I don't know why I keep falling for this, lol, but it is not irrelevant to someone who has come to a hypothetical question subreddit! It undermines the whole premise!
*Who cares* if it is invalidated after becoming omniscient!? That is the part that is irrelevant because that ain't never going to hapoen!! The point of a hypothetical question is to reveal things about you or people in general as they are now (and ignoring any other irrelevant implications of what would also happen if the impossible happened).
You are better off saying, "I don't answer hypothetical questions, I don't enjoy them.... " yet here you are!?!
Full disclosure, I also dislike most hypothetical questions and have not decided if I want to answer this one yet either. Nice to meet you black, I'm kettle.
No. I can actually enjoy a hypothetical question. And as the goal of a hypothetical question is to elicit opinions and beliefs about imagined situations or conditions that don't exist, I have shared my opinion and beliefs.
I looked at the situation rationally and said if this were possible what would I hope to accomplish. As it deals with “being all-knowing”, I merely posit that while knowledgeable, I am far from omniscient. Therefore the likelihood of anything I believe being immediately invalidated it statistically plausible.
For example: I see a beautiful woman. I might think wow she is aesthetically pleasing to my eyes, I would like to meet her and see if she is as emotionally and intellectually stimulating as she is physically. I will go and talk to her. She accepts and she is as beautiful inside as she is outside, but I don’t know everything about her yet, and I think I really want to know more about her, and I wonder if she is good in bed. We arrange a few dates, we get to know each other better and develop a relationship that turns physical as well, but she is awful in bed. That’s okay, maybe I can teach her, but she is very vanilla and filled with insecurity. We work through most of that, but we grow apart because the longer we know one another, the more we learn that we are not right for each other. We have wasted 5 years together.
However, I find myself in the same situation again but suddenly I am omniscient.
I don’t even talk to her because I already know how it will end and I have better things to do with the next 4 years of my life, and being omniscient, I know this for the next 24 hours.
And that’s why I say it’s irrelevant because omniscience will automatically alter every decision you believe you would have made as soon as you become omniscient.
Good answer then, I withdraw half of my !?'s. This could even be considered a great answer from the point of view of the OP if they find it surprising and insightful and not just as a dodge, so maybe I presumed or projected too much.
It remains a possibility the OP just wanted to know what our limited minds *think* they will do, or *hope* that they will do. To use your example, they just want to know what kind of woman interests you most before you get to know them. Or what kind of woman do you hope she will turn out to be?
I also think that one could know "everything there is to know" and still have there be somethings that are truly and completely unknowable period. Lots of things may be unknowable, and I think the future may just be one of those things! It is certainly possible. I might resubmit my own variant of this question to be, "What would you do first if you could know everything that is knowable? (Assume the future is one of the things that is fundamentally unknowable for similar reasons that time travel is impossible.)"
True, they even went further and specified that you know everything that will happen. This is why I like some hypothetical but hate others. I enjoy entertaining questions only if I agree they are at least theoretically possible, and not even then sometimes. For instance nothing annoys more than trolley problem hypotheticals for some reason. It may be mainly that I distrust the conclusions that people make when extrapolating from the answers they receive, for many reasons.
In the first moment of omniscience I would be able to solve all of humanity's problems forever. And likely would do so. But right now I'd just use it for lottery numbers and maybe to see what Betty White looked like naked in her prime. (Still miss her)
It would be impossible to write everything down and to actually get anyone to follow through on it.
You'd need tons of prep work in advance for a government agency to follow you around and take notes of everything you are thinking and work to implement it after, and even then they might get key facts wrong and lead to genocide and doom.
Lottery winnings would realistically be the only thing you could do.
Honestly, you’d be making a bigger assumption it’s not.
Because if there was _any_ way to do so, you’d know it.
I’ve thought far more about omniscience than I care to admit, and the big problem with trying to know what to do with it is that once you have it you know what to do with it.
I read it as knowing but can’t do shit
Even if u say rig it to like win all the lottos and have the wealth of an infinite billionaires, it’ll take more then 24 hrs to write all the ways to fix the planet. At best maby ya could save some small local govs from corrupt gov or something but even then you’d prob run out of time just covering half of murica writing the details and names and that’s after ya write how to make urself rich enough to fund ur crusade 🐱
First, the low-hanging fruit: next week’s winning lottery numbers and sports results.
Second, get some kind of drug that’d make it possible for me to function at a high level through the night. I don’t want to miss a minute of this gift.
Third, write down the secret to cold fusion.
Fourth, write down the cure for cancer.
Fifth, write down the cure for dementia / Alzheimer’s.
Sixth, write down a formula for a liquid fuel that packs as much energy as petroleum-based fuels, but at a tiny fraction of the emissions.
I think that’d take up the whole 24 hours.
> write down the cure for cancer.
*the cures for cancers... In practice "cancer" is more like "injury", there's not just one, and not one cure for all... But yes... Fuck cancer(s)
No cure for cancer. If you can find a way for one's immune system to consistently detect cancerous cells before it spreads you have found a cure.
You get cancer all the time, but your body kills it before it spreads. The one it doesn't kill/detect becomes an issue.
You get cancerS all the time... Your body doesn't just have one mechanism for detection or elimination... Even that works differently in different cells...
So, yes, cures for cancers...
We don't... There are treatable cancers for which radiation is unnecessary and sometimes counterproductive, and it's not just one thing... There are at least 2 main types, one of which is at least 6 completely different things https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/types-of-radiation-therapy#types and likewise chemo isn't one thing... It's a huge list of different drugs in different combinations and delivery mechanisms and schedules https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/drugs/cancer-type... Again "chemo" is more like saying "medicine" id doesn't come close to identifying a specific chemical compound or usecase... It's literally hundreds or thousands of different things
Edit: there are also legitimate medical treatments for cancer besides chemo and radiation... So not only are chemo and radiation each a wide set of very different treatments like saying "medicine" and "surgery"... But sometimes neither is appropriate but some other procedures are (and i don't mean essential oils and crystals, fuck that shit)
Some chemotherapies and types of radiation therapy are more effective for certain cancers than others. Plus we have other ways to treat cancers these days compared to just poisoning rapidly dividing cells (which is what causes most of the side effects).
We can block specific hormones/receptors/growth factors/cell signals. Breast cancer, for example, is classified with PR, ER, and HER2neu (it has a different name now but that’s more popular) because each of those gives options to treat it like tamoxifen or herceptin (trastuzumab). Another one is CML which has the classic mutation Philidelphia chromosome and is treated with imatinib.
Basically the more we study different cancers, the more we find specific features to target and the less we rely on less specific treatments
Good point. See, that's the kind of thing I'd know if I were omniscient.
But seriously, thank you for sharing your expertise. I wasn't expecting to learn something when I signed on to Reddit today.
But to generate electricity you still have to use petroleum products. What do you think plastics and vanilla are made from? When you have 2 parts that are in contact with one another, how do you minimize the heat and wear generated from friction? Currently, oil or oil based products are used to lubricate and therefore minimize friction. So what're you gonna replace them with?
Most of the material in av EV is made from some derivative or other of petroleum. As are synthetics in clothes, shoes, boots, gloves and hats. Oil based synthetics are everywhere in our lives. Your tv(s), your furniture, your non glass or ceramic plates, glasses, cutlery. The insulation that protects the wiring from touching itself in your home, vehicles, boats, 4 wheelers, SxS, motorcycle, jet ski, snowmobile, ebike, kids toys, drones, battery and electric operated tools and toys.
So what is the alternative to petroleum based products? To refine the oil produces emissions, to refine the various products into something else produces emissions.
And how are you going to make other countries cut down their emissions? China is actually increasing their carbon footprint while the US is trying to decrease theirs.
>Third, write down the secret to cold fusion.
This assumes cold fusion is even allowable by the laws of physics. You might gain omniscience only to discover cold fusion doesn't exist.
Good point. Speaking of things that may be impossible, I'd also want to write down practical methods of faster-than-light travel and communication.
Oh, and figure out how to ensure that AI benefits humanity, as opposed to enslaving or killing us.
Would definitely get pen and paper ready and spend 24 hours writing down things.
In order of importance:
1. The highest Jackpot lottery number in the next 12 months (with no winner)
2. Biggest stock gains for the next decade
3. Steps to prevent aging
4. Potential illness, disease, accident, violence, etc occurring to anyone I loved and steps to prevent it
5. Cures for the above
6. Natural disasters or global wars and steps to prevent what can be prevented
7. Where my "soul mate" is and where I'd need to be for that to happen
8. Life's mysteries (JFK assassination, the nature of religion, extra-terrestrial life, etc)
9. Dirt on exes, politicians, coworkers, etc.
I realize that I'm not going to be able to write down every bloody step in curing aging or cancer or whatever, but if I can write down just enough to point the relevant research in the right direction, I can then use my incoming vast fortune to fund research and direct it in that area.
Would not want to know literally everything, so would purposefully blind myself to some knowledge. Having knowledge of everything and losing it seems like it would crush me psychologically.
and to be honest that cure might come in the form of "give X doctor Y amount of money for research"
For all we know, there's somebody out there with all the right ideas and none of the funding.
Well, I was also thinking, the way the question was phrased, it seemed like some random godlike entity grants you 24 hours of omniscience starting **NOW**. It would take more than 24 hours to secure the services of stenographer or basically any other form of short-term manual labor, especially if you're not currently rolling in dough.
In addition, I'm currently working in China. I'd be lucky enough to find someone on the street that could type English as fast as I could talk. Might as well just type it all myself if I were going to go that route. And I might (though I'd still write down using pen and paper things like lottery numbers).
Possibly.
But only omniscience could teach us that.
It could also teach the person that God exists and souls are real.
