Will humanity ever stop repeating tired old jokes from monty python and Douglas Adams?
If yes I can die happy that things get better, if no I can welcome oblivion with joy
this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2023
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I want to know what the best version of myself would have been like. What did I miss out on.
What was the single thing I did that had the last direct impact on myself, that had the greatest lasting impact on anyone else?
Things like spending the extra time one day making a cup of coffee made it so this specific person was stuck behind my slow-ass speed limit driving, averting what would've been a multi-car pileup or some shit like that.
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What happened to the other species of humans? Would they like metal? The first question can be ignored if both are not allowed
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How does priority work in MtG?
In actuality though I'd probably kick up a reincarnation loop by asking for the full experience of every living and inanimate thing the universe has to hold, starting with everyone/everything I ever interacted with and branching exponentially from there.
Nice
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Did i make a positive impact?
Will our efforts in philosophy ever lead to a non-circular answer to the worth of life? I.e. will mankind ever create or find its purpose?
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After I'm gone, how would everyone I've loved remember me?
I feel like it would probably be something about Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem. That thing is really annoying.
Although I feel I might get stuck in a recursive answer if I ask the wrong thing. So maybe I would ask something about a loved one, that I already know the answer to.
When I die my first question to the Devil will be: What is the meaning of the fine structure constant?
— Wolfgang Pauli
How might entropy be meaningfully reversed?
I would probably ask the question to whoever give this option to me. Probably something like "Tell me about yourself in the most detailed way".
Over or under?
The meaningful questions…
And over is the correct answer, of course.
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