if time travel were real, would you rather go to the past or the future?
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terrycrews
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ISTANBUL
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There is absolutely no point in going to the future to stay.
The answer is depending on how going back works. If I go back in time to 2020, would that mean that I go back to being 2020 me or that the me in 2024 goes back to 2020 where the other me already exists?
Anyways I wouldn't go that far back because I don't want to die in the wilderness and also because I don't have the knowledge to make victorian children explode
The answer is depending on how going back works. If I go back in time to 2020, would that mean that I go back to being 2020 me or that the me in 2024 goes back to 2020 where the other me already exists?
Anyways I wouldn't go that far back because I don't want to die in the wilderness and also because I don't have the knowledge to make victorian children explode
terrycrews
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I'd go to the 90s and be the first trillionaire
Soygoy
I will fight for /anthro/
No since if you go forward, you disappear in the present and re-appear in the present a few seconds later, but going back you clone yourself for a few seconds, but you then have to go back in time to complete the circle, way it works is like this:
You now, thinking of going back in time, your past self appears and tells you to do it, he then disappears, you then go back intime and tell your future self to go back in time and then you disappear, e.g by going forward in time or staying in that universe by making your current self go back in time.
Soygoy
I will fight for /anthro/
Time is hard to quantify but it's like this:
Frame 1: (You) and (Your future self). Your future self tells you to go back in time.
Frame 2: (You) become (Your future self) and tell your past self to go back in time
Frame 3: (You) now become your present self.
Either that or time travel creates new timelines and going back into the past does clone yourself unless you can convince yourself to go into the future or the past.
Frame 1: (You) and (Your future self). Your future self tells you to go back in time.
Frame 2: (You) become (Your future self) and tell your past self to go back in time
Frame 3: (You) now become your present self.
Either that or time travel creates new timelines and going back into the past does clone yourself unless you can convince yourself to go into the future or the past.
Blackweed
2024 oldGOD
I didn't think hard enough, you're right that me going forwards would not clone me.
But why would I travel back in time only if my future self told me to? I only traveled a few seconds back, and past me would be aware of this scheme to clone myself. As I imagine it, I'd think of cloning myself, then before I actually do that my future self appears and tells me it's been done and I don't have to anymore, and now I have 2 identical copies of myself.
terrycrews
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Why do you have to make a fucking loophole about it dude just take it at face value
KingofTheRing
What comes up, must come down!
I'd go back to the past, to play some shitty games that suck ass.
Can I come back to the present after going to the past/future? How many times can I go? Unlimited?
lifesucksthenyoudie
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Tesla was a faggot schizo who deserved getting robbed
Also Edison came up with record player and the movie camera by himself anyway so who cares
drcobson
Brownest, fattest nigger from Brapzil
I knew that Tesla died poor and diseased but I never knew that he was a schizo.
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Traveling forward in time: invest money in forms that slowly earn compound interest and are unlikely to be seized before your arrival. Only go forward in time a few centuries, hoping that there is enough continuity of economy, technology and civilization to allow you to cash out and enjoy the rich life in a strange future. All you can accomplish is being a rich person in the future. That's it.
Traveling back in time: deeply study a particular year of history in a country. Learn how to speak and write in a way they would easily comprehend. Plan to ingratiate yourself among a faction of rich and influential people using information and plagiarized (period-resonant) culture, then once you have leverage spam inventions that disrupt enemy factions and strengthen your own. Use foreknowledge to distinguish between true believers and opportunists. Go too far into the future and your future scientific knowledge becomes a huge investment. Go too far into the past (or the wrong parts of the past) and people lack the precedent to accept the value of innovation. Foreknowledge of people and events decays as your influence expands, foreknowledge of the unexplored frontier or untapped resources does not.
I would choose the american revolution because of how well-studied it is. Also, just how transformative the ambitions of a small intellectual conspiracy became. I think a mysterious genius ally would be well-accepted by Ben Franklin and his ilk. Lack of citizenship can be rectified easily at the foundation of a country. I don't think there is similar leverage to be found in later pivotal wars- at least on the side of the victor in the original timeline, which is always the safer bet.
I might be underestimating the leverage available in the mid-1800s in England or the spanish conquest of the new world? I'm not well educated on those parts of history, I'm just saying I'm not confident I could get the leverage to do anything super clever while staying out of the line of fire. Maybe there is leverage to be extracted from the early stock market bubbles of colonial England, I'd need to know more about their identity bureaucracy and avoid getting executed for winning.
If I wanted a safer bet with less effort but with less lifetime historic potential I would just use future-knowledge to pinpoint oil field locations and live as a rockefeller era robber baron.
Traveling back in time: deeply study a particular year of history in a country. Learn how to speak and write in a way they would easily comprehend. Plan to ingratiate yourself among a faction of rich and influential people using information and plagiarized (period-resonant) culture, then once you have leverage spam inventions that disrupt enemy factions and strengthen your own. Use foreknowledge to distinguish between true believers and opportunists. Go too far into the future and your future scientific knowledge becomes a huge investment. Go too far into the past (or the wrong parts of the past) and people lack the precedent to accept the value of innovation. Foreknowledge of people and events decays as your influence expands, foreknowledge of the unexplored frontier or untapped resources does not.
I would choose the american revolution because of how well-studied it is. Also, just how transformative the ambitions of a small intellectual conspiracy became. I think a mysterious genius ally would be well-accepted by Ben Franklin and his ilk. Lack of citizenship can be rectified easily at the foundation of a country. I don't think there is similar leverage to be found in later pivotal wars- at least on the side of the victor in the original timeline, which is always the safer bet.
I might be underestimating the leverage available in the mid-1800s in England or the spanish conquest of the new world? I'm not well educated on those parts of history, I'm just saying I'm not confident I could get the leverage to do anything super clever while staying out of the line of fire. Maybe there is leverage to be extracted from the early stock market bubbles of colonial England, I'd need to know more about their identity bureaucracy and avoid getting executed for winning.
If I wanted a safer bet with less effort but with less lifetime historic potential I would just use future-knowledge to pinpoint oil field locations and live as a rockefeller era robber baron.
Chairman
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Past. Given that I and the people of the past can understand each other, It wouldn't be extremely difficult to make myself a king simply by distributing knowledge that the real geniuses were to late to invent; they didn't have my advantage. Before travelling, I'd study the greatest inventions: the printing press, the aircraft, the transistor and the like. When I knew them, I'd go back, and use these inventions to make myself be called a genius. I'd use the powers granted by my stolen science to make myself an empire literal centuries ahead of its time. I'd take control, and live happy being king of the world. Yes, I'm arrogant enough to think that I'm capable of doing all this.
Albeit, time travel is hard. It's all just a fantasy.
Albeit, time travel is hard. It's all just a fantasy.
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