ever repair my lifelong depression.
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I’ve seen enough of Silicon Valley to know you take the money and run.
