Probably the same but would like some detail on perfect health.
Immortal? Instant healing? Mental? Can I choose to vaporize myself at any time? Can others vaporize me?
Perfect memory and live healthy forever is both crazy powerful and eventually every flavor of maddening you can imagine. But if you’re saying the brain will stay perfectly regulated (depression, madness) forever, that’s really something to think about.
Either way I’d probably take it. But it’d be easier to accept with instant death 80 years out.
3 and 4. Making great works of art would be easy peasy, then proceeding to be a couch potato while eating junk food and not having to worry at all about clogged arteries, diabetes, etc? Never having to worry about diseases? Count me the fuck in.
Perfect memory, because why not. 3 is good for upskilling and learning a new trade which in turn could generate more money. combined with number 2 i can even start a course teaching people trades.
First off, anyone who doesn’t say 2 is wasting this gift. Perfect memory and recall makes most of these other things easy.
Secondly, I’d choose Telekinesis just to fuck with people and win bar bets. Perfect memory would make it easy to make money, which would make perfect health much more attainable.
Nah, 2 is a curse.
Everybody else doesn’t remember. But they think they do. You have to either repeat everything (since you do remenber the 1st/2nd/…) or you have to argue someone that’s wrongly remembering.
2 is a medical condition, there is people that remembers everything they did in their life.
You can ask them what they did in September 25th 2006 and they will tell you exactly what they ate for breakfast, what was the weather like, what they did, what day of the week it was …
From what I remember it was more a curse then a blessing. One because it’s really hard for them to categorize information and then they ever vividly everything including the bad stuff.
For one thing, he said the way his worked was that he’d take a mental picture and be able to recall that thing perfectly. So, you could flash (a couple of seconds) him a random page from War and Peace, and he could read it out to you.
However: he didn’t automatically know everything on the page. If he wanted to know what out said, he’d still have to take the time to read the page (in his memory).
And there was a downside: if he learned something incorrectly, he couldn’t unlearn it. It made things really difficult for him when his friends started getting married and changing their last names… or when people changed their phone numbers, or email addresses. In the latter cases, people he’d known for years who’d had 7 or 8 phone numbers, when he wanted to call them he’d have to mentally work through each number until he got to the last one before he could dial.
He never gave me a strong opinion about whether he was glad to have perfect recall, but he seemed to complain about it more than being grateful for it.
I wouldn’t say that I have “perfect recall” or even an “identical memory”, but I have an uncannily sharp memory.
I forget a lot, like most people, but what I remember is burnt into my mind. A lot of it are things I don’t want to remember. But, oh boy, can I tell you facts about giraffes!
2 definitely covers more learning than 3 does, I think. Talent doesn’t make up for practice, but recall feels like 90% of what practice is supposed to be doing. And it would make me a beast at my job, just never having to reference anything ever (quite literally over half of it is just referencing different passages of the same sources over and over).
And yes, telekinesis too. It’s the biggest excuse I would have to start working out and never stop. From doing crimes to being able to play with the cat in a more convincing way without having to get up for the fourth time.
Remember that one time you said something stupid/embarrassing and it kept you awake at night? …Now you remember all of them. You can play them back at night in every language you want!
3 says you can learn laguages extremely easily and naturally be good at it essentially. Likely beget to choose 3 and have it cover 1 and 2. 4 seems like a given.
If we assume you always have a dollar in your pocket and that it takes around 3 seconds to grab them from your pocket.
For one year (8766 hours or 31,557,600 seconds) you will have 10,519,200 dollars. Assuming you don’t stop while eating for example and also you don’t sleep.
Elon Musk’s net worth is around 250 billion dollars (250,000,000,000). You will need 23,766 years of non-stop pulling bills to reach him.
Thats not how it was said. It said you had the exact change anytime. So If you buy something for 4 mill you get 4mill. If you buy sum for 1.59 you get that
Limitless yes, but it is limited by the fact that it only fills your pocket when you’re expected to pay for something. Therefore you’d be inconvenienced by anything that does not expect you to pay up front cash for a thing, and you’d need someone to tell you the exact amount you need to pay them to cause the pocket to generate the cash as well as the amount would be limited by the size of your pocket(s) and/or purse(s) for containing money.
Despite that you could definitely live “comfortably”.
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2 and 4
Poo and double poo?
Probably the same but would like some detail on perfect health.
Immortal? Instant healing? Mental? Can I choose to vaporize myself at any time? Can others vaporize me?
Perfect memory and live healthy forever is both crazy powerful and eventually every flavor of maddening you can imagine. But if you’re saying the brain will stay perfectly regulated (depression, madness) forever, that’s really something to think about.
Either way I’d probably take it. But it’d be easier to accept with instant death 80 years out.
So 8 is like a one time feeling of love? That sure beats telekinesis
3 and 4. Making great works of art would be easy peasy, then proceeding to be a couch potato while eating junk food and not having to worry at all about clogged arteries, diabetes, etc? Never having to worry about diseases? Count me the fuck in.
6 is really fun until you are stuck in a loop while trying to have life saving surgery.