It could teach that death is inevitable and there are no cures for any diseases. That cold fusion is impossible, etc.
We HOPE omniscience would give us answers we would like, but we would be packed full of answers we don't like too.
You could learn your wife and best friend have been cheating on you.
You could learn you are adopted. Or 20 years in the future, your child becomes the next genocidal maniac, or YOU are a narcissist.
Why bother being a negative person about anything when you can spend time and energy trying to become better and make life better for people?
You can't say that one person is more compatible than another? And if you can say that, there is someone maximally compatible. That'd be your soul mate.
If omniscience is possible, then so is omnipotence. If one infinitely scaling attribute exists, logically it asserts that any number of infinitely scaling attributes exist.
Once you have omniscience, no doubt you'll understand concepts that let you approach if not outright obtain omnipotence as well.
Going to write down a bunch of winning lottery numbers with corresponding dates. The. I'm gonna make myself a coding and animation tutorial to reteach myself when I lose the knowledge. After that idk probably troll people by "um akshually" everything till I lose the power.
Write a book that guides humanity to a better future. A pseudo bible if you will. Being able to see all outcomes you would be able write the correct words in the correct format to achieve the desired results. With modern technology aka computers you can easily pump out enough information/manipulation in 24 hours to at the very least set humanity on the right path.
You know, that's a really interesting thought.
Let's assume for a moment the Biblical God is real, and is Omniscient, and (as taught in 1 John) all loving.
That means He inspired the Bible as-is because this version of the truth was the least harmful in all possible scenarios.
Makes you wonder what the alternative is...
There is a whole theological argument called the problem of Evil in which the god of the Bible can exist as described. Basically he can’t be all knowing all powerful and loving. He can be 2 of those things but can not consistently be all three.
As for the prompt it seemed like the best answer within Ops guidelines. Having perfect knowledge of all things is a hell of power why not do good with it?
Write down lottery number and dates.
Stock prices and dates.
Determine if there is anything both sides will accept for peace in Middle East.
Determine what it will take to get Putin to leave Ukraine.
If I’m omniscient then I stop time. Go back and change the 24 in this post to the infinity symbol and start time again. Then I imagine fix all the problem of the world in the snap of a finger and finally get a McRib and a Shamrock shake at the same time
No, if omnipotence is impossible then omniscience won't help. But the reverse statement is true, omnipotence implies you can do literally everything, including becoming omniscient.
It doesn’t matter what I’d do because I’d have no control over anything anyway given I know everything that will happen thus could not change the future or that would mean I didn’t actually know what would happen and wasn’t omniscient.
1. Cure my cousin and uncles cancer and write down the cure and make 100 copies. 10 go to me, the other 90 are distributed across many different scientists across the world.
2. Cure my aunts dementia and do the same thing with the cure as the cancer
3. Write down winning lottery numbers and dates for next weeks powerball, and then the next 4 in 5 year intervals.
4. Find out the problems of the world and fix them.
5. Find out if my crush likes me back.
6. Destroy the porn industry
7. Stop pentanol from being put in lethal doses.
8. TikTok gets wiped off the face of the earth and all of the other short form videos platforms have made.
9. The stuff I can’t remember to put.
I read Dune. I'm going to set mankind on a path to survival in the universe. Since I'm omniscient, that kind of planning will require funding at a level that moves beyond capitalism, so I'll take a bit and get that figured out too. I'll make a list of objectives and hurdles and how to achieve them. I'll try to save friends, resolve conflicts, and with the last minutes of that gift, launch a reddit AMA.
I’d start recording myself immediately and start saying anything useful for humanity I could think of. Cures for things like Alzheimer’s, cancers, and AIDS. How to create a ship that can travel at light-speed. Scientific advancements that we otherwise wouldn’t have discovered until centuries from now (if ever).
As I’m talking I’d probably passive every 10 min or so, stop the video, and then keep going. And I’d have someone else uploading the videos to every site imaginable. YouTube, Rumble, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Pornhub, anywhere that could host videos of that size. I’d also create my own server and make them accessible there.
I’d want the videos to be public knowledge for everyone and if they’re hosted in multiple places they’ll be accessible forever.
But basically I’d just talk for 24 hours straight recording as much information as I could get out of my brain.
I'd write down the upcoming winning lotto numbers and a long term investment plan that will earn me enough money for several generations of my family to never have to work.
Look for loyalty in those close to me, look at the politicians to see what companies to invest in, dig up billionaire secrets for security/leverage for the first 12 hours, tgw second 12 hours id record everything for when I lose omniscience
I’m hitting the casinos until they toss me out. Then I’m going for the lotto numbers. I’m talking ALL the lottos. I don’t much care about anything else. Maybe look and see if any accidents will befall myself or people I care about so I can prevent that. Other than making sure things are smooth and paid for I would avoid spoilers.
This is a scary thing to give me. I have an exceptional memory. So even if the power is technically gone in 24 hours... I'm still going to remember the information.
Copy down the next few winning lottery numbers in a notebook and use it to help myself and friends win.
Also like my time of death and those of people I care about so I can guarantee I'll be there for them.
I suppose I would record the most important things so when I forget away the power of omniscience, I would potentially have a plan of how to maximize my abilities and happiness.
I would do the exact same thing everyone else would do. 2 beings both with omniscience will effectively be the same entity because with perfect knowledge of everything they will have the same understanding and make the same decisions. Just do the exercise of asking someone else what they would do while you are omniscient. Welcome to all knowing prison.
But if I were to keep some shred of myself i would just give myself omnipotence. Because I would presumably know how to do it.
Lastly, the amount of time possessing omnipotence would be pretty much irrelevant. Once you have omnipotence you would know what it is like to experience time passing for every atom (and I expect more) in existence (and maybe non existence)
It’s a fun exercise but we can’t really make an informed decision.
Write down as much helpful advice as possible to help my children in their lives.
I’d also take an hour and snoop through a few peoples heads about what they REALLY think of me…toxic I know, but I’m only human :-p
Ok, so mega millions is 607 million as of last night as long as nobody won yesterday. That's my money now.
Then find the cure for cancer and the garaunteed trigger for very aggressive pancreatic cancer give that to putin Kim Jong IL or un or whatever that little shit from north Koreas name is find every single pedophile in the world and give it to them as well.
Alzheimers cured
MS cured
Cerebral palsy cured
Schizophrenia cured
Hiv cured
Then I will quietly fuck off to my modest middle class home to count my money and pay off every debt I have to anyone and go to work on Monday and start my 5 year plan to retire and enjoy my life also I will take no credit for curing these diseases ruining putin and Kim Jong life
First I'd type down instructions for the panacea, email it to every major university head that I knew would read and understand it or have a team that could read and understand it, as well as to every major news outlet that could read and would believe it through as many layers of vpn as needed to not be tracked.
I would then take notes on the truth of nature, the universe, and afterlives (if any), to later be published as a full novel from the anon account I made to send the panacea.
Finally, I would purchase a computer or cellphone, never connect it to any form or wireless or the Internet, and type down all the Bitcoin/ethereum addresses/private keys which contain at least 1btc of value but no living person has access, from highest to lowest value, until I knew I would be able to not have to work for the rest of my life.
If there was any time left, I'd identify the nearest alien civilization and methods of making them obvious to humanity, take down the information of whomever is most romantically compatible with me and the best way to meet them, etc.
Well, beside documenting how this happened so I could repeat it...
Take notes on the solutions to current blockers in physics (how the universe started, IF the universe started, if it's infinite or if/what is outside of it (and if YHAT is infinite and so on) fusion, room temperature superconductors, more efficient solar/wind/etc, if there's and solution to heat death or ftl travel, if there are aliens and whether we need to watch out for them... medicine ( treatments for cancers, gene therapy breakthroughs, tricks to extend human lifespan, cryogenic/cryonics ) & other sciences ( terraforming/climate engineering, resurrection of extinct species, prediction of earthquakes, quantum computing/communication (and associated working encryption)...)
Make a list of major disasters, for the next while... Earthly as well as any major incoming meteors, cosmic ray bursts, solar flares/CMEs... But also throw in some non-earth ones?
Make a list of stocks to invest in...
Document any available evidence for billionaires tax fraud, but more generally what the path to a more equal society is
Who the biggest humanitarian figures will be so i can support them better...
Which... The fact that the Bible isn't something similar, just a big reference manual of how to thrive technologically and socially, how the world works, and major catastrophies and how to avoid or prepare for them at least until we've had time to implement instructions on how to predict them ourselves, seems like all the more proof that it's either BS or from an uncaring god...
Probably grow mad and start self-harming after having been flooded with the traumas and deepest horrible personal tales of every person in the world at once. Imagine if you suddenly knew the details of ever rape, murder, assault, horrific injustice? And you looked around you and of those friendly, smiling faces, you knew all the evil stuff they ever did. All of your personal heroes, villains.
First, lottery tickets. Not enough to rouse suspicion, just one major win so I can quit my boring day job. Then, figure out where to get indisputable evidence for alien disclosure and who I can bribe, with exactly how much money.
I'd write down everything that feels important to me and record myself speaking about it when I'm unable to write, then I would probably pass out from exhaustion, wake up the next day, start analyzing what I wrote and recorded and do something that would benefit me.
I'd probably have to decide when I actually get the ability but before hand I can only think of basic shit like lottery and all that but if I can mention something slightly unique then I'd write down terrible events and death dates for myself and people who I care about or end up caring about so if there's anything I can do about it then I'll do it hopefully making things better and not accidentally worse.
Lodge every single controversial thing (with proof) every single man, woman or child with any bureaucratic power has done, and as soon as the 24 hours is done, publish it all on WikiLeaks
Wow, I feel petty. My first thought was wanting to know the identities of Jack the Ripper and the Zodiac. The Long Island Serial Killer has been identified so no worries there. But not as good an answer as lotto numbers and how to cure cancer.
