Stipulations:
- You cannot die and are immune to disease
- You cannot alter the future such that you change the world from your point of origin. i.e. You cannot become so famous that future people recognize you as immortal.
- If you vary the timeline too much you will cease to exist.
How does hunger and thirst work, if I cannot die? Do I still get hungry? What if I don’t eat? What if I just spend most of my time building a house in the woods and doing artwork for months or years at a time, since I don’t need to restock provisions?
If you vary the timeline too much you will cease to exist.
But there’s a chance you will make the timeline better for those you leave behind? I’d be spending a lot of time in NYC, waiting for an opportunity…
How will I survive if I cannot die? I just will
The challenge is in not erasing yourself by the rules, by being famously immortal. Presumably, you also don’t age. So you just have to move around every decade or two.
So you just get a normal job and get to live through one of the greatest economic booms of American history where you can raise a family of 5 with one singular income?
Literally just go to work for 40hrs a day 5 days a week and you could have damn near anything you want as long as you’re white?
This is a dumb “what if”.
I think having a family would be too sad
Well if you want to be boring with your answer and not have fun thinking of other interesting ways to solve this problem then yeah it’s dumb,
as long as you’re white
And male, cis, straight, Christian, etc. You could fake some of those things if needed, but that’s generally a crappy way to live.
Also, assumes American.
Yeah you right. I made that assumption but the premise didn’t give you much to go on.
Plus this would be right as ww2 was ending so you’re relatively safe either way unless you’re black in the south. Again in America
And live in America
I think if I was 20 I could just backpack all over, get easy cash in hand jobs and fuck around for decades. However, if I’m sent back now at 48 being twice the weight I was at 20 I’d probably struggle as this late middle-aged oddball who has come from nowhere and has no period-specific skills.
Fuck it dude, I’d just go bowling.
How do you survive until modern day?
I just do … you literally said I cannot die.
There is the caveats they put in that you’ve got to make sure no one finds out you’re immortal or you’ll just cease to exist and can’t change history in any significant way or be met with the same fate
I stay in my same body, at the same age I am now, keep all my teeth, etc? I am nearsighted, it’s gonna be difficult.
What happens when I pass the day I am born, though? Are there 2 of me?
I don’t think I’d change the timeline much anyway, it seems hard to. Though I’d love to become a lawyer and advise Al Gore against conceding the election he won. Even if I ceased to exist that might be worth it.
Im assuiming doctor who rules where just dont interact with yourself
I’d assume Harry Potter time turner rules, where there were always two of you when you were growing up, because future you had already gained immortality and gone back in time. But you never realized there was a second you when you were growing up, because future-you actively avoided interacting with past-you.
It also resolves a lot of the “what if you accidentally change the timeline and prevent yourself from ever being born” types of paradoxes, because you were already born which means anything your future-self does will automatically resolve with you being born.
tomato tomato
Sit around and wait. I’m immortal.
“Hey this guy has sat here for 30 years and he hasn’t aged one bit!”
* ceases to exist *
Sleep it off in a coffin like a vampire? They didn’t say you could starve.
Immune to disease? Welp, time to become a massive slut throughout the ages.
I would survive on Mamie Van Doren, Brigitte Bardot, Sheree North, Rebecca De Mornay, Pam Grier, Rosie Perez… I mean I could go on.
…I mean someone’s gotta make horny posts without Violet here, right?
Love that the only thing stopping you from being a massive slut is your mortality and fear of venereal disease!
Yeah, the 60s would be insane. Everyone fucking because they live in a world where they are far less aware of STDs. Ignorance is bliss
I keep seeing people mention this violet person, who are they talking about?
Someone who posted quite often about having sex, wanting sex, missing sex(after a very short time), having sex with multiple people, etc etc…
Tbh they sounded pretty lucky to be so desirable lol
Did they disappear? I think I blocked them. At 52, I don’t need to hear the sexual hijinks of a teenager. I applaud their enthusiasm but honestly it was like hearing my daughter having phone sex through the wall.
Hasn’t posted recently, I think.
48 and don’t have her blocked, I like the hornyposting TBH … different strokes (ahem)
What was their username?
Violet and a number. I can’t remember exactly, something like violet01
“Violet08_” Just checked my blocklist lol
Probably 26 minus 18
Viol8?
Thats probably the license plate of the cop in NYC with a thousand red light and speed camera tickets
Best general plan I can think of, TBH
Become a famous actor, nobody will believe I’m immortal because it’s not possible.
Hide in a cave for an eternity then. If no one knows I exist, then I live forever.
Booooo! Boring!
I’d do mostly the same, however I’d go full cryptid: there’d be sighting, blurry photos, and stories told about me.
if I am immortal then just do my own thing. Work a job for a while and move on. Rinse and repeat. I have been a nobody for 63 years. It is not really that hard. You know like the Highlander.
There can be only one…
touches nose
It’s gonna be tough being a queer POC but I’d probably just be a sidequest queen and travel the world doing random shit, trying not to stay in the same place for too long and not return until i can reasonably claim to be my own child
I have a feeling you would have more fun in Paris than other places
a lot of indigenous cultures have really interesting cultural perspectives on gender. i think id enjoy traveling and connecting with people all over the world and immortalizing their stories in me
As I was reading this, I disappeared in a flash of light and landed in 1945. But I have a plan.