4 and 5 for sure. 4 is essentially immortality to everything but instant kills. 5 means infinite money.
2 and 6
2 and 3 for sure.
Perfect memory, because why not. 3 is good for upskilling and learning a new trade which in turn could generate more money. combined with number 2 i can even start a course teaching people trades.
First off, anyone who doesn’t say 2 is wasting this gift. Perfect memory and recall makes most of these other things easy.
Secondly, I’d choose Telekinesis just to fuck with people and win bar bets. Perfect memory would make it easy to make money, which would make perfect health much more attainable.
Nah, 2 is a curse. Everybody else doesn’t remember. But they think they do. You have to either repeat everything (since you do remenber the 1st/2nd/…) or you have to argue someone that’s wrongly remembering.
2 is a medical condition, there is people that remembers everything they did in their life.
You can ask them what they did in September 25th 2006 and they will tell you exactly what they ate for breakfast, what was the weather like, what they did, what day of the week it was …
From what I remember it was more a curse then a blessing. One because it’s really hard for them to categorize information and then they ever vividly everything including the bad stuff.
I’ll add an anecdote from a guy I know.
For one thing, he said the way his worked was that he’d take a mental picture and be able to recall that thing perfectly. So, you could flash (a couple of seconds) him a random page from War and Peace, and he could read it out to you.
However: he didn’t automatically know everything on the page. If he wanted to know what out said, he’d still have to take the time to read the page (in his memory).
And there was a downside: if he learned something incorrectly, he couldn’t unlearn it. It made things really difficult for him when his friends started getting married and changing their last names… or when people changed their phone numbers, or email addresses. In the latter cases, people he’d known for years who’d had 7 or 8 phone numbers, when he wanted to call them he’d have to mentally work through each number until he got to the last one before he could dial.
He never gave me a strong opinion about whether he was glad to have perfect recall, but he seemed to complain about it more than being grateful for it.
I wouldn’t say that I have “perfect recall” or even an “identical memory”, but I have an uncannily sharp memory.
I forget a lot, like most people, but what I remember is burnt into my mind. A lot of it are things I don’t want to remember. But, oh boy, can I tell you facts about giraffes!
It’s not “identical” memory, it’s eidetic memory.
Clearly I don’t have it, but thanks for the edification
2 and 7 for me. I feel like 2 covers 1 to some degree, and who hasn’t wanted to be telekinetic at some point in their life?
2 can cover 1 if the language isn’t already dead
2 definitely covers more learning than 3 does, I think. Talent doesn’t make up for practice, but recall feels like 90% of what practice is supposed to be doing. And it would make me a beast at my job, just never having to reference anything ever (quite literally over half of it is just referencing different passages of the same sources over and over).
And yes, telekinesis too. It’s the biggest excuse I would have to start working out and never stop. From doing crimes to being able to play with the cat in a more convincing way without having to get up for the fourth time.
1 and 7
Could be a god in an isolated culture
If you pick 3 then that means you should be able to accomplish 1 with your immense talent
It’s 2 and 3 for me.
1 and 2. Would be awesome to be able to speak every language.
Also, with perfect recall you can probably excel at many different kinds of tasks
Remember that one time you said something stupid/embarrassing and it kept you awake at night? …Now you remember all of them. You can play them back at night in every language you want!
3 says you can learn laguages extremely easily and naturally be good at it essentially. Likely beget to choose 3 and have it cover 1 and 2. 4 seems like a given.
I mean, that’s already the case for me lmao
Probably 2 and 3. I’d like to be uber smart instead of the dumbass I am now.
Wait so 5. gives me effectively infinite money?
Let’s do some fun math!
If we assume you always have a dollar in your pocket and that it takes around 3 seconds to grab them from your pocket.
For one year (8766 hours or 31,557,600 seconds) you will have 10,519,200 dollars. Assuming you don’t stop while eating for example and also you don’t sleep.
Elon Musk’s net worth is around 250 billion dollars (250,000,000,000). You will need 23,766 years of non-stop pulling bills to reach him.
Thats not how it was said. It said you had the exact change anytime. So If you buy something for 4 mill you get 4mill. If you buy sum for 1.59 you get that
No; not infinite.
Limitless yes, but it is limited by the fact that it only fills your pocket when you’re expected to pay for something. Therefore you’d be inconvenienced by anything that does not expect you to pay up front cash for a thing, and you’d need someone to tell you the exact amount you need to pay them to cause the pocket to generate the cash as well as the amount would be limited by the size of your pocket(s) and/or purse(s) for containing money.
Despite that you could definitely live “comfortably”.
ETA: My picks are 3 & 4.
Open a new checking account with a debit card
The account is always at a $0.01 balance
Keep this card in its own specific pocket
Now anytime you go to buy something, the exact amount will be deposited into the account and immediately withdrawn for said purchase.
Congratulations, literally everything costs a single penny.
Implement the selling of items, the transfers to alternate accounts, etc., and you can create infinite money.
I know right? You show up and be like “One mansion, please” and the realtor says something like “sure, our cheapest one is $2M”.
So you reach into your pocket and out comes the exact change of $2m! Bust is it
2 and 4.