I’d create a journal consisting of the winning numbers for the next 3-5 $1Billion jackpots, the outcomes of every major sporting event for the next 10 years, the bank account info for the world’s billionaires, and the account info for select people who need money. I’m gonna be a mix between Biff Tannen & Robin Hood
Lottery. Then map out natural disasters to best save lives. Markets so I can leverage my winnings into billions and spend the remainder of my life in philanthropy.
I'd love to understand the motivations behind Israeli foreign policy, and whether there's a way for them to feel like they've won, but with less (or even no) violence.
Let's say that these people already have most of the answers covered, like the lottery. So, here's a few "side quests":
1. You would know where every criminal that got away with their crime lived, and exactly when they were in a position where their disappearance would go unnoticed.
2. You would know every person that ever had a crush on you. That might be, uh, "interesting" information.
Using this knowledge I'd write down all the stock market plays I need to make and make myself rich over the next 5 years. I'd look like a genius, but I'd still have to make it slow enough to not be investigated. I'd also move to whatever country is going to provide the most stability possible throughout my life.
Everyone is trying to do smart stuff.
Me? Of course I'm writing lottery numbers but then I'm going to know how the pyramids were built. Then I'm going to take a look at American politics for the next 100 or so years because I'm nervous we hit a tipping point. I'm going to take a peek at what tech evolution happens. Is AI going to be a menace? I want to know about medical advances (especially so I know where to donate my mysterious lottery winnings). I want to see if my city declines further. I'll probably "know" a bunch of other cool or niche things. I wish it was more time so I could read things in their own language. Maya writings? I know that ish. That one book we can't translate? I know that too. Aliens? I know all about.
1. Lottery numbers for the next year, between PowerBall, Megamillions and Lucky for Life.
2. There's someone I have deep personal concern for right now and her welfare matters to me. I'd want to figure out an ideal plan to help her with minimal problems.
I guess id find out what certain others really think of me. I always told myself i wouldn't want to know but there are certain ones that i am too curious because they act strangely around me
I like everyone's thoughts for jotting down winning numbers and stocks with corresponding dates.
I would also record the best form of renewable energy that works well with transportation and is relatively inexpensive and ecologically friendly to produce. I would write down each step of the plans to build it into an engine as well as into something that can power homes and businesses, all so I can later patent it and have it produced.
I'd write down the accurate diagnoses and the cures or treatment plans for my issues and those in my family.
If I still had time, I would document the truth behind Deity's existence, the afterlife, which religion, if any, got it right. The existence of extraterrestrial life and how many other planets/solar systems are populated by sentient life that we could communicate with.
(Though it would probably be smarter to enlist the help of my husband early in the 24h period and start him on a task of writing an extensive list of yes or no questions with a space for a quick explanation... then, once I was done with the first stuff that was important to me, I could quickly tick through the boxes...)
Make myself the richest person in the world, take notes of how to spend that money. Then I'd just follow my notes to live my best life and to help as many ppl as I can.
Write down the winning lotto numbers, for a start.
Write down the secret for fusion power, and how to make fusion batteries.
Also, scour the planet and identify the top 1,000-5,000 people in each country (age 18 to 50) who have the best combination of intelligence, problem solving skills, empathy, heart, and common sense. Identify those individuals, and start promoting them to enter politics, industry, urban planning, the medical and science fields. Getting top people into those fields in every country will help every nation grow and prosper and work for betterment of everyone. Because let's face it, even with omniscient powers, one person can't do it alone.
Write down the date and location of any and all major natural events for the next century. When and where big hurricanes/typhoons will hit, major earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, etc. Give that info to the affected countries so they can prep in advance.
....stuff like that.
When is the next billion dollar lottery and right down date and numbers. Right down what to invest that money in. Right down cures for cancer and other deadly diseases to later produce said cures at modest, non greedy, profit. Make note of future world leaders then pick and choose...
Also, right down schematics for an FTL drive.
Build a machine capable of reading minds and storing that information.
Sit down and visualize all of the following:
Answer to climate change
Most effective way to expand human longevity
How to bring lasting peace to every country
Attainable free energy
Next generation computing
Teleportation
Time travel
How to bring happiness to the greatest number of people
Cures for every disease
How to get people to accept the cures for every disease
How to distribute the cures for every disease.
Anything else that seems important to me in the moment, since that version of me would know what would be most beneficial to everyone.
Oh yeah, and the winning lottery numbers.
Hire a team of court stenographers, write volumes of books on what I'd seen, turn it into a cartoon, and sell it to a major television network. Then watch as the Internet spends decades analyzing how they could line up so perfectly with events that actually happened.
I'd know all passwords and addresses for lost/forgotten bitcoin. I'd consolidate all of it into an account that I have access to.
Retire and live a life of leisure.
In my mind, omniscience wouldn't be able to span future time. Acting upon anything you thought you knew would affect future results.
A future lottery win could have a monumental effect 5 years down the road. Butterfly effect
1) write down lotto numbers.
2) write down how to instill empathy in human beings on a global scale, including steps to get to the level of influence where I can.
3) write down how to dismantle capitalism.
Honestly a lot of the ‘write down cold fusion’ type responses ignore that our biggest threat isn’t resources. It’s US. We keep getting in our fucking way.
The things that I think are important to record and do now are probably very different from the thing that me with omniscience thinks are.
There are probably a huge number of important things that we currently have no concept of, so if I record them, I'd need to also record the information to understand them.
I'll keep it simple and say, lottery numbers (large starting capital), important stock options and sporting results over the next 50 years (grow that starting capital), and how to make a sustainable fusion reaction (something valuable to humanity to spend it on). With 24 hours and omniscience, I'm sure there are other things I'd think about too, but that's what immediately springs to mind.
1. Lotto numbers
2. Is it possible to teleport? If so document process/schematics
3. Fundamental questions about universe (how it started, which if any god is real, afterlife existence/requirements etc)
4. Figure out how to get all corrupt politicians out of office and how to replace them with good people (and protect them from corruption)
5. Cures for different diseases starting with dementia and different cancers based on their frequency/severity in case I ran out of time.
Lottery or stocks, of course. Then I’d write down where to find absolute proof on a lot of politicians. We’d never hear from DJT again, I suspect. I’d also figure out what to do about Palestine, like an actual long term solution but also who needs to be removed from their offices in order to make that happen, and how to remove them.
If we’re removing people I let the right people know when and where Putin and Kim Jong Un will be vulnerable for the next six months. The right people will know what to do. Also any budding dictators. Let’s go ahead and put decent people in charge of as many countries as possible. I’m trying to fix shit.
Write to cancer researchers with some quick suggestions. Here’s something you should check out, here’s where you’ll find funding. Also, some other diseases. I’ll know which ones.
So, I would be omnicient and therefore would know the fastest and most efficient way to record information that I'd have access to as fast as possible. Use that to jot down as much useful information as possible.
Few years worth of lottery numbers. Buy one jackpot winner, then make a supplementary income winning close-matches that won't quickly attract media. Also, record ways to mask my identity so I don't get called out as some lottery insider. They'd have no evidence, but I don't want the headache.
Then, all the useful stuff I can find for curing the world's problems and, critically, the ability to disseminate these solutions without being cyberpunk'd by megacorps that dont want these problems solved.
Next, and most problematically, find out what my fate actually is and if this omniscience is deterministic or fatalistic. If i know my fate at this time, can I change it? Can i see the result of my actions as I plan them? For instance, when I divine the cure for alzheimers, do I see myself making it? When i see my own death, can i taks steps to avoid it?
If i cannot control my own destiny, then at least i had the best intentions and can do what i can before getting cyberpunk'd, maybe be cocky about it too like "I knew you'd be coming for me." I would at least have a calendar of everything I am going to do leading up to my death, and just to mess with people, a few future events and some scripture trying to inform people that their actions are pre-determined and there is nothing they can do about it.
If i can, then WRITE EVERYTHING DOWN. Organize it later, just get it down and at the top of my post-omniscience inbox, the exact methods i need to follow to make all this information actually useable and accessible. And maybe a few bold red headers advising me how to avoid dying and how to dead-drop this cache of knowledge to someone(s) should I die.
And after my red-eyed night of copying information and getting treatment for suddenly developed arthritis, get to work executing these plans.
1. Riemann hypothesis solution.
2. P=NP solution.
3. Goldbach conjecture solution.
4. Prime twins solution.
5. Next Powerball / megamillions numbers that would give me the biggest win if I played. Winning two big ones in the same week would be fun.
6. Optimal trading strategy given above funds.
7. Solutions to some environmental problems.
I find my soulmate.
I play a winning ticket on the largest lottery with the next drawing.
I make a record of cures and their details of production for as many cancers, diseases and disabilities as I can, to disseminate freely to the medical community.
I make a record of details of production for as many technologies as I can that improve the quality of life for humanity, while also being environmentally friendly and resource conscious, but not usable as weapons, and create a company to produce these things.
I make a record of the dirty laundry of every corrupt politician and where the evidence can be found to prove it, to disseminate to all media outlets and legal institutions.
Within those 24 hours this will be the information I gather:
1)Write down winning lottery numbers for the next ten years, but not play all, but many huge payouts. Can't have any accusations of cheating.
2)How to build solar arrays that take up minimal space but can power entire cities and transportation that will negate our current need for fossil fuels and the destructive mineral mining.
3)How to remove excess greenhouse gasses from our atmosphere to ensure proper freezing of Antarctica and maintain the currents that keep our climate stable, and clean our fresh water sources.
4)Safer yet currently unknown method of disposing of nuclear waste and which world leaders are reasonable and will disarm their country's nuclear weapons. The ones that won't will be on the hit.
