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[–] violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Red pill. Would save so much more in childhood trauma and that's priceless.

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[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Let's go relive that childhood trauma! It sure would be interesting trying to raise my parents into functional adults at that age. I wonder if they'd give me an exorcism?

Nah, I don't have to wonder.

[–] Lauchs@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Red, easily.

Yeah, some childhood stuff would suck but you could probably skip a good few grades. As you already (hopefully) know how to socialize by now, a lot of the childhood friend stuff seems pretty optional.

Dating would be really tricky through the early teenage years as I don't know how I'd feel about girls my own physical age at that point.

Because I'm relatively older and would have insane future knowledge, I could absolutely rock in stocks and have enough money to actually effect change. (Eg, singelhandedly fund a massive Democrat turnout machine in the rustbelt for 2016.)

The hard part would be somehow connecting with my current group of friends whom I love to death and wouldn't want to lose. They are the only thing that makes the blue pill tempting.

[–] bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago

Blue pill all day. I'd never give up my daughter and we could spend the rest of our lives vacationing.

[–] PhilMcGraw@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm liking the "going back to when I was 6 with all the knowledge I have now" option, but in reality 6 year old me would probably be too immature to know I need to remember it and by the time I needed to use that information in any sane way it would have been long forgotten.

I mean some people are saying get bitcoin early days, but 6 year old me was at least 10 years off Bitcoin existing.

It would also really suck knowing how easy it was to obtain information in the future only to be stuck in the past and barely have access to the internet at all.

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[–] notthebees@reddthat.com 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Here's my take, if went back to when I was 6, I probably wouldn't have the same friends I have now, like genuinely amazing friends. I'd rather not live though middle school and highschool again.

So I'll take the 10 million dollar blue pill.

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago

Red makes more potential money (buy Apple, buy BTC) but that means it would be almost impossible to meet all my friends and I need to make new ones. Ugh I hate talking with people

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Knowledge respawn, easily. 10M is chump change compared to what you could make just diamond handing two pizzas worth of BTC in 2010

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I'd have to wait 10 years to buy Apple at $0.07 per share, but I think I could collect enough money to make that into more than $10 million.

[–] GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Red pill. My dumbass thinks I could "fix" the people that fucked up my childhood with the knowledge I have now

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[–] MTK@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Red, and then just get bitcoins early on and invest in tesla, by the time i'm back at 2024 I would have way more then 10M

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[–] neoman4426@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

One thing to consider, assuming the red one is mental time travel (which is the only way it'd really be at all useful), you're essentially murdering everyone who exists from your subjective present to the jump point to replace with at best very similar clones and possibly no one or completely different people. Then you have to also assume the timeline isn't fixed and you can actually change things, and thus contend with butterfly effect causing divergence making your knowledge less useful. Sure, little changes probably won't impact things on a global scale for a while, but once you start doing big things like investing or preventing terrorist attacks or something that could cause major divergence. Ethically any kind of useful time travel should be limited to "World is already wiped out" scale scenarios where the alternative is worse.

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[–] BrownianMotion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago

Is there a "$5 million and an 'AGE - 25%' " option ?

I'd be happy to go back to being 37yo with $5m and still dying at or around (or earlier) than my current unknown death day!!

If I'm going out, its with a lot of bang[ing]!

[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I'd like to go back with my memories, but might run into some sort of time cop situation. It's a tough call.

[–] F_Haxhausen@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Neither. Trick question.

I’d choose the secret third option:

The cyanide pill.

[–] psud@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

These "would you rather" memes are mind poison when both sides are impossible fantasies

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[–] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Blue pill, it said you revert to a certain age, but not a certain time, meaning any information you've kept could be useless in an unfamiliar environment.

Also, it never states that time and reality will play out the same exact way, making said knowledge even more useless.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

It also does not say about a location in space. So it might be Venus.

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[–] jimbo@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

This post is really revealing which people are happy with how their lives turned out and which ones aren't.

[–] What083329420@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Gimme the money, I'm counting down the years I dont want any extra xD

[–] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

With six it would give me the opportunity to move to my dad and spare me 6 more years of torture and violence. I'd take that even over 100 billion.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I guess you have to take time. It's invaluable. Plus you have great investment opportunities.

[–] jagungal@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Blue. I wouldn't change much about my life rn, but an extra 10mil would be awesome.

[–] figjam@midwest.social 5 points 10 months ago

With the red pill I would have knowledge of my neuro oddness stuff which would have been SUPER FUCKING HELPFUL. I could have avoided all the self inflicted misery of middle and high school. I only can guess at what I would be doing as an adult if I were a self aware and confident kid.

Don't get me wrong, I love my life despite the path that I took to get here but I feel bad for little me.

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