- Learn acoounting, get a job, grind for 10 or so years
- Start investing in Ford, GE etc. and wait for the compound interest to kick in
- Buy a farm, continue to invest. Retire “early”
- Grow a beard, get some white hair paint
- Travel to “relatives” in Australia for 6 months every year
- While in Australia, get rid of beard, set up alternative identity as my own nephew, get involved in fledgling computer domain, invest
- Back home, take up fishing, end up disappearing at sea one day, nephew inherits everything
- I am nephew. Got enough money now to stop working, buy a vineyard in NZ, spend 6 months in the year abroad
- Invest in IBM, I should be filthy rich by now
- Hire professionals to set up a dozen or so alternate identities in English speaking countries. Kill nephew, avoid Australia for the next 20 years
- Numbered Swiss accounts, different looks, pro theatre makeup, the works. By now my 10+ offshore companies own 10% of Berkshire Hathaway between them
- Rotate identities as needed. Invest in the dot com bubble from 100+ offshore shell companies. Cash in and buy tech stocks after the crash. I am now richer than God, but still not intervene in not-yet-current affairs
- No posh events, no media, no socials ffs. My ghosts come and go. I own a few law firms that take care of business and identity management. When suspicions arise, I change countries. Ireland works for a while. I now own 10-20% of all major tech companies, because I bought them before it was cool
- I get into crypto early. Money has no meaning anymore. I mark the days and months remaining to May 19, 2026, when all of this began. I need to insert myself into my old life right as past me begins the journey, will probably feign a nasty flu afterwards to get back on track. Small price to pay for total freedom
And here we are. Money wise, I own about half the world and now I can finally act. Where should I start?
Please dump enough “political contributions” into us politics to get intelligent, empathetic, progressive people in charge.
It’s pretty rare for good people to become immensely wealthy and stay good people. Money corrupts, and once you’re to a point where money is no longer survival but a high score, that starts to drive your thinking.
Absolutely correct.
Maybe immortality, infinite wealth, and a hundred year long life won’t corrupt THIS person?
Brb gotta go pray to the Easter bunny …
Living 81 years with the prospect of annihilation if one rocks the boat too much will change a man. Likewise honing the kind of duplicitous skills required to simply survive the attention of the world.
So, would my moral compass stay intact? If I don’t work at it, no - I’m under no illusion that it would. What I expect to happen is that I would continue to avoid the public eye. But once the shackles are off, there’s no telling where this goes.
Stepping out of this role for a bit, if I had that kind of wealth today, what would I invest in? Education and science. Press freedom. Rule of law. Anti-poverty programs (part of education). Probably others too, but those are the essentials.
“If you vary the timeline too much, you will cease to exist.”
Even if you want to be altruistic enough to sacrifice yourself for the good of humanity, you’ll be wiped out long before you’re able to change enough to lead to lasting improvement.
Fuck. It’s your fault!
Not yet, but it’s about to be. Just watch the dominoes and remember me.
Can you spare a few million?
Get fucked peasant!
Super excellent. The only notes to add:
Steal and cycle through 2 new US identities every 10 years. Always churn new idienties faster than you expect. You can be Bob age 20, Jerry age 30 and Sid age 40 in LA, Chicago, and NYC, respectively, at the same time.
Start a shell company where all your identities are the board. Use it to buy land in LA and NYC.
Gamble for supplemental income.
At no point did my plans involve setting foot on US soil. Too many three letter agencies for my liking.
Fair. However, there’s a lot of runway before that really gets problematic. You can move things offshore prior to 2000 and be perfectly fine.
Funny seeing you here, surprised you didn’t say you’d go back to when we were enslaving and committing genocide on native Americans and capturing and torturing people in Africa.
Fun fact: you can talk about things that happened without endorsing or condoning the things that happened.
You’ll notice that I didn’t say anything about genocide or the slave trade being good.
Edit:ah yes, you’re the very stable genius that told me to “go die” recently. Very classy.
Like, do you need to talk to someone? You don’t seem OK.
Sure, that’s a great explanation as to why you used slavery as an example to justify shackling and limiting sentient A.I. and called it great.
Maybe don’t use condoning language if you’re not condoning something, cause that shit was racist as fuck, no matter how you try to contextualize it.
Look, I’m sorry that you’re still not understanding that taking about terrible things that humans in power did, and still do, to exploit other humans, doesn’t mean I’m saying that’s good.
It seems like you might be misunderstanding mid-sentence sarcasm as… being a fan of genocide and slavery? WTF is wrong with you? Read the room. Read with context. It’s an explanation that companies that exploit people will seamlessly transition to exploiting AGI.
I can’t tell if you’re genuinely stupid or just trying to be the worst internet troll. Either way, you’re really behaving quite inappropriately, sound like a fool, and are not good enough at understanding English to use your misunderstanding as a reason to cyberstalk and bully someone.
Kill Jimmy Savile, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Epstein, so on.
Then you don’t survive, you cease to exist
Like for real or because you became a killer you lost your humanity?
No because of the rules of the hypothetical posed in this post
Indeed. Lame rules.
Would be a shittier hypothetical without boundaries because then what would be the point?
ALL OF THAT, JUST FOR A SAFE CAREER IN ACTING?!
Let’s just be excellent to each other, ok?
Hey, are you the guy who “lost” that hard drive full of Bitcoin in the landfill?
It was one of my minions. Poor sod. If he finds it, he can keep it. For me, that’s a rounding error. .
Ftting into your current life when you make it to the present would be noticable since you would’ve aged 81 years in the meantime.