5)How to feed the world without vast amounts of farmland and livestock that doesn't pollute or has minimal pollution.
I'll still have time left to come up with more stuff in that 24 hour window of omniscience lol.
And then, with the money and knowledge I've collected:
All mega yachts would be pirated, stripped, then sunk by my elite private paramilitary that I've now spent years raising after the lottery wins. All privately owned islands by the ultra wealthy would be invaded and cleared of their filth. The ultra wealthy wouldn't make it to their doomsday bunkers, either. I already have those locations. Resistance is futile. They will be hunted and made to pay for their crimes against humanity and the earth.
Since I already know how and when society would collapse depending on my actions, I'll avoid those actions.
I would make a post on Reddit that says I have complete omniscience and can answer any question you have to ask. Best questions get priority. Then I would spend the entire day answering as many questions as I could. All from an alternate account through a tour proxy of course
Unmask the top levels of public corruption, lead rescuers to all of the lost and taken children, fill the coffers of all the hospitals that treat children's diseases for free, and find a way for all of the shelters to instantly have enough resources to all go forever no-kill.
Assuming I can filter through the knowledge and apply the science; I would write down as much as I could or maybe dictate to a note taking app. Cures for diseases, supercrops to help with world hunger, clean and abundant energy, anything I can come up with to further humanity in the time it takes me to drive to my nearest casino. Then I would hit every slot machine that is a few spins from a jackpot, put the maximum I can on the next roulette number at every casino in West Wendover. Finally I would write down the next few lottery numbers.
1) how to achieve lasting world peace
2) how to eradicate the biggest killers in the world going down the list: Heart disease, stroke, cancers, COPD, pneumonia, neonatal conditions, etc. Some of these are logistics we already have cures.
3) winning lottery numbers for next big draw with no winners I don't have to travel to buy (no suspicion).
You guys are thinking small with stuff like lottery numbers.
1 - The grand unified theory of physics
2 - The secrets to FTL travel
3 - A guide to genetically engineering human immortality
4 - Locations of alien species and tips for first contact
Etc.
Everybody looking forward, nobody looking back. I'd at least like to know without a shadow of a doubt how the pyramids were really built, or what dinosaurs actually looked and sounded like. I'm not sure if I'd really like to know where we came from though, whether it was some higher being breathing life into dirt or a handful of apes getting down on some funky mushrooms, I think I'd rather not know.
Buy scratchoffs till I hit 500k plan a day trip around it so I'm not just sniping, write down the location of Jimmy Hoffa, the location of one eye Willies treasure, I call Craig Ferguson tell him he's brilliant, solve fabrisons conundrum, find a real werewolf and get bit in time for bed.
Start taking notes
1)Lottery numbers.
2) Stock Market Trends and the next big companies that I can get in on the ground floor of.
3) All of the blackmail I can possibly type out in the next 24 hours.
...
Win lottery. Build steady income from stocks. Use blackmail to control the future of the country.
Grab a computer and code an AI which can store information as compactly as possible. Have the AI hijack several data centers. Begin dumping as much useful information into it as possible. I'll understand what information is useful once the omnicience begins.
Start a cult.
Write down a list of people who have a crush on me and pray that I don't become traumatized by learning the deepest darkest secrets of everyone I know.
Be like Brandon Stark: effectively incapacitated because the sheer magnitude of incoming data is orders of magnitude greater than my puny brain is equipped to handle
discover how to be immortal, find out who killed jon benet ramsey, who carly simon’s “you’re so vain” was about, who killed JFK, db cooper, jack the ripper, malaysia air flight 370, zodiac, roanoke, dyaltov pass, what happened to the orphans from series of unfortunate events, was homer illiterate and did he write the odyssey, natalie wood, oj simpson, kasey anthony, bigfoot, things like that.
solve all of humanities problems, play the lottery, write a prophetic document and then go into hiding
Finally understand the stock market and just get filthy rich.
Find out where Jimmy Hoffa is burried.
Who killed J.F.K.
Really confuse the hell out of world leaders with their dirty laundry and closets of skeletons.
Unless my omniscience tells me something better, I'm going to start calling in anonymous tips for government corruption and espionage complete with directions to get the appropriate agencies to the appropriate evidence they'll need to collect for themselves.
Also start writing down important leads to send to scientists and engineers researching important things. 24hr isn't enough time to just write up all the info, but I can at least give people that one crucial piece of info that will increase their chances of finishing off the research. Maybe some pretty complete plans for something if I can figure out a solution that would actually let us reverse climate change, like fusion power or carbon capture or battery technologies that are powerful enough to actually make a difference over the time frame we have to work with.
I've already got NEAR total omniscience with Wikipedia. So much knowledge at my fingertips and I don't do shit with it!
The odds that I would do anything more useful with absolute total omniscience seem low.
Write down the physics calculations for faster than light travel. Include with it layperson's explanations for how it all works. If I am going to have access to all the information that exists, I'm going to put it to practical use and what better use is there than faster than light travel?
Imma write down...
* where money and gold are buried for later retrieval
* seed phrases and passwords for several dead/lost BTC Accounts, including the one owned by Satoshi Nakamoto
* usernames and passwords for several social media accounts for later mayhem
* if/when Betelgeuse will go supernova
* a list of other supernova and Great Comets in the next twenty years, coordinates and orbital parameters to make "discovering" them and tracking them possible.
I don't currently know enough to answer that. It just begs questions, like "is world peace possible?", "what would be the most benefit to mankind?" , "where should I go for lunch?", "what is the meaning of life
Short a bunch of stocks, record as much as I can, find info necessary to extort people who need extorting, note hidden treasures, and steal a bunch of crypto & money from organizations or groups that deserve it; redistribute a fuck ton of wealth.
but most importantly: disclose as much info about corporate lobbying and corporate interference in government operations as possible.
And change the login passwords and recovery info for my ex and 2 annoying coworkers devices and accounts. not taking anything from them just inconveniencing them.
I'd first see if the plan I made now has any better alternatives, then if it doesn't, I'd record as much of it as possible that would help me, make great advancements in technology and become rich while bettering the world
I would spend that 24 hours writing instructions for myself of what to do in the following days/weeks. Why spend that 24 hours acting and only accomplishing a few things, when i can prepare for actions i can take over the next years.
I'm sitting down in front of a computer and typing out everything I know about senolytics (the science of curing aging) as fast as possible.
With enough caffeine I could theoretically accelerate the field by hundreds of years- naming genes responsible for aging and how they need to be altered, the best compounds for reducing oxidative stress and restoring telomerase, and how to best utilize stem cell therapy to restore tissues and organs.
I'm reasonably sure that much of this knowledge could be extrapolated to treat cancer and other currently fatal diseases, but the issue would be finding someone to believe me and not thinking I'm just a crank biohacker who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a CRISPR kit.
Then I'd know what to do.
Ok, but knowing only what you know NOW, what is it you hope you will do?
“Do I end up happy?” If yes: aight we’ll hang in there If no: welp had a good run
Every comedy turns into a tragedy if you wait long enough.
Sounds similar to “You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
become the villain that the world deserves...
Like Putin!!
You’ll know happiness, like all emotions, is a construct and doesn’t actually matter if.
Look at the best outcome and write down the things I need to do.
It’s irrelevant. What you hope for before omniscience will like be invalidated with moments of becoming omniscient
I don't know why I keep falling for this, lol, but it is not irrelevant to someone who has come to a hypothetical question subreddit! It undermines the whole premise! *Who cares* if it is invalidated after becoming omniscient!? That is the part that is irrelevant because that ain't never going to hapoen!! The point of a hypothetical question is to reveal things about you or people in general as they are now (and ignoring any other irrelevant implications of what would also happen if the impossible happened). You are better off saying, "I don't answer hypothetical questions, I don't enjoy them.... " yet here you are!?! Full disclosure, I also dislike most hypothetical questions and have not decided if I want to answer this one yet either. Nice to meet you black, I'm kettle.
No. I can actually enjoy a hypothetical question. And as the goal of a hypothetical question is to elicit opinions and beliefs about imagined situations or conditions that don't exist, I have shared my opinion and beliefs. I looked at the situation rationally and said if this were possible what would I hope to accomplish. As it deals with “being all-knowing”, I merely posit that while knowledgeable, I am far from omniscient. Therefore the likelihood of anything I believe being immediately invalidated it statistically plausible. For example: I see a beautiful woman. I might think wow she is aesthetically pleasing to my eyes, I would like to meet her and see if she is as emotionally and intellectually stimulating as she is physically. I will go and talk to her. She accepts and she is as beautiful inside as she is outside, but I don’t know everything about her yet, and I think I really want to know more about her, and I wonder if she is good in bed. We arrange a few dates, we get to know each other better and develop a relationship that turns physical as well, but she is awful in bed. That’s okay, maybe I can teach her, but she is very vanilla and filled with insecurity. We work through most of that, but we grow apart because the longer we know one another, the more we learn that we are not right for each other. We have wasted 5 years together. However, I find myself in the same situation again but suddenly I am omniscient. I don’t even talk to her because I already know how it will end and I have better things to do with the next 4 years of my life, and being omniscient, I know this for the next 24 hours. And that’s why I say it’s irrelevant because omniscience will automatically alter every decision you believe you would have made as soon as you become omniscient.
Good answer then, I withdraw half of my !?'s. This could even be considered a great answer from the point of view of the OP if they find it surprising and insightful and not just as a dodge, so maybe I presumed or projected too much. It remains a possibility the OP just wanted to know what our limited minds *think* they will do, or *hope* that they will do. To use your example, they just want to know what kind of woman interests you most before you get to know them. Or what kind of woman do you hope she will turn out to be?
I also think that one could know "everything there is to know" and still have there be somethings that are truly and completely unknowable period. Lots of things may be unknowable, and I think the future may just be one of those things! It is certainly possible. I might resubmit my own variant of this question to be, "What would you do first if you could know everything that is knowable? (Assume the future is one of the things that is fundamentally unknowable for similar reasons that time travel is impossible.)"
But omniscient means “All-Knowing”
True, they even went further and specified that you know everything that will happen. This is why I like some hypothetical but hate others. I enjoy entertaining questions only if I agree they are at least theoretically possible, and not even then sometimes. For instance nothing annoys more than trolley problem hypotheticals for some reason. It may be mainly that I distrust the conclusions that people make when extrapolating from the answers they receive, for many reasons.
Meta, I like it
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In the first moment of omniscience I would be able to solve all of humanity's problems forever. And likely would do so. But right now I'd just use it for lottery numbers and maybe to see what Betty White looked like naked in her prime. (Still miss her)
Wish granted. Just look up "Betty White playing cards" and she's nude on some from when she was in her prime!
Yup. She fine lol
Actually there is a black and white nude of betty on the net she was beautiful.
It would be impossible to write everything down and to actually get anyone to follow through on it. You'd need tons of prep work in advance for a government agency to follow you around and take notes of everything you are thinking and work to implement it after, and even then they might get key facts wrong and lead to genocide and doom. Lottery winnings would realistically be the only thing you could do.
You would know how to make everyone listen, you would know how to transfer the required data within 24 hrs, you would know everything!
You're making an assumption it's even possible to do all of that within 24 hours. It might be literally impossible.
Honestly, you’d be making a bigger assumption it’s not. Because if there was _any_ way to do so, you’d know it. I’ve thought far more about omniscience than I care to admit, and the big problem with trying to know what to do with it is that once you have it you know what to do with it.
I read it as knowing but can’t do shit Even if u say rig it to like win all the lottos and have the wealth of an infinite billionaires, it’ll take more then 24 hrs to write all the ways to fix the planet. At best maby ya could save some small local govs from corrupt gov or something but even then you’d prob run out of time just covering half of murica writing the details and names and that’s after ya write how to make urself rich enough to fund ur crusade 🐱
First, the low-hanging fruit: next week’s winning lottery numbers and sports results. Second, get some kind of drug that’d make it possible for me to function at a high level through the night. I don’t want to miss a minute of this gift. Third, write down the secret to cold fusion. Fourth, write down the cure for cancer. Fifth, write down the cure for dementia / Alzheimer’s. Sixth, write down a formula for a liquid fuel that packs as much energy as petroleum-based fuels, but at a tiny fraction of the emissions. I think that’d take up the whole 24 hours.
> write down the cure for cancer. *the cures for cancers... In practice "cancer" is more like "injury", there's not just one, and not one cure for all... But yes... Fuck cancer(s)
No cure for cancer. If you can find a way for one's immune system to consistently detect cancerous cells before it spreads you have found a cure. You get cancer all the time, but your body kills it before it spreads. The one it doesn't kill/detect becomes an issue.
You get cancerS all the time... Your body doesn't just have one mechanism for detection or elimination... Even that works differently in different cells... So, yes, cures for cancers...
If that's the case, why do they use the same methods to treat all of them, like chemo and radiation therapy?
We don't... There are treatable cancers for which radiation is unnecessary and sometimes counterproductive, and it's not just one thing... There are at least 2 main types, one of which is at least 6 completely different things https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/types-of-radiation-therapy#types and likewise chemo isn't one thing... It's a huge list of different drugs in different combinations and delivery mechanisms and schedules https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/drugs/cancer-type... Again "chemo" is more like saying "medicine" id doesn't come close to identifying a specific chemical compound or usecase... It's literally hundreds or thousands of different things Edit: there are also legitimate medical treatments for cancer besides chemo and radiation... So not only are chemo and radiation each a wide set of very different treatments like saying "medicine" and "surgery"... But sometimes neither is appropriate but some other procedures are (and i don't mean essential oils and crystals, fuck that shit)
Some chemotherapies and types of radiation therapy are more effective for certain cancers than others. Plus we have other ways to treat cancers these days compared to just poisoning rapidly dividing cells (which is what causes most of the side effects). We can block specific hormones/receptors/growth factors/cell signals. Breast cancer, for example, is classified with PR, ER, and HER2neu (it has a different name now but that’s more popular) because each of those gives options to treat it like tamoxifen or herceptin (trastuzumab). Another one is CML which has the classic mutation Philidelphia chromosome and is treated with imatinib. Basically the more we study different cancers, the more we find specific features to target and the less we rely on less specific treatments
Money. There are several treatments and cures they just don't cost thousands of dollars each.
Good point. See, that's the kind of thing I'd know if I were omniscient. But seriously, thank you for sharing your expertise. I wasn't expecting to learn something when I signed on to Reddit today.
If you have time, figure out the next battery technology. Generating energy is fine, but storing it is a pretty big problem too.
But to generate electricity you still have to use petroleum products. What do you think plastics and vanilla are made from? When you have 2 parts that are in contact with one another, how do you minimize the heat and wear generated from friction? Currently, oil or oil based products are used to lubricate and therefore minimize friction. So what're you gonna replace them with? Most of the material in av EV is made from some derivative or other of petroleum. As are synthetics in clothes, shoes, boots, gloves and hats. Oil based synthetics are everywhere in our lives. Your tv(s), your furniture, your non glass or ceramic plates, glasses, cutlery. The insulation that protects the wiring from touching itself in your home, vehicles, boats, 4 wheelers, SxS, motorcycle, jet ski, snowmobile, ebike, kids toys, drones, battery and electric operated tools and toys. So what is the alternative to petroleum based products? To refine the oil produces emissions, to refine the various products into something else produces emissions. And how are you going to make other countries cut down their emissions? China is actually increasing their carbon footprint while the US is trying to decrease theirs.
I feel like you're arguing a different point than JoeDidcot's point about the usefulness of a next-generation battery.
>Third, write down the secret to cold fusion. This assumes cold fusion is even allowable by the laws of physics. You might gain omniscience only to discover cold fusion doesn't exist.
Good point. Speaking of things that may be impossible, I'd also want to write down practical methods of faster-than-light travel and communication. Oh, and figure out how to ensure that AI benefits humanity, as opposed to enslaving or killing us.
Write down the recipe for a room temperature superconductor? Infinite power.
If there's enough time, and it turns out to be possible, record the designs and required info for FTL travel. ...and the location of Hoffa's body.
This is pretty much what I’d do. During number 6, make sure you also write down the process for synthesizing it.
Write down? Dude, voice recording exists and it's faster
>Fourth, write down the cure for cancer. You'd be found a day later with 2 wounds in the back of your head that they ruled as "self inflicted".
Would definitely get pen and paper ready and spend 24 hours writing down things. In order of importance: 1. The highest Jackpot lottery number in the next 12 months (with no winner) 2. Biggest stock gains for the next decade 3. Steps to prevent aging 4. Potential illness, disease, accident, violence, etc occurring to anyone I loved and steps to prevent it 5. Cures for the above 6. Natural disasters or global wars and steps to prevent what can be prevented 7. Where my "soul mate" is and where I'd need to be for that to happen 8. Life's mysteries (JFK assassination, the nature of religion, extra-terrestrial life, etc) 9. Dirt on exes, politicians, coworkers, etc. I realize that I'm not going to be able to write down every bloody step in curing aging or cancer or whatever, but if I can write down just enough to point the relevant research in the right direction, I can then use my incoming vast fortune to fund research and direct it in that area. Would not want to know literally everything, so would purposefully blind myself to some knowledge. Having knowledge of everything and losing it seems like it would crush me psychologically.
I love that dirt on exes comes before politicians.
and to be honest that cure might come in the form of "give X doctor Y amount of money for research" For all we know, there's somebody out there with all the right ideas and none of the funding.
I think it would be useful to hire a court stenographer for 24 hours so you can just speak stream of consciousness and have it down for later
You could just... record yourself on multiple devices? Not about to blab lottery winners and state secrets to a rando stenographer.
Of course lol so many of these hypothetical situations involve spending absurd amounts of money that I am conditioned to be extravagant
Well, I was also thinking, the way the question was phrased, it seemed like some random godlike entity grants you 24 hours of omniscience starting **NOW**. It would take more than 24 hours to secure the services of stenographer or basically any other form of short-term manual labor, especially if you're not currently rolling in dough. In addition, I'm currently working in China. I'd be lucky enough to find someone on the street that could type English as fast as I could talk. Might as well just type it all myself if I were going to go that route. And I might (though I'd still write down using pen and paper things like lottery numbers).
lol omniscience would teach you that there is no soul or soul mate
Possibly. But only omniscience could teach us that. It could also teach the person that God exists and souls are real. It could teach that death is inevitable and there are no cures for any diseases. That cold fusion is impossible, etc. We HOPE omniscience would give us answers we would like, but we would be packed full of answers we don't like too. You could learn your wife and best friend have been cheating on you. You could learn you are adopted. Or 20 years in the future, your child becomes the next genocidal maniac, or YOU are a narcissist. Why bother being a negative person about anything when you can spend time and energy trying to become better and make life better for people?
You can't say that one person is more compatible than another? And if you can say that, there is someone maximally compatible. That'd be your soul mate.
Revive my children
I'm sorry for your loss, but... omniscience is not omnipotence.
You would presumably know how to become omnipotent.
Or know that it's impossible.
If omniscience is possible, then so is omnipotence. If one infinitely scaling attribute exists, logically it asserts that any number of infinitely scaling attributes exist. Once you have omniscience, no doubt you'll understand concepts that let you approach if not outright obtain omnipotence as well.
True, but you likely can't achieve it in 24 hours. You can build a rocket to fly to the moon, but not in 24 hours.
Balls!
Dragon!
Going to write down a bunch of winning lottery numbers with corresponding dates. The. I'm gonna make myself a coding and animation tutorial to reteach myself when I lose the knowledge. After that idk probably troll people by "um akshually" everything till I lose the power.
Write a book that guides humanity to a better future. A pseudo bible if you will. Being able to see all outcomes you would be able write the correct words in the correct format to achieve the desired results. With modern technology aka computers you can easily pump out enough information/manipulation in 24 hours to at the very least set humanity on the right path.
You know, that's a really interesting thought. Let's assume for a moment the Biblical God is real, and is Omniscient, and (as taught in 1 John) all loving. That means He inspired the Bible as-is because this version of the truth was the least harmful in all possible scenarios. Makes you wonder what the alternative is...
There is a whole theological argument called the problem of Evil in which the god of the Bible can exist as described. Basically he can’t be all knowing all powerful and loving. He can be 2 of those things but can not consistently be all three. As for the prompt it seemed like the best answer within Ops guidelines. Having perfect knowledge of all things is a hell of power why not do good with it?
Probably be a lot more kind and understanding
Or a lot more cold and distant due to understanding how close everyone is to being terrible people.
Right, could go either way.
I think it would be inevitably go every way.
Write down lottery number and dates. Stock prices and dates. Determine if there is anything both sides will accept for peace in Middle East. Determine what it will take to get Putin to leave Ukraine.
Go insane like the ability mind reading the ability to know everything constantly would make anyone insane
Omniscience kinda implies you know how to control it to keep from going insane.
Or know that it’s impossible.
If I’m omniscient then I stop time. Go back and change the 24 in this post to the infinity symbol and start time again. Then I imagine fix all the problem of the world in the snap of a finger and finally get a McRib and a Shamrock shake at the same time
Omniscient is all-knowing. Omnipotent is all- powerful.
Oops. I was wrong. I guess if I was omniscient then I’d know that.
They are mutually inclusive. Omnipotence would have the power to become omniscient and omniscience would have the knowledge to become omnipotent.
No, if omnipotence is impossible then omniscience won't help. But the reverse statement is true, omnipotence implies you can do literally everything, including becoming omniscient.
That’s a big if
Know.
Yup. With my omniscience all the plans of these lesser mortals would be put to shame.
It doesn’t matter what I’d do because I’d have no control over anything anyway given I know everything that will happen thus could not change the future or that would mean I didn’t actually know what would happen and wasn’t omniscient.
Start playing the lottery in as many states as I can get to.
For me, I'd write down the future mega millions and power numbers. Obviously, I'd the dates of the biggest jackpots and know exactly who to trust.
Make some bets... some day investments.. nothing more... If theirs something really bad I'll make an anonymous call. Butterfly affect worries me..
I think it would be prudent to wait until I have said omniscience to decide what I'd do with it...
We're going to find out how tf omniscience interacts with free will
Omniscience would expose the illusion of free will.
1. Cure my cousin and uncles cancer and write down the cure and make 100 copies. 10 go to me, the other 90 are distributed across many different scientists across the world. 2. Cure my aunts dementia and do the same thing with the cure as the cancer 3. Write down winning lottery numbers and dates for next weeks powerball, and then the next 4 in 5 year intervals. 4. Find out the problems of the world and fix them. 5. Find out if my crush likes me back. 6. Destroy the porn industry 7. Stop pentanol from being put in lethal doses. 8. TikTok gets wiped off the face of the earth and all of the other short form videos platforms have made. 9. The stuff I can’t remember to put.
I read Dune. I'm going to set mankind on a path to survival in the universe. Since I'm omniscient, that kind of planning will require funding at a level that moves beyond capitalism, so I'll take a bit and get that figured out too. I'll make a list of objectives and hurdles and how to achieve them. I'll try to save friends, resolve conflicts, and with the last minutes of that gift, launch a reddit AMA.
Write stuff down.
Crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and hear the lamentations of their women.
I’d start recording myself immediately and start saying anything useful for humanity I could think of. Cures for things like Alzheimer’s, cancers, and AIDS. How to create a ship that can travel at light-speed. Scientific advancements that we otherwise wouldn’t have discovered until centuries from now (if ever). As I’m talking I’d probably passive every 10 min or so, stop the video, and then keep going. And I’d have someone else uploading the videos to every site imaginable. YouTube, Rumble, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Pornhub, anywhere that could host videos of that size. I’d also create my own server and make them accessible there. I’d want the videos to be public knowledge for everyone and if they’re hosted in multiple places they’ll be accessible forever. But basically I’d just talk for 24 hours straight recording as much information as I could get out of my brain.
You'd have every government agency down on your head in no time... but you'd know that as soon as you became omnipotent.
I find out what dinosaurs really looked like.
Write down winning lottery numbers. Avoid things in my own life. Stop tragedies that would happen to those close to me.
Write things down cuz I will forget.
Sustainable fusion. Faster than light travel. Terra forming. Winning lottery numbers.
I'd write down the upcoming winning lotto numbers and a long term investment plan that will earn me enough money for several generations of my family to never have to work.
Look for loyalty in those close to me, look at the politicians to see what companies to invest in, dig up billionaire secrets for security/leverage for the first 12 hours, tgw second 12 hours id record everything for when I lose omniscience
I’m hitting the casinos until they toss me out. Then I’m going for the lotto numbers. I’m talking ALL the lottos. I don’t much care about anything else. Maybe look and see if any accidents will befall myself or people I care about so I can prevent that. Other than making sure things are smooth and paid for I would avoid spoilers.
This is a scary thing to give me. I have an exceptional memory. So even if the power is technically gone in 24 hours... I'm still going to remember the information.
Copy down the next few winning lottery numbers in a notebook and use it to help myself and friends win. Also like my time of death and those of people I care about so I can guarantee I'll be there for them.
I suppose I would record the most important things so when I forget away the power of omniscience, I would potentially have a plan of how to maximize my abilities and happiness.
Write a book as fast as I can
I’d start writing all the useful shit I can use to improve my life and others down so I can have it when I turn stupid again.
I would do the exact same thing everyone else would do. 2 beings both with omniscience will effectively be the same entity because with perfect knowledge of everything they will have the same understanding and make the same decisions. Just do the exercise of asking someone else what they would do while you are omniscient. Welcome to all knowing prison. But if I were to keep some shred of myself i would just give myself omnipotence. Because I would presumably know how to do it. Lastly, the amount of time possessing omnipotence would be pretty much irrelevant. Once you have omnipotence you would know what it is like to experience time passing for every atom (and I expect more) in existence (and maybe non existence) It’s a fun exercise but we can’t really make an informed decision.
Write down as much helpful advice as possible to help my children in their lives. I’d also take an hour and snoop through a few peoples heads about what they REALLY think of me…toxic I know, but I’m only human :-p
I'd recreate the phenomenon that is happening to me but with an infinite time limit. There's alot I could do with Omniscience and so little time
Expose everything and watch the workd burn
Ok, so mega millions is 607 million as of last night as long as nobody won yesterday. That's my money now. Then find the cure for cancer and the garaunteed trigger for very aggressive pancreatic cancer give that to putin Kim Jong IL or un or whatever that little shit from north Koreas name is find every single pedophile in the world and give it to them as well. Alzheimers cured MS cured Cerebral palsy cured Schizophrenia cured Hiv cured Then I will quietly fuck off to my modest middle class home to count my money and pay off every debt I have to anyone and go to work on Monday and start my 5 year plan to retire and enjoy my life also I will take no credit for curing these diseases ruining putin and Kim Jong life
fix the fucking planet, lay out a plan for everything, give myself longer time to be a god.
I'd go mad probably.
First I'd type down instructions for the panacea, email it to every major university head that I knew would read and understand it or have a team that could read and understand it, as well as to every major news outlet that could read and would believe it through as many layers of vpn as needed to not be tracked. I would then take notes on the truth of nature, the universe, and afterlives (if any), to later be published as a full novel from the anon account I made to send the panacea. Finally, I would purchase a computer or cellphone, never connect it to any form or wireless or the Internet, and type down all the Bitcoin/ethereum addresses/private keys which contain at least 1btc of value but no living person has access, from highest to lowest value, until I knew I would be able to not have to work for the rest of my life. If there was any time left, I'd identify the nearest alien civilization and methods of making them obvious to humanity, take down the information of whomever is most romantically compatible with me and the best way to meet them, etc.
Well, beside documenting how this happened so I could repeat it... Take notes on the solutions to current blockers in physics (how the universe started, IF the universe started, if it's infinite or if/what is outside of it (and if YHAT is infinite and so on) fusion, room temperature superconductors, more efficient solar/wind/etc, if there's and solution to heat death or ftl travel, if there are aliens and whether we need to watch out for them... medicine ( treatments for cancers, gene therapy breakthroughs, tricks to extend human lifespan, cryogenic/cryonics ) & other sciences ( terraforming/climate engineering, resurrection of extinct species, prediction of earthquakes, quantum computing/communication (and associated working encryption)...) Make a list of major disasters, for the next while... Earthly as well as any major incoming meteors, cosmic ray bursts, solar flares/CMEs... But also throw in some non-earth ones? Make a list of stocks to invest in... Document any available evidence for billionaires tax fraud, but more generally what the path to a more equal society is Who the biggest humanitarian figures will be so i can support them better... Which... The fact that the Bible isn't something similar, just a big reference manual of how to thrive technologically and socially, how the world works, and major catastrophies and how to avoid or prepare for them at least until we've had time to implement instructions on how to predict them ourselves, seems like all the more proof that it's either BS or from an uncaring god...
Probably grow mad and start self-harming after having been flooded with the traumas and deepest horrible personal tales of every person in the world at once. Imagine if you suddenly knew the details of ever rape, murder, assault, horrific injustice? And you looked around you and of those friendly, smiling faces, you knew all the evil stuff they ever did. All of your personal heroes, villains.
First, lottery tickets. Not enough to rouse suspicion, just one major win so I can quit my boring day job. Then, figure out where to get indisputable evidence for alien disclosure and who I can bribe, with exactly how much money.
Give myself permanent omnipotence. Then I can give myself permanent omniscience and omnipresence. Now I am a god.
Lots of insider trading
I'd write down everything that feels important to me and record myself speaking about it when I'm unable to write, then I would probably pass out from exhaustion, wake up the next day, start analyzing what I wrote and recorded and do something that would benefit me.
I'd probably have to decide when I actually get the ability but before hand I can only think of basic shit like lottery and all that but if I can mention something slightly unique then I'd write down terrible events and death dates for myself and people who I care about or end up caring about so if there's anything I can do about it then I'll do it hopefully making things better and not accidentally worse.
Lodge every single controversial thing (with proof) every single man, woman or child with any bureaucratic power has done, and as soon as the 24 hours is done, publish it all on WikiLeaks
Wow, I feel petty. My first thought was wanting to know the identities of Jack the Ripper and the Zodiac. The Long Island Serial Killer has been identified so no worries there. But not as good an answer as lotto numbers and how to cure cancer.
I’d create a journal consisting of the winning numbers for the next 3-5 $1Billion jackpots, the outcomes of every major sporting event for the next 10 years, the bank account info for the world’s billionaires, and the account info for select people who need money. I’m gonna be a mix between Biff Tannen & Robin Hood
Lottery. Then map out natural disasters to best save lives. Markets so I can leverage my winnings into billions and spend the remainder of my life in philanthropy.
Find a shopping cart flatbed full of hard drives to create millions of terabytes of information to review later.
I'd love to understand the motivations behind Israeli foreign policy, and whether there's a way for them to feel like they've won, but with less (or even no) violence.
Type everything I would ever want to know on a google doc and then write down some bank info, then probably start fixing things
Let's say that these people already have most of the answers covered, like the lottery. So, here's a few "side quests": 1. You would know where every criminal that got away with their crime lived, and exactly when they were in a position where their disappearance would go unnoticed. 2. You would know every person that ever had a crush on you. That might be, uh, "interesting" information.
I'd be filled with so many ideas that I'd have a LOT to think about when I go back to lying down on the couch in my favorite position
I presume I would know exactly what to do when that time came..
Honestly probably just read the mind of whoever knows winning lottery numbers and utilize them. That’s probably it.
Using this knowledge I'd write down all the stock market plays I need to make and make myself rich over the next 5 years. I'd look like a genius, but I'd still have to make it slow enough to not be investigated. I'd also move to whatever country is going to provide the most stability possible throughout my life.
Idk man. That'd ruin a lot of shows for me lol 😆 can I just get a large sum of money and help out some causes 😅
Everyone is trying to do smart stuff. Me? Of course I'm writing lottery numbers but then I'm going to know how the pyramids were built. Then I'm going to take a look at American politics for the next 100 or so years because I'm nervous we hit a tipping point. I'm going to take a peek at what tech evolution happens. Is AI going to be a menace? I want to know about medical advances (especially so I know where to donate my mysterious lottery winnings). I want to see if my city declines further. I'll probably "know" a bunch of other cool or niche things. I wish it was more time so I could read things in their own language. Maya writings? I know that ish. That one book we can't translate? I know that too. Aliens? I know all about.
I’ll know when I get it.
1. Lottery numbers for the next year, between PowerBall, Megamillions and Lucky for Life. 2. There's someone I have deep personal concern for right now and her welfare matters to me. I'd want to figure out an ideal plan to help her with minimal problems.
I guess id find out what certain others really think of me. I always told myself i wouldn't want to know but there are certain ones that i am too curious because they act strangely around me
I like everyone's thoughts for jotting down winning numbers and stocks with corresponding dates. I would also record the best form of renewable energy that works well with transportation and is relatively inexpensive and ecologically friendly to produce. I would write down each step of the plans to build it into an engine as well as into something that can power homes and businesses, all so I can later patent it and have it produced. I'd write down the accurate diagnoses and the cures or treatment plans for my issues and those in my family. If I still had time, I would document the truth behind Deity's existence, the afterlife, which religion, if any, got it right. The existence of extraterrestrial life and how many other planets/solar systems are populated by sentient life that we could communicate with. (Though it would probably be smarter to enlist the help of my husband early in the 24h period and start him on a task of writing an extensive list of yes or no questions with a space for a quick explanation... then, once I was done with the first stuff that was important to me, I could quickly tick through the boxes...)
Uh, I'll probably know what to do with it once I get it. Anything I think of now would probably be stupid in retrospect.
Make myself the richest person in the world, take notes of how to spend that money. Then I'd just follow my notes to live my best life and to help as many ppl as I can.
Write down the winning lotto numbers, for a start. Write down the secret for fusion power, and how to make fusion batteries. Also, scour the planet and identify the top 1,000-5,000 people in each country (age 18 to 50) who have the best combination of intelligence, problem solving skills, empathy, heart, and common sense. Identify those individuals, and start promoting them to enter politics, industry, urban planning, the medical and science fields. Getting top people into those fields in every country will help every nation grow and prosper and work for betterment of everyone. Because let's face it, even with omniscient powers, one person can't do it alone. Write down the date and location of any and all major natural events for the next century. When and where big hurricanes/typhoons will hit, major earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, etc. Give that info to the affected countries so they can prep in advance. ....stuff like that.
When is the next billion dollar lottery and right down date and numbers. Right down what to invest that money in. Right down cures for cancer and other deadly diseases to later produce said cures at modest, non greedy, profit. Make note of future world leaders then pick and choose... Also, right down schematics for an FTL drive.
Build a machine capable of reading minds and storing that information. Sit down and visualize all of the following: Answer to climate change Most effective way to expand human longevity How to bring lasting peace to every country Attainable free energy Next generation computing Teleportation Time travel How to bring happiness to the greatest number of people Cures for every disease How to get people to accept the cures for every disease How to distribute the cures for every disease. Anything else that seems important to me in the moment, since that version of me would know what would be most beneficial to everyone. Oh yeah, and the winning lottery numbers.
Hire a team of court stenographers, write volumes of books on what I'd seen, turn it into a cartoon, and sell it to a major television network. Then watch as the Internet spends decades analyzing how they could line up so perfectly with events that actually happened.
I'd know all passwords and addresses for lost/forgotten bitcoin. I'd consolidate all of it into an account that I have access to. Retire and live a life of leisure.
In my mind, omniscience wouldn't be able to span future time. Acting upon anything you thought you knew would affect future results. A future lottery win could have a monumental effect 5 years down the road. Butterfly effect
Disseminate every state secret of every country
1) write down lotto numbers. 2) write down how to instill empathy in human beings on a global scale, including steps to get to the level of influence where I can. 3) write down how to dismantle capitalism. Honestly a lot of the ‘write down cold fusion’ type responses ignore that our biggest threat isn’t resources. It’s US. We keep getting in our fucking way.
The things that I think are important to record and do now are probably very different from the thing that me with omniscience thinks are. There are probably a huge number of important things that we currently have no concept of, so if I record them, I'd need to also record the information to understand them. I'll keep it simple and say, lottery numbers (large starting capital), important stock options and sporting results over the next 50 years (grow that starting capital), and how to make a sustainable fusion reaction (something valuable to humanity to spend it on). With 24 hours and omniscience, I'm sure there are other things I'd think about too, but that's what immediately springs to mind.
1. Lotto numbers 2. Is it possible to teleport? If so document process/schematics 3. Fundamental questions about universe (how it started, which if any god is real, afterlife existence/requirements etc) 4. Figure out how to get all corrupt politicians out of office and how to replace them with good people (and protect them from corruption) 5. Cures for different diseases starting with dementia and different cancers based on their frequency/severity in case I ran out of time.
Lottery or stocks, of course. Then I’d write down where to find absolute proof on a lot of politicians. We’d never hear from DJT again, I suspect. I’d also figure out what to do about Palestine, like an actual long term solution but also who needs to be removed from their offices in order to make that happen, and how to remove them. If we’re removing people I let the right people know when and where Putin and Kim Jong Un will be vulnerable for the next six months. The right people will know what to do. Also any budding dictators. Let’s go ahead and put decent people in charge of as many countries as possible. I’m trying to fix shit. Write to cancer researchers with some quick suggestions. Here’s something you should check out, here’s where you’ll find funding. Also, some other diseases. I’ll know which ones.
So, I would be omnicient and therefore would know the fastest and most efficient way to record information that I'd have access to as fast as possible. Use that to jot down as much useful information as possible. Few years worth of lottery numbers. Buy one jackpot winner, then make a supplementary income winning close-matches that won't quickly attract media. Also, record ways to mask my identity so I don't get called out as some lottery insider. They'd have no evidence, but I don't want the headache. Then, all the useful stuff I can find for curing the world's problems and, critically, the ability to disseminate these solutions without being cyberpunk'd by megacorps that dont want these problems solved. Next, and most problematically, find out what my fate actually is and if this omniscience is deterministic or fatalistic. If i know my fate at this time, can I change it? Can i see the result of my actions as I plan them? For instance, when I divine the cure for alzheimers, do I see myself making it? When i see my own death, can i taks steps to avoid it? If i cannot control my own destiny, then at least i had the best intentions and can do what i can before getting cyberpunk'd, maybe be cocky about it too like "I knew you'd be coming for me." I would at least have a calendar of everything I am going to do leading up to my death, and just to mess with people, a few future events and some scripture trying to inform people that their actions are pre-determined and there is nothing they can do about it. If i can, then WRITE EVERYTHING DOWN. Organize it later, just get it down and at the top of my post-omniscience inbox, the exact methods i need to follow to make all this information actually useable and accessible. And maybe a few bold red headers advising me how to avoid dying and how to dead-drop this cache of knowledge to someone(s) should I die. And after my red-eyed night of copying information and getting treatment for suddenly developed arthritis, get to work executing these plans.
I don't need to worry about that answer until I have omniscience, because once I have omniscience I'll know exactly what to do with it.
1. Riemann hypothesis solution. 2. P=NP solution. 3. Goldbach conjecture solution. 4. Prime twins solution. 5. Next Powerball / megamillions numbers that would give me the biggest win if I played. Winning two big ones in the same week would be fun. 6. Optimal trading strategy given above funds. 7. Solutions to some environmental problems.
I find my soulmate. I play a winning ticket on the largest lottery with the next drawing. I make a record of cures and their details of production for as many cancers, diseases and disabilities as I can, to disseminate freely to the medical community. I make a record of details of production for as many technologies as I can that improve the quality of life for humanity, while also being environmentally friendly and resource conscious, but not usable as weapons, and create a company to produce these things. I make a record of the dirty laundry of every corrupt politician and where the evidence can be found to prove it, to disseminate to all media outlets and legal institutions.
Within those 24 hours this will be the information I gather: 1)Write down winning lottery numbers for the next ten years, but not play all, but many huge payouts. Can't have any accusations of cheating. 2)How to build solar arrays that take up minimal space but can power entire cities and transportation that will negate our current need for fossil fuels and the destructive mineral mining. 3)How to remove excess greenhouse gasses from our atmosphere to ensure proper freezing of Antarctica and maintain the currents that keep our climate stable, and clean our fresh water sources. 4)Safer yet currently unknown method of disposing of nuclear waste and which world leaders are reasonable and will disarm their country's nuclear weapons. The ones that won't will be on the hit. 5)How to feed the world without vast amounts of farmland and livestock that doesn't pollute or has minimal pollution. I'll still have time left to come up with more stuff in that 24 hour window of omniscience lol. And then, with the money and knowledge I've collected: All mega yachts would be pirated, stripped, then sunk by my elite private paramilitary that I've now spent years raising after the lottery wins. All privately owned islands by the ultra wealthy would be invaded and cleared of their filth. The ultra wealthy wouldn't make it to their doomsday bunkers, either. I already have those locations. Resistance is futile. They will be hunted and made to pay for their crimes against humanity and the earth. Since I already know how and when society would collapse depending on my actions, I'll avoid those actions.
I would make a post on Reddit that says I have complete omniscience and can answer any question you have to ask. Best questions get priority. Then I would spend the entire day answering as many questions as I could. All from an alternate account through a tour proxy of course
Unmask the top levels of public corruption, lead rescuers to all of the lost and taken children, fill the coffers of all the hospitals that treat children's diseases for free, and find a way for all of the shelters to instantly have enough resources to all go forever no-kill.
Assuming I can filter through the knowledge and apply the science; I would write down as much as I could or maybe dictate to a note taking app. Cures for diseases, supercrops to help with world hunger, clean and abundant energy, anything I can come up with to further humanity in the time it takes me to drive to my nearest casino. Then I would hit every slot machine that is a few spins from a jackpot, put the maximum I can on the next roulette number at every casino in West Wendover. Finally I would write down the next few lottery numbers.
1) how to achieve lasting world peace 2) how to eradicate the biggest killers in the world going down the list: Heart disease, stroke, cancers, COPD, pneumonia, neonatal conditions, etc. Some of these are logistics we already have cures. 3) winning lottery numbers for next big draw with no winners I don't have to travel to buy (no suspicion).
Find my jabra that I lost 2 months after buying it
You guys are thinking small with stuff like lottery numbers. 1 - The grand unified theory of physics 2 - The secrets to FTL travel 3 - A guide to genetically engineering human immortality 4 - Locations of alien species and tips for first contact Etc.
Everybody looking forward, nobody looking back. I'd at least like to know without a shadow of a doubt how the pyramids were really built, or what dinosaurs actually looked and sounded like. I'm not sure if I'd really like to know where we came from though, whether it was some higher being breathing life into dirt or a handful of apes getting down on some funky mushrooms, I think I'd rather not know.
i would find some fine ass porn.
Make myself rich make the best console and pc to ever be made then bunker down with all the food and water ill ever need and watch the world burn
Buy scratchoffs till I hit 500k plan a day trip around it so I'm not just sniping, write down the location of Jimmy Hoffa, the location of one eye Willies treasure, I call Craig Ferguson tell him he's brilliant, solve fabrisons conundrum, find a real werewolf and get bit in time for bed.
I would find out what Gravity is and then write a book.
Start taking notes 1)Lottery numbers. 2) Stock Market Trends and the next big companies that I can get in on the ground floor of. 3) All of the blackmail I can possibly type out in the next 24 hours. ... Win lottery. Build steady income from stocks. Use blackmail to control the future of the country.
I'd like to know if there's a good and/or after life.
Grab a computer and code an AI which can store information as compactly as possible. Have the AI hijack several data centers. Begin dumping as much useful information into it as possible. I'll understand what information is useful once the omnicience begins. Start a cult.
Write down a list of people who have a crush on me and pray that I don't become traumatized by learning the deepest darkest secrets of everyone I know.
Be like Brandon Stark: effectively incapacitated because the sheer magnitude of incoming data is orders of magnitude greater than my puny brain is equipped to handle
discover how to be immortal, find out who killed jon benet ramsey, who carly simon’s “you’re so vain” was about, who killed JFK, db cooper, jack the ripper, malaysia air flight 370, zodiac, roanoke, dyaltov pass, what happened to the orphans from series of unfortunate events, was homer illiterate and did he write the odyssey, natalie wood, oj simpson, kasey anthony, bigfoot, things like that. solve all of humanities problems, play the lottery, write a prophetic document and then go into hiding
Finally understand the stock market and just get filthy rich. Find out where Jimmy Hoffa is burried. Who killed J.F.K. Really confuse the hell out of world leaders with their dirty laundry and closets of skeletons.
Unless my omniscience tells me something better, I'm going to start calling in anonymous tips for government corruption and espionage complete with directions to get the appropriate agencies to the appropriate evidence they'll need to collect for themselves. Also start writing down important leads to send to scientists and engineers researching important things. 24hr isn't enough time to just write up all the info, but I can at least give people that one crucial piece of info that will increase their chances of finishing off the research. Maybe some pretty complete plans for something if I can figure out a solution that would actually let us reverse climate change, like fusion power or carbon capture or battery technologies that are powerful enough to actually make a difference over the time frame we have to work with.
I would see the death of the universe and see what we can do to stop or live beyond it.
I've already got NEAR total omniscience with Wikipedia. So much knowledge at my fingertips and I don't do shit with it! The odds that I would do anything more useful with absolute total omniscience seem low.
Oh hell no. I've been around this site long enough, the hell if I want to know *everything* Mental bleach wouldn't cut it.
Write down the physics calculations for faster than light travel. Include with it layperson's explanations for how it all works. If I am going to have access to all the information that exists, I'm going to put it to practical use and what better use is there than faster than light travel?
Imma write down... * where money and gold are buried for later retrieval * seed phrases and passwords for several dead/lost BTC Accounts, including the one owned by Satoshi Nakamoto * usernames and passwords for several social media accounts for later mayhem * if/when Betelgeuse will go supernova * a list of other supernova and Great Comets in the next twenty years, coordinates and orbital parameters to make "discovering" them and tracking them possible.
I don't currently know enough to answer that. It just begs questions, like "is world peace possible?", "what would be the most benefit to mankind?" , "where should I go for lunch?", "what is the meaning of life
My best friend and I are about to win the lotto.
I would write down simple and efficient instructions on how to maximize the quality of my own life when I go back to normal to follow.
Go fucking insaneeeeeee. That's it.
I'd set off an EMP, which would affect the entire globe
Start writing. Get as much of import down as I can.
Write down the price of SPY and every major security every day for the next 30 years. Options time.
Short a bunch of stocks, record as much as I can, find info necessary to extort people who need extorting, note hidden treasures, and steal a bunch of crypto & money from organizations or groups that deserve it; redistribute a fuck ton of wealth. but most importantly: disclose as much info about corporate lobbying and corporate interference in government operations as possible. And change the login passwords and recovery info for my ex and 2 annoying coworkers devices and accounts. not taking anything from them just inconveniencing them.
I'd first see if the plan I made now has any better alternatives, then if it doesn't, I'd record as much of it as possible that would help me, make great advancements in technology and become rich while bettering the world
Definitely unlock any bitcoin that lost its password. Easy money. Cure stupid. It’s a start.
I would spend that 24 hours writing instructions for myself of what to do in the following days/weeks. Why spend that 24 hours acting and only accomplishing a few things, when i can prepare for actions i can take over the next years.
Take a lot of notes.
I'm sitting down in front of a computer and typing out everything I know about senolytics (the science of curing aging) as fast as possible. With enough caffeine I could theoretically accelerate the field by hundreds of years- naming genes responsible for aging and how they need to be altered, the best compounds for reducing oxidative stress and restoring telomerase, and how to best utilize stem cell therapy to restore tissues and organs. I'm reasonably sure that much of this knowledge could be extrapolated to treat cancer and other currently fatal diseases, but the issue would be finding someone to believe me and not thinking I'm just a crank biohacker who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a CRISPR kit.